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Human Diversity: Culture, History & Society (LUC)

Major

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Major requirements:

  • 15 EC: all three 100-levels courses of the core tracks, namely What is Culture?, Birth of the Modern World, and Social Theory in Everyday Life

  • 15 EC: methodology courses, to include Research Design (HD)

  • 10 EC: Capstone

  • 45 EC: Additional courses in the Major, either in core tracks, co-convened tracks, or extra methodology classes; must include at least 20 EC at the 300-level

100-level

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Women, Human Rights and World Religions 5
Social Theory in Everyday Life 5
What is Culture? 5
Sociolinguistics 5
Introduction to Gender Studies 5
Birth of the Modern World 5
Philosophies of the World 5

200-level

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Advanced History of Philosophy: African Philosophy 5
Anthropology of Difference 5
Cultural & Visual Analysis 5
Cultural Translation 5
Historical Methods: Transnational LGBT Activism since the 1970s 5
World Regional Geography 5
Contemporary Art 5
Gender, Media and Conflict 5
Political Philosophy from Machiavelli to Marx 5
Qualitative Research Methods 5
Gender & Development 5
Historical Approaches to Diversity: History of Family and Marriage Patterns 5
Language & Diversity 5
Politics of Diversity 5
Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality 5
Historical Methods: International History in the Twentieth Century 5
Research Design HD 5

300-level

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Case-studies in Diversity: Public Spaces 5
History & Politics of Global Migration 5
Political Iconology: Art & Diversity (1600-1800) 5
Postcolonial Representations 5
Empire and Post Empire: Representations and Reform 5
Religion & Identity 5
Vulnerability, Gender and the Ethics of Care 5
Asia in Global History: From Colonialism to the Post-Cold War Era 5
Feminist Philosophy 5
Figures & Movements: Kierkegaard - The Father of Existentialism 5
Language & Ideology 5
Politics of Cultural Memory 5