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Practical reasons to study culture

1. Get Ready For Study Abroad or Duke Engage.

2. Continue the immersion experience when you return to campus.

3. Prepare a career in the global workforce with knowledge that augments your major.

4. Explore your family's heritage.

The courses below are taught in english, and provide practical insight into the culture, customs, literature, arts and politics of people around the world.

  • Course
  • Title
  • Areas of Knowledge
  • Modes of Inquiry
  • AMES 190S
  • Focus Program Course: Islam and Intra-Muslim Debates
  • AMES 205
  • Understanding the middle east
  • AMES 232S
  • Chinese Literature/Culture in Translation
  • AMES 89S
  • 1st yr seminar: Audiovisualities
  • CLST 144
  • Principles of Archaeology
  • Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Ethical Inquiry
  • CLST 182
  • Roman Civilization
  • Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • CLST 208
  • Ancient Myth
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance; Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • CLST 252LS
  • Reconstructing Ancient Worlds
  • Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Research; Science, Technology, and Society
  • CLST 275
  • Democracy Ancient & Modern
  • Civilizations; Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Ethical Inquiry
  • CLST 283
  • Greek History
  • Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • CLST 344
  • Early Greek Archaeology
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance; Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • FRENCH 490-1
  • Flaubert's Brain
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Science, Technology, and Society
  • GERMAN 261S
  • Vikings and Their Literature
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Ethical Inquiry
  • GERMAN 385
  • The Existentialist Imagination
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance; Civilizations
  • Ethical Inquiry; Science, Technology, and Society
  • ITALIAN 387
  • Italian-American Experience
  • Civilizations; Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Research
  • ITALIAN 490S
  • Fascism in Literature and Film
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • ITALIAN 590S
  • Svevo and World Literature
  • Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • PORTUGUE 490.01
  • BR, Race, Sex, the Body
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • PORTUGUE 490.02
  • Blackness in Latin America
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • ROMST 204
  • Soccer Politics
  • Civilizations; Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Research
  • RUSSIAN 310S
  • The Russian Fairy Tale and Its Cultural Legacy
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance; Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • RUSSIAN 316
  • Russian Short Fiction
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance; Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • RUSSIAN 320S
  • End of Life in Russia and the U.S.
  • Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Ethical Inquiry
  • RUSSIAN 325
  • Tolstoy and the Russian Experience
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Writing
  • RUSSIAN 375S
  • Painting Russia Red: Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1934
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance; Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • SES 356
  • Imperial Russia, 1700-1917
  • Civilizations; Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • SES 373S
  • Journey to Eurasia: Between Moscow, Beijing, and Delhi
  • Civilizations; Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Research
  • SES 423S
  • City Stops Between Europe and Asia: From Prague to Kabul
  • Civilizations; Social Science
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • SPANISH 412D
  • Mayas, Aztecs and Incas
  • Civilizations
  • Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Research