To be read in conjunction with the program of study requirements for the degree in which you are enrolled:
To qualify for Honours in American studies, a student must complete satisfactorily 36 units of study as specified below. The program requires one year of full-time study or the equivalent part-time.
Honours in American Studies is designed to further enhance the knowledge of students in the study of the United States as a large, complex society able to generate massive economic and military power in the modern world, while maintaining a relatively open social and political system based on the rule of law.
The investigation of that society will include its social fabric, its institutional forms, its internal tensions and conflicts, aspects of its cultural life, and its global impact.
The methods used to develop insights into the workings of American society will include structured reading programmes, group discussions, and the submission of a thesis paper of 15-18,000 words. The skills and the understandings generated during this process will have continued relevance to the students'' careers and their life-long learning.
Students who have successfully completed the Honours in American Studies should be able to understand:
They should also be proficient in the research skills that are required to reach that level of understanding, and possess an enhanced capacity to deploy them in their later lives.
Specifically, they should be able to:
Students undertake 18 units of thesis and 18 units of elective topics.
AMST7001A American Studies Honours Thesis (4.5/18 units)
AMST7001B American Studies Honours Thesis (4.5/18 units)
AMST7001C American Studies Honours Thesis (4.5/18 units)
AMST7001D American Studies Honours Thesis (4.5/18 units)
Select 18 units from the topics listed below
AMST7007 Studies in American Social Criticism: Part 1 (4.5 units)
AMST7008 Studies in American Social Criticism: Part 2 (4.5 units)
AMST7016 Honours Internship Program: Washington DC (9 units)
HIST7010 Guns and Butter: The United States in the Long 1960s (4.5 units)
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