Global Cultures Emphasis

Understand the international landscape and the immense diversity of world cultures, languages, and literatures in the current global marketplace.

About the Global Cultures Emphasis

This thematic emphasis educates future leaders of the new global society—a role that requires the highest level of intercultural and multilingual competence. The curriculum illuminates the critical role cultural production plays in the international landscape and will equip you with the skills necessary to negotiate and shape that landscape. Global Studies majors with the Global Cultures emphasis are adaptable to unfamiliar environments and new situations and are able to assess cultural differences in professional settings and communicate well with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Courses

Majors with the Global Cultures emphasis complete the core major requirements and also select 15 units of courses from a diverse set of areas including anthropology, religious studies, geography, English literature, classics, linguistics, East Asian studies, Africana Studies, Spanish, French, Italian, theater, music, and art history.

Course options include: