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Why Area Studies?

For roughly the past century, the academy has been organized largely along disciplinary lines. The disciplinary approach encourages focused investigations from one perspective across a range of geographies. Area studies complements disciplinary inquiry by promoting multi-perspective investigations of focused regions. Students with both disciplinary and regional expertise are better prepared to thoughtfully engage global issues. For internationally focused Macalester, recognition of the importance of area studies dates back to the 1950s, and is currently embodied in our African, Latin American, Asian, and Russian-Central-East European studies programs.

Fall 2010 African Studies Undergraduate Fellows

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