Culture and Politics

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Local:$ 69.8 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 69.8 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 10, 2025
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The Culture and Politics (CULP) major is an intellectually rigorous program that enables students to engage with questions of culture, knowledge, and power. Students will gain a complex understanding of these terms, their histories, and effects. We approach politics as mediated by cultural practices, and culture as suffused with power. Power is embedded in institutions and the social order, and conditions individual and collective action.

Since no single approach encompasses the relation between culture and politics, the CULP major stresses fluency in different theories, definitions, and genres of culture. Different analytical tools from a variety of fields allow students to practice critical self-reflection, understand the politics of interpretation, and enhance their theoretical sophistication.

CULP fosters an environment for critical inquiry, creative engagement, and collaborative learning. All majors take the foundational course, Theorizing Culture and Politics, and then go on to choose their own five-course sequence around their individually chosen concentration, in addition to three courses each from the social sciences and the humanities. The high degree of flexibility afforded to students requires them to become independent agents of knowledge capable of designing their own program of studies according to their individual interests and talents.

The requirements for the Culture and Politics major are as follows:

  • CULP-045: Theorizing Culture and Politics
  • 3 courses from Field I: Humanities (from current/past CULP lists)
  • 3 courses from Field II: Social Sciences (from current/past CULP lists)
  • 5 courses from relevant departments selected by students in consultation with the CULP Curricular Dean to reflect the student’s thematic interest.
  • Beginning with the Class of 2015, all CULP majors must have completed one designated ‘Research Methods Course’ as part of the 12 course CULP major requirement.

CULP Research Methods Courses

  • CULP-341 Politics of Cult Preservation
  • CULP-346 Crit Geog: Theory and Practice
  • CULP-348 TheOther:Immigrant Integration
  • ENGL-256 Documentary
  • JUPS-202 Nonviolence Theory & Practice
  • JUPS-271 Conflict Transformation
  • JUPS-299 Research Methods in JUPS
  • LING-283 Language & Society
  • LING-333 Cross-Cultural Communication
  • SOCI-201 Methods of Social Research

Humanities

  • AFAM-201 Rep:Love Sex & Rel in AfAm Cul
  • AFAM-310 Writing Black Lives
  • AMST-333 Crisis:AM Disasters:Film & Fic
  • ARAB-366 Islam and Identity
  • ARTH-102 Renaissance to Modern Art
  • ARTH-140 Modern Art
  • ARTH-419 Images of Native America
  • ARTH-466 The Body in Asian Art
  • CHIN-352 Imgs of Women: Cont Chin Film
  • CULP-222 Med,Arts,&Culp in War & Peace
  • CULP-341 Politics of Cult Preservation
  • CULP-346 Crit Geog: Theory and Practice
  • CULP-359 Owens' Film Studies Seminar
  • ENGL-182 American Lit: The Sixties
  • ENGL-186 Postmodern Lit
  • ENGL-187 Post 9/11 Culture
  • ENGL-198 Literatures of Modern India
  • ENGL-208 US Latin@ Lit and Culture
  • ENGL-209 Native American Lit
  • ENGL-218 Transnational Literature
  • ENGL-227 African American Poetry
  • ENGL-233 American Film & Culture
  • ENGL-234 Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • ENGL-239 Literature of Exploration
  • ENGL-241 New York Stories
  • ENGL-242 Literary Representns: The City
  • ENGL-248 History of Advertising
  • ENGL-251 Intro to Film Theory
  • ENGL-256 Documentary
  • ENGL-259 Introduction to Game Studies
  • ENGL-274 Italian Cinema
  • FMST-205 Keywords in Media Studies
  • FMST-398 Gaming & Justice
  • FMST-399 CBL:Social Justice Documentary
  • FREN-335 Contemporary Belgian Culture
  • FREN-440 Mem&Orality:Subsaharan Afr Lit
  • FREN-481 Urb Fictions of Montreal
  • GERM-043 Witches
  • GERM-167 Liebe,Lust,Und Leidenschaft
  • GERM-394 Images of Childhood
  • HIST-209 The Atomic Age
  • HIST-256 Popular Music in Brazil & Cuba
  • HIST-285 Afr-American Women's History
  • HIST-306 Researching Geopolitics of Oil
  • HIST-315 Environmental Hist of Africa
  • HIST-323 Language Lit Power South Asia
  • HIST-335 Food:The Industrial Age
  • HIST-361 Pirates/Soldiers/Diplomats
  • HIST-368 Empires borderlands ME Balkans
  • HIST-371 (In)tolerance in East Europe
  • HIST-388 Jazz/Civil Rights/Amer Society
  • HIST-397 Cold War Lessons & Legacies
  • HIST-404 Global History of Plague
  • HIST-458 Mexico, Mexicans, and the US
  • HIST-468 Islamic Modernism
  • HIST-482 Black Capitalism
  • HIST-488 W.E.B. DuBois Seminar
  • INAF-397 Muslim Women & the West
  • INAF-403 Sex & Powr in the Islamic Trad
  • INAF-438 Religion, Ethcs,& Wrld Affairs
  • ITAL-420 Language and Migration
  • JAPN-412 Japanese Anime Film
  • JCIV-350 Philip Roth:Fiction About Fict
  • JOUR-375 Free Speech
  • JUPS-340 The Politics of Memory
  • JUPS-380 Justice and Consumer Culture
  • JUPS-409 CBL:EnvironmentalPeacebuilding
  • MUSC-115 Music in Multicultural World
  • MUSC-116 Jazz History
  • MUSC-324 Music in US Prisons
  • MUSC-328 Special Topics:Duke Ellington
  • PHIL-112 Gender and Feminism
  • PHIL-124 Ethics and the Environment
  • PHIL-128 Intersectionality & Identity
  • PHIL-131 Economic Justice
  • PHIL-155 Philosophy of Film
  • PHIL-173 Philosophy of Education
  • PHIL-175 Philosophy of Race
  • PHIL-192 Propaganda & Social Exclusion
  • PORT-261 Lusophone Literature & Writing
  • PORT-331 Brazilian Cinema
  • RUSS-478 Prison/Exile in 20thc Russ Lit
  • SPAN-237 Cultural Hist Span Painting
  • SPAN-241 SPAIN: Lit & Culture I
  • SPAN-242 SPAIN: Lit & Culture II
  • SPAN-246 Catalan Culture/Society
  • SPAN-261 LAT AMER: Lit & Culture I
  • SPAN-262 LAT AMER: Lit & Culture II
  • SPAN-267 Lit & Society in Lat Amer
  • SPAN-268 Latin American Film
  • SPAN-333 Luso-Brazilian Cinema:Spanish
  • SPAN-350 Spanish Women Writers
  • TPST-223 Performance and Politics
  • TPST-240 World Theater History
  • TPST-309 Post 9/11 Theater
  • TURK-353 Sex/Religion/Protest in Turkey

Social Sciences

  • ANTH-001 Intro to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH-175 Crisis & Creativity/Arab World
  • ANTH-185 Global South Asia
  • ANTH-205 Justice and Media
  • ANTH-207 Love & Hate in the Digital Age
  • ANTH-220 Dangerous Kids
  • ANTH-234 Race/Empire/Muslims in West
  • ANTH-242 Masculinities
  • ANTH-256 Disability & Culture
  • ANTH-283 Race & the Black Diaspora
  • ANTH-320 The Ethnographic Imagination
  • ANTH-351 CBL:Refug/Asylees/Migrnts/Traf
  • ANTH-353 Sex/Religion/Protest in Turkey
  • ANTH-387 Indigenous Peoples/Confl/Resil
  • ANTH-392 African Feminism Re-Imagined
  • CATH-225 Ecology & Cath Social Thought
  • CULP-346 Crit Geog: Theory and Practice
  • CULP-348 TheOther:Immigrant Integration
  • ENST-350 Gender and Sustainability
  • GOVT-225 Race and Ethnicity in the US
  • GOVT-226 Religion & American Politics
  • GOVT-283 African American Pol Thought
  • GOVT-303 Topics:Democracy & Populism
  • GOVT-303 Topics:Terrorism and Rebellion
  • GOVT-313 Religion,Ethics,World Affairs
  • GOVT-329 Dep't Sem:Women & Politics
  • GOVT-330 Dept Sem:Democracy & Education
  • GOVT-365 Dev Responses to Pol Violence
  • GOVT-371 Ethics Politics and Conflict
  • GOVT-373 Equality, Dem & Welfare State
  • GOVT-461 Dept Sem:Catholic Soc Thought
  • INAF-165 Holocaust:Destruction of Jews
  • INAF-188 Contemporary Anti-Semitism
  • INAF-228 Islam and Terrorism
  • INAF-313 Gender and the Quran
  • INAF-321 Hist of Peace-Making:Mid East
  • INAF-355 Immigrants, Refugees & State
  • INAF-396 Soc Change:Sub-Saharan Africa
  • JCIV-264 American Secularism
  • LING-283 Language & Society
  • LING-333 Cross-Cultural Communication
  • PSYC-241 Psychology of Gender
  • PSYC-242 Cultural Psychology
  • PSYC-249 Cognition, Culture, & Justice
  • PSYC-353 Culture & Psychopathology
  • SOCI-141 Social Innovation
  • SOCI-155 Social Movements
  • SOCI-158 Political Sociology
  • SOCI-164 Japanese Society
  • SOCI-171 Culture and Consumption
  • SOCI-173 Food, Farms & Society
  • SOCI-192 Law and Society
  • SOCI-197 Transnational Crime
  • SOCI-209 The City/Urban Studies
  • SOCI-220 Global Developmnt &Soc Justice
  • SOCI-244 Engaging Diff. Race Ethnicity
  • SOCI-261 Sem. in Transgender Issues
  • THEO-031 Folk Rels Latin America
  • THEO-042 Exploring the Qur'an
  • THEO-050 Islamic Thought & Practice
  • THEO-051 Modern Hinduism
  • THEO-057 Hindu Religious Tradition
  • THEO-061 Judaism in America
  • THEO-070 Theologies of Social Justice
  • THEO-084 Theology and Sexuality
  • WGST-140 Intro Women's/Gender Studies
  • WGST-141 Intro to Sexuality Studies
  • WGST-201 Feminist Thought 2
  • WGST-231 Sexual Politics in Arab World
  • WGST-234 Feminist Disability Studies
  • WGST-238 Gender, Race, and Feminism
  • WGST-239 Art, Medicine, and Gender
  • WGST-251 Women and the Law
  • WGST-266 Women in Amer Politics
  • WGST-350 Gender and Sustainability
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  • ACT - Georgetown's ACT code is 0668. Georgetown accepts the ACT in lieu of the SAT. Applicants who take the ACT more than once will have their highest composite score considered in the evaluation process. The optional writing section on the ACT is not required, nor is the writing subscore used in the application review process.
  • SAT Subject Tests - It is strongly recommended that all candidates, whether they have taken the SAT Reasoning Test or the ACT, submit three SAT Subject Tests scores. The scores from writing portion on the SAT Reasoning Test and the optional writing portion of the ACT will not be used in place of a Subject Test.
  • TOEFL - Georgetown's TOEFL code is 5244. TOEFL is recommended for candidates studying in non-U.S. educational systems and whose native language is not English. Georgetown also does accept results from the IELTS. Please contact either the Educational Testing Service (ETS) or the American College Testing Program (ACT) for details about this exam.
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Admitted students who have requested financial aid and are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be considered for a very limited number of need-based scholarships. To be considered for one of these scholarships, the student/applicant will need to indicate their intent to apply for financial aid on the Application for Undergraduate Admission and should submit a CSS/Financial Aid Profile online at http://www.collegeboard.com. For further details, please see the Office of Student Financial Services website.

Whether admitted either under our Early Action or Regular Decision review periods, all candidates for financial aid will be notified about their eligibility for aid, their financial aid awards or about missing documents during the first week of April.

Please note that we are now using the CSS/Financial Aid Profile in place of the International Student Financial Aid form.

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