Pertinent courses, listed below, are available in a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to: Art History, Economics, Area Studies, History, Music, Political Science, Religion, Sociology and Anthropology, and various language courses. For questions about particular courses, contact the director.

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Binary Comparison

• CCST 100: Growing Up Cross-Culturally
• ARTS 275: Physical and Cultural Environment of Australia and New Zealand
• ASLN 231: Intercultural Texts: Indian and Japanese Women Writing Abroad (not offered in 2003–2004)
• FREN 235: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 246: Julie’s France/Pamela’s England: Women in Society in the Age of Sensibility
• HIST 263: Inventing the Nation (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 345: Atlantic Revolutions: France and America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 381: History, Memory and Black Atlantic: Ghana and the United States
• MEDA 238: Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 234: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 269: U.S. and U.K. Philanthropy: Politics, Policy and Practice (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 326: America’s China Policy
• POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 281: Race and Ethnicity in United States and China

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Regional Perspective:

• ARTH 164: Buddhist Art (not offered in 2003–2004)
• ARTH 182: History of South Asian Art
• ECON 283: Contemporary Economics of East Asia (not offered in 2003–2004)
• ENGL 238: African Literature in English
• ENGL 342: Contemporary Latino/a Poetry
• ENTS 238: Physical and Cultural Environment of New Zealand and Australia
• FREN 241: Introduction to French and Francophone Literature
• FREN 248: African Cinema: In Search of Identity and Self Definition(not offered in 2003–2004)
• GERM 239: Memoirs of the 20th Century (Europe) (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HEBR 221: Israeli Literature in the Middle East
• HIST 137: Before Europe: The Early Medieval World 250-c.1050 (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 138: The Making of Europe (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 139: Foundations of Modern Europe
• HIST 140: Modern Europe 1789-1914
• HIST 141: Europe in the 20th Century
• HIST 169: Colonial Latin America: 1492-1810
• HIST 170: Modern Latin America: 1810-present
• HIST 180: An Historical Survey of East Africa and the Horn
• HIST 181: West African Societies in Historical Perspective (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 182: A Survey of Southern African History
• HIST 183: Farm and Forest in African History
• HIST 204: Crusade, Contact and Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 230: Power, Sanctity, and the Search for Order: The Early Medieval World, 300-1000 (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 231: Order, Innovation, and Resistance: Europe in the Later Middle Ages, 1000-1400 (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 232: The Renaissance(not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 233: Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 850-1453 (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 236: Women’s Lives in Pre-Modern Europe (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 238: Topics in Medieval History: Papacy, Church, and Empire (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 242: History of the Working Class in Modern Europe (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 253: Bureaucracy, Law, and Religion in East Asia
• HIST 258: Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times
• HIST 259: Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives, and Representation (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 260: The Making of the Modern Middle East
• HIST 261: The Modern Middle East (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 265: Empires of the Steppe
• HIST 282: Women in African History: (Re-)Production, Representation, and Resistance (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 283: Africa Before the Europeans: The Dark Continent (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 346: Imperialism
• HIST 331/395: Controversial Histories, Ideological Conflict and Consensus in the Pre-Modern World
• HIST 395: East Asian Seminar: Man and Water in the East China Seas—A Cross-Cultural Comparison
• LTAM 200: Issues in Latin American Studies
• LING 170: Language in Africa
• MUSC 243: Music of the Caribbean
• POSC 221: Latin American Politics
• POSC 234: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 238: West European Politics (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 241: Ethnic Conflict (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 244: Post-Communist States in East-Central Europe
• POSC 255: Post-Modern Political Thought
• POSC 263: European Political Economy
• POSC 320: Government and Politics of Africa
• POSC 322: Political Economy of Latin America
• POSC 331: Urban Politics in Latin America
• POSC 383: Maastricht Program: Political and Economic Integration of Europe (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 387: Maasricht Program: The Europe of Regions (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 150: Religions of South Asia
• RELG 235: Women and Islamic Constructions of Gender
• RELG 251: Theravada Buddhism
• RELG 253: Tibetan Buddhism (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 255: East Asian Buddhist Thought and Practice (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 250: Ethnography of Latin America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 252: Middle Eastern Social Theory (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 253: Identity, Inequality, and the European Union
• SOAN 256: Ethnography of Africa (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 259: Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 207: Exploring Hispanic Culture
• SPAN 242: Introduction to Latin American Literature
• SPAN 248: Morelia Program: Drama and Performance in Latin America(not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 252: Telling Stories: The Short Story in Latin America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 260: Topics in Hispanic Literature: Forces of Nature
• SPAN 255: Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 334: Texts and Nations: 19th Century Latin America
• SPAN 336: Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 338: Images of the Indian in Spanish American Literature

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Global Issues

• BIOL 112: Biology of Conservation
• BIOL 190: Global Change Biology
• BIOL 212: Marine Biology Program: Biology Field Studies and Research
• BIOL 221: Ecosystem Ecology
• BIOL 258: Ecosystem Management
• BIOL 352: Population Ecology
• BIOL 361: Tropical Rainforest Ecology
• CHEM 328: Environmental Analysis
• ECON 224: Cambridge Program: Economics of Multinational Corporations
• ECON 242: Economics of Agricultural and Food Policy
• ECON 245: Economics of Inequality
• ECON 281: International Finance
• ENGL 348: Women, Men, and War
• ENTS 242: Environmental Ethics
• ENTS 265: Environmental Justice
• ENTS 289: Ethics and Climate
• GERM 229: Science, Authority and Conscience in German Literature (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 346: Imperialism
• HIST 360: Muslims and Modernity
• HIST 395: War, State, and Society
• HIST 395: Nationalism
• HIST 395: Fascism
• LING 210: Language Universals (not offered in 2003–2004)
• LCST 250: Bad Girls/Good Art: Gender and Culture in a Postmodern World (not offered in 2003–2004)
• LCST 270: Degeneration and the Fin de Siecle
• MUSC 111: Western Art Music and Western Civilization
• MUSC 210: Medieval and Renaissance Music (not offered in 2003–2004)
• MUSC 245: Music of Africa (not offered in 2003–2004)
• PHIL 111: Introduction to Western Philosophy I: Ancient and Medieval (not offered in 2003–2004)
• PHIL 112: Introduction to Western Philosophy II: Modern and Contemporary
• POSC 120: Comparative Political Regimes
• POSC 233: The Global Resurgence of Democracy
• POSC 245: Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy
• POSC 253: Communist Political Thought: Marx to Mao
• POSC 255: Post-Modern Political Thought
• POSC 259: Justice Among Nations
• POSC 265: Politics of Global Economic Relations
• POSC 268: International Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 281: Global Society: An Approach to World Politics
• POSC 342: International Conflict and War
• POSC 343: Seminar in World Politics
• POSC 349: Race Theory: Contemporary Approaches
• POSC 355: Contemporary Feminist Thought: Women and War
• POSC 358: Comparative Social Movements
• POSC 359: Social Capital: Critical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 360: Political Economy Seminar: Globalization and Its Critics
• PSYC 384: Psychology of Prejudice (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 111: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 121: Introduction to Christianity
• RELG 227: Liberation Theologies (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 258: Women in Buddhist Traditions
• RELG 262: Millennialism in Cross-Cultural Perspective (not offered in 2003-2004)
• RELG 263: Sufism
• RELG 264: Muslims on the Margins: A Survey of Islamic Minority Traditions (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 276: Religious Autobiography in Comparative Perspective (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 355: Buddhist Ethics (not offered in 2003-2004)
• RELG 372: Medicine, Healing, and Spirituality (not offered in 2003-2004)
• SOAN 130: Population and Food in the Global System (not offered in 2003-2004)
• SOAN 226: Anthropology of Gender (not offered in 2003-2004)
• SOAN 234: Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2003-2004)
• SOAN 244: Biodiversity Conservation, Culture, and Development
• SOAN 262: Anthropology of Health and Illness (not offered in 2003-2004)
• SOAN 302: Anthropology and Indigenous Rights
• SOAN 312: Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World “Development” (not offered in 2003-2004)
• SOAN 395: Ethnography of Reproduction (not offered in 2003-2004)

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Ethnic Diversity and Diaspora:

• AMST 115: Introduction to American Studies
• AMST 127: Introduction to Latina/o Studies
• AMST 239: Introduction to Asian American Studies (not offered in 2003-2004)
• ASLN 231: Intercultural Texts: Indian and Japanese Women Writing Abroad (not offered in 2003-2004)
• EDUC 353: Schooling and Opportunity in American Society
• ENGL 119: Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature
• ENGL 230: African American Autobiography
• ENGL 235: Asian American Literature
• ENGL 337: African American Novelists in Context (not offered in 2003-2004)
• ENGL 339: Contemporary American Playwrights of Color
• FREN 243: Topics in Cultural Studies
• GERM 241: Marginal Voices in German Literature
• HIST 210: Studies in Traditional Societies: Bandits, Outlaws, and Other Rebels (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 276: African Slavery in Latin America: From the Middle Passage to Abolition
• HIST 301: Contact and Frontiers in Early America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• HIST 322: The Civil Rights Movement in America
• HIST 360: Muslims and Modernity (not offered in 2003–2004)
• MUSC 244: Native American Music (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 306: Urban Racial and Ethnic Politics (not offered in 2003–2004)
• POSC 355: Contemporary Feminist Thought: Identity, Culture, and Rights
• PSYC 384: Psychology of Prejudice (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 130: Native American Religions
• RELG 135: Introduction to African American Religion
• RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom
• RELG 248: Religions in the Borderlands
• RELG 264: Muslims on the Margins: A Survey of Islamic Minority Traditions (not offered in 2003–2004)
• RELG 271: Issues in Contemporary Religious Thought: The Holocaust(not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 259: Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SOAN 302: Anthropology and Indigenous Rights
• SPAN 245: Hybrid Cultures: Introduction to U.S. Latino Literature (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 326: Writers in Exile (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 338: Spanish Images of the Indian in Spanish American Literature
• SPAN 340: Latin American Prose: Dictatorships and Revolution in the Latin American Narrative
• SPAN 344: Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 348: New Trends in Latin American Poetry, 1950–2000 (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 350: Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony (not offered in 2003–2004)
• SPAN 360: Topics in Hispanic Literature: Difference, Identity and Representation in Latin America (not offered in 2003–2004)

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