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Modern and Classical Languages 

Regional Studies - Global Studies

15-Hour Regional Studies:

Students must take one course in each of the following five regions:

A. Africa:

ART    273 (Survey of the Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; F, S) (may only count in one geographic region)
ART     386 (Art of Africa; D) (ART 273)
ENG     363 (Introduction to African Literature; D) (ENG 110)
HST     323 (Women in Africa; D)
HST     335 (African Civilization; D)
GRY     507 (Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa; D)
PLS     550 (Modern African Politics; FO)

B. Asia:

ART     274 (Survey of East Asian Art; F, S) (ENG 110)
ART     374 (Art of India; D) (ART 274)
HST     381 (East Asian Civilization II; S)
LLT     215 (Asian Cultural Studies; D)
PHI     314 (Asian Philosophy; D) (3 hours PHI/permission)
REL     355 (Buddhism; D) (3 hours REL/permission)
REL     360 (Hinduism; D) (3 hours REL/permission)
HST     571 (China in the Twentieth Century; D) (50 hours/permission)
PLS     545 (Asian Politics; S)

C. Europe:

ART     272 (History of Western Art II; F, S) (ENG 110)
ENG    361 (Survey of European Literature II; D) (ENG 110)
LLT      225 (German Cultural Studies; D)
REL     340 (Christianity; F, S)
HST     350 (Latin American Civilization; D) (HST 101 & 102 recd)
HST     353 (History of Europe in the 19th Century; D) (HST 101 recd)
HST     355 (Contemporary Europe: 1918 to Present; D) (HST 102 recd)
HST     361 (Britain 1688-Present; D) (HST 101, 102 recd)
HST     556 (France since 1815; D) (50 hours/permission)
HST     559 (Germany, 1915-Present; D) (50 hours/permission)
PLS     547 (The Politics of the European Union; SE)
HST     561 (Russia since 1801; D) (50 hours/permission)   
HST     565 (English Constitution, Courts and Common Law; F) (50 hours/permission)
PLS     343 (Post-Soviet Politics; S)

D. Latin America and Caribbean:

ANT     331 (Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean; D)
ART     273 (Survey of the Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; F, S) (may only count in one geographic region)
ART     385 (Art of the Americas; D)
ART     485 (Art of Mesoamerica; D)
HST     350 (Latin American Civilization; D)
HST     587 (Mexico from Colony to Nation; D) (50 hours/permission)
HST     588 (Twentieth Century Mexico; D) (50 hours/permission)
PLS     548 (Governments and Politics of Latin America; F)

E. Middle East:
ANT     335 (Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East; D) (30 hours/permission)
ART     382 (Survey of Islamic Art; D) (ENG 110)
HST     372 (From Hollywood to the Middle East: In Search of Arab Identity; D)
REL     350 (Islam; S)
REL     330 (Judaism; D)HST   
HST     370 (History of the Middle East to 1914; D)   
HST     371 (History of the Middle East since 1914; D)
HST     543 (History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict; D) (50 hours/permission)
PLS     544 (Government and Politics of the Middle East; FO)

The following courses may apply to various regions depending upon content:

ANT     330 (Peoples and Cultures; D)
ENG     362 (Non-European World Literature; D) (ENG 110)
GRY     305 (Select World Regions; D)