What is the Multiple Cultural Perspectives Requirement?
Every Hampshire College student is required, as part of his or her Division II, to engage with questions of cultural diversity and the critical examination of questions of race, non-western perspectives, and/or the role of power and privilege in the production of knowledge. The “multiple cultural requirement” represents an opportunity for you creatively to expand your intellectual horizons and to see your chosen concentration in a larger global context; a politically, economically and culturally interconnected world. You may fulfill this requirement by demonstrating in your portfolio work and retrospective your serious engagement with one or more of the following critical issues: • Non-Western Perspectives: an intellectually vigorous engagement with non-western perspectives will expand the way you think relationally and historically about cultures and cultural productions outside of one particular tradition or geographical location. • Race in the United States: Study of the history, po
