Catalogue 2004-05

• USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• American Studies and Ethnicity
  • Undergraduate Degrees
    • African American Studies
    • Asian American Studies
    • Chicano/Latino Studies
    • Minor in American Popular Culture
    • Minor in Jewish American Studies
    • Minor in Critical Approaches to Leadership
  • Graduate Degrees
  • Courses of Instruction

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American Studies and Ethnicity

3740 Trousdale Parkway, WPH 303
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4033
(213) 740-2426
(213) 821-0409 (FAX)
Email: aseinfo@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/pase

Director: George Sanchez, Ph.D.

Director, American Studies: Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D.

Director, African American Studies: Judith Jackson Fossett, Ph.D.

Director, Asian American Studies: Leland Saito, Ph.D.

Director, Chicano/Latino Studies: Teresa McKenna, Ph.D.

Professors: Dorinne Kondo, Ph.D.; David Roman, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: Judith Jackson Fossett, Ph.D.; Ruth Gilmore, Ph.D.; Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D.; Lon Kurashige, Ph.D.; Teresa McKenna, Ph.D.; Viet Nguyen, Ph.D.; Laura Pulido, Ph.D.; Leland Saito, Ph.D.; George Sanchez, Ph.D.; Marita Sturken, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Camara Holloway, Ph.D.; Stanley Huey, Ph.D.; Jane Iwamura, Ph.D.; Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Ph.D.; Roberto Lint-Sagarena, Ph.D.; Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D.; Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Ph.D.; Janelle Wong, Ph.D; Cynthia Young, Ph.D.

The program in American Studies and Ethnicity integrates humanistic and social scientific perspectives and brings them to bear on an examination of the United States with a particular emphasis on comparative study of the peoples, cultures, history and social issues of the Western United States. The program offers four separate majors and minors in American Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicano/Latino Studies and a minor in Jewish American Studies. The graduate program offers a Ph.D. for students interested in broad interdisciplinary training at an advanced level to study the peoples, cultures and institutions of the United States in courses that integrate modes of inquiry from the humanities and the social sciences.

Drawing upon the cultural resources of a cosmopolitan city on the Pacific Rim and upon the strength and diversity of its professional schools as well as departments in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, these degree programs provide a richly interdisciplinary curriculum that is unique for its constitution of American Studies and Ethnic Studies as a comparative and interethnic program that takes as its focus a region -- Los Angeles, California and the West -- marked by challenging social and cultural changes.