The Integrative Center

For CMU Students

Free electives

Minor in Global Cultures and Citizenship

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Free electives

The center offers a wide range of coures in sections of Thai and international-program students. The courses are taught entirely in English and they aim to develop not only English language and critical thinking skills, but also knowledge important to understanding the complexities of global cultures. When enrolled in these courses, students get to study with class members who come from a variety of countries. This internationally diversed classroom environment prepares learners to become global citizens.

All 200-level courses offered by the center do not have prerequisutes. That means all CMU students can joy these classes right away (be quick as there are limited seats in each semester). To search for the courses in CMU Registration website, use the first three digits "049"

Minor in Global Cultures and Citizenship

CMU students can study the courses offered at the center for 15 credtis (5 courses) and declare to have a "Minor in Global Cultures and Citizenship" in their transcripts when graduating. The center groups a set of courses that similarly provide knowledge and critical understanding of global cultures and societies from the humanistic perspective. In these courses, students will learn the cultural differences, changes ,and conundrums, which are the conditions and challenges of the global workplaces.

The courses that can be counted as "Minor in Global Cultures and Citizenship" are:

- Literary Narratives in Global Cultures
- Ideas and Liberations around the World
- Language, Mind, and the World
- Global History: Society and the Environment
- Making Place: Global History and Culture
- Screening, Seeing, and Self-Sustaining
- Gender, Culture, and Equality
- Philosophy of Technology
- Literary Media and the Environment
- Imagining Futures through Graphic Novels
- Emerging Technologies and Ethics
- Chiang Mai: A Global City
- Advertising Fiction: Past, Present, and Future
- History of Books and Textual Objects
- Ethnicity and Contemporary Media Cultures
- Health and Medicine in Visual Media Cultures
- Conundrums of the Postcolonial World
- Desire and the Productions of Cultures
- Eco-Nations: Critical and Creative Perspectives