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Courses

  • CCST 100: Growing Up Cross-Culturally

    First-year students interested in this program should enroll in this seminar. The course is recommended but not required for the concentration and it will count as one of the electives. From cradle to grave, cultural assumptions shape our own sense of who we are. This course is designed to enable American and international students to compare how their own and other societies view birth, infancy, adolescence, marriage, adulthood, and old age. Using children's books, child-rearing manuals, movies, and ethnographies, we will explore some of the assumptions in different parts of the globe about what it means to "grow up." 6 credit; AI, WR1, IS; offered Fall 2011 -- C. Clark, S. Cox

  • CCST 210: Global/Local Perspectives

    How do global processes affect local cultures (and vice versa)? How do transnational movements of people, goods, capital, images and ideas affect identities? Is it really possible to translate, compare, and converse across cultures? Such questions animate this course, which aims to expose CCST concentrators, as well as interested students in related majors and concentrations, to theories and methods in the interdisciplinary field variously called global studies or cross-cultural studies. To model interdisciplinary conversation and methods of inquiry, the course incorporates co-instructors and guest presenters from the humanities and social sciences and includes readings drawn from multiple disciplines. 6 credit; Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement, Does not fulfill a distribution requirement, SI, IS; offered Spring 2012 -- V. Dusenbery

  • CCST 250: Process Writing: As You Set Out For Ithaka

    This creative writing course offers students the opportunity to explore their own experiences in and with another culture through writing. Students will study basic building blocks and narrative strategies, and use them to craft stories that deal with inter-cultural transitions and the challenges of negotiating life in a different culture and a different language. We will read stories, novels and essays by contemporary writers while also writing and revising our own stories. Ideally, the course will help you envision and follow the path to your own "Ithaka." There is an option to write in a foreign language (French, German, English). 6 credit; S/CR/NC; Arts and Literature, WR, ARP, WR2, IS; offered Spring 2012 -- S. Leonhard

  • CCST 275: I'm A Stranger Here Myself

    Designed for students who are returning from off-campus studies or who have lived abroad, and for anyone who has had the experience of being an outsider, this course will explore theories and models of intercultural competence and intercultural transition. Using the actual experience of the students in class as its evidence, it will first develop theories about the nature of intercultural contact and then test their usefulness by applying them to the analysis of specific historical and literary evidence. 6 credit; Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement, Does not fulfill a distribution requirement, SI, IS; offered Winter 2012 -- R. Jackson

Related Courses

Pertinent courses are available in a wide range of disciplines, including: Art History, Economics, History, Music, Area Studies, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology and Anthropology. For questions about particular courses, please check the department Web site or contact the director.

Binary Comparison:

ARTS 275 Studio Art Seminar in the South Pacific: Physical & Cultural Environment of Australia & New Zealand (not offered in 2011-2012)

FREN 235 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 326 America's China Policy* (not offered in 2011-2012)


Regional Perspective:

AMST 240 The Midwest and the American Imagination

ARTH 164 Buddhist Art

BIOL 210 Global Change Biology

CAMS 217 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema (not offered in 2011-2012)

ENGL 238 African Literature in English

FREN 241 Sexuality and Sagacity: Introduction to French and Francophone Literature

HEBR 221 Israeli Literature in the Middle East (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 137 Before Europe: The Early Medieval World, 250-c. 1050 (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914 (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century

HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 1492-1810 (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present

HIST 180 An Historical Survey of East Africa (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 204 Crusade, Contact and Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy

HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 710-1453

HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation

HIST 260 The Making of the Modern Middle East

HIST 265 Central Asia in the Modern Age

LTAM 200 Issues in Latin American Studies

MUSC 243 Musical Cultures of the Caribbean

POSC 241 Ethnic Conflict

POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 263 European Political Economy (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America* (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 383 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht: Politics of the European Union (not offered in 2011-2012)

RELG 150 Religions of South Asia

RELG 251 Theravada Buddhism

RELG 253 Tibetan Buddhism (not offered in 2011-2012)

SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2011-2012)

SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature

SPAN 260 Forces of Nature (not offered in 2011-2012)

SPAN 336 Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America


Global Issues:

BIOL 210 Global Change Biology

BIOL 212 Australia Program: Biology Field Studies and Research

BIOL 221 Ecosystem Ecology

BIOL 352 Population Ecology

BIOL 361 Tropical Rainforest Ecology (not offered in 2011-2012)

BIOL 362 Field Investigation in Tropical Rainforest Ecology (not offered in 2011-2012)

CHEM 328 Environmental Analysis (not offered in 2011-2012)

ECON 224 Cambridge Program: Comparative Environmental Policy

ECON 281 International Finance

ECON 395 Advanced Topics in International Finance

ENTS 112 Conservation Biology (not offered in 2011-2012)

ENTS 215 Environmental Ethics

ENTS 244 Biodiversity Conservation and Development

HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity

MUSC 111 Western Art Music and Western Civilization

MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music (not offered in 2011-2012)

MUSC 245 Music of Africa

PHIL 242 Environmental Ethics (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes

POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 259 Justice Among Nations

POSC 265 Politics of Global Economic Relations

POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policies

POSC 281 Global Society: An Approach to World Politics

POSC 355 Identity, Culture and Rights* (not offered in 2011-2012)

POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements* (not offered in 2011-2012)

PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice

RELG 121 Introduction to Christianity (not offered in 2011-2012)

RELG 258 Women and Buddhism (not offered in 2011-2012)

RELG 263 Sufism (not offered in 2011-2012)

SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender

SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2011-2012)

SOAN 262 Anthropology of Health and Illness

SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights


Ethnic Diversity and Diaspora:

AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies: Placing Identities

AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies: The Immigrant Experience

AMST 127 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies (not offered in 2011-2012)

AMST 227 Beyond the Border: Latinos Across America (not offered in 2011-2012)

AMST 239 Introduction to Asian American Studies (not offered in 2011-2012)

EDUC 353 Schooling and Opportunity in American Society (not offered in 2011-2012)

ENGL 119 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature (not offered in 2011-2012)

ENGL 235 Asian American Literature

ENGL 258 Contemporary American Playwrights of Color

FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: The Urban Periphery/Negotiated Cultures

HIST 276 The African Diaspora in Latin America

HIST 322 Civil Rights and Black Power (not offered in 2011-2012)

HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity

POSC 355 Identity, Culture and Rights* (not offered in 2011-2012)

PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice

RELG 130 Native American Religions (not offered in 2011-2012)

RELG 243 Native American Religious Freedom (not offered in 2011-2012)

RELG 271 Religious and Moral Issues of the Holocaust (not offered in 2011-2012)

SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2011-2012)

SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights

SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (not offered in 2011-2012)

SPAN 350 Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony (not offered in 2011-2012)