Courses

Approved Culture Studies Courses

Global Civilizations and Cultures

Take two courses from this list for the Culture Studies requirement.  See the College of Arts & Sciences bulletin for course descriptions and prerequisites. (The departmental links below are links to the College of Arts & Sciences bulletin.)

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African American and African Diaspora Studies

  • AAAD-A 112 Black Music of Two Worlds
  • AAAD-A 131 Early African American and African Diaspora Literature
  • AAAD-A 132 Recent African American and African Diaspora Literature
  • AAAD-A 154 History of Race in the Americas
  • AAAD-A 156 Black Liberation Struggles Against Jim Crow and Apartheid
  • AAAD-A 203 Studying Blacks of the New World: African Americans and Africans in the African Diaspora
  • AAAD-A 210 Black Women in the Diaspora
  • AAAD-A 304 Black Paris
  • AAAD-A 350 Black Atlantic
  • AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
  • AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
  • AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
  • AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
  • AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies

African Studies

  • AFRI-L 100 Topics in African Society and Culture
  • AFRI-L 102 Akan Social Life and Cultural Heritage
  • AFRI-L 202 Occultism in Africa
  • AFRI-L 210 Popular Akan Oral Art Forms
  • AFRI-L 231 African Civilization
  • AFRI-L 232 Contemporary Africa
  • AFRI-L 250 African Expressive Routines
  • AFRI-L 400 Topics in African Studies

American Studies

  • AMST-A 150 Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
  • AMST-A 275 Indigenous Worldviews in the Americas

Anthropology

  • ANTH-E 110 Indians of Mexico: Ancient and Modern
  • ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
  • ANTH-E 251 Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the War on Terror
  • ANTH-E 275 Indigenous Worldviews
  • ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (Approved topic: Islam in and out of Africa)
  • ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
  • ANTH-E 310 Introduction to the Cultures of Africa
  • ANTH-E 312 African Religions
  • ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
  • ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
  • ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
  • ANTH-E 330 Indians of South America
  • ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
  • ANTH-E 340 Indians of Mexico and Central America
  • ANTH-E 345 China through Anthropological Eyes
  • ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
  • ANTH-E 348 Peoples and Cultures of Russia, Ukraine, and Newly Independent States
  • ANTH-E 371 Modern Jewish Culture and Society
  • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
  • ANTH-E 397 (CEUS-R 352/NELC-N 397) Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
  • ANTH-E 398 (CEUS-R 316) Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
  • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (Approved topic: Scandinavia: Image and Reality)
  • ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
  • ANTH-E 417 African Women
  • ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
  • ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
  • ANTH-E 475 Law and Culture
  • ANTH-P 230 Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
  • ANTH-P 341 Archaeology of the Middle East
  • ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Ancient Mexico
  • ANTH-P 370 Ancient Civilizations of the Andes
  • ANTH-P 371 Prehistory of Lowland South America
  • ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar (Approved topic: Archaeology of Ancient China)

Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design

  • AMID-F 301 Dress Studies: Topics in Cultural Analysis

Asian American Studies

  • AAST-A 201 Asian Diaspora Experience

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Central Eurasian Studies

  • CEUS-R 110 Central Asia: Cultures and Customs
  • CEUS-R 199 Introductory Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (Approved topics: Central Asia: Cultures and Customs; The Kalevala: Finland's Epic)
  • CEUS-R 250 Introduction to the Ancient Near East
  • CEUS-R 251 Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the War on Terror
  • CEUS-R 270 The Civilization of Tibet
  • CEUS-R 291 Inner Asian Religious Beliefs
  • CEUS-R 312 Shrine and Pilgrimage in Central Asian Islam
  • CEUS-R 313 Islam in Soviet Union and Successor States
  • CEUS-R 314 Islamization in Inner Asia
  • CEUS-R 315 Politics and Society in Central Asia
  • CEUS-R 316 (ANTH-E 398) Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
  • CEUS-R 340 Introduction to Hungarian Studies
  • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
  • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies (Approved Topics: Transylvania; Budapest in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries--The Evolution of a European Capital; Hungarian Art in European Context; Transylvania-A Central European Region from Historical and Anthropological Perspectives; Comparative Urban Culture in East Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Hungary through Literature and Film; History of Hungary 1945–2000; European Folk Musics; Hungary Between 1890–1945)
  • CEUS-R 351 Prophets, Poets, and Kings: Iranian Civilization
  • CEUS-R 352 (ANTH-E 397) Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
  • CEUS-R 354 (NELC-N 380) Persian Literature in Translation
  • CEUS-R 360 Modern Mongolia
  • CEUS-R 370 Introduction to the History of Tibet
  • CEUS-R 371 Tibet and the West
  • CEUS-R 372 Sino-Tibetan Relations
  • CEUS-R 379 Topics in Tibetan Studies (Approved topic: Constructing Culture: Imagine Tibet)
  • CEUS-R 383 Ten Sultans, One Empire: Ottoman Classical Age, 1300-1600
  • CEUS-R 389 Topics in Turkish Studies (Approved topic: Turks in History)
  • CEUS-R 393 The Mongol Century
  • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies (Approved topic: The Politics of Modern Central Eurasia)
  • CEUS-R 413 Islamic Central Asia, Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries
  • CEUS-R 414 The Yasavi Sufis and Central Asian Islam
  • CEUS-R 415 The Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition in Central Asia
  • CEUS-R 416 Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia
  • CEUS-R 441 Art and Music of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Hungary

Classical Studies

  • CLAS-C 101 Ancient Greek Culture
  • CLAS-C 102 Roman Culture
  • CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology
  • CLAS-C 206 (FINA-A 206) Classical Art and Archaeology
  • CLAS-C 308 Roman Law
  • CLAS-C 310 Classical Drama
  • CLAS-C 311 Classical Epics
  • CLAS-C 321 Classical Myth and Culture in Film
  • CLAS-C 350 Greek Literature in Translation
  • CLAS-C 351 The Golden Age of Athens
  • CLAS-C 360 Roman Literature in Translation
  • CLAS-C 395 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology (Approved topics: Gender in the Prehistoric Aegean; Art and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces)
  • CLAS-C 412 (FINA-A 412) The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
  • CLAS-C 491 Topics in Classical Studies (Approved topic: The Secret History of Classical Texts)

Communication and Culture

  • CMCL-C 202 Media in the Global Context
  • CMCL-C 310 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
  • CMCL-C 393 History of European and American Films I
  • CMCL-C 394 History of European and American Films II
  • CMCL-C 398 National Cinemas (Approved topics: Post Nouvelle Vague French Film and Brazilian Cinema)
  • CMCL-C 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective (Approved topic: South Asia through Performance)
  • CMCL-C 422 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa

Comparative Literature

  • CMLT-C 111 Reading the World
  • CMLT-C 147 Images of the Self: East and West
  • CMLT-C 155 Culture and the Modern Experience: An Interdisciplinary and International Approach
  • CMLT-C 200 Honors Seminar (Approved topics: Poetry and Society: The Arabic Ode in Comparative Text; The Arabic Novel, from Center to Periphery; Introduction to African Cinema)
  • CMLT-C 255 Modern Literature and Other Arts: An Introduction
  • CMLT-C 256 Literature and Other Arts: 1870–1950
  • CMLT-C 257 Asian Literature and Other Arts
  • CMLT-C 261 Introduction to African Literature
  • CMLT-C 262 Cross-Cultural Encounters
  • CMLT-C 265 Introduction to East Asian Poetry
  • CMLT-C 266 Introduction to East Asian Fiction
  • CMLT-C 291 Studies in Non-Western Film
  • CMLT-C 301 Special Topics in Comparative Literature
  • CMLT-C 310 Literature and Film (Approved topic: Germanic Literature and Film)
  • CMLT-C 321 Medieval Literature
  • CMLT-C 325 The Renaissance
  • CMLT-C 329 The Eighteenth Century
  • CMLT-C 333 Romanticism
  • CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism
  • CMLT-C 337 The Twentieth Century: Tradition and Change
  • CMLT-C 340 Women in World Literature
  • CMLT-C 347 Literature and Ideas
  • CMLT-C 357 The Arts Today: From 1950 to the Present
  • CMLT-C 358 Literature and Music: Opera
  • CMLT-C 360 Diasporic Literatures
  • CMLT-C 361 African Literature and Other Arts
  • CMLT-C 363 Black Paris
  • CMLT-C 364 The Caribbean: Literature and Theory
  • CMLT-C 365 Japanese-Western Literary Relations
  • CMLT-C 370 Comparative Studies in Western and Middle Eastern Literatures
  • CMLT-C 375 Imagining China, Translating China
  • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature
  • CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture
  • CMLT-C 415 Medieval Lyric
  • CMLT-C 417 Medieval Narrative
  • CMLT-C 445 Early Traditions of Christian Literature
  • CMLT-C 446 Traditions of Christian Literature II
  • CMLT-C 464 French Language Literature of Africa and the Americas

Criminal Justice

  • CJUS-P 401 Environmental Justice

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East Asian Languages and Cultures

  • EALC-E 100 East Asia: An Introduction
  • EALC-E 110 Popular Culture in East Asia
  • EALC-E 120 Japanese Business and Public Policy
  • EALC-E 160 The Daoist Body
  • EALC-E 180 Cross-Cultural Experiences of War: East Asia and the United States
  • EALC-E 200 Introduction to East Asian Studies
  • EALC-E 201 Issues in East Asian Literature
  • EALC-E 202 Issues in East Asian Traditions and Ideas
  • EALC-E 203 Issues in East Asian Cultural History
  • EALC-E 204 Issues in East Asian Society
  • EALC-E 231 Japan: The Living Tradition
  • EALC-E 232 China Past and Present: Culture in Continuing Evolution
  • EALC-E 233 Survey of Korean Civilization
  • EALC-E 251 Traditional East Asian Civilizations
  • EALC-E 252 (HIST-H 207) Modern East Asian Civilization
  • EALC-E 270 Japanese Language and Society
  • EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
  • EALC-E 300 Studies in East Asian Literature
  • EALC-E 301 Chinese Language and Culture
  • EALC-E 302 Geographic Patterns in China
  • EALC-E 303 Korean Folk and Elite Cultures
  • EALC-E 305 Korean Language and Culture
  • EALC-E 321 Traditional Japanese Literature
  • EALC-E 322 Modern Japanese Literature
  • EALC-E 331 Traditional Chinese Literature
  • EALC-E 332 Chinese Literature since 1300
  • EALC-E 333 Studies in Chinese Cinema
  • EALC-E 336 Ghosts, Immortals, Animal Spirits: Encountering the Supernatural in Traditional Chinese Culture
  • EALC-E 350 (HIST-G 380) Studies in East Asian Society
  • EALC-E 351 Studies in East Asian Thought
  • EALC-E 352 Studies in East Asian History
  • EALC-E 354 Society and Education in Japan
  • EALC-E 371 Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
  • EALC-E 372 Japanese Fiction and Culture
  • EALC-E 374 (PHIL-P 374/REL-B 374) Early Chinese Philosophy
  • EALC-E 384 East Asian Nationalism and Cultural Identity
  • EALC-E 390 Contemporary Chinese Politics
  • EALC-E 392 Chinese Foreign Policy
  • EALC-E 393 China's Political Economy
  • EALC-E 395 Japan in World Trade and Politics
  • EALC-E 473 History of Japanese Theatre and Drama
  • EALC-E 497 Overseas Study Tour
  • EALC-J 491 Humanities Topics in Japanese
  • EALC-J 492 Historical and Cultural Topics in Japanese

English

  • ENG-G 208 World Englishes

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Fine Arts

  • FINA-A 155 Introduction to African Art
  • FINA-A 160 Introduction to East Asian Art
  • FINA-A 200 Topics in Art History (Approved topic: Introduction to Jewish Art)
  • FINA-A 206 (CLAS-C 206) Classical Art and Archaeology
  • FINA-A 214 Art and Life in Ancient Rome
  • FINA-A 226 Survey of Medieval Art
  • FINA-A 231 The Age of Giants: Art in the Time of Leonardo and Michelangelo
  • FINA-A 233 Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy, 1250–1700
  • FINA-A 234 Renaissance Florence
  • FINA-A 255 Topics in African Art History
  • FINA-A 262 Introduction to Japanese Art and Culture
  • FINA-A 311 The Art of the Classical Age of Greece
  • FINA-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
  • FINA-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
  • FINA-A 327 Survey of Islamic Art
  • FINA-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
  • FINA-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
  • FINA-A 346 Roots and Revolution: Early Twentieth-Century Mexican Art
  • FINA-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
  • FINA-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
  • FINA-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • FINA-A 356 Art of Central Africa
  • FINA-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
  • FINA-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
  • FINA-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
  • FINA-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
  • FINA-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900–1924
  • FINA-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
  • FINA-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
  • FINA-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
  • FINA-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
  • FINA-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
  • FINA-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
  • FINA-A 480 Russian Art
  • FINA-A 490 Topics in Art History (Approved topics: Istanbul; Ottoman Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Modern Metropolis)

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

  • FOLK-E 112 Black Music of Two Worlds
  • FOLK-E 302 Music in African Life
  • FOLK-F 256 Folklore and the Supernatural
  • FOLK-F 275 Indigenous Worldviews
  • FOLK-F 301 African Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  • FOLK-F 305 Asian Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  • FOLK-F 307 Middle Eastern Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  • FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  • FOLK-F 315 Latin American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  • FOLK-F 320 Pacific Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music

French and Italian

  • FRIT-F 310 Topics in French Literature in Translation
  • FRIT-F 311 French/Francophone Studies through Film
  • FRIT-F 361 La France medievale (jusqu'à 1500)
  • FRIT-F 362 La France 1500–1800
  • FRIT-F 363 La France 1800–aujourd'hui
  • FRIT-F 375 Thémes et perspectives littéraires
  • FRIT-F 410 French Literature of the Middle Ages
  • FRIT-F 450 Colloquium in French Studies—Tradition and Ideas
  • FRIT-F 451 Colloquium in French Studies—Literature and the Arts
  • FRIT-F 455 Le Roman au 20e siècle
  • FRIT-F 459 Le Théàtre au 20e siècle
  • FRIT-F 460 La francophonie nord-américaine
  • FRIT-F 461 La France contemporaine: cinema et culture
  • FRIT-F 463 Civilisation française I
  • FRIT-F 464 Civilisation française II
  • FRIT-M 222 Topics in Italian Culture
  • FRIT-M 234 Florence in Florence
  • FRIT-M 235 Rome, the City and the Myth
  • FRIT-M 305 Civiltà italiana moderna
  • FRIT-M 306 Italian Short Fiction
  • FRIT-M 307 Masterpieces of Italian Literature I
  • FRIT-M 308 Masterpieces of Italian Literature II
  • FRIT-M 311 Italian Film and Culture
  • FRIT-M 333 Dante and His Times
  • FRIT-M 340 Boccaccio's Social Decameron
  • FRIT-M 345 Italian Renaissance Art and Literature
  • FRIT-M 390 Studies in Italian Film
  • FRIT-M 445 Risorgimento
  • FRIT-M 463 Contemporary and Popular Italian Culture

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Gender Studies

  • GNDR-G 215 Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • GNDR-G 302 Issues in Gender Studies (Approved topic: Gender, Warfare, and Militarism)
  • GNDR-G 386 British Sexual Histories: From Regency Scandals to Sexual Revolution
  • GNDR-G 410 International Feminist Debates

Geography

  • GEOG-G 323 Geography of Latin America
  • GEOG-G 427 Russia and Its Neighbors
  • GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe

Germanic Studies

  • GER-E 121 An Introduction to German Culture
  • GER-E 321 Gender and Sexuality in Germany
  • GER-E 322 German Cultural History
  • GER-E 323 German Film Culture
  • GER-E 341 Dutch Culture: The Modern Netherlands
  • GER-E 342 The Golden Age of Dutch Culture
  • GER-E 343 Topics in Dutch Literature
  • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature
  • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture
  • GER-E 362 Topics in Scandinavian Culture
  • GER-E 363 Topics in Scandinavian Literature
  • GER-G 361 Contemporary Austria
  • GER-G 362 Introduction to Contemporary Germany
  • GER-G 363 Introduction to German Cultural History
  • GER-G 418 German Film and Popular Culture
  • GER-G 421 Contemporary Germany: Overview
  • GER-G 422 Contemporary Germany: Special Topics in German Studies
  • GER-G 424 Literature and Society since 1945
  • GER-G 464 German Culture and Society

Global Village Living-Learning Center

  • GLLC-G 210 Global Village Colloquium (Approved topic: Vampires in European and American Culture)

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History

  • HIST-B 204 Medieval Heroes
  • HIST-B 260 Women, Men, and Society in Modern Europe
  • HIST-B 321 European Jews in the Age of Discovery
  • HIST-B 322 Jews in the Modern World
  • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust
  • HIST-B 324 Zionism and the State of Israel
  • HIST-B 330 The Jews of Spain
  • HIST-B 348 Byzantine History
  • HIST-B 351 Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages
  • HIST-B 352 Western Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages
  • HIST-B 353 The Renaissance
  • HIST-B 354 The Reformation
  • HIST-B 356 French Revolution and Napoleon
  • HIST-B 357 Modern France
  • HIST-B 359 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War I
  • HIST-B 360 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War II
  • HIST-B 366 Paris and Berlin in the 1920s: A Cultural History
  • HIST-B 368 Modern Italy
  • HIST-B 374 The Cultures of Modern Europe
  • HIST-B 377 History of Germany since 1648 I
  • HIST-B 378 History of Germany since 1648 II
  • HIST-B 386 British Sexual Histories: From Regency Scandals to Sexual Revolution
  • HIST-C 205 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
  • HIST-C 210 The Making of the Modern Middle East
  • HIST-C 376 Greek History: Bronze Age to the Persian Wars
  • HIST-C 377 Greek History: The Persian Wars to the Legacy of Alexander
  • HIST-C 388 Roman History
  • HIST-C 390 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • HIST-C 393 Ottoman History
  • HIST-D 102 Icon and Axe: Russia from Earliest Times to 1861
  • HIST-D 103 Icon and Axe: Russia from 1861 to Present
  • HIST-D 201 The Fall of Communism
  • HIST-D 302 The Gorbachev Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire
  • HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
  • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe
  • HIST-D 306 Muscovy and Imperial Russia, 1500–1801
  • HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars
  • HIST-D 309 Russia in World War II: Battles and People
  • HIST-D 310 Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime
  • HIST-D 320 Modern Ukraine
  • HIST-D 321 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711
  • HIST-D 322 Hungarian History and Civilization, 1711–1918
  • HIST-D 325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804–1923
  • HIST-D 327 Nation-Making and Imperial Decline in East Central Europe, 1780–1918
  • HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
  • HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
  • HIST-E 331 African History from Ancient Times to Empires and City States
  • HIST-E 332 African History from Colonial Rule to Independence
  • HIST-E 333 Conflict in Southern Africa
  • HIST-E 334 History of Western Africa
  • HIST-E 336 History of East Africa
  • HIST-E 338 History of Muslim West Africa
  • HIST-E 340 African History and Popular Culture
  • HIST-F 336 Modern Central American History
  • HIST-F 340 Modern Argentina
  • HIST-F 345 History of Cuba and Puerto Rico
  • HIST-F 346 Modern Mexico
  • HIST-F 348 Introduction to Contemporary Latin American Reality
  • HIST-G 101 East Asia in World History
  • HIST-G 350 Modern South Asia: Eighteenth to Twentieth Century
  • HIST-G 357 Premodern Japan
  • HIST-G 358 Early Modern Japan
  • HIST-G 369 Modern Japan
  • HIST-G 372 Modern Korea
  • HIST-G 380 Early China
  • HIST-G 382 China: The Age of Glory
  • HIST-G 383 China: The Later Empires
  • HIST-G 385 Modern China
  • HIST-G 387 Contemporary China
  • HIST-H 102 The World in the Twentieth Century II
  • HIST-H 103 Europe: Renaissance to Napoleon
  • HIST-H 104 Europe: Napoleon to the Present
  • HIST-H 205 Ancient Civilization
  • HIST-H 206 Medieval Civilization
  • HIST-H 207 (EALC E252) Modern East Asian Civilization
  • HIST-H 208 American-East Asian Relations
  • HIST-H 209 The Origins of Britain
  • HIST-H 210 Britain's Road to Modernity
  • HIST-H 211 Latin American Culture and Civilization I
  • HIST-H 212 Latin American Culture and Civilization II
  • HIST-H 213 The Black Death
  • HIST-H 223 Between Rome and Constantinople: Eastern Europe and Russia to Mid-Fifteenth Century
  • HIST-H 227 African Civilizations
  • HIST-H 237 Traditional East Asian Civilization
  • HIST-H 238 Introduction to South Asian History and Civilization
  • HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
  • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
  • HIST-W 100 Issues in World History
  • HIST-W 125 Cities and History

Hutton Honors College

  • HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place (Approved Topics: Literature of the Holocaust; Vampires in European and American Culture)

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India Studies

  • INST-I 100 Introduction to India
  • INST-I 211 Introduction to South Asian History
  • INST-I 212 The Civilization of Tibet
  • INST-I 305 Exploring Indian Languages and Literature Through Film
  • INST-I 320 Contemporary India: History, Politics, and Society
  • INST-I 347 Meditation Traditions of India
  • INST-I 368 Philosophies of India
  • INST-I 370 Literature of India in Translation: Ancient and Classical
  • INST-I 371 Medieval Devotional Literatures of India (in translation)
  • INST-I 380 Women in South Asian Religious Traditions
  • INST-I 402 Introduction to the History of Tibet

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Jacobs School of Music

  • MUS-M 392 Art Musics of the Non-Western World
  • MUS-Z 413 Latin American and Latino Popular Music and Culture

Jewish Studies

  • JSTU-C 240 Contemporary Israeli Culture
  • JSTU-C 340 The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction
  • JSTU-C 360 Israeli Film and Fiction
  • JSTU-H 460 Israeli Film and Fiction in Hebrew
  • JSTU-H 480 Modern Hebrew Literature in Hebrew
  • JSTU-H 485 Recent Hebrew Literature in Hebrew
  • JSTU-J 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion
  • JSTU-J 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
  • JSTU-L 280 David: The Man and the King
  • JSTU-L 285 Guns and Roses: Representations of Soldiers and War in Modern Hebrew Literature
  • JSTU-L 380 Modern Hebrew Literature in English
  • JSTU-L 385 Recent Hebrew Literature in English
  • JSTU-L 395 S. Y. Agnon and the Jewish Experience

Journalism

  • JOUR-J 418 Field Experiences in Journalism (Approved Topics: International Reporting; Media of Color)

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Latin American and Caribbean Studies

  • LTAM-L 210 The Latin American Experience
  • LTAM-L 211 Contemporary Problems in Latin America
  • LTAM-L 400 Contemporary Mexico
  • LTAM-L 402 Contemporary Brazil
  • LTAM-L 403 Contemporary Central America
  • LTAM-L 420 New Latin American Cinema

Linguistics

  • LING-L 481 Language in Africa

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Medieval Studies

  • MEST-M 200 Medieval Cultures
  • MEST-M 250 Medieval Italy
  • MEST-M 260 Medieval Provence
  • MEST-M 390 Studies in Medieval Culture

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Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

  • NELC-E 201 History and Civilization of Ancient Egypt
  • NELC-E 301 Religions of Ancient Egypt
  • NELC-N 204 Topics in Middle Eastern Culture and Society
  • NELC-N 205 Topics in Middle Eastern Literature (Approved Topics: Poetry and Society: The Arabic Ode in Comparative Contexts; In Praise of the Prophet Muhammed; The Arabic Novel, from Center to Periphery; Women in Islam and the Middle East)
  • NELC-N 212 Contemporary Literatures of the Middle East (in English Translation)
  • NELC-N 220 Muhammad: Life of the Prophet
  • NELC-N 251 Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the War on Terror
  • NELC-N 265 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
  • NELC-N 305 Issues in Middle Eastern Literature
  • NELC-N 340 Prophets, Poets, and Kings: Iranian Civilization
  • NELC-N 350 Modern Iran
  • NELC-N 352 Contemporary Turkey
  • NELC-N 370 Koranic Studies
  • NELC-N 380 Topics in Persian Literature in Translation
  • NELC-N 385 Persian Mystical Literature in Translation
  • NELC-N 391 War and Peace in the Islamic Tradition
  • NELC-N 392 Islam and Modernity
  • NELC-N 397 (ANTH E397/CEUS R352) Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

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Philosophy

  • PHIL-P 201 Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • PHIL-P 205 Modern Jewish Philosophy
  • PHIL-P 301 Medieval Philosophy
  • PHIL-P 305 Topics in the Philosophy of Judaism
  • PHIL-P 328 Philosophies of India
  • PHIL-P 374 (EALC E374/REL B374) Early Chinese Philosophy

Political Science

  • POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics
  • POLS-Y 333 Chinese Politics
  • POLS-Y 334 Japanese Politics
  • POLS-Y 335 Western European Politics
  • POLS-Y 336 South East Asian Political Systems
  • POLS-Y 337 Latin American Politics
  • POLS-Y 338 African Politics
  • POLS-Y 339 Middle Eastern Politics
  • POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
  • POLS-Y 342 Topics on the Regional Politics of Africa
  • POLS-Y 347 German Politics
  • POLS-Y 348 The Politics of Genocide
  • POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
  • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics
  • POLS-Y 353 The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
  • POLS-Y 356 South Asian Politics
  • POLS-Y 368 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
  • POLS-Y 381 Classical Political Thought
  • POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought

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Religious Studies

  • REL-A 210 Introduction to Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
  • REL-A 220 Introduction to the New Testament
  • REL-A 230 Introduction to Judaism
  • REL-A 270 Introduction to Islam
  • REL-A 305 Ancient Mediterranean Religions
  • REL-A 315 Prophecy in Ancient Israel
  • REL-A 317 Judaism in the Making
  • REL-A 320 Jesus and the Gospels
  • REL-A 321 Paul and His Influence in Early Christianity
  • REL-A 325 Christianity, 50–450
  • REL-A 326 Early Christian Monasticism
  • REL-A 335 Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
  • REL-A 350 Christianity, 400–1500
  • REL-A 355 The Right Belief: History of Orthodox Christianity
  • REL-A 395 The Bible and Slavery
  • REL-A 415 Topics in Ancient Israelite Religion
  • REL-A 420 Religions of Ancient Rome
  • REL-A 426 Gnostic Religion and Literature
  • REL-A 440 Judaism and Gender: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
  • REL-A 450 Topics in the History of Christianity
  • REL-A 470 Topics in Islamic Studies
  • REL-A 485 The Life and Legacy of Muhammad
  • REL-B 202 Issues in South and East Asian Religions (Approved topics: The Goddess in Contemporary India, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism)
  • REL-B 210 Introduction to Buddhism
  • REL-B 215 Zen Buddhism
  • REL-B 220 Introduction to Hinduism
  • REL-B 230 Introduction to Chinese Religion
  • REL-B 240 Introduction to Daoism
  • REL-B 300 Studies in South and East Asian Religions (Approved topic: Ancient and Classical Literatures of India [in translation])
  • REL-B 310 East Asian Buddhism
  • REL-B 320 Hindu Goddesses
  • REL-B 330 Women in South Asian Religious Traditions
  • REL-B 335 Bollywood and Beyond: Religion in South Asian Film
  • REL-B 360 Religions in Japan
  • REL-B 374 Early Chinese Thought
  • REL-B 420 Topics in Hindu Religious Traditions
  • REL-B 440 Topics in Daoism and Chinese Religion
  • REL-B 460 Topics in East Asian Religions
  • REL-C 280 Indigenous Worldviews
  • REL-D 330 From Christian Ethics to Social Criticism I
  • REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism
  • REL-D 370 Topics in Gender and Western Religions (Approved topic: Gender in the Reformation)
  • REL-D 375 Religion and Literature in Asia
  • REL-D 385 Messianism and Messiahs in Comparative Perspective
  • REL-R 152 Jews, Christians, Muslims
  • REL-R 153 Religions of Asia

Russian and East European Institute

  • REEI-R 301 Russian and East European Area Topics
  • REEI-R 302 Russia, Past and Present
  • REEI-R 303 Eastern Europe, Past and Present

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Slavic Languages and Literatures

  • SLAV-C 223 Introduction to Czech Culture
  • SLAV-C 363 History of Czech Literature and Culture
  • SLAV-C 364 Modern Czech Literature and Culture
  • SLAV-C 365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures
  • SLAV-P 223 Introduction to Polish Culture
  • SLAV-P 363 Survey of Polish Literature and Culture I
  • SLAV-P 364 Survey of Polish Literature and Culture II
  • SLAV-P 365 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture
  • SLAV-P 366 Polish Film
  • SLAV-R 223 Introduction to Russian Culture
  • SLAV-R 224 Contemporary Russian Culture
  • SLAV-R 229 Russian Folk Tales
  • SLAV-R 263 Pushkin to Dostoevsky
  • SLAV-R 264 Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
  • SLAV-R 334 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
  • SLAV-R 345 Jewish Characters in Russian Literature
  • SLAV-R 349 Myth and Reality: Women in Russian Literature and in Life
  • SLAV-R 352 Russian and Soviet Film
  • SLAV-R 353 Central European Cinema
  • SLAV-S 223 Introduction to Balkan and South Slavic Cultures
  • SLAV-S 363 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I
  • SLAV-S 364 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs II
  • SLAV-U 223 Introduction to Ukrainian Culture

Sociology

  • SOC-S 308 Global Society
  • SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology

Spanish and Portuguese

  • HISP-P 290 Topics in Luso-Brazilian Culture (Approved topics: Afro-Portuguese Culture: Angola and Mozambique; Jorge Amado: A Portrait of Brazil; A Regional View of Brazil: The Northeast; Contemporary Portugal)
  • HISP-P 400 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I
  • HISP-P 401 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World II
  • HISP-P 405 Literature and Film in Portuguese
  • HISP-P 410 Brazilian Cinema
  • HISP-P 411 Portugal: The Cultural Context
  • HISP-P 412 Brazil: The Cultural Context
  • HISP-P 470 Poetry in Portuguese
  • HISP-P 475 Theatre in Portuguese
  • HISP-P 476 Prose in Portuguese
  • HISP-S 260 Introduction to Hispanic Film
  • HISP-S 265 Topics in Hispanic Literature in Translation
  • HISP-S 284 Women in Hispanic Culture
  • HISP-S 324 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
  • HISP-S 328 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • HISP-S 334 Panoramas of Hispanic Literature
  • HISP-S 411 Spain: The Cultural Context
  • HISP-S 412 Spanish America: The Cultural Context

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Theatre and Drama

  • THTR-T 370 History of Theatre and Drama I
  • THTR-T 371 History of Theatre and Drama II
  • THTR-T 461 Development of Dramatic Art II
  • THTR-T 468 Non-Western Theatre and Drama

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West European Studies

  • WEUR-E 350 Advanced Modern Greek II: Literature, History, and Cinema
  • WEUR-W 301 Modern European Politics and Society
  • WEUR-W 405 Special Topics in West European Studies. See WEUR advisor for appropriate topics. Not all topics will be approved.
  • WEUR-W 406 Special Topics in West European Studies. See WEUR advisor for appropriate topics. Not all topics will be approved.

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