Please note that modules marked * will be unavailable during the academic year 2011/12

 
First Year Core Modules (all students take the three modules below plus an appropriate spanish module)

• Latin America: Themes and Problems (AM101)
• North America: Themes and Problems (AM102)
• Comparative History and Literatures of the Americas (AM103) 

Second Year Modules - (students select three from the list below and take an appropriate Spanish module)

• * Caribbean History (AM202)
• * Caribbean Literature (AM203)
• * Early American Social History (AM204)
• The Cultural History of Food in Latin America (AM205)
• Latin America Literature and Society (AM206)
• Modern Mexico, 1810 to the Present (AM208)
• Pre-Columbian and Spanish America (AM209)
• Reform, Revolt and Reaction in the US (AM211)
• * American Historical Cinema (AM213)
• * The Atlantic World, 1492-1815 (AM214)
• Research Project (AM216)
• * Caribbean History: From Colonialism to Independence (AM217)

Second year students are also able to study these modules from other departments:

• Politics of the USA (PO207 PAIS)
• Introduction to Film Studies (FI101 Film & TV)
• US Writing and Culture (EN213 English)
• Modern American Poetry (EN248 English)
• Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American Writing (EN271 English)

Final Year Modules - (students select one final year module plus the dissertation, then two further modules from the lists below)

• McCarthy to Elvis: America in the Fifties (AM401)
• * The American Revolution (AM415)
• Imperialism and Independence in Spanish America (AM402)
• Indians in the Americas (AM403)
• Comparative Literature of the Americas (AM404)
• * Slavery and Race in the Americas (AM406)
• Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865 (AM407)
• Histories of Gender in the Americas: Ladies, Wenches, Hombres and Machos (AM411)
• * The American West (AM414)
• Facing The Other: European Encounters with the New World (HI31B - jointly taught by CAS and History)
• Dissertation (AM416)
• * Slavery, Memory and Memorialisation (AM417)

Fourth year students are also able to take up to two second year modules (listed above) plus the following from other departments:

• US Foreign Policy (PO379 PAIS)
• States of Damage (EN336 English)
• Hollywood Cinema (FI102 Film & TV)
• Spanish (Language centre, appropriate to ability)