Liberal Arts and Sciences - Global Challenges with a major in Culture History and Society Leiden University

Overview

The Culture, History and Society (CHS) Major at Leiden University College combines conceptual and methodological insights from the social sciences (anthropology, geography and sociology) and humanities (art history, cultural studies, history and literature). 

Key Facts

Our aim is to appreciate, examine and understand the density of social life in its cultural, historical, moral and political manifestations. We explore ideas central to modern cities, migration, gender, race, coloniality, heritage, inequality and power by looking both at dynamics in social relations and the relations between humans and the environment. By studying different time frames, and regions of the world, the courses offer both western and nonwestern perspectives on the processes that gave, and are giving, shape to our social, cultural and political world.

In this major, we examine questions such as...

• What motivates people to collective action in different times and places and how is that action undertaken?

• How have societies been formed and to what extent does that define the current socio-political relations?

• How do multiple cultural forms condense distinctions that organize social life?