Williams 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 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 aim 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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In this program students are encouraged to explore the culture through literature courses in translation. A broad range of courses attempt to introduce students to readings representative of classical and contemporary Arabic literary. Beyond an exploration of the political and social issues brought into relief in these texts, themes in these courses include an examination of the trope of the city, cross-cultural encounters etc.

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