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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.
Courses of Instruction
AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
Africa and the West
Economics of Third World Hunger
Economy and Society in Africa
Survey of Southern African History
Introduction to African History
Third World Ideologies
Political Economy of the Third World
Introduction to African Literature
The Literature of the Caribbean
Novel and Film of the African Diaspora
Women in African Societies
Theories of Development and Underdevelopment
Changing Institutions of Contemporary Africa
African and Caribbean Comparative Political Systems
Comparative Politics of North Africa
ANTHROPOLOGY
Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies
The Development of Human Food Production
Development and the Third World
Non-Western Musical Traditions
World Religions
Symbol, Myth, and Ritual
Tradition and the Contemporary Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia: Tradition and the Contemporary Experience
Modern South Asia: Society and Politics
AIDS in the Third World
The Anthropology of Gender
The Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization
Power and Violence: The Anthropology of Political Systems
Economic Anthropology: Production and Distribution
ECONOMICS
(Formerly ECON 25a)
Latin America's Economy
The Economy of Japan
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
FINE ARTS
History of Asian Art
Buddhist Art
When Tokyo Was Called Edo: Japanese Art from Edo to Meiji
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Art
Chinese Landscape Painting
The Art of Japan
FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Topics in Francophone Literatures
HISTORY
Latin American History, Pre-Conquest to 1870
Latin American History, 1870 to the Present
Introduction to East Asian Civilization
East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Race and Culture in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil
Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives
U.S.-Caribbean Relations, 1898 to the Present
Modern Mexico
The Emergence of Modern Japan
Seminar on Traditional Chinese Thought
HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM
Imagining How We Are: East and West I
Imagining How We Are: East and West II
The Persistence of Tradition: An Introduction to Japanese Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Film
ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Islam: Civilization and Institutions
LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM
Law and Development: International Perspectives
NEAR EASTERN AND JUDAIC STUDIES
Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture I
Near Eastern Law: Source, Sense, and Society
Explorations in Islamic Literature I: The Arab World
Explorations in Islamic Literature II: The Persian World
Dealing with Evil in Ancient Babylon and Beyond: Magic and Witchcraft in Antiquity
Jews in the World of Islam
The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
Radical Islam
Ancient Near Eastern Religion and Mythology
The Monument and the City
Describing Cruelty
The Woman's Voice in the Muslim World
Issues in Contemporary Arab Social and Political Thought
PHILOSOPHY
Chinese Philosophy
POLITICS
The Politics of Revolution: State Violence and Popular Insurgency in the Third World
Japanese Political Economy
Politics of Africa
Politics of Southern Africa
Latin American Politics I
Latin American Politics II
Revolutions in the Third World
The Government and Politics of China
Seminar: The Modern Chinese Revolution
Seminar: Contemporary Chinese Politics
Politics of Southeast Asia
Seminar: Nationalism and Development
Seminar: The Low-Income States and the Global System
Seminar: Politics and Hunger
Sustaining Development
SOCIOLOGY
Global Apartheid and Global Social Movements
U.S.-Caribbean Relations
Women Leaders and Transformation in Developing Countries
SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Introduction to Latin American Literature
Modern Latin American Fiction: The "Boom" and Beyond
Studies in Latin American Literature
Latin American Fiction in Translation
Contemporary Hispanic Women's Fiction in Translation