Navigating Cultures Pathway
The Navigating Cultures Pathway focuses on skills of understanding and relationship-building across domestic and international cultural differences. Human communities produce a rich variety of differing values, ways of life, and forms of expression, both domestically and globally that all must be understood. Navigating Cultures develops the analytical, linguistic, and relational skills students need to lead in an interconnected world, teaching students to navigate cultural differences and engage with the lived complexity of inter-cultural exchange. Through the courses in this Pathway, students learn to work ethically and appropriately with other cultures.
Majors restrict Pathway Certificates to encourage a breadth of skills-development beyond their program. A Navigating Cultures Pathway Certificate may be earned within a major as a second certificate for students in the following majors:
Art and Design (BFA) Communication and Media Studies (BA) English (BA) History and Social Studies Education (BS) Music and Music Education (BS) Social Science (BS) Social Work (BS)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Human communities produce a rich variety of differing values, ways of life, and forms of expression, both domestically and globally. Navigating Cultures develops the analytical, linguistic, and relational skills students need to lead in an interconnected world, teaching students to navigate cultural differences and engage with the lived complexity of inter-cultural exchange. Courses in this Pathway will equip students to work ethically and appropriately with other cultures. | ||
| Pathway Certificate Requirements | 15-16 | |
| To attain a Pathway certificate in Navigating Cultures, students must complete 15-16 credits from the following list of courses, including at least two courses at the 3000 level or higher from this list: | ||
| Planning and Pedagogy for a Diverse World (DICO) | ||
| Foundations of Anthropology (GACO) | ||
| Great Archaeological Discoveries (GACO) | ||
| Economic Diversity and Inequality | ||
| Anthropology of Religion, Ritual, and Myth | ||
| Artifacts, Customs & Fossils: Studying Humans through Anthropological Prespectives (SIDI) | ||
| Intercultural Communication | ||
| Media and Cultural Studies (TECO) | ||
| Rhetoric and Semiotics | ||
| "Deviants" in Film and Society (SSDI) | ||
| Fundamentals of Chinese I (GACO) | ||
| Fundamentals of Chinese II (DICO) | ||
| Rethinking Early American Literature (DICO,TECO) | ||
| Rethinking Modern American Literature (DICO) | ||
| Rethinking Modern British Literature, 1660-1945 (TECO) | ||
| Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Literature | ||
| Currents in Global Literature (GACO) | ||
| Murder, Mayhem, and Madness: Reflections of the Self and Society in Literature (SSDI) | ||
| French Language and Culture Studies I (DICO,GACO) | ||
| French Language and Culture Studies II (DICO,GACO) | ||
| French Language and Culture Studies III (DICO,GACO) | ||
| French Popular Culture and Technology (GACO,TECO) | ||
| Quebec Culture and Literature | ||
| The Diversity of Franco Communities in the United States (DICO,INCO) | ||
| Magic, Then and Now (Non gen-ed version of existing course) | ||
| Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History (DICO) | ||
| Love, Sex, and Family in Medieval Europe | ||
| Islamic Empires (GACO) | ||
| Cultural Contact in World History (SSDI) | ||
| The Deep Roots of Black Lives Matter: Exploring African American History (PPDI) | ||
| Magic, Then and Now (PPDI) | ||
| Global Cinema (SSDI) | ||
| Queer Language, Culture, and Identity (DICO,SSDI) | ||
| The History of the English Language (PPDI) | ||
| Language & Identity (DICO,SSDI) | ||
| Music In Context I - Music and Identity in the Americas (DICO) | ||
| Music In Context II - Philosophy and Music (GACO,WRCO) | ||
| Exploring Music (PPDI) | ||
| American Popular Music: History and Creation (CTDI) | ||
| Religious Practices and Beliefs (PPDI) | ||
| Science or Pseudo-Science (SIDI) | ||
| American Sign Language 1 (DICO) | ||
| American Sign Language 2 (DICO) | ||
| Foundations of Sociology (DICO) | ||
| Social Problems | ||
| Sociology of Deviance (DICO) | ||
| Exploring Social Life (SSDI) | ||
| Spanish Language and Culture Studies I (DICO,GACO) | ||
| Spanish Language and Culture Studies II (DICO,GACO) | ||
| Intermediate Spanish (GACO) | ||
| Advanced Spanish (GACO) | ||
| Latino Culture in the US (PPDI) | ||
| Diversity and Oppression (DICO) | ||
| Foundations of Multilingual Multicultural Studies (DICO) | ||
| The F Word: Feminism in the United States (PPDI) | ||
| Total Credits | 15-16 | |