What is a Guided Path?
Following a Guided Path allows you to focus on what matters to you while knowing you’re making progress toward your learning goals. Each Path is designed by faculty to guide you toward your specific educational and career goals while supporting your creative choice.
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Expand your knowledge by learning about the historical contexts in which we live and communicate with one another over time.
Select the educational opportunities that best meet your wants and needs as you move from Exploratory to Advanced study in one or more related Fields of Study for your Path.
Writing, Language, and World Literature Concentration
This concentration can lead to many different careers that benefit from a broad liberal arts education, strong communication skills reading and writing skills, and cross-cultural understanding. Some possibilities include work in the fields of creative writing, publishing, marketing, communications, education, business, and government services. This concentration helps prepare students for graduate level study in the humanities.
8 Credit Programs
Writing, Language, and World Literature concentration
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| Reimagining the Body (E) | Autobiography (I) | |
| Life Design, Creative Writing, and Alternative Futures (E) | Experiments in Storytelling: Essays, Art, and Games (E) | We the Reader: Interactive Narratives in Fiction, Film, and Games (E) |
| Writing Trauma (E) | Writing Healing (E) | Writing Resilience (E) |
4 Credit Courses
Writing, Language, and World Literature concentration
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| Writers on Writing (E) | Film and Gender (E) | |
| Chinese I (E) | Chinese II (E/I) | Chinese III (I/A) |
| French 1st Year I (E) | French 1st Year II (E/I) | French 1st Year III (I) |
| French 2nd Year I (I) | French 2nd Year II (I/A) | French 2nd Year III (A) |
| Literature of Algeria and French Colonialism (E) | ||
| Japanese 1st Year I (E) | Japanese 1st Year II (E/I) | Japanese 1st Year III (I) |
| Japanese 2nd Year I (I) | Japanese 2nd Year II (I/A) | Japanese 2nd Year III (A) |
| Spanish 1st Year I (E) | Spanish 1st Year II (E/I) | Spanish 1st Year III (I) |
| Spanish 2nd Year I (I) | Spanish 2nd Year II (I/A) | Spanish: Conversación y Composición (A) |
Certificate Programs
Writing, Language, and World Literature concentration
| Cert. Title | Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writing Trauma, Healing and Resilience | Writing Trauma (E) | Writing Healing (E) | Writing Resilience (E) |
Social Institutions and Making Change Concentration
This concentration focuses on social problems – learning about their causes, impact on our communities, and possible solutions. Study the history of these problems in the U.S. and the organizations and institutions created to remedy them. Courses and programs in this concentration will help you develop an understanding of how laws are created and enforced and the impact of legal reforms seeking to create a more just legal system.
8 Credit Programs
Social Institutions and Making Change concentration
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| Deviant Behavior: Whose Rules? What Order? (E) | Laws and Systems of Justice in America Society (E/I) | Institutions of Social Control in U.S. History (I) |
| Climate Policy and Action: Science and Policy Basics (E) [Certificate] | Climate Policy and Action: Policy Analysis and Advocacy (I) [Certificate] |
4 Credit Courses
Social Institutions and Making Change concentration
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Justice: History and Sociology (X) [Certificate] | Environmental Justice: Social Movements (X) [Certificate] | Environmental Justice: Analysis (E) [Certificate] |
| Film and Gender (E) | Climate Policy and Action: Building Community Resilience (I) [Certificate] | |
| Food Systems: Social Movements (E) | Climate Policy and Action: Internship (A) [Certificate] |
Certificate Programs
Social Institutions and Making Change concentration
| Cert. Title | Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Policy and Action | Climate Policy and Action: Science and Policy Basics (E) | Climate Policy and Action: Policy Analysis and Advocacy (I) | Climate Policy and Action: Building Community Resilience (I) |
| Climate Policy and Action: Internship (A) | |||
| Environmental Justice | Environmental Justice: History and Sociology (X) | Environmental Justice: Social Movements (X) | Environmental Justice: Analysis (E) |
Capstone
Capstone experiences depend on your concentration and other factors in your Path, but may include Experiential Learning opportunities, research, critical analysis, final projects, or the creation of portfolios to showcase your work.
In this Path, you will complete a capstone project consisting of 8-32 credits. The project can take the form of a senior thesis or an internship experience with a community project component.
Join the Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Path
By joining this Path, you will receive advising opportunities specific to this Path.
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Affiliate with the Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Path