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What is the Program in American & Florida Studies?

American & Florida Studies is a program featuring crossdisciplinary study of American and Florida society and culture, highlighting in a pluralistic context the interrelationships among social history, cultural values, and artistic creation. Offering both the B.A. and the M.A., the Program considers the United States within its own borders and as part of the Americas; additionally, it focuses on Florida itself, Florida as part of the Southern Region of the United States, and Florida and the Caribbean Basin. Majors select courses from a wide variety of disciplines, principal among them literature, history, social science, and fine arts. Each plan of study emphasizes multidisciplinary inquiry, developing various perspectives rather than focusing upon the philosophy or methodology of a particular field. This flexibility offers students a chance to design with the Director a course of study in accord with their personal interests and postgraduate plans.

American & Florida Studies is a select community of undergraduate and graduate students and scholars all known to one another. The Advisory Board includes six distinguished faculty members representing four different disciplines.

Why Major in American and Florida Studies?

The Undergraduate Major in American & Florida Studies constitutes an excellent program for those planning to enter fields such as law, government, education, journalism, or social work. The major also prepares students for graduate study in the humanities and social sciences. A number of American & Florida Studies majors enter teaching disciplines where the ability to support one area of learning by reference to others is invaluable. Graduates have benefited, also, from the high demand in business, including the international sector, for liberal arts majors possessing broad backgrounds in American culture. The major in American & Florida Studies is also appropriate for students minoring in African-American Studies, Women's Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and related interdisciplinary programs.

The Master of Arts in American & Florida Studies can lead to further graduate study in law, the humanities, and social sciences or to a professional career in government, journalism, education, museum and archival work, and the religious ministry.

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