Centers, Initiatives and Community Interests

Explore the many engaging events, courses, lectures, resources and opportunities for students, scholars and community members.

Engaging Initiatives

From archaeology and Atlantic cultures to football fandom and sustainable literacy, join us in exploring the global topics and issues that shape our world.
  • John Edwin Mroz Global Leadership Institute

    The World Affairs Colloquium Series puts the school's global impact on center stage. In this series, the school’s faculty and advisory board bring prominent speakers to campus. These speakers have international experience and address topics of world interest.

    The speakers, their topics and the discussions generated between students, faculty and community are one more way that the school fulfills its mission to be the College’s place where disciplines merge, the realities of the world are confronted, and where knowledgeable, engaged citizens of that world come of age. 

    Mroz Global Leadership Institute
  • Carolina Lowcountry Atlantic World

    The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) at the College of Charleston was established in 1994 to promote scholarship on the Lowcountry, the Atlantic World and the connections between the two.

    Learn more about CLAW
  • Center for Historical Landscapes

    The Center for Historical Landscapes (CHiL) focuses on studying the impacts of human and environmental change over the long expanse of human history. We do this through empowering discussions related to cultural heritage, environmental and land management, economic development and responses to dramatic climactic fluctuations and change.

    Administratively found within the Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology, CHiL is a gathering space of expertise from a wide away of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, history, Classics, geology, informatics, urban planning, climatology and the environmental sciences.

    Learn more about CHiL