PDF reflects print version of the catalogue (beginning to East Asian Languages and Cultures)American Studies and Ethnicity
3740 Trousdale Parkway, WPH 303
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4033
(213) 740-2426
FAX: (213) 821-0409
Email: aseinfo@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/schools/college/ase
Chair: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ph.D.
Director, American Studies: John Carlos Rowe, Ph.D.
Director, African American Studies: Judith Jackson Fossett, Ph.D.
Director, Asian American Studies: Lon Kurashige, Ph.D.
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies: Curtis Marez, Ph.D.
Professors: Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Ph.D.; Karen Halttunen, Ph.D.; Robin D.G. Kelley, Ph.D.; Dorinne Kondo, Ph.D.; Manuel Pastor, Jr., Ph.D.; David Roman, Ph.D.; John Carlos Rowe, Ph.D.; George Sanchez, Ph.D.
Associate Professors: Alice Echols, Ph.D.; Judith Jackson Fossett, Ph.D.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ph.D.; Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D.; Joshua David Kun, Ph.D.; Lon Kurashige, Ph.D.; Curtis Marez, Ph.D.; Teresa McKenna, Ph.D.; Fred Moten, Ph.D.; Viet Nguyen, Ph.D.; Laura Pulido, Ph.D.; Leland Saito, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors: Macarena Gómez-Barris, Ph.D.; Sarah Gualtieri, Ph.D.; Stanley Huey, Jr., Ph.D.; Jane Iwamura, Ph.D.; Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Ph.D.; Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Ph.D.; Kara Keeling, Ph.D.; Roberto Lint-Sagarena, Ph.D.; Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D.; Janelle Wong, Ph.D
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 department offers four separate majors in American Studies and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicano/Latino Studies; and minors in American Studies and Ethnicity, American Popular Culture and 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.
Honors Program
The program offers a two-semester honors program for qualified students, first identified in AMST 350 or by the program advisor. Students spend their first semester in the program in an honors senior seminar, AMST 492, focused on developing their research and methods for the honors thesis. During the second semester, all honors students are required to take AMST 493 in which each completes a thesis project on a topic of his or her own choosing under faculty direction. Contact the program advisor for further information. To graduate with honors, program majors must successfully complete an honors thesis and have a minimum GPA of 3.5 in their major course work.