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FOUNDATION COURSES (current as of March 24, 2008)

ARTH 319:  Controversy in Nonwestern Art (Morrow)
A/S 220:  Animals and Human Societies (Mullin)
A/S 250:  Population and Environment (Togunde)
A/S 343:  Theory and Method in Anthropology (Mullin)
A/S 375:  Global Transformations (Mullin)
A/S 350: Comparative Families:  A Global Perspective
(Togunde)
BIO 289: Conservation Biology (Lyons-Sobaski)

E/M 366: International Trade (Li)
GER 314:  Multiculturalism in Germany (Myers)

HIST 289:  Conflict in Africa (Carotenuto)
HIST 309:  Pax Britannica [British Empire] (Hagerman)
HIST 375:  Colonial Africa (Carotenuto)

INTN 289:  An International History of the Cold War (Yoshii)
INTN 289:  Japan's International Relations (Yoshii)

PLSC 235:  U.S. Foreign Policy (Schlewitz)
PLSC 336:  Pro-Seminar in International Relations (Grossman)
PLSC 338:  International Political Economy  (Schlewitz)
PLSC 356:  Human Rights in the Modern World (Schlewitz)
PLSC 352:   Comparative Politics of Developing Nations (Schlewitz)
RELST 204:  Islam and the Modern World (Soileau)
SPCH 313:  Intercultural Communication (Erlandsen, Qian)

AREA STUDIES
 

European Studies (sample courses)

FRNL 264: Masterworks of European Languages
FREN 307: Civilizations of the French-Speaking World
FREN 315: Interpretation of Literature
FREN 320: French Women Writers and Feminist Criticism
FREN 337: Cinema in French
FREN 341: French Literature to 1789
FREN 342: French Literature from 1789 to the present
FREN 301:  Advanced Oral and Written Expression, I
FREN 302:  Advanced Oral and Written Expression, II
FREN 303:  French for the Professions
FREN 314: Multicultural France:  Current Issues and Historical Perspectives
FREN 315: Writing/Filming France
FREN 351: French Society from Marie de France to Louis XIV
FREN 352: Francophone Cultures on the Internet
HIST 102: Ancient and Medieval Worlds
HIST 103: 1500 Europe 2000
HIST 217: 1789 Europe 1918
HIST 218: 1918 Europe 1989
HIST 229: Film Images of WWII
HIST 307: Tudor-Stuart England
HIST 308: Victorian England
HIST 313: Modern Russia
HIST 390: Modern Germany
GER 307: German Civilization
GER 310: Germany and the Environment
GER 314:  Multiculturalism in Germany
GER 402: German Exile Literature
PLSC 202: Comparative Politics of Europe
PLSC 350: Russian Politics
SPAN 305: Spanish Civilization
SPAN 315: Contemporary Approaches to the Interpretation of Literature|
SPAN 340: Studies in Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature
SPAN 341: Studies in Spanish Literature from the 18th C to the Present
LA101:  The Holocaust
LA101:  Cultures, Connections, Communities from Albion to France and Back

Latin American Studies (sample courses)

A&S 254:  Cultures of Mexico
HIST  142:  Modern Latin American History
HIST  393:  Gender and Sexuality in the “Hispanic World”
HIST  300:  Slave Societies of the Americas
HIST  399:  Contact and Conquest in the Americas
SPAN 306:  Latin American Civilization
SPAN 342:  Latin American Literature I
SPAN 343:  Latin American Literature II
SPAN 350:  Women in Hispanic Literature

Asian Studies (sample courses)

A/S 289:  Anthropology of Japan
ARTH 218:  Asian Art
HIST  111:  East Asia—Cultures and Civilizations
HIST  263:  Modern China
HIST  264:  Modern Japan
HIST 289:  Selected Topics in Asian History
HIST  365:  Women and Gender in East Asia
HIST  402:  East Asian Environmental History
HSP 135H:  India, Values, and Gender Roles
INTN 300:  Power and Culture in the Asia Pacific
INTN 289:  Japan’s International Relations
LA101:  Samurai Culture Through Film
PHIL 102:   Philosophy East and West
PLSC 289:  Japanese Politics
RELST 102:  Introduction to Eastern Religions
RELST 211:  Hinduism
RELST 212:  Buddhism
 

African Studies (sample courses)

A/S 248: Social Change & Development in Africa
ART HIST 210: The Art of Egypt and Mesopotamia
FREN 353:  Francophone Africa
HIST 189: Introduction to African History
HIST 289:  African Identities
HIST 402:  The City in Africa
LA 101: Africa: Myth and Reality

Middle Eastern Studies (sample courses)

RELST 121  History, Literature and Religion of the Old Testament
LA101 Conflict:  Israel and Palestine

TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES

Courses for International Environmental Studies (under revision)

A/S 250:  Population and Environment
GER 310: Germany and the Environment
HIST 402:  East Asian Environmental History
LA101:  Population Growth and Sustainability
LA101:  Chernobyl and Hiroshima

Courses for International Gender Studies (under revision)

FREN 320: French Women Writers and Feminist Criticism
HIST  393: Gender and Sexuality in the “Hispanic World”
HIST  370: Women and Gender in East Asia
SPAN 350: Women in Hispanic Literaturee
RELST. 210: The Feminine in World Religions
LA101: Women’s Lives in a Global Perspective

 

 

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