Area Studies / Decentering Europe
Wesleyan offers a rich array of classes and programming related to diverse areas of the world. This includes "area studies" units that offer students the opportunity to major or minor in many of these areas; see the following links for further information. We also maintain a separate page listing all academic units that take steps in their pedagogy to decenter the European experience.
Area Studies Units:
African Studies /africanstudies/
African American Studies /afam/
American Studies /amst/
Asian American Studies:
Caribbean Studies /amst/caribbean-studies.html
Classical Studies /classics/index.html
College of Letters /col/
East Asian Studies /ceas/
German Studies /german/
Global South Asian Studies /southasianstudies/
Jewish and Israel Studies /cjs/jisminor.html
Latin American Studies /last/
Medieval Studies: /medistud/
Middle Eastern Studies /mes/
Muslim Studies /muslim/index.html
Romance Languages and Literatures (French Studies, Hispanic Literatures & Cultures, Italian Studies, Romance Studies) /romance/
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies /russian/