The interdisciplinary program in Globalization, Identity and Space is intended to promote students' awareness of the differences an similarities that characterize the world's increasingly interconnected communities. It is a cooperative endeavor of the Anthropology, Geography and Pan-African Studies departments. The program requirements successful completion of at lease 21 semester hours of coursework selected from the participating departments.
Students wishing to graduate with this minor must take a minimum of 21 credit hours from the approved list of courses, appearing below. These must include all three core courses (9 hours) plus four electives (12 hours) selected from the list. Those four courses must come from at least two of the three participating departments. Students may petition to substitute a relevant course in some discipline other than Anthropology, Geography or Pan-African studies for one of the designated electives
Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive
Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.
STUDIES IN GLOBALIZATION, IDENTITY AND SPACE MINOR REQUIREMENTS (21 credits) |
Type |
Course |
Title |
Credits |
KSS/DG |
ANTH |
18210 |
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology |
3 |
KSS/DG |
GEOG |
22061 |
Human Geography |
3 |
|
PAS |
15200 |
Introduction to West Africa |
3 |
|
Electives (choose from at least two disciplines) |
12 |
|
ANTH |
38250 |
Religion: The Search for Meaning (3) |
|
DG |
|
48212 |
Kinship and Social Organization (3) |
|
WIC |
|
48214 |
Politics of Culture (3) |
|
|
|
48220 |
Cultural Ecology (3) |
|
DG |
|
48250 |
Culture and Curing (3) |
|
|
|
48270 |
Native Peoples of North America (3) |
|
DG |
|
48630 |
Pacific Island Cultures (3) |
|
KSS/DG |
GEOG |
17063 |
World Geography (3) |
|
|
|
31070 |
Population and Environment (3) |
|
DG |
|
32080 |
Politics and Place (3) |
|
DG |
|
37040 |
Geography of Africa (3) |
|
DG |
|
37050 |
Geography of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (3) |
|
DG |
|
37066 |
Geography of Europe (3) |
|
DG |
|
37070 |
Geography of East and Southeast Asia (3) |
|
DG |
|
37079 |
Geography of South Asia (3) |
|
DG |
|
37084 |
Geography of South America (3) |
|
DG |
|
37085 |
Geography of Central America and Mexico (3) |
|
DG |
PAS |
32050 |
African Literatures (3) |
|
|
|
33130 |
Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the African Diaspora (3) |
|
|
|
35200 |
African Social and Political Systems (3) |
|
DG |
|
37100 |
Pan-African Women's Literature (3) |
|
|
MINIMUM TOTAL |
21 |
Students must complete at least two upper-division courses in the minor at Kent State on a graded basis (A-F). For information on the major Residence Requirements please visit the University Residence Requirements policy.
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