Why American Civilization?
American Civilization is the ultimate liberal arts degree. If you came to Brown for the freedom to choose your courses, explore new methodologies, better understand the world, and shape your own education, AmCiv offers the perfect concentration in which to meet those goals. The American Civilization department gives students a framework and context into which to fit courses while working with AmCiv faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates and those from other departments and Centers. Concentrators in American Civilization study the diverse cultures, groups, and experiences that make up American life. Unlike other departments, which focus on a single discipline, American Civilization is interdisciplinary, encouraging its concentrators to explore the culture and history of the United States using approaches and methods of several different disciplines. American Civilization started out as a combination of English and history; today scholars in the field draw on approaches from the
