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GER4 Criteria

To satisfy this requirement, a student must take one of the following combinations of GER 4 courses: AAB, ABB or ABC.

• 4A History and Culture in the European Tradition
• 4B History and Culture outside the European Tradition
• 4C Cross-Cultural Issues

The World Cultures and History GER is designed to introduce students to major ideas, institutions, and historical events that have shaped human societies. The courses that would meet this objective have the following features:

1. They are courses covering more than one period, or covering critical periods, or movements which are designed primarily to explore topics, issues, or themes (as opposed to teaching the methods/theories of a discipline);
2. They are informed by an historical perspective (in the sense of addressing the changes in institutions, movements, or cultural practices);
3. They emphasize critical events, institutions, ideas, or literary/artistic achievements; and
4. Using disciplinary or interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks, they focus on a European or a non-European tradition, or explore topics comparatively across traditions.