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