American Studies
Waterville, USA
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Colby College’s American Studies programme blends flexible, critical, undisciplined study of U.S. culture and history in a global context. You’ll examine how power operates and how race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation shape culture. Courses pull from multiple disciplines across the college, and you’ll work with faculty to craft an individualized programme aligned with your interests.
Career Outcomes: Recent graduates have entered media, education, law, and social services. You can pursue roles in public policy, nonprofit advocacy, journalism, cultural institutions, museum work, research, and community organizing, applying skills in critical analysis, interdisciplinary research, cultural criticism, and communication, career skills.
Flexible, critical, undisciplined.
We examine U.S. culture and history in a global context to understand how power works, so that we might make the world more just.
Students in American Studies learn how to think differently, combining methods from a range of academic disciplines to examine how issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation shape culture—as well as how culture shapes the lives we live. You’ll take classes from across the college, experimenting with different ways of analyzing society, while thinking critically about how knowledge is generated. Work closely with faculty to craft individualized programs of study aligned with your interests and abilities.
Recent graduates from the program have pursued successful careers in diverse areas, including media, education, law, and social services.
