Student-Faculty Collaborations
Students have an opportunity to collaborate with faculty at every turn, including class projects, teachers sharing expertise and insights for student research, and office-hour advising on coursework and careers. In addition, the department offers a number of opportunities for still further collaboration between students and faculty:
Teaching Apprenticeship (course number AMST 495):
Research Collaboration (course number AMST 496):
Student Research in Science and Religion (2SR) Program:
Stetson Undergraduate Research Experience, the SURE grants:
For the last few years, Stetson has offered students summer grants for students to work on a research project with a faculty mentor. A number of American studies majors have won SURE grants, and for each of them, the grant was a crucial part of their senior research project:
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Susan Hartley studied race relations in St. Augustine in the years since the long hot summers of 1964-1965.
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Sara Cotner researched the impact of gender on primary school children's performance.
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Michael Chronister studied the impact of technology on copyright and the public sphere in issues of intellectual property.
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Michael McCombs investigated boot camps for girls in central Florida and preseanted his work at a WGS roundtable presentation, "Your Mother Wears Combat Boots: Gender Modeling, Deviance, and Military Rehabilitation in a Boot Camp for Adolescent Girls"
Stetson Undergraduate Scholarship and Performance Day:
Each spring for the last few years, Stetson has hosted a conference for students from every major on campus to present their research and creative work.
A number of American Studies students have been presenters at USAPD:
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Karen Winkle in 1998
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Krista Brindle in 2001