Courses in this category deal with the culture, history, and society of specific geographic contexts, as well as the ways these contexts are integrated into broader global interactions.

Africa

Courses in this sub-category enable students both to comprehend and to move beyond established geographic, political, and popular understandings of Africa and Africans. Emphasis placed on unsettling Africa, focusing on its location within academic, literary, and popular discourses and within regional systems (e.g.: East Africa and the Indian Ocean World, West Africa and the Atlantic World, and North Africa and the Mediterranean and European World). These courses also examine how Africans have throughout history and to this day challenged the diplomatic, political, economic, cultural, and environmental constraints to living their lives, and their efforts to construct and re-imagine their local and regional relationships.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Hours
ANTH 304	Peoples and Cultures of Africa	4
FREN 417	Topics of the French-Speaking World	4
HIST 214	Africa Inside Out	4
HIST 215	Southern African History	4
HIST 219	History of Africa to 1880	4
HIST 220	History of Africa Since 1880	4
HIST 385	Missionaries, Mullahs, and Marabouts: African Encounters with Christianity and Islam	4
HIST 386	African Environmental History	4
HIST 387	Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa	4
HIST 410	Five Centuries of Atlantic Slavery, 1400-1900	4
HIST 420	The History of International Development	4
INGS 201	African Youth Cultures in Post-Colonial Urban Africa	4
INGS 203	Sociolinguistics of Africa	4
INGS 207	Globalization, Popular Culture, and Politics in West Africa	4
INGS 208	West and Central Africa in the Atlantic World	4
INGS 309	Society and Culture in Zambia	4
INGS 312	Africa and the West Since 1800	4
INGS 406	From Berlin to Addis Ababa: Africa and International Summitry	4
POLS 227	Africa in World Politics	4
POLS 230	Politics in Nigeria and South Africa	4
POLS 329	Comparative African Politics	4
POLS 339	The Political Economy of Development in Zambia and Botswana	4

Asia

Courses in this sub-category contribute to students’ understanding of Asia as a region that was shaped by a number of cultural traditions such as Buddhism, Islam, and Confucianism that traveled across countries, as well as a set of countries that developed distinct responses to capitalist integration and interactions with western powers. With new economic and political ideas transforming countries in this part of the world, Asia is today a vibrant example of globalization. At the same time, the cultures of Asia have global reach and influence through their arts and manufacturing, and as models for poverty alleviation and industrialization. Asia is an area of remarkable diversity, growth, and dynamism that both influences and is influenced by the cultures outside of Asia.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Hours
ANTH 341	The Culture and History of Southeast Asia	4
ASIA 203	Chinese Martial Arts Cinema	4
ASIA 204	Themes in New Chinese Cinema	4
ASIA 209	Japanese Literature and Culture	4
ASIA 217	Modern Japanese Literature	4
ASIA 232	Father Emperor, Mother Land: Family and Nationalism in Modern Japan	4
ASIA 235	Love in Modern Japan	4
ASIA 320	Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Culture	4
HIST 211	China: Inside the Great Wall	4
HIST 212	China: Manchus to Massacre, Dynasty to Dictatorship	4
HIST 216	History of Japan	4
HIST 221	History of India and South Asia I	4
HIST 222	History of India and South Asia II	4
HIST 351	History of Modern India through Cinema and Literature	4
HIST 388	The United States and Vietnam since 1945	4
HIST 455	European Empires in Asia	4
INGS 304	Politics and Society in Modern India	4
PHIL 215	Chinese Philosophy	4
POLS 248	China's Environmental Crisis	4
POLS 249	China and the World	4
POLS 250	States and Markets in East Asia	4
POLS 326	Comparative Asian Politics	4
POLS 360	Chinese Politics	4
POLS 367	Political Economy of Asia and Latin America	4
RELG 162	Introduction to Asian Religions	4
RELG 262	Buddhist Traditions	4
RELG 364	Buddhist Ethics	4

Europe

European identities and culture have been shaped by global movements in religion and philosophy, politics, science and the arts over the course of the last two thousand years. The successful integration of most of its countries into a stable economic and political union established Europe as one of the biggest players in the global economy. But Europe is also facing difficult challenges. Colonialism and capitalism have shaped contemporary European realities, giving rise to growing immigration, cultural and political struggles related to religion and gender, as well as growing concerns about social inequity. Courses in this sub-category enable students to comprehend Europe’s unique heritage as well as its role and place in today’s world.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Hours
ANTH 222	Celtic Culture and Archaeology	4
ANTH 303	The Anthropology of Europe	4
ANTH 387	Archaeology of Ireland	4
ARTH 350	Spanish Painting	4
ARTH 496	Islamic Spain and Spanish Art	4
FREN 301	Discovering Paris	4
FREN 314	Introduction to Literature, Culture, and History of the French-Speaking World	4
FREN 321	Studies in Culture and Literature Abroad	4
FREN 322	Langue, Littérature, Culture in Paris	4
FREN 324	Contemporary France	4
FREN 411	Culture through History	4
FREN 413	Modern France Through Film and Text	4
FREN 415	The History of French Cinema	4
FREN 417	Topics of the French-Speaking World	4
GRMN 300	Advanced German	4
GRMN 311	German Culture and Composition I	4
GRMN 312	German Culture and Composition II	4
GRMN 313	Contemporary Language and Usage	4
GRMN 350	Berlin: Impressions of a City	4
GRMN 352	Kafka/Grass in Translation	4
GRMN 353	German Film	4
GRMN 354	Modern German Civilization	4
GRMN 356	The Nazi Period	4
GRMN 357	German Queer Cinema	4
GRMN 358	Borders, Margins, and Identities in German Culture	4
HIST 205	History of Britain and Ireland I	4
HIST 206	History of Britain and Ireland II	4
HIST 209	Early Modern Europe	4
HIST 217	Renaissance and Reformation	4
HIST 267	Early Modern Germany: Reformation to Revolutions	4
HIST 268	German History Since 1850	4
HIST 270	European Women in War, Revolution, and Terrorism	4
HIST 271	The French Revolutionary Era, 1789-1814	4
HIST 272	France Since 1815	4
HIST 313	Youth and Families in Early Modern Europe	4
HIST 335	Monsters, Marvels, and Museums	4
HIST 337	Nature, Magic, and Machines in Early Modern Europe	4
HIST 350	Berlin: Impressions of a City	4
HIST 353	The Nazi Period	4
HIST 369	Muslim Spain: Glory, Decline, and Lasting Influence in Contemporary Spain	4
HIST 378	Sexuality and the Self in Modern Europe	4
HIST 379	Honor, Shame, and Violence in Modern Europe	4
HIST 389	Modernity and Modernism in Europe, 1750-1890	4
HIST 397	The Origins and Conduct of World War II	4
HIST 406	From D-Day to Berlin: World War II Sites in England, France, Germany	4
HIST 455	European Empires in Asia	4
HIST 472	Marriage and Imagined Families in the Modern World	4
INGS 303	Transition to Democracy: The Case of East Germany, 1989	4
INGS 306	Spain in the European Union	4
INGS 307	Polish Film	4
POLS 351	Modern European Politics	4
POLS 364	European Union	4
POLS 431	Ethnicity and Political Violence	4
RELG 220	Holocaust, Religion, Morality	4
SPAN 301	Cultural Survey of Spain I	4
SPAN 302	Cultural Survey of Spain II	4
SPAN 322	Introduction to Medieval Spain and the Road to Santiago	4
SPAN 323	Contemporary Spanish Culture and Civilization	4
SPAN 334	The Culture of Chivalry	4
SPAN 361	Modern Spanish Literature II	4
SPAN 364	Spanish Women Writers	4
SPAN 365	Modern Spanish Drama	4
SPAN 391	Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema	4
SPAN 404	Spanish Civil War and its Legacy	4
SPAN 405	Spanish Detective Novel 1975-present	4
SPAN 495	Senior Seminar	4

Latin America and the Caribbean

Courses in this sub-category contribute to students’ overall understanding that this geographic region has been shaped in complex ways by globalizing processes such as colonization, capitalist production and exchange, imperialism, the migration of people and the exchange of ideas. This is not a static or isolated geographic area, as both Latin America and the Caribbean are also characterized by a great deal of cultural diversity and resulting concerns about national and ethnic identity, social inequality and unrest, political struggle and democratization. Dynamism is a profound source of creativity as these countries are also home to some of the most vibrant social movements, artistic productions, and scholarship of our time.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Hours
ANTH 305	Cultures of Latin America	4
ANTH 311	Gender and Class in Latin America	4
ANTH 314	Gender, Colonialism, and Culture in Greater Mexico	4
HIST 223	Latin American History to 1825	4
HIST 224	Latin American History Since 1826	4
HIST 358	Women in Latin America	4
HIST 359	United States and Latin America since 1898	4
HIST 360	Latin American Topics	4
HIST 367	Writing the Nation: Literature, Nationalism and Search for Identity in Latin America (1810-Present)	4
HIST 401	Contemporary Chile, 1970-2011	2
HIST 410	Five Centuries of Atlantic Slavery, 1400-1900	4
INGS 310	Brazilian Tropicália: The Myth and Reality of an Emerging Power	4
MUSC 224	Musics of Latin America	4
POLS 311	Politics of Central America and the Caribbean	4
POLS 318	Comparative Politics: South America and Mexico	4
POLS 367	Political Economy of Asia and Latin America	4
SPAN 303	Cultural Survey of Latin America I	4
SPAN 304	Cultural Survey of Latin America II	4
SPAN 380	20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Poetry	4
SPAN 381	History of Latin American Cinema	4
SPAN 383	Spanish-American Novel	4
SPAN 384	Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Culture	4
SPAN 385	Spanish-American Short Fiction and Film	4
SPAN 386	Contemporary Central American Literature and Film	4
SPAN 387	Latin American Women Authors	4
SPAN 388	Women Authors of the Hispanic Caribbean and Diaspora	4
SPAN 389	U.S. Latino and Latina Literature and Culture	4
SPAN 390	Latin American Literature and the Environment	4
SPAN 391	Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema	4
SPAN 401	Latin American Literature in Neoliberal Times	4
SPAN 406	Cultural Icons in Latin America	4
SPAN 408	Migrations in Latin American and Latino Literature and Film	4
SPAN 409	Marvel and Margin in Latin American Culture	4

Middle East

Courses in this sub-category analyze the region’s place in world history, international politics, and the global economic system. Challenging stereotypes of the region as monolithic, timeless, and isolated from world events, classes on the Middle East and North Africa emphasize the diversity and dynamism of a region that has frequently influenced the course of world events. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the region’s encounters with outside powers and global forces including Western imperialism, capitalism, and transnational religious forces, in order to understand how the Middle East shapes and is in turn shaped by our modern globalized world.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Hours
ARTH 210	Islamic Art and Architecture	4
FREN 417	Topics of the French-Speaking World	4
HIST 296	History of the Middle East I	4
HIST 297	History of the Middle East II	4
HIST 298	History of Islam	4
HIST 307	Revolutions and Revolutionaries in the Middle East	4
HIST 310	From Barbary to Iraq: Britain and America in the Middle East	4
HIST 319	The Arab-Israeli Conflict	4
HIST 430	Political Islam	4
INGS 204	Representing Egypt	4
INGS 311	Islam and Ecology	4
INGS 313	"Foreigners" of the Middle East	4
INGS 314	The History of Current Events in the Middle East	4
POLS 320	Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa	4

Russia and Eurasia

Courses in this sub-category consider the region from the perspectives of history, politics, literature, and culture. They examine the Russian Revolution, world wars and other conflicts; authoritarian regimes; experiments in socialism and communism; and more recent democratization efforts. Other important themes include nationalism, migration and shifting borders, and attempts at defining identity in relation to East and West via a narrative of exceptionalism. The cultural richness of the region, including ethnic and religious diversity as well as innovations in literature, film, art, and music, is a central area of focus. These courses study the complex history of the region with emphasis on how past events continue to shape its current geopolitical, economic and environmental realities.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Hours
HIST 207	Russia: Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Serfdom, Revolution	4
HIST 208	Russia: Revolution and Repression, War and Cold War, Collapse and Renewal	4
HIST 346	History of Socialism	4
HIST 364	Topics in Russian History	4
HIST 397	The Origins and Conduct of World War II	4
POLS 351	Modern European Politics	4
POLS 364	European Union	4
POLS 431	Ethnicity and Political Violence	4
RUSN 304	Contemporary Russian in Cultural Context	4
RUSN 310	Russian Civilization	4
RUSN 352	20th-Century Russian Literature in English Translation	4
RUSN 354	Real Men, Real Women? Gender in 20th and 21st-Century Russian Literature and Culture	4
RUSN 355	Russian and Soviet Film	4
RUSN 356	Nabokov	4
RUSN 363	Environmentalism and Ecocide in Russian Literature and Culture	4
RUSN 364	Putin's Russia and Protest Culture	4