Courses must be taken for a letter grade in order to count towards the ILR Distribution Requirement. Undergraduate education should provide students with the opportunity to develop an appreciation of the similarities and differences among cultures around the world. This requirement should engage students in the study of ideas, histories and cultures of countries beyond the United States and Western Europe. Upper-level language courses about culture (including film and literature) will only fulfill this requirement if they focus on non-Western European languages and/or nations.
* Indicates that the class is being offered in Fall 2024
AAS 2269 Korean Popular Culture
ASRC 1330/MUSIC 1330 African Music
* ASRC 1500/AMST 1500/GOVT 1503 Introduction to Africana Studies
* ASRC 2003 Africa: The Continent and Its People
* ASRC 2235/COML 2235/ENGL 2935 New Visions in African Cinema
ASRC 2240/LATA 2240/SPAN 2240 Perspectives on the Caribbean: Resistance and Revolution in the Caribbean
ASRC 2300 African Cultures and Civilizations
ASRC 2308/HIST 2541/LATA 2308 Modern Caribbean History
ASRC 2543/HIST 2543 In the Crossfire of Empires: Africa and World War II
ASRC 2670/GOVT 2673/HIST 2672/NES 2670 The History and Politics of Modern Egypt
* ASRC 2674/GOVT 2747/HIST 2674/JWST 2674/NES 2674 History of the Modern Middle East in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ASRC 3310/6610/ AAS 3312/ COML 3310/FGSS 3310/LGBT 3310 Afro-Asia: Futurism and Feminisms
ASRC 3501/ARTH 3510 African Art & Culture
ASRC 4502/ARTH 4578 African Cinema
ASRC 4600/GOVT 4606/LATA 4601 Politics and Social Change in the Caribbean
ASRC 4601/EDUC 4590 Educational Innovation in Africa and the Diaspora
ASRC 4602/6602 Woman and Gender Issues in Africa
ASRC 6600/EDUC 5020 Education and Development in Africa
AIIS 2390/AMST 2390/HIST 2390 Seminar in Iroquois History
AIIS 2600/AMST 2600/ENGL 2600 Introduction to Native American Literature
AIIS 2660/AMST 2660/HIST 2660 Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History
* AMST 2401/ENGL 2400/LSP 2400 Introduction to U.S. Latinx Literature
AMST 3420/FGSS 3400/GOVT 3401/LSP 3401 Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice
ANTHR 1400 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTHR 2400 Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues
ANTHR 2430/ARKEO 2430 The Rise and Fall of “Civilization”
ANTHR 2465/ARKEO 2465/NES 2565 Global Heritage
ANTHR 2560/ASIAN 2256 Japanese Society through Film
ANTHR 3255/ARKEO 3255/LATA 3550 Ancient Mexico and Central America
ANTHR 3420/RELST 3420 Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
ANTHR 3479 Culture, Language, and Thought
ANTHR 3545/7545 People and Cultures of the Himalayas
* ARKEO 2522/CLASS 2630/JWST 2522/NES 2522 Drinking in the Ages: Intoxicating Beverages in Near Eastern and World History
ARKEO 3588/JWST 3588/NES 3588/RELST 3588 Archaeology and the Bible
ARKEO 3800/ARTH 3800/ASIAN 3383 Introduction to the Arts of China
ARCH 3402/5402 Architecture as a Cultural System
ARTH 3820/ASIAN 3381 Introduction to the Arts of Japan
* ARTH 3850/ASIAN 3350/VISST 3696 The Arts of Southeast Asia
ARTH 3856/ASIAN 3356 Performing Angkor: Dance, Silk and Stone
ASIAN 1191/CAPS 1910/HIST 1910 Introduction to Modern Asian History
* ASIAN 2208 Introduction to Southeast Asia
* ASIAN 2211 Introduction to Japan
ASIAN 2212/CAPS 2212 Introduction to China
ASIAN 2215 Introduction to South Asia
ASIAN 2218 Introduction to Korea
ASIAN 2222/CAPS 1622/GOVT1623/HIST 1622 The World of Modern Japan
ASIAN 2225 Literature, Politics, and Genocide in Cambodia
* ASIAN 2245/MUSIC 1341/VISST 2744 Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures
ASIAN 2247/NES 2649/RELST 2247 Controversy and Debate in Islam
ASIAN 2250/RELST 2250 Introduction to Asian Religions
ASIAN 2259/MUSIC 2230 Music in and of East Asia
ASIAN 2260 Japanese Pop Culture
* ASIAN 2262/BSOC 2561/CAPS 2262/HIST 2562/STS 2561 Medicine and Healing in China
ASIAN 2267/CAPS 2267/FGSS 2267 Women and Society in China
ASIAN 3317 Japanese Poetry
ASIAN 3374/RELST 3374/FGSS 3374, Gendering Enlightenment: Attitudes toward Women in Buddhist Traditions
ASIAN 2275/HIST 2750 History of Modern India
ASIAN 2277/RELST 2277 Meditation in Indian Culture
* ASIAN 2279/RELST 2279 Chinese Mythology
ASIAN 2298/HIST 2890 The Vietnamese Wars: 1945-1990
* ASIAN 2299/RELST 2299 Buddhism
ASIAN 3321/CAPS 3403/GOVT 3403 China Under Revolution and Reform
ASIAN 3327/CAPS 3827/GOVT 3827 China and the World
ASIAN 3346/GOVT 3463 Modern Japanese Politics
ASIAN 3351/RELST 3351 Indian Religious Worlds
ASIAN 3355/RELST 3355 Japanese Religions
ASIAN 3359/RELST 3359 Japanese Buddhism
ASIAN 3374 Chinese Narrative Literature
ASIAN 3389/COML 3850/VISST 3851 Partition: Fiction and Film
ASIAN 3396 & 6696/HIST 3960 & 6960 Transnational Local: Histories of the Modern in Southeast Asia
ASIAN 4436/VISST 4436 Topics in Indian Film
ASIAN 4489/RELST 4489 Religion and Sustainability: Traditionalist Discourses in the Twenty-First Century
ASIAN 6651 Indian Religious Worlds
* BSOC 2599/JWST 2599/RELST 2599/NES 2599 Medicine, Magic, and Science in the Ancient Near East
CAPS 3049/GOVT 3044/ASIAN 3304, China's Next Economy
CLASS 2634/COML 2634/JWST 2634/NES 2634/RELST 2634 Jews and the Classical Age of Islam
CRP 1101 The Global City
COML 3743/JWST 3655/NES 3655 Minorities of the Middle East
DSOC 2010/SOC 2202 Population Dynamics
DSOC 3290/GOVT 3293/LATA 3290 Comparative Politics of Latin America
DSOC 4300 Human Migration
DSOC 6060 Sociological Theories of Development
ENGL 2090 Introduction to Cultural Studies
FGSS 4640/HIST 4642/NES 4642 Women in the Modern Middle East
FDSC 2500/JWST 2501 Kosher and Halal Food Regulations
GOVT 1313 Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics
GOVT 2807/HIST 2607/NES 2607/RELST 2617 Islam and Politics
GOVT 3313/JWST 3850/NES 3850 Middle East Politics
GOVT 3353 African Politics
GOVT 3537/JWST 3537/NES 3537/RELST 3537 Zionism and Its Discontents
GOVT 3977/JWST 3697/NES 3697/SOC 3970 History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
HIST 1960/LATA 1960 Modern Latin America
HIST 1970/ ASRC 1790/ LATA 1970 Pirates, Slaves, and Revolutionaries: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to Louverture
HIST 2161/NES 2616 Iran and the World
HIST 2180 Seminar on Genocide
HIST 2530/MEDVL 2655/NES 2655/RELST 2655 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
* HIST 2969 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
HIST 2715/LATA 2715/SPAN 2715 A Global South: Chile, the Pacific, and the World
HIST 3519/NES 3519 History of State and Society in Modern Iran: Through Literature and Film
HIST 3700/JWST 3700/NES 3600 History of the Holocaust
HIST 4590/LATA 4590/SPAN 4595 Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution in Latin America
HIST 4963/ MEDVL 4963/6963, ASIAN 4461/6661, CAPS 4963 China's Early Modern
JWST 2556/NES 2556/RELST 2556 Introduction to the Qur’an
JWST 2575/NES 2575/RELST 2575 Myth and Religion in Mesopotamia
JWST 2601/NES 2601 Introduction to the Ancient Near East
JWST 2644/NES 2644/RELST 2644 Introduction to Judaism
JWST 3530/MEDVL 3530/NES 3530/RELST 3530 A Mediterranean Society and Its Culture
JWST 4520/JWST 7520/NES 4520/NES 7520/ANTHR 4620/ANTHR 7620/HIST 4520/HIST 6520 Jewish Cities
JWST 4525/NES 4525 Palestinians in Israel
LATA 1301/LSP 1301/MUSIC 1301 Introductions to the World of Music I: Africa and the Americas
LATA 2200/SPAN 2200 Perspectives on Latin American
MUSIC 1302 Introduction to the World of Music II: Asia
NES 2523/JWST 2523/COML 2523/GOVT 2523/RELST 2523 Judeophobia, Islamophobia, Racism
NES 2537 Ninth-Century Baghdad and Its Bad Boys and Girls
NES 3658 History of Iran
* SPAN 2150 Contemporary Latin American Survey
SPAN 2205 Perspectives on Latin America in Spanish
SPAN 3440 Global Latin America