The objectives of this course are: 
(1) to help develop our students’ multicultural interpretive and
communicative skills; 
(2) to help develop their ability to feel at home in cultural 
environments other than their own; 
(3) to effectively engage in intercultural dialog and mutually 
beneficial cooperation; 
(4) to help develop their know-how, creativity, and flexibility 
in meeting the challenges of the new global economy and the 
super-diversity of our global society.

This course will describe the general field of intercultural 
studies, outlining its main theoretical assumptions, objectives, 
and methodologies. We shall consider various definitions of 
culture as they have traditionally been employed in various 
societies and academic disciplines; and the history and meaning 
of key terms such as cultural identity and difference, 
intercultural and crosscultural knowledge, global competence, 
and global intelligence. We shall then examine various theories 
and practices of globalization in their historical and local 
contexts, as well as the claims and agendas of the anti-
globalization movements. Finally, we shall address the essential 
question: What are some of the basic principles and practices 
that should guide students of intercultural studies throughout 
their research, career, and life choices? 

Readings:
Appadurai, Arjun (1996). Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions
of Globalization. Chicago: Chicago University Press

Bauman, Zygmunt (1998). Globalization: The Human Consequences.
Cambridge: Polity Press. Reprinted edition, 2000. New York: 
Columbia University Press

Clifford, James and Marcus, George E. (1986). Writing Culture:
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of 
California Press

Eagleton, Terry (2000). The Idea of Culture. Oxford: Blackwell

Geertz, Clifford (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. New
York: Basic Books

Huntington, Samuel P. (1996). The Clash of Civilizations and 
the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster 

Krupat, Arnold (1992). Ethnocriticism. Ethnography, History,
Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press

Marcus, George E. and Fischer, Michael M. J. (1999). Anthropology
as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human 
Sciences. Revised 2nd edition

Said, Edward (1979). Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books

Spariosu, Mihai  (2004). Global Intelligence and Human
Development. Toward an Ecology of Global Learning. Cambridge, 
Mass: MIT Press

Spariosu, Mihai, (2006). Remapping Knowledge. Intercultural
Studies for a Global Age. Oxford and New York, Berghahn Press

Spellmeyer, Kurt (2003). Arts of Living. Reinventing the
Humanities for the Twenty-First Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press

Turner, Frederick J. (1991). Rebirth of Value. Albany, NY: 
SUNY Press

Students are required to comply with the University of Georgia
academic honesty policy.