ABSTRACT
In 424 BC, the great ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes produced his comedy Clouds, about the dangers of Socrates and the "new education". Education for world citizenship has two dimensions: the construction of basic required courses that all students take and the infusion of world-citizenship perspectives in more advanced courses in the different disciplines. Preparing citizens to understand one another is not the only function of the arts in a college curriculum, but it is one extremely important function, and there are many ways in which such courses may focus on the requirements of citizenship. The basic courses that all students take should contain a new emphasis on the diversity of the nation's own population. Every undergraduate, whether focused on business or mathematics or art history, will take whatever basic required courses the university sees fit to require.
