WCS

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WCS

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

and Cultures The Nature of Science

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WCS

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

A study of selected topics for elective credit. These courses will appear in the course schedule.

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WCS

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1

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3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Exploration of Japanese culture and society from local and global perspectives. Topics may include language, arts, literature, music, food, traditional and contemporary culture, entertainment, media, religion, gender, education and work. The course aims to foster in-depth cultural understanding beyond stereotypes and to develop critical thinking and analytical skills to reflect on one's own experiences and assumptions about cultural similarities and differences. All readings, discussions, and lectures in English. No knowledge of Japanese is necessary. Cross-listed with JAPN 310.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

ENGL 110C and junior standing or permission of instructor

Alias

JAPN 310

This course is primarily a 'hands on' communicative course to develop cultural competence (verbal communication). Task-oriented communication strategies in cross-cultural training will be practiced by presenting students with models who demonstrate appropriate cultural skills. The course will include cognitive learning with lectures from experts (invited speakers), analysis of critical incidents and assigned readings, and application of sophisticated concepts from the behavioral and social sciences. Students will practice these skills by giving presentations, enriching self-awareness with group discussions on prejudice, racism, values and customs, and participation in guided cultural encounters (such as field trip assignments that demand new behaviors). Students will participate in role-playing and in simulations of real-life demands in extended experimental encounters with another culture or complex approximations of another culture. Effectively, students will learn how to communicate and collaborate with other people and cultures in a global age.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

ENGL 110C

This is an intensive writing course designed with writing assignments that examine various cultural contexts that enable students to understand cultural content, style, audience and organization. The main objective of the course is increased awareness of and sensitivity to appropriate word choice, and syntax in the targeted languages. Students will engage in writing for different cultural audiences and in varied contexts such as literary, artistic and media expressions around the world. Special emphasis is placed on the methodology of close reading as students hone the analytics skills and vocabulary necessary to interpret idioms, regionalism, cultural expressions and overall intercultural skills observed in various genres and cultures. Students will analyze compelling global issues and the diverse cultural perspectives that inform them. l WCS 323 World Cultures and Contexts (3 Credit Hours) Struggles for human rights and social justice often find their most evocative expression in creative works from around the world. In this course, students will work toward an understanding of different cultural perspectives that inform global concepts of human rights. The course will focus on literary texts, film, testimonies, visual art, and other cultural forms of bearing witness. Students will also consider the fundamental value of these artistic expressions as both spaces of empathy and agents of change in society. Overall, students will consider how these narratives, embedded within, and coded by, sociopolitical contexts, contribute to today’s language of human rights and its application in struggles for social justice. l Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

300/400-level approved course 363 World Languages and Cultures with a Major in World Cul redit Hours 300/400-level approved course 3 Elective course 3 Upper-Division General Education Course or Minor 3 3 Credit Hours 15

Subject

WCS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Total Credit Hours 89-101 C or better required. These courses may not be used to meet the upper-division general education requirement, and they do not count towards the major GPA. Completion of requirements for lower-division general education, upper- division general education and the major would entail 89 to 104 credits toward the 120 credits required for graduation. The remaining credit hours may be met with any university course the student is qualified to take, including additional courses in art. Additional Requirements and Information

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WCS

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1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Internships in private, public, non-profit and business organizations that deal with global communications and world cultures.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

nine credit hours at the 300 or 400 level

This course invites students to discover approaches to global problems and concerns through an analysis of cultural expressions from around the world. Students will consider the ways in which literary and artistic expression (literature, film, visual art, music) draw from and impact broader social and political contexts.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

Elective course 3 Elective course 3 Elective course 1 Minor or Elective 3 3 Credit Hours 13 Total Credit Hours 120 15 BA or BS to MBA (Master of Business

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

300/400-level elective * 3 300/400-level elective * 3 300/400-level elective * 3 300/400-level elective * 3 400-level elective * 3 Total Credit Hours 83-101 * Electives may be chosen from WCS 300/400-level courses, 300/400-level courses in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish offered by the World Languages and Cultures Department (if the student is proficient), or approved courses from the Business, Engineering, and Global Citizenship focus areas listed below. (BA)

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

The first half of the 20th century was the most creative and destructive period in German and European history. Its rich cultural achievements included Viennese psychoanalytical theory of the turn of the century, Art Nouveau, German Expressionism, and the avant garde aesthetics of the Weimar Republic. Conversely, World War I and II exposed the cultural agony and human depravity of modern civilization. This course will trace these various aspects and developments in a variety of exemplary genres. Readings and discussions in German. (Cross-listed with GER 445/GER 545 and COMM 444/COMM 544)

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

Alias

GER 445

A study of fictional and non-fictional works by Spanish, Spanish-American, and U.S. Latina writers from the 16th to the 20th century. The course analyzes gender identity and roles and the interaction of gender, race, and class in literary representations of courtship and marriage, spirituality, nationalism, colonialism, and multiculturalism.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

in WGS 390T Women, Gender, and Technology 3

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Interdisciplinary research and the preparation of a senior thesis in international studies. This is a writing intensive course. ENGL 231C, senior standing in the BAIS degree program or permission of the instructor and the director of the BAIS program 999 WGS - Women's and Gender Studies

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Grade of C or better in ENGL 211C or ENGL 221C or

Subject

WCS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course invites students to discover approaches to global problems and concerns through an analysis of cultural expressions from around the world. Students will consider the ways in which literary and artistic expression (literature, film, visual art, music) draw from and impact broader social and political contexts.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

This course invites students to discover approaches to global problems and concerns through an analysis of cultural expressions from around the world. Students will consider the ways in which literary and artistic expression (literature, film, visual art, music) draw from and impact broader social and political contexts.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better in ENGL 110C

Studies (1-6 Credit Hours) Independent readings and study on a topic to be selected under direction of professor.

Subject

WCS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

appropriate survey course or permission by the instructor

Studies (1-6 Credit Hours) Independent readings and study on a topic to be selected under direction of professor. WGS - Women's and Gender

Subject

WCS

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Appropriate survey course or permission by the instructor

This course explores the cultural movements that have characterized German-French commonalities and differences from the early 1900s through the 1990s in cross-disciplinary discourses such as film, literature, art, politics, and economics.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

The first half of the 20th century was the most creative and destructive period in German and European history. Its rich cultural achievements included Viennese psychoanalytical theory of the turn of the century, Art Nouveau, German Expressionism, and the avant garde aesthetics of the Weimar Republic. Conversely, World War I and II exposed the cultural agony and human depravity of modern civilization. This course will trace these various aspects and developments in a variety of exemplary genres. Readings and discussions in German. (Cross-listed with GER 445/GER 545 and COMM 444/COMM 544)

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Alias

GER 445

A study of fictional and non-fictional works by Spanish, Spanish-American, and U.S. Latina writers from the 16th to the 20th century. The course analyzes gender identity and roles and the interaction of gender, race, and class in literary representations of courtship and marriage, spirituality, nationalism, colonialism, and multiculturalism.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

A survey of seminal texts by German-Jewish philosophers and writers from the Enlightenment to the present day, including Marx, Kafka, Freud, Schnitzler and Arendt.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course invites students to discover approaches to global problems and concerns through an analysis of cultural expressions from around the world. Students will consider the ways in which literary and artistic expression (literature, film, visual art, music) draw from and impact broader social and political contexts.

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course invites students to discover approaches to global problems and concerns through an analysis of cultural expressions from around the world. Students will consider the ways in which literary and artistic expression (literature, film, visual art, music) draw from and impact broader social and political contexts. WGS - Women's and Gender

Subject

WCS

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu