Regional Studies Courses

Regional Studies Courses

Africa

  • ENGL214 African Literature

  • ENGL331 Literatures of Africa

  • FREN328 Introduction to Magrhebian Literature and Culture

  • HIST281 Africa c. 1500-1900

  • HIST282 Africa in the Twentieth Century

  • HIST390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia

  • PLSC348 Politics of Africa

Asia

  • HIST225 Art and Asia

  • ARTH226 Art and Culture of Japan

  • ARTH378 Asian Art

  • ARTH383 East Asian Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy

  • ENGL214 Literature of India

  • HIST250 Modern East Asia 1600-1960

  • HIST252 Modern China 1900-1940

  • HIST341 History and Memory: WWII in Asia

  • HIST390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia

  • LLC 220 Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture

  • LLC225 Chinese Culture and Civilization

  • LLC227Action Genre in East Asian Cinema

  • LLC325 Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Literature

  • LLC355 Chinese Cinema

  • MUS125 Indonesian Theatre and Music

  • PLSC343 Politics of Asia

  • PLSC345 Politics of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

  • RELG250 Sacred Arts of India

  • RELG352 Buddhism in India and Tibet

  • RELG355 Selected Asian Religions

  • RELG366 Buddhist Philosophy

  • RHCS340 ST: Rhetorics in South Asia

Latin America

  • ANTH307 Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

  • ANTH308 Latin America: An Ethnographic Perspective

  • ENGL238 Readings in Caribbean Literature

  • ENGL332 Literatures of the Caribbean

  • GEOG333/ENVR333 Geographies of Amazonia

  • HIST260 Colonial Latin America

  • HIST261 Modern Latin America

  • RELG262 The Making of Modern Brazil

  • LAIS475 Gender & Sexuality in Latin American History

  • LAIS312 Introduction to Latin American Studies

  • LAIS314 Luso-Brazilian Studies: A Global Perspective

  • PLSC349 Politics of Latin America and the Caribbean

The Middle East

  • ANTH350 Sex and Gender in the Middle East

  • FREN328 Introduction to Magrhebian Literature and Culture

  • HIST270 Early Islamic World 

  • HIST271 The Modern Middle East

  • HIST370 Contending Visions of the Middle East

  • LLC243 Politics and Social Movements in Modern Middle Eastern Literatures

  • LLC346 Insiders and Outsiders: Arabic Encounters with the West

  • LLC347 Islam, Nationalism, and the West: Modern Thought in the Arab World

  • HIST399 ST: Modern Turkey

  • PLSC250 International Relations of the Middle East

  • RELG103 Introduction to Islam

  • RELG230 The History of Israel

  • RELG288 Saints and Sinners in Muslim Literature

  • RELG385 Sufism: Introduction to Islamic Mysticism

Eastern Europe and Eurasia

  • HIST236 Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and After

  • HIST244 Propaganda State

  • HIST246 Russia in Revolution, 1905-1934

  • HIST249  Cold War Europe, 1945-1991

  • HIST326 Communism

  • LLC260 Literature and Social Change in Eastern Europe

  • LLC321 Introduction to 19th-Century Russian Literature

  • LLC322 Introduction to 20th-Century and Contemporary Russian

  • LLC331 Russian and East European Film

  • LLC335 Bolsheviks, Bombs and Ballet: Soviet Culture and Civilization

  • SOC232 Postsocialism in Russia and Eastern Europe

Western Europe

  • ECON210 The Economics of the European Union

  • ENGL346 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

  • FREN465 French Film

  • GERM472 Culture Wars & Identity Debates in German Society from Empire to EU

  • HIST242 Modern Germany

  • HIST248 European Diplomacy from Bismarck to Hitler

  • HIST215Cold War Europe, 1945-1991

  • HIST329 Brexit: A History

  • ITAL311 Italian Culture and Society

  • ITAL411 Italian Identities: Sicily, Veneto, and Tuscany

  • LAIS305 Spanish in Politics and Society

  • LAIS311 Perspectives on People and Cultures of Spain

  • LAIS321 Literary Spain: Poetry, Drama, Fiction

  • LAIS361 Spanish Misfits

  • LAIS462 Visions of Contemporary Spain

  • LAIS465 Spanish Cinema

  • LLC 265 German Cinema

  • LLC 360 Representing the Holocaust

  • PHIL344 Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

  • PLSC344 Europe Today