CMU offers an interdisciplinary major in Social
Science in the Bachelor of Arts degree programs.
Students may choose to include a concentration in one of
four areas within either the four-year or the three-year
major. The following options are available:
B.A., 4-year, major, B.A., 3-year, major in Social Science
The Social Science major is an interdisciplinary major, available in either the four-year or the three-year Bachelor of Arts. Students may choose to include one of the following concentrations within either the four-year or the three-year major: Business and Organizational Administration; Communications and Media; Counseling Studies; Intercultural Studies; Social Service; Disaster Recovery Studies. Alternatively, students may complete a minor in any of the six areas listed above, to present with majors other than the interdisciplinary Social Science majors.
B.A., 4-year, B.A., 3-year, major in Social Science, concentration in Intercultural Studies
Through this concentration, you will increase your intercultural competencies and sensitivities for future study, work, service and peacemaking; develop your knowledge of the psychosocial and historical role of culture in change and continuity, ritual, symbolism and politics, institutional life and creative expression, security, belonging and their loss, conflict and violence; enhance your understanding of the dynamics and impacts of cross-cultural and multicultural interface, including cultural, economic and political globalization; critically engage transnational populations and their cultural contexts of harmony and conflict, including localism, citizenship and nationalism; population displacement, statelessness and diaspora; and learn more about race, ethnicity and identity; world religions and fundamentalisms.
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The areas listed above for concentration are also available as minors that may be taken alongside majors other than the Social Science majors.
For more information, the Academic Calendar contains everything you need to know for studying at CMU, including qualifications, course registrations and course descriptions for this, and other offerings.
