AMST 313 - Multidisciplinary Research Methods

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This course explores the challenges of conducting multi- and interdisciplinary inquiry within the field of American Studies. Drawing on key texts and innovative projects within the field, the course examines the ways in which varying disciplines make meaning of the world and puts specific modes of inquiry into practice. Students learn how to seek, produce, and evaluate different forms of evidence and how to shape this evidence in the direction of a broader project. Specific forms of inquiry may include: interpreting archival documents, conducting interviews, making maps, crafting field notes, analyzing cultural texts, among others. Mr. Simpson.

Prerequisite or co-requisite: a discipline-specific methods course appropriate to the student.

Required of all Junior American Studies majors.