Degree Requirements
Culture Studies Requirement
Culture studies courses introduce students to cultural systems different from that of mainstream America. The courses expose students to sets of values, attitudes, and methods of organizing experience that may not be obtained from the predominant American culture. Such exposure should lead students to understand the facts, possibilities, and limitations of their own cultural conditioning.
Students must observe the following guidelines when fulfilling the culture studies requirement:
- Students are required to complete two courses that carry culture studies credit.
- Students must complete one course from List A (please see the section of this Bulletin entitled “Appendix I,” which can be found under "Course Designations").
- Students must take another course either from List A or from List B (see “Appendix I”).
- Students who successfully complete an academic year abroad in a program sponsored by the Indiana University Office of Overseas Study will satisfy the culture studies requirement through the course work they take during the year-long program.
- Students who successfully complete a semester abroad in a program sponsored by the Indiana University Office of Overseas Study will earn the equivalent of one Culture Studies List A course through the course work they take abroad.