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Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs
California State University, Fullerton
Department of American Studies
Degrees Awarded: MA
Academic System: Semester
Tuition: Graduate: 0-6 units, $900; 7 or more units, $1551. (Non residents add $339 per credit)
Deadlines: Applications for graduate admissions must be completed by March 1st for fall semester admissions and by October 1st for spring semester admissions.
Financial Aid: Teaching assistantships, scholarships, EOP grants, State University grants, full range of state and federal grants, loans, and work-study programs, non-resident tuition fee waivers. Financial aid is administered through the University’s Financial Aid Office and current information, including deadlines, can be found at: http://www.fullerton.edu/financialaid
Enrollment: 54 graduate students
Admissions Requirements: Undergraduate major in American Studies or an appropriate discipline in the humanities and social sciences; minimum GPA of 3.0 in upper division major courses; and two satisfactory letters of recommendation from instructors in upper division major courses.
Program Specializations: American Studies courses cover a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including gender studies, cultural diversity, popular culture, regionalism, law and society, expressive forms, and the history of ideas.
MA Requirements: The MA consists of 36 units: 6 units of American Studies graduate core courses, 12 units of elective courses in American Studies, 6 units of graduate seminars in related fields, three units in a methodological skill course, and 3 units for a terminal exercise, which may be either a Master’s thesis or a comprehensive exam based on mastery of the department’s core graduate reading list.
American Studies offers 36 courses, 25 of which are applicable to the MA program
American Studies Faculty
AXELRAD, Allan (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1974) Professor of American Studies; 19th-century cultural history
BATTAN, Jesse (PhD, UCLA, 1988) Associate Professor of American Studies; gender and sexuality, Victorian culture, film history
CHET, Carrie Lane (PhD, Yale) Assistant Professor, Cultural Meaning of Work; Ethnography; Business and Labor History
HOBSON, Wayne K. (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1977) Professor of American Studies; social and cultural history, history of crime, violence and legal culture
IBSON, John D. (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1976) Professor of American Studies; ethnicity, humor, history of prejudice
LEWINNEK, Elaine (PhD, Yale) Assistant Professor; Urban culture
LYSTRA, Karen (PhD, Case Western Reserve Univ., 1973) Professor of American Studies; gender and sexuality, family history, cultural history
SNYDER, Terri (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1992) Lecturer of American Studies; gender studies, Southern culture, colonial history
STEINER, Michael (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1978) Professor of American Studies; regional and folk studies, built environment, environmental history
STEINLE, Pamela H. (PhD, Univ. of California-Irvine, 1987) Associate Professor of American Studies; popular culture, contemporary American culture
ZENDERLAND, Leila (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1986) Professor of History; history of social sciences, popular culture, cultural history
Contact
Department of American Studies
University Hall, Room 313
California State University
Fullerton, CA 92834-6868
Phone: 714/278-2441
Fax: 714/278-5820
E-mail:
http://hss.fullerton.edu/amst/
Chair:
Graduate Director: Pamela Steinle
Admissions
California State University, Fullerton
Graduate Admissions
P.O. Box 6900
Fullerton, CA 92834-6900
714-278-2618
e-mail:
http://www.fullerton.edu/graduate/index.htm
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