Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critical discussion of the concept of ‘culture’ and how it relates to other important terms and ideas (like language, race, nation, or ethnicity).
2. Ability to reflect on how your own cultural context and experiences shape your expectations and daily life.
3. Understand some of the ways that structures of politics and economics affect relations among cultures and cultural groups.
4. Improve on academic skills including time management, communication with peers, and reading different types of texts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Reflect on the meaning and importance of culture as a tool of self-understanding.
2. Have a solid understanding of the social, cultural, and political events that have shaped the cultures of a country or region.
3. Be familiar with important artistic movements and with the work of key creators.
4. Have acquired the necessary cultural sensitivity and awareness to contribute to productive and respective transcultural exchanges.
5. Developed the critical skills necessary to fully appreciate and understand the creative endeavours and struggles of people living in a specific country or region.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize basic Arabic traditions and etiquettes in their social and cultural context.
2. Construct meaningful and logical arguments and explore new conceptual ideas.
3. Examine and reflect on the sisterhood of all cultures and traditions and the appreciation of their uniqueness and/or similarities.
4. Build on research and exploration to develop cultural recognition and positive dialogue.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the historical and cultural relevance of music in Latin America.
2. Acquire critical and in-depth reading and listening skills to recognize important musical styles and movements from different regions of Latin America.
3. Identify influential Latin American musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
4. Assess the ways in which music influences our identities.
5. Develop cultural sensitivity to a great variety of musical traditions and social practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Reflect on the meaning and importance of culture as a tool of self-understanding.
2. Have a solid understanding of the social, cultural, and political events that have shaped Latin America from pre-Hispanic times to the present.
3. Be familiar with important artistic movements and with the work of key Latin American creators.
4. Have acquired the necessary cultural sensitivity and awareness to contribute to productive and respectful transcultural exchanges.
5. Developed the critical skills necessary to fully appreciate and understand the creative endeavours and struggles of Latin American people.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify major theoretical frameworks for studying multilingualism as a social practice.
2. Analyze examples of multilingualism from varied contexts (face-to-face interactions, music, mass media) to comment on issues in culture and communication.
3. Participate critically in debates about multilingualism and understand their implications for larger social issues like group identity, power, race.
4. Evaluate studies of multilingualism and communicate about them orally for an academic audience.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire familiarity with a range of historical forces, agents, and contexts that contributed in different ways to the unfolding of fascism.
2. Connect the historical, cultural, and sociopolitical material to the crisis of fascism (1918-1945), as well as to ongoing dilemmas in liberal governance.
3. Organize, question, and defend the philosophical, social, historical, and political concepts expressed and debated within the work.
4. Develop oral skills in classroom discussion and presentations and develop writing skills through short and long exercises and essays.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically discuss the relationship between language and society in different parts of the world.
2. Evaluate different methodologies for studying cultural aspects of communication and different styles of representing events of communication.
3. Apply a range of key concepts in the study of culture and communication.
4. Design a proposal for a feasible research project that incorporates the components of ethnographic research.
5. Provide and respond to constructive peer review.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe the theme of environmental ethics and storied relationships in different works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, artists, and activists engaging with changing environments, landscapes, or territories.
2. Articulate and engage with the ways in which theoretical reflections and layers of knowledge can emerge through film, literature, and other forms of creative expression in relation to changing environments and colonial pressures.
3. Using film analysis and close reading methodologies, interpret and analyze specific creative works in relation to past, present, and future ways of envisioning and conceptualizing the complex interactions between humans and all other living entities.
4. Reflect on the land and place they inhabit in light of the works studied, and position themselves in relation to Indigenous peoples and the environment in order to better assess one’s individual and collective ethics and responsibilities.