Solving Problems in the World Through Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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Today’s challenges come in all shapes and sizes and are only growing more complex, which requires innovative ways to tackle solutions through multilingual and multicultural collaborations. In this course you are invited to sharpen your creative problem-solving skills while exploring global problems from the past, present, and future. Through the interdisciplinary lens of world languages, literatures and cultures we will work together to better understand a specific problem in context and present creative solutions. Your unique disciplinary background, life experiences and linguistic and cultural identities will enrich our semester long research and discussion.