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International & Area Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed to build student expertise in particular world regions. Coursework explores international issues including globalization, global population, migration, health, international conflict, terrorism, governance, law, imperialism, decolonization, development, and the role they have in international contexts.

The Honors Program stresses the challenge of ideas, breadth of perspective, and depth of understanding. The program provides students with an edge on future goals.

The Carol A. Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (CLASS) prepares students for a complex and interdependent world as engaged and thoughtful global citizens. Through learning in the liberal arts tradition, we challenge students to be critical, creative thinkers; accurate, effective communicators; and knowledgeable members of society.

Graduates of CLASS are innovative, intellectually curious, well-read, and prepared for professional lives or further specialized study. We achieve these goals through excellence in teaching; faculty and student scholarship; research and creative activity; and community engagement.

The English Department at Central Connecticut State University offers courses and programs in literature, writing, linguistics, and cinema that immerse students in intensive study of how language, literature, and writing shape the world and our experience of it. The critical and analytical skills students develop prepare them to be productive and active citizens of a dynamic and pluralistic society. 

Our graduates are prepared for careers in teaching, writing, and publishing, as well as any pursuit that requires skills in written and oral communication.

The Department of Journalism prepares students for positions in journalism and other media related fields through rigorous attention to writing and information-gathering, multimedia storytelling and engagement with the liberal arts and sciences that inform issues of the day. 

The program emphasizes real-world training through the coverage of public affairs issues locally and regular reporting trips abroad, as well as support of co-curricular activities such as campus media. The department offers the following concentrations: 

• Print/Digital journalism
• Broadcast journalism
• Sports journalism (the only sports journalism concentration at a public university in the state). 

Our Philosophy program develops many skills, such as critical thinking, reasoning and argumentation, clear communication about complex topics, careful consideration of multiple perspectives on the same topic, and thoughtful consideration of ethics and values in public and private spheres. Philosophy majors pursue many different paths, including graduate programs, law school, and medical school.

The Explore Central office is the place for incoming students who are in the process of determining the right academic path to follow at Central. The mission of Explore Central is to advise students who are undecided about choosing an academic major. The goals of the office are to assist students in assessing their strengths, interests, and skills, exploring potential academic majors, coordinating an academic plan of study, relaying academic requirements, and declaring an academic major by 30-45 credits.

The World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department offers a wide variety of language, culture and literature courses which not only provide students with an aesthetic appreciation of the representative languages, but also give them a better understanding of self, of other cultures and of the complexities of human nature. The World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department assures the quality of its programs by having a faculty whose deep commitment to teaching and research is matched by their linguistic expertise and knowledge of their discipline. 

Students can choose from the following languages to study:

• American Sign Language (ASL)
• Arabic
• French 
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Latin
• Polish
• Spanish