Academics at Carthage

Global Heritage

While Western Heritage I and II cover the roots of European cultural traditions, Global Heritage courses explore cultures and civilizations with substantial non-European elements. All Carthage students are required to take one course (4 credits) that is designated Global Heritage (GH).

The Global Heritage requirement includes courses that seek to encounter and understand an alternate worldview. All Global Heritage courses not only seek to explore the culture or civilization being studied, but also to enable students to understand cultural difference whether while traveling abroad, or in our own increasingly plural nation.

The Global Heritage requirement can be completed by courses taken either on campus or through off-campus study. In either case, courses satisfying this requirement are approved by the Global Heritage Oversight Committee and are so designated in the course schedule.

Global Heritage Courses
January Term, 2010

BIOL/GEOG 633	Geography/Biology of Nicaragua
HIST/POLS 6xx	Capitalist China: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Colonialism
HIST/MLAN/ECON 271	After the Peace: Causes and Consequences of the Guatemalan Civil War
MLAN 271	Chinese and Japanese Cultures through Films
RELI 336	Religion and Society in Modern India

Global Heritage Courses
Spring Semester, 2010

ART 200	Asian Art and Architecture
CLAS/HIST 271	Ancient Egypt
GEOG 285	Geography of East Asia
GNRL 271	Topics: Latin America
HIST 120	Issues in Asian History
HIST 340	Modern China
POLS/SOCI/WOMG 271	Women in Developing Countries
POLS 339	Asian Politics
RELI 311	Hinduism
RELI 313	Buddhism
SOCI 271	Discovering the South Pacific
SOCI 271	American Indian Ethno-history