CLS 201 - Cultural Perspectives

STANDARD CREDIT TYPE
1 credit(s)

This course provides an overview of the history and culture of the region studied and visited, with a special emphasis on how the political environment has developed and changed over the centuries. The unique structure of this course offers students the opportunity not only to study the culture in a classroom setting, but experience it first-hand through a travel component.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how the cultural heritage affects the present-day lives of the inhabitants of the country/region being studied.

2. Compare and contrast the social, religious, and linguistic differences between the student’s culture and the country/region being studied.