Part 1:

Teaching Block 1

AM-M01  Critical Thinking and Interdisciplinary Skills

Dr Joy Porter & Dr Ieuan Williams

This module is designed to help students acquire and practice the skills in research and writing needed for effective study at postgraduate level.

Continuous Assessment and Presentation

AM-M04  Topics in American Studies II - The American Way of War

Dr. Stephen McVeigh

This module explores both the connected ideals and values that have underpinned the US military engagement and the diversity of form and function of American war.

5,000 word essay

AM-M08 The United States and the World: Conflicting Ideas of America Abroad

Professor Jon Roper & Dr. David Bewley-Taylor

This interdisciplinary module critically examines US foreign relations since the end of the Second World War.

Two essays

Teaching Block 2

AM-M02  Approaches to American Studies

Dr. Alan Bilton & Dr Stephen McVeigh

This module examines the work of two commanding and canonical writers, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the changing nature of literary criticism and histographgy in recent years.

Two essays

AM-M10 The United States, the Globalization of Terror and it's mediations

Dr Subarno Chattarji

This module looks at the ways in which select media in the United States represents the global war on terror launched after 9/11.

Two essays  

AM-M09 Reseach Portfolio

Dr Rachel Farebrother

3,000-word abstract and 1/2 hour presentation critically analyzing the literature on their chosen dissertation topic 

Part 2: May - October

AM-M05 Dissertation (60 credits)

Appointed Advisor

One 20,000-word dissertation