Proposed Start: 2008 Fall
Status: Launched
Last Updated: Fall 2007
Discipline: Multicultural Studies (MCS)

The certificate program in World Cultures will encourage students to study questions of culture, race, and ethnicity both globally and in the United States. Through the domestic, as well as international, exploration of race, ethnicity, and culture, students are encouraged to understand how international events affect internal social practices and individual behavior, and how these processes ultimately determine race and ethnic relations. The certificate program will address questions such as:  What is the significance between culture and society? What is the nature of social and/or ethnic conflict? Can the exploration of race, ethnicity, and culture provide the understanding necessary for an interactive exchange between various ethnicities, rather than a focus on those differences merely as categories for identifying “otherness?”

Program Requirements

AS 100

Introduction to the Historical Legacy of Africana Peoples

3

CS 100

Introduction to Chicano Studies

3

JS 106 /RS 106

Introduction to Judaism I

3

MCS 100

Introduction to Multicultural Studies

3

MCS 122

Survey of Middle Eastern History

3

MCS 165

Introduction to Asian American Studies

3

Total units

18