Category III: Upper Level Comparative Courses

These are upper-level courses that deal comparatively with world regions, religions, or cultures. A substantial portion of each course is devoted to explicit, detailed comparison of two or more cultures; or the subject matter of the course is approached so as to illuminate cultural comparisons.

African Languages and Literature
370 Islam: Religion and Culture
411 African Poetry

Anthropology
318 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
326 Peoples of the Andes under Inca and Spanish rule
327 Peoples of the Andes today
328 Peoples and Cultures of insular Southeast Asia
349 Cultural Change
350 Political Anthropology
365 Medical Anthropology
369 Peoples and Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
428 Gender and Expressive Culture
430 Language and Culture
441 Peoples and Cultures of the European Parts of The ex-Soviet Union
448 Anthropology of Law
470 Ecological Anthropology
545 Psychological Anthropology
570 Anthropology and Education
645 Self and Other in Anthropological Analysis


Art History
479 Art and History in Africa

Classics
430 Topics in Classical Archeology
517 Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean

Communication Arts
458 Global Media Cultures

Comparative Literature
341 Women and Literature
351 Lyric
352 Epic
353 Drama
354 Novel and Short Story
355 Biography and Autobiography
356 Non-fiction and Prose
357 Fantasy and Science Fiction
368 Literature and Ideas
371 Literary Criticism
374 Bilateral Literary Relations
378 Literary Backgrounds
379 Literature and Ethnic Experience
466 Literature and the Other Arts
473 Thematics

English
595 Asian American Women Writers
524 Indian Writers Abroad: Literature, Diaspora and Globalization

Folklore Program
220 The Folk Tale in Four Cultures
460 Folk Epics

French
313 Professional Communication and Culture in the Francophone World
314 Contemporary Francophone Issues in Government, Organizations, and Enterprise
315 Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies in French Professional Communication

Geography
309 People, Land, and Food: Comparative Study of Agricultural Systems
339 Environmental Conservation
348 Latin America
349 Europe
355 Africa, South of the Sahara
358 China and Southeast Asia
501 Space and Place: A Geography of Experience
502 Spatial Behavior
506 Historical Geography of European Urbanization
508 Landscape and Settlement in the North American Past
519 Environment, and Human Experience
537 Culture and Environment
538 The Humid Tropics: Ecology, Subsistence, and Development 548 Problems in the Geography of Latin America
549 Historical Geography of Western Europe
558 The Social Geography of Asian Cities in Comparative Perspectives

History
306 The World of Alexander the Great
310 Mediterranean Cities: A Cross-cultural Approach
319 The Vietnam Wars
339 History of Spain and Portugal to 1700
347 Introduction to the History of Caribbean Societies
371 The Modern Arab World
375 The Middle East in World Affairs since 1900
376 History of Africa to 1500
377 History of Africa, 1500-1870
436 Race, Class & Colonialism in the Caribbean
439 Islamic History from the Origins of Islam to the Ottoman Empire
440 History of North Africa
441 Revolution and Conflict in Modern Latin America
457 History of Southeast Asia to 1800
458 History of Southeast Asia since 1800
471 Contemporary Societies
490 American Indian History
533 Multiracial Societies in Latin America

Industrial Relations
628-629 Comparative Industrial Relations in Developed Countries

International Studies
317 Politics of Human Rights
318 Comparative Study of Genocide
374 The Growth and Development of Nations in the Global Economy
678 Global Aids Interdisciplinary Perspective

Institute for Environmental Studies
668 Green Politics: Global Experience, American Prospects

Integrated Liberal Studies
271 Precopernican Astronomy and Cosmology in Cross-cultural Perspective

Interdisciplinary
472 Land Tenure in Africa: Theories, Policy and Practice

Languages and Cultures of Asia
416 Introductions to religions of South Asia
420 Hinduism and Islam in Medieval South Asia
444 Introduction to Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
459 Islamic Culture: Meanings and History
623 Yoga: Methods and Goals
624 Meditation in Indian Buddhism and Hinduism
625 Sanskrit and Asian Cultures
626 Gods and Goddesses of South Asia
660 Proseminar: History of Buddhism and Buddhist Social Institutions

Music
361 Nonwestern Music Performance: Study Groups
401-402 Musical Cultures of the World

Political Science
368 Special Topics in the Politics of Developing Areas
611 Comparative Political Economy
620 Western European Political Systems--Germany and Related Countries
621 Western European Political Systems--France and Italy
627 The British Political System
630 Latin-American Politics
634 State and Nation in Post-Soviet Politics
639 Politics of Southeast Asia
651 Politics of South Asia
652 Politics of Development
655 Politics of Cultural Pluralism and National Integration
658 Nationalism and Social Change: Eastern Europe and Adjacent Areas
659 Politics and Society: Contemporary Eastern Europe
660 African Politics
661 Advanced Topics in African Politics

Slavic Languages and Literature
325 Eastern Christianity/Russian Orthodoxy in a Global Context

Sociology
575 Sociological Perspectives on the Life Course and Aging
614 Social Structures of Muslim Societies
618 Comparative Rural Societies
627 Comparative Social Structure in Africa
630 Sociology of Developing Societies/Third World

Theatre and Drama
326 Introduction to Asian Performance
351 Asian Stage Discipline
424 Contemporary World Theatre and Dramatic Literature
523 Postcolonial Theatre

Women's Studies
322 Women and the Life-Cycle: A Cross-cultural Perspective
416 Women in Medieval Society
420 Women in Cross-Societal Perspective
664 Women in the Global Economy

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Agricultural Economics

474 Economic Problems of the Third World
479 Agricultural Development in Latin America

Nutritional Sciences
350 Causes of World Hunger and Malnutrition

School of Nursing
610 Transcultural Health Care

School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences
Environment, Textiles and Design

640 Ethnographic Textiles
655 Comparative Studies in Non-Western Dress

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