2019-20 Academic Catalog

In our courses, Cross-Cultural Studies means comparing and contrasting two or more cultures in order to identify phenomena that are more universal or more culturally specific, as well as examining outcomes when two or more culturally different groups interface, communicate, and/or interact. In the minor, we engage in both transcultural and intercultural work through a blend of personal experience, reflection, theory, and analysis.

Requirements for the Cross Cultural Studies Minor

The minor consists of a minimum of 36 credits, at least 12 of which are at the 200-level, distributed across the following categories (with no courses applied to more than one category):

• a.  Seeing and Being Cross-Cultural (minimum of 6 credits): 
  • AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies
  • CCST 100 Growing up Cross-Culturally
  • RELG 110 Understanding Religion
  • SOAN 110 Introduction to Anthropology
  • SOAN 111 Introduction to Sociology
• b. Reflecting on Cross-Cultural Experience (minimum of 4 credits):
  • CCST 208 International Coffee and News
  • CCST 270 Creative Travel Writing Workshop
  • IDSC 103 Student Conversations about Diversity and Community
  • IDSC 128 Civil Discourse on a Diverse Campus: An Experiential Living-Learning Community (not offered in 2019-20)
  • IDSC 203 Talking about Diversity
  (Certain OCS program courses may also apply to this category. CCST 208 can be retaken once, for a total of four credits)
• c. Principles of Cross-Cultural Analysis (minimum of 12 credits, no more than 6 from any one program):
  • CCST 275 I'm A Stranger Here Myself
  • LCST 245 The Critical Toolbox: Who's Afraid of Theory?
  • POSC 120 Democracy and Dictatorship
  • POSC 215 Comparative Political Communication: News Coverage of Elections (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism
  • POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements (not offered in 2019-20)
  • PSYC 248 Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • PSYC 358 Cross-Cultural Psychology Seminar in Prague: Cross-Cultural Psychopathology (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RELG 300 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion
  • SOAN 330 Sociological Thought and Theory
  • SOAN 331 Anthropological Thought and Theory
• d. Cross-Cultural Encounters (minimum of 12 credits): Can include, with approval of director, any course dealing substantively with the intersection of two or more cultures—including but not limited to:
  
  • ARBC 286 Narratives of Arab Modernity
  • ASLN 111 Writing Systems
  • ENGL 228 Encountering the Other: The Crusades (not offered in 2019-20)
  • ENGL 250 Indian Fiction 1880-1980
  • ENGL 251 Contemporary Indian Fiction (not offered in 2019-20)
  • ENGL 252 Caribbean Fiction (not offered in 2019-20)
  • ENGL 350 The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts
  • FREN 206 Contemporary French and Francophone Culture
  • FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (not offered in 2019-20)
  • FREN 255 Paris Program: Islam in France: Historical Approaches and Current Debates
  • FREN 350 Middle East and French Connection (not offered in 2019-20)
  • FREN 352 The Arthurian Legend (not offered in 2019-20)
  • FREN 359 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
  • FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations
  • GERM 215 Refugees Welcome? Debating Migration and Multiculturalism in Post-War Germany (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 142 Women in Modern Europe (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 165 From Young Turks to Arab Revolutions: A Cultural History of the Modern Middle East
  • HIST 171 Latin America and the U.S. (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 184 Colonial West Africa (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 260 The Making of the Modern Middle East
  • HIST 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings
  • HIST 279 Latin America and the Global Cold War (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 281 War in Modern Africa (not offered in 2019-20)
  • HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity (not offered in 2019-20)
  • MELA 121 East-West in Israeli and Palestinian Fiction and Film (not offered in 2019-20)
  • MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 180 Global Politics & Local Communities (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 215 Comparative Political Communication: News Coverage of Elections (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 237 Southeast Asian Politics (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 238 Sport & Globalization London/Seville Pgm: Globalization and Development: Lessons from Int'l Football
  • POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism
  • POSC 265 Public Policy and Global Capitalism
  • POSC 267 Comparative Foreign Policy (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 294 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Perceptions of Otherness in Modern Eastern and Central Europe (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 295 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Nation-Building in Central and Eastern Europe between Politics and Art (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 296 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Challenges to the Nation-State in Eastern and Central Europe: Immigrants and Minorities (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 348 Strangers, Foreigners and Exiles*
  • POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements (not offered in 2019-20)
  • POSC 378 Political Economy & Ecology of Southeast Asia: Social Changes in Southeast Asia
  • POSC 379 Political Economy and Ecology of S.E. Asia: Diversity of Social Ecological Systems in Southeast Asia
  • RELG 227 Liberation Theologies (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RELG 228 Martyrdom (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RELG 234 Angels, Demons, and Evil
  • RELG 238 The Sacred Body (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RELG 254 Zen Buddhism (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RELG 262 Islamic Africa (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RELG 287 Many Marys
  • RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota
  • RELG 353 Saints, Goddesses, and Whores (not offered in 2019-20)
  • RUSS 205 Russian in Cultural Contexts
  • SOAN 256 Africa: Representation and Conflict
  • SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature
• e. Capstone (2 credits). CCST 398: Cross-Cultural Panorama: A Capstone Workshop. After participating in selected co-curricular activities, students will curate work from their CCST courses and experiences in an instructor-guided e-portfolio, including a reflective essay. (Other capstone options may be approved by director.) 

Participation in at least one OCS program, while not required, is strongly encouraged. Courses from OCS programs may be applied to categories A through E, with approval of the director (and subject to rules of the Registrar).

Cross-Cultural Studies Courses