Interdisciplinary
Studies focus on Asian Studies, Latin American Studies and
Linguistics. The Asian Studies program is allied with the
Asian Studies Center at UNLV and includes majors and minors in
Asian Studies. The Latin American Studies program is part of
the Institute for Latin American Studies and offers both a
major and a minor in that field.
The Linguistic Studies program also offers both a major and
minor in that field and provides the student an interdisciplinary
curriculum for the study of language and communication.
Students analyze language as a social, psychological and
cultural act.
Afro-American studies also offer a major and minor.
Afro-American Studies is for students to gain a solid
foundation in the history and culture of Afro-Americans from
before the beginnings of slavery in British North America up
to the present time.
This foundation is a historically and
critically contextualized one in that the Afro-American
Studies Program does not start with the assumption that
Afro-American history begins in 1619. Rather, the program very
specifically reaches much farther back in history in order to
allow students to gain an appreciation of the ways that global
economic systems, technological advances, and political change
contributed to the environment that made the introduction of
Africans to British North America in 1619 possible.
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