Curriculum & Research

Many departments and programs at MHC are offering courses, which explore - from their respective disciplinary vantage points - different dimensions of globalization and analyze issues and challenges whose scope transcends national boundaries. Prominent among them are the international relations program, the area studies programs, and the economics, anthropology, earth and environment, politics, and language and cultural studies departments.

A comprehensive analysis of globalization and global issues defies the straightjackets imposed by current disciplinary approaches. In developing new curricular initiatives the McCulloch Center will promote especially cross-disciplinary teaching with a focus on comparative perspectives, where the challenges of a global world are interrogated in courses team-taught by two faculty members from different disciplines.

The McCulloch Center will promote cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary engagement with the challenges of globalization also through informal get-togethers and more formal faculty seminars.