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Foreign Language Co-requisite (4 courses)
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Region Concentration (4 courses): To gain some historical, political, and cultural knowledge depth related to one part of the world, ICS majors choose a Region concentration and complete four courses chosen from ICS-approved Region courses. The most up-to-date Region courses are archived by semester and year and available on the ICS website. Region courses are generally not assigned an ICS number in ACES, although they will have such a number if they also meet ICS Comparative criteria.

Criteria for ICS Region courses: Content is focused on cultural, social, historical, political, economic, and/or identity dynamics; is theoretically informed and empirically engaged with fieldwork, archives, literary, artistic, and cultural artifacts or processes, and/or statistical data; is largely focused on a particular place or region; and examines dynamics that occurred at any time from 1700 to the present, although it may include content that began in earlier periods.

ICS Regions: ICS students choose a Region Concentration from the following seven geographic options: Africa; China and East Asia; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East; Russia and Central Asia; and South Asia. Alternatively, an ICS major may propose to the DUS a differently conceptualized geographic region focused on a part of the world not captured in or crossing these region designations, for example, around a body of water or proximal borders. Cases made for such independently conceived areas must be thoughtful and intentional rather than ad hoc. The seven ICS regions are based on historical, cultural, political and/or economic histories of connection. At the same time, the ICS intellectual project understands that state borders and regions are dynamically produced by different processes and agendas, including transnational. It also recognizes dramatic variety within these regions.

Interdisciplinarity: The four Region courses chosen must come from at least two disciplinary or interdisciplinary homes. The disciplinary home is determined by the originating departmental sponsor of the course. ICS Region courses are organized according to disciplinary home on the ICS website.

Double Counting: One advanced foreign language course may double count toward a major’s Region concentration if its content meets Region criteria.

Study Away Courses in a Foreign Language: Content courses offered in an advanced level of a foreign language at a study-away institution can count toward a major’s Region concentration if they meet Region criteria.
  • Comparative Courses (4): To deepen the interdisciplinary critical transnational approach introduced in the gateway course, ICS majors complete four courses chosen from ICS-approved Comparative courses. The most up-to-date lists of ICS Comparative courses are archived by semester and available on the ICS website. Comparative courses are typically assigned an ICS number in ACES, but are listed and organized according to the original disciplinary or interdisciplinary home on the ICS website.

Criteria for Comparative courses: Content is organized by a connective, transnational, comparative, or international approach to cultural, social, historical, political, economic, environmental, or discursive dynamics. Courses approach the above through one or more of the following nodes: (1) institutions, organizations, or systems; (2) identities and lived experiences; (3) circulations, circuits, borders, and migrations; (4) social or other movements; (5) cultural productions and receptions. By definition, course content should not be delimited by a focus on one place or nation-state. Course content is theoretically informed and empirically engaged (ethnography, observation, interviews, archives, surveys, and statistical data; institutional, literary, artistic, cultural, commercial, or environmental artifacts, processes, or forms). Course content examines dynamics that occurred at any time from 1700 to the present, although it may include content that began in earlier periods.

Interdisciplinarity: The four Comparative courses chosen must come from at least two disciplinary or interdisciplinary homes. Disciplinary home is determined by the originating departmental sponsor of the course. ICS Comparative courses are organized according to disciplinary home on the ICS website.
  • Foreign Language Co-requisite (4 courses): Because language knowledge is crucial to deeper historical, political and cultural understanding, as well as social and professional functioning in a variety of settings, the ICS major requires two years (four full courses) of university courses in one non-English language used by a group in part or all of the geographic Region concentration. College Board, IB, or other pre-university language courses, knowledge, or exams cannot be counted toward this co-requisite. Language courses used to fulfill the co-requisite can begin at any level. Barring other restrictions, students should count toward the ICS major the most advanced university language courses taken. Barring other restrictions, unlimited content courses offered in one foreign language may count toward the Foreign Language co-requisite. Language courses can be found in their sponsoring departments and will not be listed by ICS numbers in ACES, nor are specific language courses archived or listed on the ICS website.

Double Counting: One advanced language course may double count for an ICS major by also fulfilling the Region Concentration requirement if its content meets Region criteria.

Research Methods: For students fluent in a non-English language widely used in the chosen Region concentration, one of the Foreign Language courses may be met with a research methods or research analysis course.

Additional Notes: Although the foreign language co-requisite is not flexible, in certain cases there is reasonable flexibility in regard to the language used to fulfill it. Examples of such cases: 1) when a second year of a language is not taught at Duke; 2) when no language course is available at a sufficiently advanced level. In such cases students should consult their ICS adviser to work out an alternative plan for satisfying the Foreign Language co-requisite.