Culture, Place, and Identity
Culture, Place, and Identity
NOTE: This track information pertains to Global Studies students who declared their major PRIOR TO Fall 2018.
Please read the ‘Curriculum and Tracks’ section before reading this track description.
Culture, Place, and Identity compares processes of globalization in different times and locations, with an emphasis on power, culture, place, and identity. Courses in this track consider changes wrought by global flows of ideas, people, and commodities. Those flows have reshaped cultural geographies, regions, borders, contact zones, and accents in complex and sometimes contradictory ways. Course offerings pay particular attention to national and transnational identities, indigenous and diasporic cultures, and colonialism and postcolonialism. While our inquiries are often focused on a specific topic, region, or identity group, coursework consistently situates the local in its global context.
This necessarily interdisciplinary track fosters development of the intellectual flexibility needed to study the dynamic and ambiguous objects, identities, and practices that comprise globalization. Students in this track must complete GLBL 101 Introduction to Global Studies, GLBL 301 Approaches to Globalization, and four gateway courses. The gateway courses are listed in the Curriculum and Tracks section. It is recommended that students pursuing this track take the following gateway courses:
- ANTH 211 – Cultural Anthropology
- GWST 340 – Women, Gender, and Globalization
- MLL 305 – Introduction to Intercultural Communication
- POLI 260 – Comparative Politics
To complete the Culture, Place, and Identity track, students must select six electives with one from each of the following groups. Five of the six courses must be at the 300-400 level. Course descriptions are available in the Course Index.
GROUP A | GROUP B | GROUP C | GROUP D | GROUP E | GROUP F |
AFST 439 AMST 352 AMST 420 HIST 340 HIST 382 HIST 406 MLLI 255 |
ANTH 367 GWST 342 GWST 366 SOCY 333 SOCY 433 |
AMST 200 AMST 464 ANTH 382 GWST 320 MCS 334 MCS 390 |
POLI 337 POLI 360 POLI 470 POLI 471 |
GES 330 GES 436 GLBL 409 HAPP 380 SOCY 235 |
AFST 213 ANTH 326 GWST 343 MLLI 306 POLI 373 POLI 386 SPAN 308 |