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Student Learning Outcomes for the Global Cultural Studies Major

  1. Expand intercultural competence through multiple learning approaches, including language training, literary analysis, and social-science research.
  2. Explain complex social relations with regard to factors such as gender, equality, race, nationality, socioeconomic status, religion, age and more, between and among peoples from diverse parts of the world.
  3. Critically evaluate texts in a broad sense, such as artistic verbal, written, and visual texts, academic publications, and news sources.
  4. Understand contemporary issues and power dynamics among diverse people, such as issues related to cultural representation and appropriation, intellectual property, reparations, migration, repatriation, and more.

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Global Cultural Studies