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The non-Western and comparativestudies requirement encourages students to explore through variousdisciplines cultures beyond the Western tradition. The commongoal of courses in the program is to acquaint students with worldviews,indigenous intellectual traditions, and social institutions thathave developed largely outside the traditions of European societyand its North American transplants. By examining some particularculture, society, or region of the non-Western world (such asthose of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Oceania)or by systematically comparing a range of values and institutionsacross cultural boundaries, students are expected to broaden theirunderstanding of human achievements and potentialities beyondtheir own heritage. The program includes the comparative analysisof cultures and their interactions and draws attention to theintellectual problems inherent in the study of cultural systemsother than one's own.
AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICANSTUDIES
Africa and the West
Economics of Third World Hunger
Economy and Society in Africa
Survey of Southern AfricanHistory
Introduction to African History
Third World Ideologies
Political Economy of the ThirdWorld
Introduction to African Literature
The Literature of the Caribbean
Theories of Development andUnderdevelopment
Changing Institutions of ContemporaryAfrica
African and Caribbean ComparativePolitical Systems
Comparative Politics of NorthAfrica
ANTHROPOLOGY
Introduction to the ComparativeStudy of Human Societies
The Development of Human FoodProduction
Development and the Third World
Non-Western Musical Traditions
World Religions
Symbol, Myth, and Ritual
Tradition and the ContemporaryExperience in Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia: Tradition and theContemporary Experience
Modern South Asia: Societyand Politics
AIDS in the Third World
The Anthropology of Gender
The Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization
Power and Violence: The Anthropologyof Political Systems
Economic Anthropology: Productionand Distribution
ECONOMICS
(Formerly ECON 25a)
Latin America's Economy
The Economy of Japan
FINE ARTS
History of Asian Art
Buddhist Art
When Tokyo Was Called Edo:Japanese Art from Edo to Meiji
Twentieth-Century and ContemporaryLatin American Art
Chinese Landscape Painting
The Art of Japan
FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Topics in Francophone Literatures
HISTORY
Latin American History, Pre-Conquestto 1870
Latin American History, 1870to the Present
Introduction to East AsianCivilization
East Asia in the Nineteenthand Twentieth Centuries
Race and Culture in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Brazil
U.S.-Caribbean Relations, 1898to the Present
Modern Mexico
The Emergence of Modern Japan
Seminar on Traditional ChineseThought
Arabs and Jews in Palestine,1840-1948
HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARYPROGRAM
Imagining How We Are: Eastand West I
Imagining How We Are: Eastand West II
The Persistence of Tradition:An Introduction to Japanese Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Film
ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERNSTUDIES
Islam: Civilization and Institutions
LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM
Law and Development:International Perspectives
NEAR EASTERN AND JUDAICSTUDIES
Ancient Near Eastern Historyand Culture I
Near Eastern Law: Source, Sense,and Society
Explorations in Islamic LiteratureI: The Arab World
Explorations in Islamic LiteratureII: The Persian World
Dealing with Evil in AncientBabylon and Beyond: Magic and Witchcraft in Antiquity
Jews in the World of Islam
The Making of the Modern MiddleEast
The Rise and Decline of theOttoman Empire, 1300-1800
Ancient Near Eastern Religionand Mythology
The Monument and the City
Describing Cruelty
The Woman's Voice in the MuslimWorld
PHILOSOPHY
Chinese Philosophy
POLITICS
The Politics of Revolution:State Violence and Popular Insurgency in the Third World
Politics of Africa
Politics of Southern Africa
Latin American Politics I
Latin American Politics II
The Government and Politicsof China
Seminar: The Modern ChineseRevolution
Seminar: Contemporary ChinesePolitics
Politics of South Asia
Politics of Southeast Asia
Seminar: Nationalism and Development
Seminar: The Low-Income Statesand the Global System
Seminar: Politics and Hunger
SOCIOLOGY
Global Apartheid and GlobalSocial Movements
U.S.-Caribbean Relations
Women Leaders and Transformationin Developing Countries
SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Introduction to Latin AmericanLiterature
Modern Latin American Fiction
Studies in Latin American Literature
Latin American Fiction in Translation
Contemporary Hispanic Women'sFiction in Translation