Here's what our Graduates say about the American Studies Program at YSU:

"The American Studies program gave me the opportunity to learn about the intersections of culture and society not as just another student completing the coursework required by a traditional academic program, but as an individual pursuing different career interests.  By allowing me the freedom to choose classes that fit my needs I created the curriculum and academic background I wanted.  And through a mixture of class work, community engagement and professional experience my personal interests were translated into real world application." ~  Kasey Johnson (MA in American Studies 2012), Development Associate/Slater Mill Museum

"The American Studies program allowed me to explore interdisciplinary studies at the graduate level.  Throughout the program, I acquired skills in research, written and oral communication, problem solving, and critical thinking."  ~  Katie Sechler (MA in American Studies 2009), Program Manager/Goodwill GoodGuides Youth Mentoring Program, Adjunct Faculty/Argosy University

"The American Studies program allowed me to explore many aspects of the field, including my passions:  history and anthropology.  It gave a new twist to traditional studies and gave me the freedom to explore what interested me.  I now possess the writing and researching abilities that are so vital to my profession." ~ Krista Wagner (MA in American Studies 2007), Principle Investigator of Archaeology and Historian/Lawhon & Associates, Inc.

"American Studies allowed me to design a curriculum that focused on my interests while steadily moving toward a degree.  It's flexible.  And when I finished, there were graduate school opportunities available in History and Geography.  If I were starting over I would choose this major again."  ~  Ray DeCarlo (BA in American Studies 2001), Graduate Assistant in Geography/University of Akron

"In American Studies I found a place where I was challenged not only to ask difficult questions, but to search for the answers in new and unusual places.  The topics that I studied as an American Studies major were wonderful, but it is the process itself that has helped me the most in the professional world."  ~  Erin Holmes Winfield (BA in American Studies 1998), Development Office/Ohio Historical Society