Africa/Middle East | Asia | Europe/Eurasia | Latin America
Please note: In order to provide more course options for our students, Africa and the Middle East have been combined into one geographic concentration.
*ANTH 3100 Africa: Peoples and Societies in Change
ANTH 4630 Nomadic Peoples of East Africa
GEOG 3862 Geography of Africa
*HIST 4218 States and Societies of West Africa to 1900
*HIST 4238 History of Southern Africa Since 1800
*HIST 4248 Africa in the 19th Century
*HIST 4258 Africa under European Colonial Rule
*HIST 4259 African Liberation Struggles: A Comparative History
*HIST 4328 The Modern Middle East, 1800 to Present
*HIST 4329 Islam in the Modern World: Revivalism, Modernism, and Fundamentalism, 1800-2001
*HIST 4338 History of Modern Israel
*HIST 4339: Borderlands of Empire
*HIST 4349: Decolonization of the British Empire
*HIST 4368 History and Society of Modern Arabia, 1800-2001
*PSCI 3082 Political Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
RLST 3100 Judaism
RLST 3600 Islam
RLST 4650 Islam in the Modern World
Some of these courses are not offered on a regular basis. Any courses not on this list must be pre-approved by the Academic Advisor.
* Classes with an asterisk can be applied as Contemporary History.
Language taken for this geographic concentration: Arabic, French, Hebrew, Farsi
Upper division literature in the language to count in this area (only ONE literature course may be used):
FREN 4170 Francophone Literature
*ANTH 3160 Peoples of the South Pacific
ANTH 4750 Culture and Society in South Asia
ANTH 4760 Ethnography of Southeast Asia and Indonesia
ECON 4433 Economics of the Pacific Area
*HIST 4109 World War II in Asia and the Pacific
*HIST 4339: Borderlands of Empire
*HIST 4349: Decolonization of the British Empire
*HIST 4528 Islam in South and Southeast Asia
*HIST 4538 History of Modern India
*HIST 4558 Modern Indian Intellectual History
*HIST 4628 Modern China
*HIST 4638 Contemporary China
*HIST 4648 History of Modern Chinese Intellectual Thought
*HIST 4728 Modern Japanese History
*PSCI 3072 Government and Politics in Southeast Asia
*PSCI 4022 Chinese Foreign Policy
*PSCI 4052 Chinese Politics
RLST 3200: Hinduism
RLST 3300 Foundations of Buddhism
RLST 3600 Islam
RLST 4750 Daoism
WMST 4619/HIST 4619 Women in Asian History
Some of these courses are not offered on a regular basis. For any courses not on list, they must be pre-approved by the Academic Advisor.
* Classes with an asterisk can be applied as Contemporary History.
Languages taken for this geographic concentration: Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Upper division literature in the language to count in this area (only ONE literature course may be used):
CHIN 4110 Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature I
JPNS 4110 Advanced Readings in Classical and Modern Japanese I
Please note: In order to provide more course options for our students, Europe and Eurasia have been combined into one geographic concentration.
*ECON 4514 Economic History of Europe
FREN 3500 French Current Events: Conversation and Composition
GEOG 4882 Geography of the Former Soviet Union
GEOG 4892 Geography of Western Europe
GRMN 3150 Issues in German Politics and Literature
*HIST 4053 Britain and the Empire, 1688-1964
*HIST 4083 Revolution and Nationalism in Modern Ireland
*HIST 4412 Europe, 1890-1945
*HIST 4422 Word War I: The Brutalization of Europe
*HIST 4233 History of France since 1815
*HIST 4349: Decolonization of the British Empire
*HIST 4423 German History since 1849
*HIST 4424 European Intellectual History, 1870 to the Present
*HIST 4433 Nazi Germany
*HIST 4442 Europe since 1945
*HIST 4613 History of Eastern Europe to 1914
*HIST 4614 Women & Society in Industrial Europe
*HIST 4623 History of Eastern Europe since 1914
*HIST 4723 Imperial Russia
*HIST 4733 The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Regime
*ITAL 4250/HIST 4313 History of Italy
ITAL 4730 Italian Feminisms: Culture, Theory, and Narratives of Difference
*PSCI 3022: Russian Politics
PSCI 3074: DImensions of Citizenship in the US and the EU
*PSCI 4002 Western European Politics
*PSCI 4062 The Emerging Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
PSCI 4213 Europe in the International System
PSCI 4302: European Union Politics
RUSS 3301 Contemporary Issues in Russian Film
RUSS 3502 Ideals & Values of Modern Russia
RUSS 4471 Women in 20th Century Russian Culture
RUSS 4851 Critical Thinking: Russian Film & Society
RUSS 4221 Cultural Mythologies of Russian Communism
SPAN 3200 Spanish Culture
Some of the above courses are NOT offered on a regular basis. Any courses not on this list, must be pre-approved by the Academic Advisor.
* Classes with an asterisk can be applied as Contemporary History.
Language taken for this geographic concentration: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese
Upper division literature in the language to count in this area (only ONE literature course may be used):
FREN 3120 Main Currents of French Lit II
FREN 4480 20th Century French Novel
ITAL 3140 Readings in Italian Literature-20th Century
GRMN 3110 German Literature from the Avant-garde to the Postmodern
RUSS 4210 Open Topics: Russian Language and Culture
SPAN 3310 20th Century Spanish Literature
*ANTH 3110 Ethnography of Mexico and Central America
*GEOG 3812 Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
*GEOG 4812 Environment and Development in South America.
*HIST 4118 History of Mexico to 1821
*HIST 4119 Latin American Revolutions
*HIST 4128 Emergence of Modern Mexico
*PSCI 3032 Latin American Political Systems
*PSCI 3042 Latin America Economic Development
*PSCI 3052/WMST 3650 Women and Politics in Latin America
PSCI 4122 The Military in Politics: Latin America and the US
*PSCI 4792 Issues in Latin American Politics
SPAN 3210 Cultural Heritage of Latin America
SPAN 3220 Latin American Culture: Spanish America and Brazil
Some of these courses are not offered on a regular basis. Any courses not listed must be pre-approved by the Academic Advisor.
* Classes with an asterisk can be applied as Contemporary History.
Language taken for this geographic concentration: Spanish, Portuguese
Upper division literature in the language to count in this area (only ONE literature course may be used):
SPAN 3340 Twentieth Century Spanish-American Literature
SPAN 4180 Masterpieces of Spanish-American Literature: 1898 to Present
