Category:Linguistics
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Students of linguistics study the cognitive acquisition, formation, and structure of language. The ways in which language interacts with psychology, sociology, biology, and neuroscience are key elements to a concentration in linguistics. Emphasis is placed...
Category:Creative Writing
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The major is particularly well-suited to a liberal arts college, say professors Rebecca Wee and Kelly Daniels, who will lead the program, because imaginative writers must know more than simply how to write. Writers follow their interests — science, psychology,...
Category:Religion
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* Augustana College offers a major and minor in religion. The department's 10 full-time faculty all have the Ph.D. and together teach from a wide range of religious, theological and philosophical perspectives. ...
Category:Geography
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* Augustana's geography department offers a major and minor. Geography is a "bridge" discipline combining the natural and social sciences. Thus, some courses have a natural science orientation while others have a social science orientation....
Category:African Studies
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Africana Studies integrates multiple perspectives and disciplines to give students a holistic view of their subject area. The major combines courses from history, music, English, political science, religion and sociology to explore the histories of the African...
Category:European Studies
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Bucknell offers a major in Russian Studies and two minors: one in the Russian language and one in Russian Studies. "Russian Studies" means that, while the major is founded on language study, it includes all aspects of Russia--the history, literature, culture,...
Category:Latin American Studies
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Latin American studies provides a framework, through interdisciplinary study in the humanities and social sciences, for systematic understanding of the Latin American cultural and historical experience and of the important role of Latin America in our global...
Category:Anthropology
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The anthropology major requires eight courses. A student must take ANTH 109 Cultural Anthropology; a methods course chosen from SOCI/ANTH 201 Field Research in Local Communities, ANTH 287 Anthropology in Action or SOCI 208 Methods of Social Research; ANTH 283...
Category:History
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Overview The Department of History at Emory & Henry College offers undergraduate and graduate programs designed to teach students to engage the past both in the classroom and through practical experience. At Emory & Henry, we believe that history is...
Category:Geography
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Emory & Henry is the only private college in the Commonwealth of Virginia to offer a geography program. We teach geography in a way that is uniquely active, giving students a healthy mix of textbook studies and hands-on learning. The beauty and the challenges...
Category:Philosophy
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PH101: Greek Philosophy An examination of the origins of Western philosophy as it arose in ancient Greece. The course begins with the Pre-Socratic philosophers, centers on the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, and closes with the important Hellenistic traditions...
Category:Anthropology
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Known as the “holistic science of humankind,’’ anthropology attempts to understand socio/cultural systems in the broadest of comparative perspectives. Anthropology seeks to examine the differences between the vast varieties of existing human societies and to...
Category:Asian Studies
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The Asian studies program aims to create a better understanding of Asian cultures and their place in the world through an integrated course of interdisciplinary study. The structure of requirements and electives (see below) is designed to ensure a comprehensive...
Category:Comparative Literature
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A WORK OF LITERATURE ALWAYS MAKES CONNECTIONS. It not only reaches individual readers; it can invoke other literary works and traditions, it can challenge or embrace scientific or historical knowledge, it can be translated into another language or transformed...
Category:European Studies
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CLASSICS HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES and societies of ancient Greece and Rome. At Hamilton, the Classics Department reflects this tradition, while offering a broader view of the ancient world and its relation to our own time. The study of classics...
Category:Archeology
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Courses in Archaeology 106F,S Principles of Archaeology. An introduction to the fundamentals of archaeology, with emphasis on evolutionary principles. Topics include a review of archaeological field methods such as sampling, survey and excavation, and analytic...
Category:Liberal Studies
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ANTHROPOLOGY — THE STUDY OF THE RICH CULTURAL, SOCIAL, LINGUISTIC AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF HUMANITY — is a hands-on learning experience at Hamilton. Small liberal arts colleges rarely offer all four areas of study (cultural and social, linguistic, and biological...
Category:Liberal Studies
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AMERICAN STUDIES IS THE EXPLORATION OF CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE in the United States. It uses the methods and perspectives of several disciplines — particularly history and literature — as lenses through which the nation and its cultural heritage may be examined....
Category:African Studies
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The Africana Studies Department focuses on the historical transformation of African peoples as they spread throughout the Atlantic World and beyond. Central to the department is the exploration of the experiences of African peoples with subjugation and liberation...
Category:Philosophy
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Departments of the other Claremont Colleges and CGU are designed to cultivate critical thinking and to introduce the student to the history of philosophy, its traditional problems and subject areas and its connections with related subjects. In addition to preparing...
