Social and Cultural Studies
Social and Cultural Studies explores the relationships among social relations, cultural practice, and economic, historical, and political contexts. Classes in this concentration emphasize interdisciplinary, multicultural, and multimedia approaches to learning about dynamic cultural and historical interactions. Students will complete this concentration with a better sense of how to read and interpret the meanings of historical documents, literary works, popular culture texts, and various forms of visual, aural, and material culture. Concentrators will become more historically aware and sensitive to ways that their own identities and cultural assumptions are shaped by constructed meanings of race, gender, sexuality, age, national identity, and ethnicity, and will develop strategies that will allow them to analyze and contextualize a wide range of world events, texts, and issues. In sum, this concentration draws on insights from an array of disciplines to examine constructed meanings and practices of everyday life.
Sponsored by: Arts and Humanities and History and Society Divisions
Faculty Contact: Sandra Graham
Faculty contacts serve as advisers to those students who have an interest in the given concentration; you should feel free to contact these faculty members with questions.
Required Courses
Students must take four courses from the list below to complete this concentration. In addition, at least two courses must be from the 3500-3600-level, and no more than two courses can be from the same discipline (i.e., have the same 3-letter designation).
- AMS 3615 Borderlands
- AMS 3672 Working in America: Labor in the 20th Century
- ANT 3611 World Religions in Everyday Life
- ANT 3615 Anthropology of Food
- ANT 3620 Anthropology of Media (Inactive)
- BRC 3602 Russia in Modernity: History, Politics, and Culture
- CDX 3611 Ghana: Culture, Society, and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies
- CVA 2404 African American History and Foodways
- CVA 2408 Cultural Anthropology
- CVA 2409 East Asian Cultures
- CVA 2410 Gender Studies
- CVA 2411 Introduction to Western Culture
- CVA 2418 The Middle East: People and Culture
- CVA 2423 Sociology of Family (Inactive)
- CVA 2426 Immigrants, Race, and the American Promise
- CVA 2430 African American Music in the US
- CVA 2431 African Diaspora Studies
- CVA 2454 Introduction to Consumer Society (Inactive)
- CVA 2455 Peoples and Culture of the Americas
- CVA 2458 After the Dictator
- CVA 2460 Living La Vida Latina
- EPS 3522 Entrepreneurship in Latin America
- EPS 3561 Ghana: Culture, Society, and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies
- EPS 3572 Entrepreneurship in Asia
- EXP 3665 South Africa: Culture, Society, and Entrepreneurship in a Developing Economy
- FRN 3600 Advanced French: Cinema and Culture
- GDR 3610 Women’s Studies
- HIS 3604 Sexuality and Power in Modern Society
- HIS 3606 History and Culture of American Business
- HIS 3608 Social Responsibility in Malaysia
- HIS 3620 Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
- HSS 2408 History of the Civil Rights Movement
- HSS 2418 Introduction to Sociology
- HSS 2420 Media Studies
- HSS 2458 Modern American City
- HSS 2460 African History and Foodways
- LAW 3672 Intolerance, Culture, and the Law
- LVA 2405 Art as a Visual Language
- LVA 2409 American Film History
- MDS 3610 Advertising, Media, and Society
- MDS 3615 Media, Culture, and the Environment
- MOB 3518 Arts and Entertainment Management
- MUS 3610 Social and Cultural Study of Music
- MUS 3620 Global Pop
- POL 3630 Critical Race Studies
- POL 3673 Native American Politics
- SPN 3600 Advanced Spanish: Cinema and Culture
- VSA 3600 Art, Religion, and Politics in Ancient Egypt
- VSA 3670 Arts of the Renaissance