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American Studies
|MA
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenPURPOSE
Gain a full appreciation and understanding of American culture, politics and society within an interdisciplinary framework. DESCRIPTION
The degree concentrates on an interdisciplinary and contextualised understanding of American culture, history and society. It consists of one core module, Contemporary North America, plus module options and a dissertation.Options include:
• The British Empire
• Cinema and the City
• Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865
• Film & American Culture
• History of the Built Environment
• History of Sports in America
• Music & American Culture
• Poetry Place & Perception
• Internship Module
• Globalization, development, and the Americas
• Inter-American politics in the 20th and 21st Century
• United States and Latin America in the 19th Century
• Writing Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World and the Extended Caribbean
• US Foreign Policy
• US Religious History
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Dr Uta Andrea Balbier, Institute for North American Studies
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Many MA students go on to pursue research, others develop their skills in North American institutions, or else in teaching, journalism, new media and at other universities.
Year of entry 2012
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