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Requirements

Requirements for the Global Cultural Studies Major (36 Semester Hours)

Core courses (8 semester hours)

  • GCS105 Introduction to Global Cultural Studies (4)

  • GCS499W Senior Seminar in Global Cultural Studies (4) (or departmentally-approved substitution)*

Anthropology (4 semester hours)

Take 4 semester hours with an ANTH prefix.

  • ANTH232 Peoples and Cultures of Africa (4)

  • ANTH235 Cultures of Mexico and Ecuador (4)

  • ANTH335 Visual Anthropology (4)

  • ANTH344 Medical Anthropology (4)

  • ANTH346 Technology and Society (4)

  • ANTH356 Language and Culture (4)

  • ANTH399 Topics in Anthropology (1-4)

  • ANTH429 Topics in Anthropology (1-4)

Cultural Electives, Part A (16 semester hours)

Take 16 semester hours from the following approved list of electives that focus on different cultures around the world, including the United States.

  • ANTH232 Peoples and Cultures of Africa (4)

  • ANTH235 Cultures of Mexico and Ecuador (4)

  • ANTH335 Visual Anthropology (4)

  • ANTH344 Medical Anthropology (4)

  • ANTH356 Language and Culture (4)

  • ANTH399 Topics in Anthropology (1-4)

  • ANTH429 Topics in Anthropology (1-4)

  • ARCH 237 Introduction to Global Archaeology (4)

  • ARCH337 Archaeological Theories and Methods (4)

  • ARTH112 Introduction to South Asian Art History (4)

  • ARTH113 Introduction to Chinese Art History (4)

  • ARTH114 Introduction to Japanese Art History (4)

  • ARTH116 Introduction to Renaissance and Early Modern Art (4)

  • ARTH202W Introduction to Museum Studies (4)

  • ARTH230W Principles of Visual Literacy (4)

  • ARTH237 Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Chinese-American Art and Visual Culture (4)

  • ARTH243 Contemporary Art: 1970-present (4)

  • ARTH263 Baroque and Neoclassical Visual Culture (4)

  • ARTH267 Renaissance Visual Culture (4)

  • ARTH275W Art Literature and Criticism (4

  • ASIA201 Gateway to East Asian Studies (4)

  • ASIA210 Making and Playing of Traditional Musical Instruments (4)

  • ASIA 352 Field Study in Asia (4)

  • CCM258 Gender and Mass Communication in Asia (4)

  • CCM288 Introducing Asia to the World (4)

  • CCM301 Asian Visual and Creative Culture (4)

  • CCM310 Asian Social Media in a Global Context: Critique and Design (4)

  • CHNSE254 Folklore and Identity (4)

  • CHNSE352 Rites of Passage in Chinese Societies (4)

  • CLAS252 Poetics of Magic, Magic of Poetry

  • FREN275 African Cinema (4)

  • FREN285W Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Cinema (4)

  • FREN331W French Composition and Discussion (4)

  • FREN336 France and the Other (4)

  • FREN337 French and Francophone Studies II (4)

  • FREN340 Readings in French Literature (4)

  • FREN341 Oral Tradition and Performance in African Literature (4)

  • FREN430 Civilization and Its Critics (4)

  • FREN432 Language in Society (4)

  • FREN439 Advanced Topics in French Literature (4)

  • GERM241 German Cinema and Visual Culture (4)

  • GERM333 Contemporary German Culture (4)

  • GERM432 Media in Context: Literature, Film and Art (4)

  • HIST233 Asian Empires on the Silk Road (4)

  • HIST256 Colonial Latin America (4)

  • HIST270 Cinema in the Middle East (4)

  • IDS205 Chemawa Indian School Partnership Program (2)

  • IDS396 Chemawa Indian School Partnership Program Internship (2 or 4)

  • JAPN201W Modern Japanese Society and Culture (4)

  • JAPN314W Japanese Literature in Translation (4)

  • JAPN340 The Japanese Cinema (4)

  • PHEAL120 Global Health through Film (4)

  • PHIL112/PHIL113W Philosophy and Religion (4)

  • PHIL370W Philosophy of Language (4)

  • RUSS233W Russian Culture: Russian Ways and Views of Russia (4)

  • RUSS235 Russian and Soviet Cinema (4)

  • RUSS320W The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel (4)

  • RUSS325 Topics in Russian Literature (4)

  • RUSS333 Russian Civilization and Culture (4)

  • SPAN331W Spanish Composition and Discussion (4)

  • SPAN332 Spanish Conversation and Culture (4)

  • SPAN333 Hispanic Civilization (4)

  • SPAN335 Cultural Institutions of Spain (4)

  • SPAN352 Peninsular Literature I: Medieval, Early Modern, and American Colonial (4)

  • SPAN353 Peninsular Literature II: Modern and Contemporary (4)

  • SPAN355 Latin American Literature I: Conquest to Independence (4)

  • SPAN356 Latin American Literature II: Modernismo to the Present (4)

  • SPAN365 Spanish Translation (4)

  • SPAN380 Latin American Cinema (4)

  • SPAN399 Topics in Spanish (1-4)

  • SPAN427 Topics in Latin American Literature (4)

  • SPAN428 Contemporary Mexican Literature (4)

  • SPAN430 History of Hispanic Thought (4)

  • SPAN431 Contemporary Novel and Short Story of Latin America (4)

  • SPAN435 Contemporary Latin American Women Writers (4)

  • SPAN438 Contemporary Spanish Women Writers (4)

  • SPAN445 Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature (4)

  • SPAN446 Topics in Modern and Contemporary Peninsular Literature (4)

  • THTR212 Global Fashion History (4)

Cultural Electives, Part B (8 semester hours)

Take two classes (8 semester hours) that meet the following conditions: .

  1. Most importantly, these two classes must have a prefix of CHNSE, FREN, GERM, JAPN, RUSS, or SPAN.

  2. Both classes may be from the same prefix, or may be different;

  3. Classes may be taught in any language, including English;

  4. Classes listed under Cultural Electives, Part A, may also be used to satisfy this requirement, but the same course cannot be used for both requirements (a minimum of 36 semester hours are required for the major);

  5. Classes may be at any level, but cannot include courses used to satisfy the Non-English Language General Education requirement: that is, 131/132 language classes cannot be used to satisfy GCS major or minor requirements unless they are courses in a student's second non-English language;

  6. This requirement cannot be satisfied through AP/IB credit or any form of language proficiency exam or exemption.


Stipulations

Students majoring in Global Cultural Studies cannot count for GCS major credit more than four classes from any single course prefix other than ANTH or GCS; there is no limit on ANTH or GCS courses.

The GCS major values training in areas of transregional and global connection. Thus, students are required to take one course from at least three of the following world region categories: 1) North America or Europe, 2) Central or South America, 3) Africa, 4) Asia, 5) Middle East, or 6) Global (students are allowed to take 2 of these 3 courses from the Global category). Students can choose these three regional classes from any category in the major (Core, Anthropology, Cultural Electives). No classes can count in more than one category in the major. Classes, supervised research, or internship work done during study abroad may qualify for GCS credit, but must be approved by the GCS chair. With GCS chair approval, "Special Topics" and other courses at Willamette may also count for GCS credit and will at that time be assigned to the proper regional category.

Students must take eight credits at the 300-level or above. These 300/400-level classes can be from Anthropology or Cultural Electives A or B, but not Senior Capstone.

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