Non-Western and Comparative Studies
S = Objectives
The non-Western and comparative studies requirement encourages students to explore through various disciplines cultures beyond the Western tradition. The common goal of courses in the program is to acquaint students with worldviews, indigenous intellectual traditions, and social institutions that have developed largely outside the traditions of European society and its North American transplants. By examining some particular culture, society, or region of the non-Western world (such as those of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Oceania) or by systematically comparing a range of values and institutions across cultural boundaries, students are expected to broaden their understanding of human achievements and potentialities beyond their own heritage. The program includes the comparative analysis of cultures and their interactions and draws attention to the intellectual problems inherent in the study of cultural systems other than one's own.
S = Courses of Instruction
AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN
STUDIES
AAAS 18b
Africa and the West
AAAS 60a
Economics of Third World Hunger
AAAS 80a
Economy and Society in Africa
AAAS 85a
Survey of Southern African
History
AAAS 115a
Introduction to African History
AAAS 123a
Third World Ideologies
AAAS 126b
Political Economy of the Third
World
AAAS 132b
Introduction to African Literature
AAAS 133b
The Literature of the Caribbean
AAAS 158a
Theories of Development and
Underdevelopment
AAAS 164a
Changing Institutions of Contemporary
Africa
AAAS 167a
African and Caribbean Comparative
Political Systems
AAAS 175a
Comparative Politics of North
Africa
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ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 1a
Introduction to the Comparative
Study of Human Societies
ANTH 20b
The Development of Human Food
Production
ANTH 55a
Development and the Third World
ANTH 62a
Non-Western Musical Traditions
ANTH 80a
World Religions
ANTH 105a
Symbol, Myth, and Ritual
ANTH 133a
Tradition and the Contemporary
Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 134a
South Asia: Tradition and the
Contemporary Experience
ANTH 142a
AIDS in the Third World
ANTH 144a
The Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 147b
The Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization
ANTH 156a
Power and Violence: The Anthropology
of Political Systems
ANTH 163b
Economic Anthropology: Production
and Distribution
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ECONOMICS
ECON 26a
(Formerly ECON 25a)
Latin America's Economy
ECON 27b
The Economy of Japan
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FINE ARTS
FA 12a
History of Asian Art
FA 13b
Buddhist Art
FA 14a
When Tokyo Was Called Edo:
Japanese Art from Edo to Meiji
FA 24b
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary
Latin American Art
FA 179b
Chinese Landscape Painting
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FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
FREN 165b
Topics in Francophone Literatures
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HISTORY
HIST 71a
Latin American History, Pre-Conquest
to 1870
HIST 71b
Latin American History, 1870
to the Present
HIST 80a
Introduction to East Asian
Civilization
HIST 80b
East Asia in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries
HIST 173a
Race and Culture in Nineteenth-
and Twentieth-Century Brazil
HIST 175a
Modern Mexico
HIST 176a
The Emergence of Modern Japan
HIST 181a
Seminar on Traditional Chinese
Thought
HIST 184a
Arabs and Jews in Palestine,
1840-1948
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HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROGRAM
HIP 20a
Imagining How We Are: East
and West I
HIP 20b
Imagining How We Are: East
and West II
HIP 30b
The Persistence of Tradition:
An Introduction to Japanese Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Film
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ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN
STUDIES
IMES 104a
Islam: Civilization and Institutions
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LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM
LGLS 124b
Law and Development:
International Perspectives
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NEAR EASTERN AND JUDAIC
STUDIES
NEJS 109a
Ancient Near Eastern History
and Culture I
NEJS 113b
Near Eastern Law: Source, Sense,
and Society
NEJS 128a
Explorations in Islamic Literature
I: The Arab World
NEJS 128b
Explorations in Islamic Literature
II: The Persian World
NEJS 144a
Jews in the World of Islam
NEJS 145b
The Making of the Modern Middle
East
NEJS 147a
The Rise and Decline of the
Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
NEJS 161b
The Monument and the City
NEJS 171b
Describing Cruelty
NEJS 195b
The Woman's Voice in the Muslim
World
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PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 119b
Chinese Philosophy
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POLITICS
POL 128a
The Politics of Revolution:
State Violence and Popular Insurgency in the Third World
POL 140a
Politics of Africa
POL 141a
Politics of Southern Africa
POL 144a
Latin American Politics I
POL 144b
Latin American Politics II
POL 147a
The Government and Politics
of China
POL 147b
Seminar: The Modern Chinese
Revolution
POL 148a
Seminar: Contemporary Chinese
Politics
POL 149b
Politics of South Asia
POL 150a
Politics of Southeast Asia
POL 151b
Seminar: Nationalism and Development
POL 170b
Seminar: The Low-Income States
and the Global System
POL 179a
Seminar: Politics and Hunger
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SOCIOLOGY
SOC 107a
Global Apartheid and Global
Social Movements
SOC 125b
U.S.-Caribbean Relations
SOC 171a
Women Leaders and Transformation
in Developing Countries
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SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SPAN 111b
Introduction to Latin American
Literature
SPAN 163a
Modern Latin American Fiction
SPAN 164b
Studies in Latin American Literature
SPAN 190b
Latin American Fiction in Translation
SPAN 192a
Contemporary Hispanic Women's
Fiction in Translation