The specific language and culture for a given term will be announced prior to registration for that term. Students are usually required to have had two years of experience in the language and must have permission of the faculty member. An interdisciplinary course with a focus on a specific geographic area. By focusing on one particular country or area, it is possible for students to attain knowledge of how the political, literary, and artistic history of a people forms an integral whole. Because it is interdisciplinary, if this course is elected independently of the International Studies Program, one additional Humanities course and one additional Social Science course are needed to meet graduation requirements.
Students project their own value systems in designing concepts of the future.
These conceptual models are then analyzed in terms of scientific, technological, ecological, political, aesthetic, and moral trends discernible today. Futuristic literature, such as science fiction, provides stimuli for constructing the future. Emphasis is placed on the role of planning and control in achieving a future that maximizes human survival and welfare. An analysis of selected issues and problems of world history since 1500. Reading, written projects and discussions are organized to examine such themes as revolution, nationalism, imperialism, science and technology, interactions between the West and non - Western peoples, international conflict, modern ideologies and systems of global order.