MEET THE MAJORS

Meet the Majors: CULP

Harleen Osahan

Class of 2021

The Culture and Politics (СULP) major focuses on the intersection of culture, art, literature, film and politics. As CULP majors we study basic theoretical frameworks through which we can analyze culture. The best part of being a CULP major was deciding on a concentration. The concentration allowed me to focus on a particular topic that I was interested in by taking classes that were geared towards my academic passion. Since I love anything to do with the arts, I had the opportunity to take classes about film, literature, and media.

One of my favourite classes at Georgetown was Philosophy of Gender taught by Professor Anjana Jacob, which focused on how we define gender and how it impacts us phenomenologically. It allowed me to rethink the ways that women and men operate in the world. Another one of my favourite classes was Arabian Nights in World Literature taught by Professor Amira el Zein which was about the stories of the Arabian Nights and how they have been written about by literary theorists throughout the years. The best part about the class was reading the eccentric stories from the Arabian Nights and also demystifying them. A piece of advice for aspiring CULP majors would be to sample through a lot of different courses to figure out which field you would like to concentrate in!

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