Is China a state? Is it a nation? Is it a culture defined by a language? Or is it still something else? What do teenagers practicing tai ji quan at American schools and Chinese Christians have in common? How is the Belt and Road initiative reshaping our world? This major invites you to ask and attempt to answer questions like this. If you think you know what Chinese history, politics and religion are, the Global China Studies curriculum is aimed at making you question your previous assumptions. Our interdisciplinary core starts from the assumption that “China” has a lot of meanings. Because of this, you can decide how you approach the interdisciplinary core, choosing from courses divided into 4 core themes: statehood, visual culture and history, economy and trade, and language. Whatever path through the core you chart though, you will gain a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of China.

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Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the forms of social life and culture produced in today’s interconnected world. Understanding the complexity of global culture requires mastery over the tools of interpretation and knowledge production. It requires students to “read, write, and translate the world.” Global Cultural Studies courses combine the strengths of the social sciences, the humanities, and creative practice, by drawing on interpretive methods and theories from literary and translation studies, cultural anthropology, history, sociology, media studies, film studies, journalism, communications, economics, and more.

The global health major introduces students to global health as an area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. A synthesis of population-based prevention with individual-level clinical care, global health aims to reduce health disparities through attention to modifiable determinants of health and provision of sustainable health services and human development. As a field of study, global health has emerged from tropical medicine, public health, and international health to encompass the complex transactions between societies that are a defining feature of globalization. Because many global health problems stem from economic, social, environmental, political, and healthcare inequalities, defining these problems and designing solutions is highly interdisciplinary and involves fields that span across health sciences, medicine, and public health, but also that bridge to a broad range of other academic fields, including biology, agriculture, anthropology, business, computer science, engineering, environmental sciences, economics, history, law, psychology, public policy, and sociology, among others. To introduce students to this interdisciplinary field, the global health major integrates courses in the natural and social sciences and encourages students to take relevant electives in the humanities.

The new field of behavioral science seeks to understand how humans think and act within their environments and how policies can shape that behavior. For example, research showing the power of default options on decision making has led to the introduction of “opt-out” policies for decisions like becoming an organ donor or contributing to one’s retirement account, leading to marked increases in participation (e.g., millions of newly eligible organ donors). Across many institutions – governmental, educational, and corporate – effective interventions rely on an understanding of human behavior. Behavioral science has been commonly applied to problems in marketing, health science, financial investing, charitable giving, human factors and environmental design, and education.

Computer science is an intellectually rich and rapidly growing field that has had a profound effect on our society and everyday lives. Today, this field continues to expand in scope and depth and will remain an exciting place to work and learn in coming years. Computer Science majors are in high demand for well- paying jobs in technology, science, business, healthcare, and other sectors. At the same time, the wide- ranging impact of computer science tools and methods demands careful design of the algorithms and systems by which we deploy them, as well as an ability to critique their assumptions and effects in terms of social policy, media and communications, and the arts.

Culture and movements are interdependent areas of inquiry studied across the social sciences and humanities that are relevant for understanding current events, the drivers of and possibilities for change in the world. Culture refers to the ways people imagine and construct their worlds, make and experience meaning, act and interact with each other and the material objects that shape their lives. Movements refer to the ways in which people conceive and contribute to societal change. The study of cultures and movements engages the question of what sustains socio-cultural orders, including those relating to gender, religion, racial and economic inequalities, and how do these systems change? Studies in cultures and movements include analysis of the ways that values and ethical norms, knowledge, economic and political systems and institutions emerge and evolve. By adding a temporal dimension to the study of culture and society, the Cultures and Movements stream reflects on where a society has been and where it may go in the future.

The field of Data Science deals with the theories, methodologies and tools of applying statistical concepts and computational techniques to various data analysis problems related to science, engineering, medicine, business, etc. The objective is to inspect, clean, transform and model data in order to discover useful information, suggest conclusions and support decision-making. It is an emerging topic that plays a critical role in almost every discipline of today’s science and technology and has become an indispensable component of any business, industry, enterprise, etc.

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We live in an era where the availability of unprecedented amounts of information and computing resources is erasing the traditional boundaries between disciplines. This is creating new opportunities for multidisciplinary teams to actively engage with and to change the world around them. Experts who combine deep disciplinary knowledge in Mathematics and Computer Science with interdisciplinary skills will play a leading role in such multidisciplinary teams. Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences is a highly interdisciplinary field which integrates concepts and principles from Mathematics and Computer Science and applies them to Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, and Business. Its distinctive character is an emphasis on modeling and computational thinking that is firmly based on solid theoretical foundations.

In our increasingly interconnected world, emerging media and artistic expressions interweave, shaping not only our communities but also the industries of the future. The Arts & Media major fosters practical and analytical abilities in students, equipping them to navigate and innovate within these evolving landscapes. Our major has a dual structure, enabling students to concentrate on either Art, as reflective and creative intervention, or Media, as the processes and industry of communication. A shared core of interdisciplinary classes fosters an exchange of ideas and analytical perspectives between these tracks.

The field of political economy examines the many intersections of politics and markets, within and between countries. While applying a broad array of approaches, political economy emphasizes empirical analysis, while attending also to the context of history and theoretically and normatively significant claims about the way in which politics and markets work. Substantively, the field concerns interactions between economic and political development (does prosperity fuel democracy?); cooperation and conflict among nations, groups, and individuals (what causes civil war?); the distribution and redistribution of material resources and economic power (who gets what?); the effects of political actors and political structures upon economic outcomes (how do autocracies promote growth?); the effects of economic actors and economic structures upon political outcomes (how does inequality foster corruption?); the political causes and consequences of technological and structural change, growth, and globalization (how do party systems integrate new issues?); and the politics of regulation, market interventions, and global governance (how can policy address climate change?). Students can choose among three disciplinary tracks: Economics, Political Science, or Public Policy.

The United States of America is a nation of paradoxes best understood through seeing its place in the world. Born in the era of transatlantic revolutions beginning in the late eighteenth century, the US was founded on ideals of individual liberty, yet has had to grapple with its other undemocratic foundation in African slavery and Indigenous dispossession. As a nation that, on principle, has eschewed and isolated itself from the empire-building practices of other great powers, the US sometimes implicated itself, in those very same practices, eventually becoming itself a global power.

The pressing needs for sustainable development, acceptable environmental quality, and the urgency to address climate change are placing increasing demands upon governments and industries locally, nationally, and worldwide. To help meet those demands, the Environmental Science major provides training for students intending to enter environmental professions or to pursue graduate study in environmental science and related fields such as biology, chemistry, public health, law, and policy. The major offers an interdisciplinary course of study that combines elements of the natural and social sciences relevant to understanding the biosphere and its interaction with human society.