Chair: Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D.
Director, African American Studies: Robert Grant, Ph.D.
Director, Asian American Studies: Vincent Cheng, Ph.D.
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies: Teresa McKenna, Ph.D.
USC Associates Chair in Social Science: Mark Kann, 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. 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 majors and minors 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.
Produced by the USC Division of Student Affairs, Office of University Publications, May 1, 1995