Interdisciplinary Study
The interdisciplinary African/African-American Studies minor centralizes, honors, and teaches the importance of the presence and contribution of black Africans and their New World descendants in Western culture and society.
The archaeology minor combines courses in anthropology and art history for an overall study of human societies from 40,000 years ago to the present. The program is interdisciplinary and multicultural with a variety of topical and methodological perspectives, including prehistoric, classical, and historical archaeology. Students aspiring to graduate studies in archaeology may combine the minor with a major in anthropology or classical studies.
The Australian Studies Minor, based upon the Rollins program in Sydney, fosters an intellectual and social understanding between Australia and the United States.
Thanks to the faculty exchange program begun in 1981, one or two visiting professors from Australia spend time at Rollins each year. Recent lecturers have included Graham Boardman in Australian Literature and Marion Manton in Biology and Ross Pearce in Economics.
Over a century old, film is an integral, omnipresent art form and a component of our day-to-day lives. The film studies minor examines how film reflects and affects the social, intellectual, cultural, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and political aspects of our world; encourages students to move toward critical thinking about how film influences values and ideologies as well as our views on gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, and nationality; and demonstrates that film is a medium which both reflects and produces social conflicts, desires, and power relations.
Jewish Studies is the academic investigation of the religion, history, and culture of the Jewish people and the study of the interaction of this culture with the civilizations of the world.
This interdisciplinary minor in Sustainable Development and Transnational Corporations offers students the opportunity to understand and experience firsthand the economic context of environmental issues in the developing world. The primary strength of the program is in its experiential approach, linking each course to a study-abroad practicum in Latin America.
This multifaceted discipline explores the social, psychological, political, economic, historical, and artistic dimensions of women's experiences and draws upon faculty throughout the College.
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