International Affairs Program | Areas of Geographic Concentration


Geographic Concentration Please note: In order to provide more course options for our students, Europe and Eurasia have been combined into one geographic concentration. Sub-Saharan Africa \| Asia \| Europe/Eurasia \| Latin America \| Middle East

Sub-Saharan Africa ANTH 3100 Africa: Peoples and Societies in Change ANTH 4630 Nomadic Peoples of East Africa ECON 4504 Comparative Economic History of Developing Areas II 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 PSCI 3082 Political Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa PSCI 4012 Global Development 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: French Upper division literature in the language to count in this area (only ONE literature course may be used): FREN 4170 Francophone Literature


Asia 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 Economic Relations Among the United States, Japan, and Canada ECON 4494 Comparative Economic History of Developing Areas I HIST 4109 World War II in Asia and the Pacific HIST 4166 The War in Vietnam and Its Legacy 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 Political systems of China, Japan, and Korea RLST 3250 Gandhi: Life and Teaching RLST 3300 Indian Buddhism RLST 3600 Islam RLST 4700 Confucianism RLST 4780 Taoism WMST 4619 Women in Asian History (HIST 4619) 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 Reading in Modern Chinese Literature JPNS 4110 Readings in Classical and Modern Japanese I


Europe/Eurasia 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 Conversation: Current Events GEOG 4882 Russian Commonwealth 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 4423 German History since 1849 HIST4424 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 PSCI 4002 Western European Politics PSCI 4062 The Emerging Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe PSCI 4213 Europe in the International System PSCI 4223 Soviet and Russian Diplomacy PSCI 4752 Seminar: Central and Eastern Europe Studies RUSS 3301 Contemporary Issues in Russian Film RUSS 3502 Ideals & Values of Modern Russia RUSS 4471 Women in Russian Culture RUSS 4851 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 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 20th Century Italian Lit GRMN 3110 German Lit 2 RUSS 4210 Open Topics: Russian Literature in Russian RUSS 4510 Twentieth Century Russian Poetry RUSS 4610 Twentieth Century Russian Literature: Prose in the Soviet Union SPAN 3310 20th Century Spanish Literature


Latin America ANTH 3110 Ethnography of Mexico and Central America ECON 4504 Comparative Economic History of Developing Areas II ECON 4794 Economic Development of Latin America GEOG 3812 Latin America 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 Economic Dev. of Latin America PSCI 3052/WMST 3650 Women and Politics in Latin America (cross-listed) PSCI 4112 Problems of Latin American Politics 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 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 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 4180 Masterpieces of Spanish-American Literature: 1898 to Present


Middle East ECON 4504 Comparative Economic History of Developing Areas II HIST 4239 Islam in the Modern World: Revivalism, Modernism, and Fundamentalism, 1800-2001 HIST 4328 The Modern Middle East, 1800 to Present HIST 4338 The Arab-Israeli Problem HIST 4368 History and Society of Modern Arabia, 1800-2001 PSCI 4102 The Government and Politics of Israel PSCI 4233 The Middle East in World Affairs RLST 3100 Judaism RLST 3600 Islam RLST 4650 Islam in the Modern World Some of these courses on not offered on a regular basis. For any other courses please see advisor for pre-approval. * Classes with an asterisk can be applied as Contemporary History. Languages taken for this geographic concentration: Arabic, Hebrew. These languages are offered through the Spanish & Portuguese Department (Arabic) and the Germanic Languages & Literature Department (Hebrew). Upper division literature in the language to count in this area (only ONE literature course may be used): None