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American Cars, Schools, Religion, Music: New Summer Courses

Discover America! The American Automobile, American Photography, The American Poetic Experience . . . and more! The Summer School at Washington University in St. Louis offers a broad selection of courses geared towards providing a richer understanding of our great country.

Interested in history? We offer a thorough complement of American history courses: “America to the Civil War,” “America From the Civil War,” “Women in US History,” “The Supreme Court,” and more.

Theater aficionados will have the opportunity to study the famed St. Louisan Tennessee Williams with renowned theater scholar and playwright, Henry Schvey.

Graduate students can explore the way Americans have been portrayed around the world as well as the way Americans have seen the world. American Education, American Music, American Politics… the Summer School has something for everyone.

For more information, visit us at summerschool.wustl.edu!

U89 5301 AMCS Tennessee Williams

U89 5491 AMCS Americans on the Road

U69 3422 Anthro American Indian Art and Iconography

U10 ArtArch 3785 Photography in America

U08 301 Educ The American School

U08 4301 Historical Social Context of the American School

U11 353 The American Poetic Experience

L14 243 Elit Topics in English and American Literature: Soldiers Who Speak: War in the American Experience

L22 209 History America to the Civil War

L22 210 History America From the Civil War

L22 3435 History The Rearview: The Automobile in American History and Culture

U16 3755 History Topics in Women’s History: U.S. Women’s History From 1869 to the Present

L22 3802 History The Supreme Court in American Life, 1789-2006

U85 573 IA America: Views from Abroad and Across Time

U24 219 Mus Sounds of a New World: American Music from Plymouth Rock to Rock ‘n’ Roll

L32 347 Pol Sci Current Issues in American Politics: Religion and Politics

L32 3510 Pol Sci Topics in American Politics: The Supreme Court

L32 374 Pol Sci Contemporary American Foreign Policy

L32 421A Topics in American Politics: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics

Click on the Courses and Registration button at the top of our pages to browse all the Summer School courses and find out more, starting Monday, Jan. 28. Registration for all Summer School sessions opens on March 26.