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Courses

Fall 2012

  • 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; Argument and Inquiry Seminar, Writing Requirement, International Studies; offered Fall 2012 -- S. Cox, S. Leonhard

Winter 2013

  • CCST 275: I'm a Stranger Here Myself

    What do enculturation, tourism, culture shock, "going native," haptics, cross-cultural adjustment, and third culture kids have in common? How do intercultural transitions shape identity? What is intercultural competence? This course explores theories about intercultural contact and tests their usefulness by applying them to the analysis of world literature, case studies, and the visual arts, and by employing students' intercultural experiences as evidence. From individualized, self-reflective exercises to community-oriented group endeavors, our activities will promote new intercultural paradigms in the classroom and the wider community. Course designed for off-campus returnees, students who have lived abroad, or who have experienced being outsiders. 6 credit; Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement, Does not fulfill a distribution requirement, Social Inquiry, International Studies; offered Winter 2013 -- É. Pósfay

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

FREN 235 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 326 America's China Policy* (not offered in 2012-2013)


Regional Perspective:

AMST 240 The Midwest and the American Imagination (not offered in 2012-2013)

ARTH 164 Buddhist Art (not offered in 2012-2013)

BIOL 210 Global Change Biology

CAMS 217 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema (not offered in 2012-2013)

ENGL 238 African Literature in English

FREN 241 Journeys of Self-Discovery

HEBR 221 Israeli Literature in the Middle East (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds

HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe

HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914 (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century

HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 1492-1810

HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present

HIST 180 An Historical Survey of East Africa (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 204 Crusade, Contact and Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 710-1453 (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe

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 (not offered in 2012-2013)

LTAM 200 Issues in Latin American Studies

MUSC 243 Music of the Caribbean (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 221 Latin American Politics

POSC 241 Ethnic Conflict

POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought

POSC 263 European Political Economy (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 383 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht: Politics of the European Union (not offered in 2012-2013)

RELG 150 Religions of South Asia

RELG 251 Theravada Buddhism (not offered in 2012-2013)

RELG 253 Tibetan Buddhism

SOAN 256 Transformations in African Ethnography

SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2012-2013)

SPAN 207 Exploring Hispanic Culture

SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature

SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts

SPAN 260 Forces of Nature (not offered in 2012-2013)

SPAN 321 Murder as a Fine Art: The Detective Novel in Latin America

SPAN 336 Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America (not offered in 2012-2013)


Global Issues:

BIOL 210 Global Change Biology

BIOL 212 Australia Program: Biology Field Studies and Research

BIOL 221 Ecosystem Ecology

BIOL 352 Population Ecology

CHEM 328 Environmental Analysis (not offered in 2012-2013)

ECON 224 Cambridge Program: Economics of Multinational Enterprises

ECON 281 International Finance

ENTS 215 Environmental Ethics

ENTS 244 Biodiversity Conservation and Development (not offered in 2012-2013)

ENTS 245 Field Investigation of Biodiversity Conservation and Development (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity (not offered in 2012-2013)

MUSC 111 Classical Music: An Introduction (not offered in 2012-2013)

MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music

MUSC 245 Music of Africa (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes

POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought

POSC 259 Justice Among Nations (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 265 Capitalist Crises, Power, and Policy

POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 281 Global Society: An Approach to World Politics (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 355 Identity, Culture and Rights* (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements*

PSYC 358 Cross-Cultural Psychology Seminar in Prague: Psychopathology

PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice

RELG 121 Introduction to Christianity

RELG 263 Sufism

SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender

SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture

SOAN 262 Anthropology of Health and Illness

SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights (not offered in 2012-2013)

SPAN 220 Magical Realism in Latin American Narrative


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 2012-2013)

AMST 227 Beyond the Border: Latinos Across America (not offered in 2012-2013)

AMST 239 Introduction to Asian American Studies (not offered in 2012-2013)

EDUC 353 Schooling and Opportunity in American Society (not offered in 2012-2013)

ENGL 119 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature

ENGL 235 Asian American Literature

ENGL 258 Contemporary American Playwrights of Color (not offered in 2012-2013)

FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cultural Reading of Food

HIST 276 The African Diaspora in Latin America (not offered in 2012-2013)

HIST 322 Civil Rights and Black Power

HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity (not offered in 2012-2013)

POSC 355 Identity, Culture and Rights* (not offered in 2012-2013)

PSYC 358 Cross-Cultural Psychology Seminar in Prague: Psychopathology

PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice

RELG 130 Native American Religions (not offered in 2012-2013)

RELG 243 Native American Religious Freedom (not offered in 2012-2013)

RELG 271 Religious and Moral Issues of the Holocaust (not offered in 2012-2013)

SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2012-2013)

SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights (not offered in 2012-2013)

SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (not offered in 2012-2013)

SPAN 350 Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony (not offered in 2012-2013)