Courses

Global Studies: Cultures and Communication

The concentration consists of eight units in at least three different departments or disciplines, selected in consultation with an advisor, structured as follows:

• Skills and Applied Courses

  • Analytic and applied understandings of intercultural communications. Two courses, chosen from:

    • ANTH211 Field Methods in Ethnography

    • ANTH310 Food and Culture

    • ARTH322 Museum Studies

    • CRWR314 Literary Translation

    • LAIS 411 Bilingualism in the U.S., Latin America, and Spain

    • LING252 Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

    • JOUR100 News Media and Society

    • LING203 Introductory Linguistics

    • MGMT333 Cross-Cultural Management

    • RHCS250 Critical Intercultural Communication

  Complex Problems

  • Explore challenges and stakes of efforts to communicate across borders, cultures, assumptions, and beliefs. Two courses, chosen from:

    • ANTH300 Sexuality and Gender Across Cultures

    • ANTH306 Tourism and Anthropology

    • ANTH379 ST: Tech, Surveillance and The Media

    • ECON210 Economics of the European Union

    • ENVR322 The Global Impact of Climate Change

    • HIST236 Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and After

    • HIST240 Human Rights and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1750-1850)

    • HIST270 Early Islamic World

    • HIST329 Brexit: A History

    • HIST390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia

    • LLC260 Literature and Social Change in Eastern Europe

    • LLC360 Representing the Holocaust

    • LLC346 Insiders and Outsiders: Arabic Encounters with the West

    • SOC308 Sociology of War

• Regional Courses

  • Investigate cultural specificity. Two units chosen from regional courses:

• Additional Concentration Electives

  • Two additional courses, chosen from those above.