Program Requirements
- Total Units Required: 36
- Grade Requirement: Students must receive a grade of C+ or higher in all courses.
The concentration in Global Cultural Studies focuses on the practical and theoretical issues arising from cross-cultural encounters around the world. Students will study these issues by both examining conventional cultural products (e.g., literature, film, visual art, new media) and investigating their broader political and social contexts. This concentration addresses compelling issues of cultural interchange for students interested in cultures for their own sake as well as in careers in NGOs and international business and law.
Concentration Objectives
The Global Cultural Studies concentration is committed to interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary problems. Students may take courses in the language and literature disciplines as well as in anthropology; art history; film; history; music; religious studies; and women, gender, and sexuality studies.
General Requirements
One semester of language must be completed before declaring the major.
- Students must complete a minimum of 36 units in Global Studies, including at least three courses focused on a world area.
- Students must complete at least 24 units at the 3000 level or above, including at least one course in the social sciences and one course in the humanities.
- Students must complete at least 6 units at the 4000 level, no more than 3 of which may be directed research or independent study.
- In addition to the 36 units, students must complete a four-semester sequence of courses in one modern language appropriate to their concentration.
These requirements may be fulfilled only with college-level coursework undertaken during a student's undergraduate enrollment. Courses must be taken for a grade, and a student must receive a grade of C+ or higher in all courses, including courses for the language requirement and study abroad courses.
This concentration requires 36 units of coursework:
- 3 units of core coursework: GLOBAL 2020 Global Futures: An Introduction to Global Studies
- 3 units of research methods coursework (3000-4000 level)
- 3 units of disciplinary introductory coursework (1000-2000 level)
- 9 units of world area coursework (two courses in one world area and one in another world area; maximum 6 units at the 1000-2000 level)
- 3 units of coursework focused on gender, race, or class (3000-4000 level)
- 15 units of advanced coursework (3000-4000 level)
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Of the three required world area courses, one must be at the advanced level. The other two courses may be taken at any level.
Africa, East Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and North America are considered world areas for the Global Cultural Studies concentration. A student must complete two courses in one of these world areas and one course in another world area (maximum 6 units at the 1000-2000 level).
Note: A single course may satisfy more than one of the distribution requirements (i.e., disciplinary; gender, race, class; or world area). Some of these requirements may be completed while abroad.
Research Methods Courses
Students choose one course from this list, for a total of 3 units:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| APL 4111 | Linguistics and Language Learning | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 3120 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | 3 |
| ECON 3150 | Introduction to Econometrics | 3 |
| ELIT 3000 | Introduction to Literary Theory | 3 |
| ENST 3710 | Introduction in GIS | 3 |
| GLOBAL 4007 | Global Studies Research Methods Proseminar and Assistantship | 3 |
| HISTORY 3006 | Historical Methods | 3 |
| POLSCI 3630 | Quantitative Political Methodology | 3 |
| PSYCH 3000 | Introduction to Psychological Statistics | 3 |
| PSYCH 3150 | Introduction to Social Psychology | 3 |
| REST 3635 | Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion | 3 |
| SOC 3040 | Statistics for Sociology | 3 |
Disciplinary Introductory Courses
Students choose one course from this list, for a total of 3 units:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 2550 | Introduction to Africana Studies | 3 |
| ANTHRO 1520 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| ARTARCH 1510 | Introduction to Asian Art | 3 |
| ARTARCH 1515 | History of Western Art, Architecture & Design | 3 |
| ARTARCH 2020 | Introduction to Modern Art, Architecture and Design | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 2109 | Modern Political Thought: Text & Traditions | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 2110 | World Literature | 3 |
| ECON 1501 | Introduction to Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 1502 | Introduction to Macroeconomics | 3 |
| FILM 2200 | Introduction to Film Studies | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1008 | Ampersand: Connecting Local Worlds and Global Systems Global Citizenship Program | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1103 | First-Year Sem: Bridging London: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of One of the World's Great Cities | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1104 | First-Year Seminar: Chinatown: Migration, Identity, and Space | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1106 | Ampersand: Geographies of Globalization and Development | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1107 | Ampersand: Global Migration and Transnational Cultures in Modern Times | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1109 | First-Year Seminar: Mapping the World: Introduction to Human Geography | 3 |
| GLOBAL 2000 | Crossing Borders: An Introduction to Institutions and Concepts in Global Studies | 3 |
| HISTORY 1146 | Introduction to World History: The Second World War in World History | 3 |
| HISTORY 1151 | Health and Disease in World History | 3 |
| Introduction to Literature courses as appropriate (English, Comp Lit, or foreign language) | 3 | |
| LING 1600 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3 |
| MUSIC 1040 | Musics of the World | 3 |
| PHIL 1030 | Problems in Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 1060 | Present Moral Problems | 3 |
| POLSCI 1200 | International Politics | 3 |
| POLSCI 1300 | Introduction to Political Theory | 3 |
| POLSCI 2102 | Introduction to Migration Policy and Politics | 3 |
| PSYCH 2210 | First-Year Seminar: Introduction to Memory Studies | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 2000 | Introduction to Global Health | 3 |
| SOC 2010 | The Roots of Ferguson: Understanding Racial Inequality in the Contemporary U.S. | 3 |
| WGSS 1102 | First Year Seminar: Gender, Sexuality and Settler Colonialism | 3 |
| WGSS 1500 | Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 2070 | Sexuality and the State: Introduction to Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 2101 | Sophomore Seminar: Globalization and Its Disguises | 3 |
World Area Courses
Of the three required world area courses, one must be at the advanced level, and it will be counted toward the 18 credits of advanced work needed to complete the major. The other two courses may be taken at any level. Examples of lower-level courses that may be used to satisfy this requirement include the following:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 1105 | First-Year Seminar: Imagining and Creating Africa: Youth, Culture, and Change | 3 |
| AFAS 2090 | African Studies: Mapping Urban Languages and Resistance in Africa | 3 |
| AFAS 2550 | Introduction to Africana Studies | 3 |
| AMCS 2700 | Topics in Asian American Studies | 3 |
| CHINA 2270 | Chinese Civilization | 3 |
| GLOBAL 1102 | First-Year Seminar: The Vietnam Wars | 3 |
| GLOBAL 2009 | Introduction to European Studies | 3 |
| GLOBAL 2100 | Sophomore Seminar: The Public Servant and Other Heroes: A History of Japan Through Film | 3 |
| HISTORY 1020 | Introduction to Modern European History | 3 |
| HISTORY 1124 | First-Year Seminar: The Meaning of Pakistan: History, Culture, Art | 3 |
| HISTORY 2158 | First Year Seminar: Outcasts and Outlaws: The History of Othering in Modern Europe | 3 |
| JAPAN 2260 | Japanese Civilization | 3 |
| JIMES 2081 | Introduction to Jewish Civilization: History and Identity | 3 |
| JIMES 2100 | Introduction to Islamic Civilization | 3 |
| KOREA 2230 | Korean Civilization | 3 |
| LATAM 1000 | Latin America: Nation, Ethnicity and Social Conflict | 3 |
Gender, Race, and Class Courses
Students pursuing this concentration are required to complete one upper-level course focused on gender, race, or class that is chosen from the following list, for a total of 3 units:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 3062 | Islam, Culture and Society in West Africa | 3 |
| AFAS 3105 | Transnational Black Feminisms | 3 |
| AFAS 3304 | Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality | 3 |
| AFAS 3260 | Zambaje: Afroindigenous Relations in Latin America | 3 |
| AFAS 3610 | Environmental Justice and Black Lives: Decolonizing the Land | 3 |
| AFAS 4010 | Who's Afraid of Black Marxism? The Crises of Capitalism and Futures of Solidarity | 3 |
| AFAS 4040 | Gender, Sexuality, and Change in Africa | 3 |
| AFAS 4236 | Blackness in Brazil | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3313 | Women and Islam | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4365 | Sex, Gender, and Power | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4366 | Europe's New Diversities | 3 |
| ARCH 3404 | Community Building | 3 |
| CHINA 4590 | Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture (: Writing Women of the Late Imperial and Early Republican Periods) | 3 |
| CHINA 3300 | Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture (:The Asian Experience: Negotiating the In-Betweenness) | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 4500 | Senior Seminar | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 4492 | Topics in Comparative Literature (Writing from the Periphery: The Question of Chineseness) | 3 |
| ELIT 3106 | Topics in Asian American Literature | 3 |
| ELIT 3111 | Topics In Literature (: Asian American Writings: Contesting American Constructions of the Alien Other) | 3 |
| GLOBAL 3248 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
| GLOBAL 3512 | Model Minority: The Asian American Experience | 3 |
| GLOBAL 4036 | Children of Immigrants: Identity and Acculturation | 3 |
| HBRW 3090 | Israeli Women Writers | 3 |
| HISTORY 3049 | Chinese Diasporas | 3 |
| HISTORY 3094 | History of the Jews in Islamic Lands | 3 |
| HISTORY 3146 | Topics in European History: Modern European Women | 3 |
| HISTORY 3514 | Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: A Transatlantic History | 3 |
| HISTORY 4038 | Beyond the Harem: Women, Gender, and Revolution | 3 |
| ITAL 3500 | Topics: Global Italy: Race, Gender, Migration and Citizenship | 3 |
| ITAL 4300 | Divergent Voices: Italian Women Writers | 3 |
| JAPAN 4490 | Modern Japanese Women Writers | 3 |
| JIMES 3184 | A Rainbow Thread: A History of Queer Identities in Judaism and Islam | 3 |
| JIMES 4043 | Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East and North Africa | 3 |
| KOREA 3550 | Topics in Korean Literature & Culture (Gender in Korean Literature and Film) | 3 |
| LATAM 3020 | Survey of Brazilian Cultures: Race, Nation and Society | 3 |
| LATAM 3040 | Survey of Southern Cone Cultures: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay | 3 |
| LATAM 3253 | Introduction to Gender Studies in Latin America | 3 |
| LATAM 4120 | Gender and Modernity in Latin America | 3 |
| LATAM 4280 | Constructing the (Racial) Other: From the Colonial Caste System to U.S. Latinos | 3 |
| RELPOL 3070 | Islam, Gender, Sexuality | 3 |
| SOC 3190 | Gender in Society | 3 |
| SOC 4170 | Global Structures and Problems | 3 |
| SOC 4831 | Global Racial Systems | 3 |
| WGSS 3215 | Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3256 | Sex Trafficking | 3 |
| WGSS 3030 | Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition | 3 |
| WGSS 3500 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3555 | Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization. | 3 |
| WGSS 3740 | Imperialism and Sexuality: India, South Asia, and the World: Writing-Intensive Seminar | 3 |
| WGSS 3685 | Gender Violence | 3 |
| WGSS 4085 | Everyday Unruliness: Feminist and Queer Resistance | 3 |
| WGSS 4150 | Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 4245 | Transnational Feminisms | 3 |
Advanced Elective Courses
Students choose six courses from current, relevant, internationally focused course offerings in the following departments.* All courses must be approved by the student's Global Studies advisor in order to count for the major. Visit the concentration webpage and concentration course list for the most current and full list of options.
African and African American Studies
- AFAS 3062 Islam, Culture and Society in West Africa
- AFAS 3070 Topics On Africa: African Urban Futures
- AFAS 3105 Transnational Black Feminisms
- AFAS 3113 Culture, Politics, and Society in Francophone Africa
- AFAS 3130 African Civilization: 1800 to the Present
- AFAS 3160 African Civilization to 1800
- AFAS 3304 Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality
- AFAS 3320 Visualizing Blackness: Histories of the African Diaspora Through Film
- AFAS 3385 Emerging Africa: Language, Identity, and Social Change
- AFAS 3550 Undoing Empire: Introduction to Postcolonial Writing and Art
- AFAS 3600 Beyond Sea, Sunshine and Soca: A History of the Caribbean
- AFAS 3610 Environmental Justice and Black Lives: Decolonizing the Land
- AFAS 3390 Senegal: History, Politics and Culture
- AFAS 3880 Terror and Violence in the Black Atlantic
- AFAS 4010 Who's Afraid of Black Marxism? The Crises of Capitalism and Futures of Solidarity
- AFAS 4102 Rastafari, Reggae, and Resistance
- AFAS 4160 Engineering Authority: Design, Architecture, and Power in Africa
- AFAS 4213 Sufism and Islamic Brotherhoods in Africa
- AFAS 4236 Blackness in Brazil
- AFAS 4270 What is Africanfuturism? 21st Century African Speculative Fiction
Anthropology
- ANTHRO 3038 Anthropology of Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration
- ANTHRO 3045 Africa: Peoples and Cultures
- ANTHRO 3163 Archaeology of China: Food and People
- ANTHRO 3170 Culture and Health
- ANTHRO 3215 Food, Culture, and Power
- ANTHRO 3283 Introduction to Global Health
- ANTHRO 3310 Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
- ANTHRO 3313 Women and Islam
- ANTHRO 3391 Economies as Cultural Systems
- ANTHRO 3610 Culture and Environment
- ANTHRO 3740 Social Landscapes in Global View
- ANTHRO 4022 Transnational Reproductive Health Issues: Meanings, Technologies, Practices
- ANTHRO 4033 Culture, Illness, and Healing in Asia
- ANTHRO 4123 Argumentation Through Ethnography
- ANTHRO 4134 The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics
- ANTHRO 4215 Anthropology of Food
- ANTHRO 4250 Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- ANTHRO 4270 Social and Cultural Change
- ANTHRO 4365 Sex, Gender, and Power
- ANTHRO 4367 Culture, Power, Knowledge
- ANTHRO 4481 Writing Culture
- ANTHRO 4772 Social Theory and Anthropology
- ANTHRO 4803 Advanced GIS Modeling and Landscape Analysis
Applied Linguistics
- APL 4023 Second-Language Acquisition and Technology
- APL 4111 Linguistics and Language Learning
- APL 4692 Reading Across Languages and Cultures: Theory, Research and Practice
Arabic
- ARAB 3050 Introduction to Arabic Literature
- ARAB 3070 Iraqi Literature
- ARAB 4130 Topics in Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: Narrating Palestine
Architecture
- ARCH 3404 Community Building
Art History
- ARTARCH 3000 Writing Intensive Topics: Fauvism and Expressionism in Europe, c. 1905-1945
- ARTARCH 3091 African Art in Context: Patronage, Globalisms, and Inventiveness
- ARTARCH 3155 Japanese Art
- ARTARCH 3160 Early Chinese Art: From Human Sacrifice to the Silk Road
- ARTARCH 3180 Classical to Contemporary Chinese Art
- ARTARCH 3181 Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art
- ARTARCH 3200 Chinese Painting, Then and Now
- ARTARCH 3380 Pleasure and Pain: European Fashion as (Art) History
- ARTARCH 3407 The Baroque: Art in an Age of Crisis
- ARTARCH 3500 The Modernist Project: Art in Europe and the United States, 1905-1980
- ARTARCH 3520 Rococo to Revolution: Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- ARTARCH 3590 Rejecting Reason: Dada and Surrealism in Europe and the United States
- ARTARCH 3610 Contemporary Art
- ARTARCH 3637 Modern Sculpture: Canova to Koons
- ARTARCH 4080 African Art: A User's Guide
- ARTARCH 4265 The Forbidden City
- ARTARCH 4296 Japanese Prints: Courtesans, Actors and Travelers
- ARTARCH 4320 East, Meet West: Asia Encounters Europe
- ARTARCH 4545 The Century of Picasso
- ARTARCH 4575 Gauguin Then and Now: Art, Myth, and Controversy
- ARTARCH 4605 The Impressionist Landscape: Style, Place and Global Legacies 1870-1920
- ARTARCH 4610 Impressionism and the Nation in France and Beyond: Painting and Photography 1860-1920
- ARTARCH 4725 From the Death of the Author to the Birth of Youtube: Identity in Contemporary Art
- ARTARCH 4726 Globalization and Contemporary Art
- ARTARCH 4735 1968 and Its Legacy
Children's Studies
- CHST 3410 Children and Childhood in World Religions
Chinese
- CHINA 3160 Historical Landscape and National Identity in Modern China
- CHINA 3210 Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Chinese Cities in the Global Context
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Poets, Musicians and Revolutionaries: Modern Chinese Poetry
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Screen Culture in the Sinophone World
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Stories & Storytelling in Late Imperial China
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Stranger Things: Tales of the Supernatural in Chinese Literature
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: The Art of War & Peace: Modern Reception of the Three Kingdoms Story
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: The Cultural Lives of the Environment in China, 1949-Present
- CHINA 3300 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Three Streams: Major Religious Traditions in Pre-modern East Asia
- CHINA 3410 Early and Imperial Chinese Literature
- CHINA 3420 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
- CHINA 3500 U.S.-China Relations from 1949 to the Present
- CHINA 4240 Culture and Politics in the People's Republic of China: New Approaches
- CHINA 4390 Topics in Chinese Literature and History: Literary Representation of Colonial Modernity: Taiwan & East Asia
- CHINA 4390 Topics in Chinese Literature and History: Writing Women of the Late Imperial and Early Republican Periods
- CHINA 4510 Urban Culture in Modern China
- CHINA 4590 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Chinese Cities in the Global Context
- CHINA 4590 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Commentary, Philology, & Theories of Reading in East Asian History
- CHINA 4590 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: History and Fictionality in East Asian Cinema
- CHINA 4590 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture: Jingju (Beijing/Peking Opera)
- CHINA 4670 The Chinese Theater
- CHINA 4790 Reading Seminar in Modern Chinese Literature: The May Fourth Era, 1919-1949
- CHINA 4800 Reading Seminar in Chinese Popular Literature and Culture: Writing Stories in Late Imperial China
- CHINA 4890 Topics in Modern Chinese Literature: History, Memory and Identity
- CHINA 4905 Guided Readings in Chinese
Classics
- CLASSICS 3450 Greek History: The Dawn of Democracy
Comparative Literature and Thought
- COMPLITTHT 3030 Introduction to Comparative Arts
- COMPLITTHT 3030 Introduction to Comparative Arts: Cultural Constructs
- COMPLITTHT 3030 Introduction to Comparative Arts: The 20th Century
- COMPLITTHT 3060 Modern Jewish Writers
- COMPLITTHT 3101 An Intellectual History of Sex and Gender: Text & Traditions
- COMPLITTHT 3203 World-Wide Translation: Language, Culture, Technology
- COMPLITTHT 3593 Paris and New York: The Art of the City
- COMPLITTHT 3530 Literature and Ethics: Out of Cruelty
- COMPLITTHT 3580 Modern Near Eastern Literatures
- COMPLITTHT 4020 Introduction to Comparative Literature
- COMPLITTHT 4112 The Empire Writes Back
- COMPLITTHT 4260 Imagining the City: Crime and Commerce in Early Modern London
- COMPLITTHT 4492 Topics in Comparative Literature: Using Narrative Theory
- COMPLITTHT 4492 Topics in Comparative LiteratureWriting from the Periphery: The Question of Chineseness
- COMPLITTHT 4931 Doomed Youth and the End of the Old World: English and European Literature of the First World War
Dance
- DANCE 3130 Movement and Meaning: Dance in a Global Context
Drama
- DRAMA 3300 Theater Culture Studies III: Melodrama to Modernism
East Asian Languages and Cultures
- EALC 3250 Topics in Early Modern Korea: Guns, Tobacco, and Sweet Potato: A History of Material Culture
- EALC 3510 Pleasure, Amusement, and Play: Entertainment Culture in Premodern China
- EALC 3600 US-China Relations from Conflict to Engagement, 1949-2016
- EALC 3750 Imagined Pasts: Traditional Korea Through Film
- EALC 3800 EALC Seminar: East Asian Buddhism
- EALC 3800 EALC Seminar: East Asian Buddhism: Chan/Son/Zen
- EALC 3800 EALC Seminar: Kitchen, Studio, Factory: Making in East Asia
- EALC 3810 EALC Seminar: Ghosts, Gods and Monsters Reimagined
- EALC 3810 EALC Seminar: Screening East Asia: From Scroll Painting to Haptic Interface
- EALC 4200 Nature, Technology, and Medicine in Korea
- EALC 4250 Topics in Religion and Culture in East Asia: The Buddhist Culture(s) of Japan
- EALC 4250 Topics in Religion and Culture in East Asia: Women, Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia
- EALC 4300 Topics in Chinese Media Culture: Charting Identity in the Digital Age
- EALC 4380 Approaches to East Asian Cinema
- EALC 4710 Topics in Japanese Culture: Otaku: Anime and Beyond
- EALC 4750 Worldviews, World-Building, and World Literature: New Approaches to Chinese Literature (1500-1900)
- EALC 4930 Guided Readings in East Asian Languages and Cultures
English Literature
- ELIT 3000 Introduction to Literary Theory
- ELIT 3104 The Writing of the Indian Subcontinent
- ELIT 3105 Caribbean Literature in English
- ELIT 3107 Topics in English & American Literature
- ELIT 3111 Topics In Literature: Asian American Writings: Contesting American Constructions of the Alien Other
- ELIT 3111 Topics In Literature: British Fiction 1900-1945
- ELIT 3113 Topics In Literature: British & Anglophone Fiction 1945 – Present
- ELIT 3113 Topics In Literature: Turn and Face the Strange: Alienation & Transformation in Modern Lit and Contemporary Music
- ELIT 3125 Selected Writers: Jane Austen
- ELIT 3138 Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
- ELIT 3140 Topics In Literature: Drama Queens: Cleopatra in Elizabethan England
- ELIT 4109 Topics in English Literature: Victorian Literature 1830-1890/The Victorian Novel: Dickens and Eliot
- ELIT 4133 Topics in Irish Literature: Modern Irish Poetry
- ELIT 4137 English Novel of the 19th Century
- ELIT 4146 Topics in English Literature I: The Novel and Globalization
- ELIT 4155 Frankenstein
Environmental Studies
- ENST 4527 Ipcc: Governance, Policy and Science
Film and Media Studies
- FILM 3200 British Cinema: A History
- FILM 3250 French Film Culture
- FILM 3260 Samurai, Rebels, and Bandits: The Japanese Period Film
- FILM 3400 History of World Cinema
- FILM 3410 Transnational Cinema(s): Film Flows in a Changing World
- FILM 3660 Women and Film
- FILM 4200 Film Theory
- FILM 4310 Renegades and Radicals: The Japanese New Wave
- FILM 4320 Global Art Cinema
- FILM 4430 Memory, Tears, and Longing: East Asian Melodrama Film
- FILM 4580 Major Film Directors: Oshima Nagisa and the Japanese New Wave
- FILM 4750 Screening the Holocaust
- FILM 4850 Visualizing Orientalism: Art, Cinema and the Imaginary East 1850-2000
French
- FRENCH 3210 Topics I: In Perspective: Sport et Societe
- FRENCH 3220 Topics II: In Perspective: Graphic Novels
- FRENCH 3220 Topics II: In Perspective: The French New World
- FRENCH 3740 In-Depth: Science Fiction
- FRENCH 3750 In Depth:: Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine
- FRENCH 3760 Cinema and Society:
- FRENCH 4131 Advanced French and Translation
- FRENCH 4150 The 19th-Century Novel: From Realism to Naturalism to Huysmans
- FRENCH 4191 The French Islands: From Code Noir to Conde
- FRENCH 4192 Dark Humor: Francophone Literature From West Africa
- FRENCH 4210 The 20th-Century Novel
- FRENCH 4590 Writing North Africa: Francophone Literature of the Maghreb
- FRENCH 4610 Topics in French Literature and History: Perspectives on Paris
German
- GERMAN 3060 Topics in Holocaust Studies: Children in the Shadow of the Swastika
- GERMAN 3080 German Literature and the Modern Era
- GERMAN 3081 German Thought and the Modern Era
- GERMAN 4040 Germany Today
- GERMAN 4063 German Literature and Culture, 1914 to the Present
- GERMAN 4070 Studies in Genre: German Drama
- GERMAN 4080 Topics in German Studies: Kafka and his Contemporaries
- GERMAN 4080 Topics in German Studies: Mehrsprachiges Deutschland (Multilingual Germany)
- GERMAN 4080 Topics in German Studies: Telling Tales - The Magical, the Wondrous, and the Strange (1500-present)
- GERMAN 4080 Topics in German Studies The Book Was Better Than the Movie: Literary Adaptations in the Age of Multimedia
Global Studies
- GLOBAL 3006 Global Health and Language
- GLOBAL 3008 Topics in Global Studies:Modern Indian Literature
- GLOBAL 3008 Topics in Global Studies:Narrating Violence
- GLOBAL 3008 Topics in Global Studies:State Building in China and Beyond
- GLOBAL 3008 Topics in Global Studies: Understanding Today’s Russia
- GLOBAL 3008 Topics in Global Studies:: Who Tells the Future?
- GLOBAL 3176 Chinese Economy in World History
- GLOBAL 3248 Intercultural Communication
- GLOBAL 3511 Global Surveillance Culture
- GLOBAL 3512 Model Minority: The Asian American Experience
- GLOBAL 3566 Andean History: Culture and Politics
- GLOBAL 3602 Borders, Checkpoints, and the Frontiers of Literature
- GLOBAL 3641 Anarchism: History, Theory, and Praxis
- GLOBAL 3650 Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Latin America
- GLOBAL 3730 Intercultural Transpositions: Russian Literature on World Stage and Screen
- GLOBAL 3740 Russian Literature At the Borders: Multiculturalism and Ethnic Conflict
- GLOBAL 3750 Topics in Russian Literature and Culture (WI): Childhood
- GLOBAL 3750 Topics in Russian Literature and Culture (WI): Dostoevsky’s Novels
- GLOBAL 3750 Topics in Russian Literature and Culture (WI): Madmen or Visionaries?
- GLOBAL 3750 Topics in Russian Literature and Culture (WI): The Short Story
- GLOBAL 3750 Topics in Russian Literature and Culture (WI): The Soviet Experiment through Novels and Novellas
- GLOBAL 3811 Global Asian Pop Culture
- GLOBAL 3822 From McDonald's to K-Pop: New Movements in East Asia
- GLOBAL 3860 Empire in East Asia: Theory and History (WI)
- GLOBAL 3866 Interrogating Crime and Punishment
- GLOBAL 4007 Global Studies Research Methods Proseminar and Assistantship
- GLOBAL 4036 Children of Immigrants: Identity and Acculturation
- GLOBAL 4200 Islam, Immigrants, and the Future of European Culture
- GLOBAL 4201 International Relations of Latin America
- GLOBAL 4204 International Relations of Latin America (WI)
- GLOBAL 4611 Latin American Populism and Neo-Populism
- GLOBAL 4622 Labor and Labor Movements in Global History
- GLOBAL 4633 20th-Century Latin American Revolutions
- GLOBAL 4644 The Indochina Wars
- GLOBAL 4868 Russia and the West: Creating and Representing Identity
- GLOBAL 4869 Reading War and Peace
- GLOBAL 4897 Global Asias
- GLOBAL 4985 Preparation for Global Studies Honors Thesis
Hebrew
- HBRW 3090 Israeli Women Writers
Hindi
- HINDI 3050 Religion and Culture in South and Southeast Asia
- HINDI 3090 Understanding Indian (Hindi/Urdu) Literature: Through Text and Images (Visual)
History
- HISTORY 3006 Historical Methods: Decolonization in the 20th Century
- HISTORY 3008 Historical Methods - Premodern Latin American History
- HISTORY 3030 The Global War On Terrorism
- HISTORY 3034 Jews in French History and Culture
- HISTORY 3039 Islamic History: 600-1200
- HISTORY 3047 Early Modern China
- HISTORY 3049 Chinese Diasporas
- HISTORY 3070 Modern Latin America
- HISTORY 3085 19th-Century China: Violence and Transformation
- HISTORY 3092 Vienna, Prague, Budapest: Politics, Culture and Identity in Central Europe
- HISTORY 3094 History of the Jews in Islamic Lands
- HISTORY 3103 The World is NOT Enough: Europe's Global Empires, 1400-1750
- HISTORY 3109 Riots and Revolution: A History of Modern France From 1789 to the Present
- HISTORY 3111 Modern Germany
- HISTORY 3116 Europe in the 20th Century
- HISTORY 3135 Revolution With an Accent: The Haitian and French Revolutions, 1770-1805
- HISTORY 3138 20th-Century Russian History
- HISTORY 3146 Topics in European History: Modern European Women
- HISTORY 3148 The First World War and the Making of Modern Europe
- HISTORY 3150 The Middle East in the 20th Century
- HISTORY 3174 Heroes and Saints in India: Religion, Myth, History
- HISTORY 3214 Religion and Politics in South Asia: Writing-Intensive Seminar
- HISTORY 3277 Hinduism & the Hindu Right
- HISTORY 3284 The Late Ottoman Middle East
- HISTORY 3287 A History of Modern China
- HISTORY 3289 Economic History of China: From the Silver Age to Reform and Opening, 1500-1990
- HISTORY 3294 History of Global Capitalism: From Slavery to Neoliberalism
- HISTORY 3295 Modern South Asia
- HISTORY 3296 Environment and Empire
- HISTORY 3313 Modern Mexico
- HISTORY 3322 Japan Since 1868
- HISTORY 3351 Out of the Shtetl: Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- HISTORY 3370 Historical Methods - Premodern African History
- HISTORY 3381 Historical Methods- Modern Middle Eastern History
- HISTORY 3458 Cultural Encounters: China and Eurasia Since the Middle Ages
- HISTORY 3514 Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: A Transatlantic History
- HISTORY 3608 Science and Society Since 1800
- HISTORY 3665 Experts, Administrators and Soldiers: Governance and Development in Post-Colonial Africa
- HISTORY 3672 Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History
- HISTORY 3682 The Cold War, 1945-1991
- HISTORY 3813 Between Sand and Sea: History, Environment, and Politics in the Arabian Peninsula
- HISTORY 4035 The Fascist Challenge in Europe, 1919-1945
- HISTORY 4038 Beyond the Harem: Women, Gender, and Revolution
- HISTORY 4056 Advanced Seminar: Mad: Mental Illness, Power and Resistance in Africa and the Caribbean
- HISTORY 4057 Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire
- HISTORY 4092 Humanitarianism and Human Rights: Power, Paradigms, Protection
- HISTORY 4116 Advanced Seminar: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights
- HISTORY 4138 Advanced Seminar: Blood & Sacred Bodies: Ritual Murder & Host Desecration Accusations
- HISTORY 4150 Advanced Seminar: Inventing India
- HISTORY 4275 Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HISTORY 4889 Advanced Seminar: History of the Body
Italian
- ITAL 3240 Italian Literature II: The Making of Modern Italy, Texts and Contexts
- ITAL 3320 Topics in Film Studies: Italian Cinema
- ITAL 3500 Topics: Global Italy: Race, Gender, Migration and Citizenship
- ITAL 4080 Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style
- ITAL 4370 Caffe, Cadavers, Comedy, and Castrati: Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour
Japanese
- JAPAN 3260 Topics in Modern Japanese Literature: Japanese Horror Cinema
- JAPAN 3320 Japanese Literature: Beginnings to 19th Century
- JAPAN 3330 The Modern Voice in Japanese Literature
- JAPAN 3360 The Floating World in Japanese Literature
- JAPAN 3460 Japanese Literature in Translation:
- JAPAN 4310 Topics in Japanese Literature & History: Popular Culture and the Literary Imagination in Early Modern Japan
- JAPAN 4490 Modern Japanese Women Writers
- JAPAN 4500 Masterworks of Early Japanese Literature: The Tale of Genji and Its Afterlives
- JAPAN 4910 Guided Readings in Japanese
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
- JIMES 3031 Topics in Jimes: Education in Divided Societies - the Israeli Case
- JIMES 3093 Becoming "Modern" : Emancipation, Antisemitism and Nationalism in Modern Jewish History
- JIMES 3184 A Rainbow Thread: A History of Queer Identities in Judaism and Islam
- JIMES 3233 Religion & Nationalism in the Middle East & South Asia
- JIMES 3500 Israeli Culture and Society
- JIMES 3510 Muhammad in History and Literature
- JIMES 3520 Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi: Genre-Fiction in Arabic Literature
- JIMES 3540 Anthropological and Sociological Study of Muslim Societies
- JIMES 3623 Topics in Islam: Islam and Human Rights
- JIMES 3623 Topics in Islam: Islam and the West
- JIMES 3623 Topics in Islam: Islam in the Indian Ocean
- JIMES 3623 Topics in Islam: Islam in the Modern World
- JIMES 3623 Topics in Islam: Religious Authority in Modern Islam
- JIMES 3730 Topics in Near Eastern Cultures: Arabs in Israel: Politics, Society & Citizenship
- JIMES 3730 Topics in Near Eastern Cultures: Democracies and Dictatorships in the Middle East
- JIMES 3730 Topics in Near Eastern Cultures: Migrations in the Judeo-Islamic World: Displacement, Tolerance & Community Building
- JIMES 3730 Topics in Near Eastern Cultures: Slavery in the Middle East
- JIMES 3740 Of Dishes, Taste, and Class: History of Food in the Middle East
- JIMES 3770 History of Slavery in the Middle East
- JIMES 4005 Diaspora in Jewish and Islamic Experience
- JIMES 4043 Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East and North Africa
- JIMES 4450 Topics in Islam: Readings in Islamic Political Thought and Practice
- JIMES 4461 History of Political Thought in the Middle East
- JIMES 4850 Topics in Jewish Studies: Critical Issues in the Study of Popular Music
- JIMES 4850 Topics in Jewish Studies: Social Debates and Popular Culture in Israel
Korean
- KOREA 3520 Literature of Modern and Contemporary Korea
- KOREA 3550 Topics in Korean Literature & Culture: Buddhist Culture of Korea
- KOREA 3550 Topics in Korean Literature & Culture: From King Sejong to Global K-Pop
- KOREA 3550 Topics in Korean Literature & Culture: Introduction to K-pop: Korean Popular Music and Society
- KOREA 3550 Topics in Korean Literature & Culture: Power, Miracles and Self-cultivation in Korean Buddhism
- KOREA 3550 Topics in Korean Literature & Culture: Sexing Korea: Gender & Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture
- KOREA 3550 Topics in Korean Literature & Culture: The Korean Wave: Reading Korea thru Pop Culture & Media
- KOREA 3700 When Tigers Smoke: Songs and Stories From Traditional Korea
- KOREA 4037 Contemporary Korean I: History, Literature, and Popular Culture
- KOREA 4037 Contemporary Korean I: Language, History, and Musical Culture
- KOREA 4037 Contemporary Korean I: Topics in Korean Lit & Culture
- KOREA 4037 Contemporary Korean I: Translation Workshop
- KOREA 4038 Contemporary Korean II: Language, Text and Screen
- KOREA 4038 Contemporary Korean II: Topics in Korean Lit & Culture
- KOREA 4550 Topics in Korean Literature and Culture: Gender in Korean Literature and Film
- KOREA 4550 Topics in Korean Literature and Culture: Global Korean Music through a Cultural Lens
- KOREA 4920 Guided Readings in Korean
Latin American Studies
- LATAM 3020 Survey of Brazilian Cultures: Race, Nation and Society
- LATAM 3030 Survey of Mexican Cultures
- LATAM 3040 Survey of Southern Cone Cultures: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
- LATAM 3056 Survey of Yucatecan Cultures
- LATAM 3080 Hello, Hello Brazil! Popular Culture, Media, and the Making of a Nation
- LATAM 3120 Mexican Visual Culture
- LATAM 3160 Cultures of Health in Latin America
- LATAM 3200 Humans and Others in Latin America: Natures, Cultures, Environments
- LATAM 3253 Introduction to Gender Studies in Latin America
- LATAM 3256 Medical Traditions in Yucatan and Health Systems in Mexico
- LATAM 3410 Film and Revolution in Latin America
- LATAM 3420 Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Market Economy, Social Injustice, New Technologies
- LATAM 4120 Gender and Modernity in Latin America
- LATAM 4180 Latin American Subcultures
- LATAM 4190 Media Cultures in Latin America
- LATAM 4200 Modernity, Culture and the State in Mexico
- LATAM 4210 The Binational Condition. The Mexico-US Relationship in Mexican History and Culture.
- LATAM 4250 Popular Culture and the Representation of Youth in Latin America
- LATAM 4272 The Materiality of Culture in Latin America
- LATAM 4280 Constructing the (Racial) Other: From the Colonial Caste System to U.S. Latinos
- LATAM 4290 Citizenship in the HOT Seat. Migration and Borders in Latin America
- LATAM 4651 Cities, Race and Development in Latin America
Music
- MUSIC 3014 Ethnomusicology
Philosophy
- PHIL 4321 Advanced Social and Political Philosophy
Political Science
- POLSCI 3015 Computational Modeling in the Social Sciences
- POLSCI 3224 Introduction to Chinese Politics
- POLSCI 3313 Theories of Social Justice
- POLSCI 3565 Understanding Political Protest and Violence
- POLSCI 3630 Quantitative Political Methodology
- POLSCI 3720 Topics in International Politics: Ethnic Conflict: Causes and Remedies
- POLSCI 3930 History of Political Thought III: Liberty, Democracy, and Revolution
- POLSCI 4115 Immigration, Identity, and the Internet
- POLSCI 4306 Global Justice
- POLSCI 4905 Research Design and Methods
Psychological and Brain Sciences
- PSYCH 4130 Contemporary Topics in Social Psychology: Political Psychology
Religion and Politics
- RELPOL 3070 Islam, Gender, Sexuality
Religious Studies
- REST 3635 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion
- REST 3715 Topics in Religious Studies: Religion and Violence
- REST 4801 Senior Seminar in Religious Studies: Saints and Society
Sociology
- SOC 3040 Statistics for Sociology
- SOC 3150 Sociology of Immigration
- SOC 3190 Gender in Society
- SOC 4170 Global Structures and Problems
- SOC 4831 Global Racial Systems
Spanish
- SPAN 3181 Spanish Culture and Civilization
- Debating Cultures (SPAN 32xx – consult advisor!)
- SPAN 3310 Hispanic Art/Arte Hispano
- Researching Cultures (SPAN 36xx – consult advisor!)
- SPAN 4050 Major Seminar
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- WGSS 3030 Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition
- WGSS 3055 Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body
- WGSS 3215 Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies
- WGSS 3256 Sex Trafficking
- WGSS 3500 Trans Studies
- WGSS 3555 Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization.
- WGSS 3685 Gender Violence
- WGSS 3740 Imperialism and Sexuality: India, South Asia, and the World: Writing-Intensive Seminar
- WGSS 4085 Everyday Unruliness: Feminist and Queer Resistance
- WGSS 4150 Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory
- WGSS 4153 Decolonization to Globalization: How to End an Empire
- WGSS 4245 Transnational Feminisms
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Students may submit a request to add a course by following the instructions for the Petition Process.
Additional Requirements and Information
Study Abroad
- We strongly encourage students to study abroad. For those who do not study abroad and receive credit toward the Global Studies General Requirements, an additional 3-unit course at the 3000 or 4000 level is required.
- Before studying abroad as a Global Studies major, students must consult with the Global Studies Study Abroad Advisor (Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds) about their plan of study and choice of program.
- We strongly prefer students to select a study abroad location and regional specialization consistent with their chosen language of study (e.g., if a student wishes to study in Latin America, they must satisfy their language requirement with either Portuguese or Spanish).
- Students may receive a maximum of 6 credits from a single semester, 12 credits from a year, or 3 credits from a summer term of study abroad.
- Study abroad credit only counts at the 3000 level and must be approved by the Global Studies Study Abroad Advisor prior to departure.
- Students may apply no more than 12 total credits to the Global Studies major from study abroad, the School of Continuing & Professional Studies, summer school at other U.S. universities, or any combination thereof.
- To receive credit for a summer course completed at another institution, a student should fill out the Approval for Non-WashU Course Credit form with Arts & Sciences to take the course for "general credit" and then petition to have the course count as an elective toward their Global Studies major.
- Students may not receive credit for January Intensive Term (J-Term) study abroad programs; these programs are too short in duration.
- Visit the Study Abroad section of the Global Studies website for more details.
Latin Honors
- Students must graduate with an overall grade point average of 3.65 or higher to qualify for Latin Honors.
- Students must submit an intent form and be accepted for candidacy.
- Students should enroll in GLOBAL 4985 Preparation for Global Studies Honors Thesis during the fall of senior year and in GLOBAL 4986 Global Studies Senior Honors Thesis during the spring of senior year (under the corresponding section number of the faculty member overseeing the student's thesis).
Language Requirement
All Global Studies majors must satisfy a language requirement that entails both the successful completion of four semesters of a modern language for a letter grade and placement into the third year of that language.
Available modern languages include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili.
Please see the FAQs on the Global Studies website for more information.
Contact Info
| Contact: | Toni Loomis |
| Phone: | 314-935-5073 |
| Email: | aloomis@wustl.edu |
| Website: | https://globalstudies.wustl.edu |