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Humanitites and Social Sciences Track Five

 

Prerequisites are listed in [brackets]

Track 5:  Culture in Geographic Context -- Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

This track offers an opportunity to study the interaction among regional cultures, social systems, and human creativity.   Students selecting this track will enjoy a deeper, broader understanding of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East both as unique cultural and geographic regions, and their interrelationship with other areas of the world.

 

ANTH 280  Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa

ANTH 366  Anthropology of War

ANTH 380  Chinese Society and Culture

ARTH 210  African Art and Culture in the Humanities

ARTH 410  African Art:  The Sahara and Northern Sahel [GARTH 205, 206 or permission of instructor]

ARTH 412  African Art:  Sub-Saharan [GARTH 205, 206 or permission]

ARTH 424  Arts of Ancient Egypt [GARTH 205 or 206]

ARTH 430  Far Eastern Art [GARTH 205 or 206]

ENG 361  African-American Fiction Writers

ENG 362  African-American Poets

GENG 239  Survey of World Literature

GEOG 335  The Geography of Africa

GEOG 349  The Geography of East Asia    

HIST 263   Africa

HIST 270  Modern Middle East

HIST 273  Asia to 1600

HIST 274  Modern Asia

HIST 371  India

HIST 375  History of Modern Southeast Asia

HIST 456  The Global Economy and Nationalism [GHIST 102; HIST 395 or permission]

HIST 460  Modern Japan

HIST 470  Modern Africa                                       

HIST 473  The Islamic World                 

HIST 480  Modern China                                       

HIST 485  Colonialism in the Greater Middle East                 

PHIL/REL 385  Buddhist Thought

POSC 340  Political Development in the Third World

POSC 353  African Politics

POSC 355  East Asian Politics

POSC 383  African Politics

REL 201  Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

REL 202  Introduction to the New Testament

REL 305  Islamic Religious Tradition

REL 310  Hindu Traditions

REL 312  Religions of East Asia

REL 330  African and African-American Religion

SOCI 348 Introduction to Developing Societies

WRTC 322 Making a Difference, Service Learning Writing