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Every year, several seniors complete the requirements for graduating with Honors in American Studies. Honors students write a thesis, usually 50-80 pages in length and based on original research. An honors thesis counts for two courses (8 credits)--taken in either one or two semesters. Some of the recently completed theses are: "POLITICS AS CULTURAL WORK-The Health Security Act: Clinton's September 22, 1993 Congressional Address as a Cultural Text" "Searching for Meaning in the Desert: Burning Man and the Culture of Consumption" "Gloria Steinem and the Generation of Ms. Readers" "Beyond Little Big Men and White Painted Ladies: An Inquiry into Race and Gender in Native American Film" "Phlillips as a Borderland: Contemporary Mexican Immigration to South Minneapolis" "Home-Making and Nation-Building: The Interwar Origins of Federal Housing Policy"
"Rural Communities, Radical Roots: Northern New England's Modern Jewish Revival"
"The Aristocrats and the Plebes: Student Life and Experience in Cooperative Living at Smith College" "This Ain't No 90210: Deviant Girlhood in Contemporary American Film and Literature" "Culture, Contradiction and Chocolate: A History and Analysis of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" "Sisters in Arms: Pat Schroeder, Jane Harman—Inside and Outside the Culture of Congress" "Household Angels, School Marms, and Deviant Professionals: Social Restriction and College Women’s Agency, 1870-1920"
"A Bond as Close as Sisterhood Between Them : Women’s Reconstruction of Support Networks on the Dakota Homesteading Frontier" "Growing Up and Becoming a Woman in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Series" |
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