Location: Mergenthaler 266

Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we prepare to launch the newest undergraduate major in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences: Critical Diaspora Studies.

Incoming first-year students are invited to attend this information session to learn about Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS), a unique major oriented with interdisciplinary and community-engaged components. As of Spring 2025, students will be able to declare as CDS majors for the first time. And CDS courses will start to be available in this upcoming spring semester, with more complete offerings in Fall 2025.

The CDS major will enable students to study the connections, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—such as Asian-American, African diaspora, Indigenous, and Latinx studies—that are too often considered separately from one another but are in fact connected through entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The CDS major will provide unique, interdisciplinary opportunities for students to explore topics related to Indigenous and diasporic communities and their migration by prioritizing comparative, synthetic, structural, global, and activist modes of analysis.

Unique among undergraduate majors, CDS was largely envisioned and designed by a group of student activists pushing for curricular change to meet the challenges of the present moment.

There will be two consecutive “open house” sessions: 1:30pm to 2:00pm and 2:15pm to 2:45pm on Friday, August 23, 2024, held in Mergenthaler 266. Come learn about the Chloe Center and CDS!