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Course Descriptions

• Curricular Area 1: The Creative Arts
• Curricular Area 2: Traditions that Shape the Western World
• Curricular Area 3: Global and Multicultural Perspectives
• Curricular Area 4: Social Institutions and Behavior
• Curricular Area 5: The Natural Sciences

Curricular Area 3: Global and Multicultural Perspectives

Foundation Courses: Students select a 100-level course in one of the two clusters.

Second-level Courses: Students select a 200-level course in the same cluster as the foundation course.

Cluster One: Global Perspective

Foundation Courses

ECON-110 The Global Majority

GOVT-130 Comparative Politics

HIST-120 Imperialism and Revolution

SIS-105 World Politics

SIS-110 Beyond Sovereignty

Second-Level Courses

COMM-280 Contemporary Media in a Global Society

EDU-285 Education for International Development

GOVT-235 Dynamics of Political Change

HIST-225 Russia: Past and Present

IBUS-200 The Global Marketplace

LFS-200 Russia and the United States

SIS-215 Competition in an Interdependent World

SIS-220 Confronting Our Differences/Discovering Our Similarities: Conflict Resolution

SIS-255 China, Japan and the United States

SOCY-225 Contemporary Arab World

Cluster Two: Multicultural Experience

Foundation Courses

ANTH-110 Culture: The Human Mirror

LIT-150 Third World Literature

RELG-185 Forms of the Sacred: Religions of the East

SIS-140 Cross-Cultural Communication

SOCY-110 Views from the Third World

Second-Level Courses

ANTH-210 Roots of Racism and Interracial Harmony

ANTH-215 Sex, Gender, and Culture

ANTH-220 Living in Multicultural Societies

ANTH-230 India: Its Living Traditions

HIST-250 Civilization and Modernization: Asia

LFS-210 Latin America: History, Art, Literature

RELG-210 Non-Western Religious Traditions

SIS-210 Human Geography: Peoples, Places, and Cultures

SIS-245 The World of Islam

SIS-250 Civilizations of Africa

SOCY-235 Women in the Third World