The World Cultures requirement is designed to introduce students
to major ideas, institutions, and historical events that have shaped human
societies. The courses that would meet this objective have some of the following
features:
1. they are
designed primarily to explore topics, issues, or themes;
2. they provide an
historical perspective (in the sense of addressing the changes in institutions,
movements, or cultural practices);
3. they
emphasize critical events, movements, institutions, ideas, or literary/artistic
achievements;
4. they
present a comparative approach between cultures in the European and
non-European tradition, or subcultures within cultures. International
Perspective courses may or may not be comparative but should present a view
across national cultures.
The three categories are as follows:
A. Perspectives in the European
Tradition
B. Perspectives outside the
European Tradition
C. Comparative Cultures
and International Perspectives
Students must take one course (three credits) from category A and
one course (three credits) from either category B or C. Courses on these lists
may count toward the other distribution component requirements, and major and
minor requirements. A course may be included in more than one category but
students may count a course in only one category.
Comparative Cultures and International Perspectives Course List
The following list of courses has been approved to meet Comparative Cultures and International Perspectives requirement.
Anthropology (Social Science)
ANTH 354, ANTH 654 Indians of the Great Plains
ANTH 371, ANTH 671 Historical Ecology of Amazonia
ANTH 426 Archaeology of the U.S. Southwest
ANTH 634 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 687 Kaqchikel Maya Culture
Art (Fine Arts)
ARHS 353, RUSS 353 Survey of Russian Art and Architecture
ARHS 386 Arts of the African Diaspora
ARHS 662 Reading Abstract Expressionism
Asian Studies (Interdisciplinary)
ASTA 146 Contemporary Asian American Communities
Communication (Humanities)
COMM 430 Culture, Dominance and Resistance
French (Humanities)
FREN 303 Women Writers of French and Francophone Worlds in Translation
FREN 410, FREN 610 French in Louisiana
FREN 411, FREN 611 Field Research on French in Louisiana
FREN 416 Translation Theory and Practice
History (Social Science)
Africa
HISB 323 The Atlantic Slave Trade
Asia
HISC 612 History of Women in China and Japan
Latin American
HISL 371 Seminar: The Colonial Heritage of Latin America
HISL 660 Peasants,
Rebellion and the State in Latin America
HISL 661 Modernity
and Its Discontents in Latin America
HISL 675, HISU 675 Africans in the Americas: Comparative Social and Cultural History of the African Diaspora
Middle East
HISM 322, JWST 322 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
HISM 414, HISM 614 Islam and the Western Mediterranean World 1000-1900
United States
HISU 675, HISL 675 Africans in the Americas: Comparative Social and Cultural History of the African Diaspora
International Development (Social Science)
INDV 101 Introduction to Development
INDV 300 Health and Development
INDV 320 Approaches to Sustainable Development
INDV 400 The Geo-Politics of Global North-Global South Relations
INDV 410 Information Technology and International Development
INDV 450 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems: Applications for
INDV 490 International Development Capstone Seminar
Jewish Studies (Humanities)
JWST 322, HISM 322 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
JWST 352 The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry II: Christian Spain
JWST 359, PHIL 359 Greek Philosophy and Jewish Thought
JWST 430 The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Culture and Literature
Philosophy (Humanities)
PHIL 359, JWST 359 Greek Philosophy and Jewish Thought
Russian (Humanities)
RUSS 353, ARHS 353 Russian Art and Architecture
Sociology (Social Science)
SOCI 147 Global Social Change
SOCI 615 Gangsters, Gangs and Organized Crime: Constructing and Controlling Public Enemies
SOCI 635 Marginality and "Other": A Sociology of Persecution and State-Making
SOCI 641 Political Policing: Brazil, Mexico, the United States, and Beyond
SOCI 690 The Sociology of Development in Latin America
SOCI 691 Gender in Latin America
SOCI 694 Political Sociology of Latin America
SOCI 695 Sociology of Migration
SOCI 696 Urban Latin America
SOCI 698 Brazilian Society: Beyond Beaches, Bikinis, and Barracas
Spanish (Humanities)
SPAN 414 Introduction to Colonial Letters
SPAN 420 The Historical Novel of Latin America
SPAN 609 Indigenous Peoples of the Colonial New World
SPAN 678 Latin American Cultural Studies
WomenÕs Studies (Social Science)
WMST 351 Feminist Ideas and Praxis