BA and MA Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences in the Americas

The Americas concentration fosters an interdisciplinary exploration of the social, economic, political, and cultural realities of transnational and translocal life in the Americas. It also looks at influences and/or affinities between groups in the American Hemisphere and communities in other parts of the globe: Africa, Asia, and Europe. Students are exposed to and begin to engage critically with the most contemporary theoretical frameworks and arguments that shape Africana Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Indigeneity Studies, and Latin American Studies. More specifically, they become familiar with paradigms, approaches and debates (such as but not limited to Marxism, neoliberalism, globalization, imperialism, techno-economics, structuralism, postmodernism, feminism, queer studies, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, indigenous studies) that focus on formations of power as they relate to cultural, social, economic, and geopolitical landscapes in the Americas and in the Americas relationships to other parts of the world.