FOCUS programs were designed to give you a powerful interdisciplinary experience that begins with your first days at Washington University. FOCUS programs concentrate on central issues in the Humanities. Like Text & Tradition, a FOCUS program will give you a strong grounding in advanced methods in the Humanities; they therefore flow naturally into the IPH major.

Some recent FOCUS programs in the Humanities include:

• Nationalism and Identity: The Making of Modern Europe
• Writers as Readers
• Global Culture and the Individual: Intercultural Skills for the 21st Century
• The Theatre as a Living Art
• Cooperative Living, Community Building, and Sustainability
• Cuban Transitions: From Colonialism to Communism
• Literary Culture of Modern Ireland
• The Created Past, The Recovered Future: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

 Current FOCUS programs are found here: