Bachelor of Arts - American Studies

American Studies at University of New Mexico provides students with the tools to understand their lived experience in relation to questions of identity, place, and power. University's classes offer new approaches to not only learn about the systems of racism, colonialism, capitalism, nationalism, and gender and sexual normativity as they impact the lives, but also to actively transform the world in which we live.

Rather than focusing mainly on the study of “American culture,” American Studies encourages students to begin from an understanding of the specific place and context in which we study in order to unsettle the relations of power at work in conventional ways of making sense of the world. Since its beginning, the Department of American Studies at University of New Mexico has maintained a hemispheric and global perspective, while also focusing on scholarly explorations of the Southwest and New Mexico.