Grinnell College

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This program provides majors with an in-depth introduction to American studies. Introduces key American studies concepts and highlights the emphases of this major. Careful attention is paid to critical reading skills and analytical writing. It introduces critical conversations regarding social difference and power occurring in American studies and related disciplines and fields.

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This program of anthropology aims to teach students how to enter into the social/cultural worlds of others, how to grasp those worlds from the viewpoints of their inhabitants, and how to articulate those denizens’ habits of mind, worldviews, and values to broader audiences. Anthropology critically analyzes social forms and practices in all their local and global diversity, illuminating the cultural grounding of the ideologies, narratives, and structures in which everyone is implicated.

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This program emphasizes a necessary multicultural approach. The art history program is among the finest and most comprehensive in the South. The faculty members offer an extensive range of courses in the history of European, American, and Asian art, design, and new media. Students cultivate their understanding of art history through analyzing works of art and placing them in historical context as they explore concepts like culture and cultural interactions, theories, and interpretations of art, the impact of materials, processes, and techniques on art and art-making.

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