About the Program
The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World is a keystone initiative in the College’s on-going effort to internationalize and broaden its curriculum. The Program was designed to take advantage of Charleston as a location and to sponsor research and intellectual activities devoted to exploring the Carolina Lowcountry and its relations with the broader Atlantic World. The intellectual agenda of the Program is twofold. First, it seeks to promote the study of this important American culture hearth, both in its formative period and in its subsequent development. Second, by focusing on the broader Atlantic World of which the Lowcountry was and is a part, the Program hopes to move beyond the tight confines of regional or area studies as they have traditionally been conceived and to facilitate the development of an understanding of the interactivity among subregions, regions, nations, and areas.
The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program has sponsored a variety of public scholarly activities, many of which have commanded considerable national, even international, attention.
Purpose
The primary goals of the Program are:
- To promote scholarship on the Lowcountry, the Atlantic World, and the connection between the two.
- To strengthen the College’s instructional program through an interdisciplinary Lowcountry and Atlantic World curriculum.
- To promote public understanding of the region and its place in a broader international context.
The program focuses on those links or connections between the Lowcountry and elsewhere in the Atlantic World, including influences into the Lowcountry and influences emanating out from the Lowcountry, and common themes or development within the Atlantic World, in order to assess both similar and disparate experiences.
