Area Studies / Decentering Europe
Wesleyan offers a rich array of classes and programming related to diverse areas of the world. This includes "area studies" units that offer students the opportunity to major or minor in many of these areas; see the following links for further information. We also maintain a separate page listing all academic units that take steps in their pedagogy to decenter the European experience.
Area Studies Units:
African Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/africanstudies/
African American Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/afam/
American Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/amst/
Asian American Studies: https://catalog.wesleyan.edu/clusters/ugrd-xaas-cl/
Caribbean Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/amst/caribbean-studies.html
Classical Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/index.html
College of Letters https://www.wesleyan.edu/col/
East Asian Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/ceas/
German Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/german/
Global South Asian Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/southasianstudies/
Jewish and Israel Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/cjs/jisminor.html
Latin American Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/last/
Medieval Studies: https://www.wesleyan.edu/medistud/
Middle Eastern Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/mes/
Muslim Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/muslim/index.html
Romance Languages and Literatures (French Studies, Hispanic Literatures & Cultures, Italian Studies, Romance Studies) https://www.wesleyan.edu/romance/
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies https://www.wesleyan.edu/russian/