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Cultural Studies Major

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Degree Requirements

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

English Literature - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 3-6

Mathematics - Total Credits: 3

Distribution Requirement Humanities and Fine Arts

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  • Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 9-10


  • and two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must be a lab.

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  • Social Science - Total Credits: 9

Multicultural and International

(see note 2 below)

Additional Degree Requirements

Foreign Language/Foreign Culture - Total Credits: 6

Humanities - Total Credits: 6

Fine Arts - Total Credits: 6

Cultural Studies Requirements - Total Credits: 36

Electives - Total Credits: 29-35

Total Credits: 124

Notes

  1. Three disciplines must be represented among the courses distributed in the B and C categories.
  2. Students are allowed to take a maximum of two independent studies (CST 499) with the approval of the Program Chair.
  3. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements, except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

Committee:

Chris Heavey, Interim Program Chair (Psychology)
Daniel C. Benyshek (Anthropology)
Gregory Brown (History)
Donovan Conley (Communication Studies)
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology)
Kate Hausbeck (Sociology)
Todd Jones (Philosophy)
Anne Stevens (English)
Michelle Tusan (History)
Douglas Unger (English)
Charles Whitney (English)
David Wrobel (History)

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