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CORE AREA IV. HUMANITIES - NON-WESTERN CULTURE

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COURSES MARKED BY AN ASTERISK (*) AND WHOSE TITLES ARE ENCLOSED IN QUOTATION MARKS (“ “) HAVE BEEN APPROVED ONLY FOR THE SUBJECT MATTERS INDICATED.

This list is cumulative and comprehensive, and includes courses which may now be inactive. Not all courses are offered every semester.


-- May 13, 2013

AFAM 2003 Introduction to African and African-American Studies

AFAM 2113 Africa and the Diaspora

AFAM 3133 Introduction to African Aesthetics

AFAM 3613 Visual Culture and African American Identity: 1895 – 1939

ANTH 1203 Language Across Cultures

ANTH 1413 Great Discoveries in Archaeology

ANTH 1613 Indian Peoples of Oklahoma

ANTH 1823 Religion in Everyday Life

ANTH 2203 Peoples of the World

ANTH 2253 Human and Animal Interaction Across Cultures

ANTH 2613 Native Peoples of North America

ANTH 3333 The Aztec World

ANTH 3453 Contemporary Native American Issues

ANTH 3503 Oklahoma Prehistory

ANTH 3553 Peoples of the Pacific Islands

ANTH 3713 Native American Artistic Traditions

ANTH 3743 Indian Justice in Cultural Law

ANTH 3803 Asian Prehistory

ANTH 3843 South Asia

ANTH 3883 Archaeology of South America

ANTH 3893 Maya, Aztec and Inca: High Civilizations of Ancient America

ANTH 4303 Women & Development in Africa

ANTH 4443 Visual Anthropology

ANTH 4623 Approaches to Cross-Cultural Human Problems

ANTH 4653 Ethnology of the Greater Southwest

ANTH 4813 Archaeology of North America

ARCH 4183 Survey of Middle Eastern Architecture

ARCH *4970 “Chinese Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Cities”

ARCH *4970 “Istanbul Study/Travel Abroad”

ARCH *4970 “Middle Eastern Architecture”

ARTC 4693 Contemporary Native American Artist

ARTC 4893 Contemporary Native American Artist II

A HI 3803 Pre-Columbian Art & Architecture of Meso and South America

A HI 3853 Survey of Asian Art

A HI 4803 Survey I-North American Indian Prehistoric Art

A HI 4813 19th Century North American Indian Art History

A HI 4823 20th Century American Indian Art History

A HI 4833 North American Indian Pre-historical Art

A HI 4853 American Indian Women Artists

A HI 4873 Japanese Art

A HI 4883 The Arts of China

CL C 2013 Ancient Near East Civilizations (Inactive)

COMM 2003 Communication in Non-Western Cultures

DANC 1813 Introduction to Non-Western Dance Forms

DANC 3813 History of World Dance

ENGL 3433 Foundations of Indic Culture & Civilization

ENGL 3483 Native American Writers

ENGL 4343 The Indian in American Popular Culture

ENGL 4383 Civilization & Diaspora

ENGL *4403 "Modern Indian and British Commonwealth Poetry"

EXPO *1223 "Japan in Disaster"

EXPO *3013 "Understanding Japan's Triple Disaster"



FMS *3843 “Bollywood”

FMS *3843 “Contemporary Turkish Cinema”

FMS *3843 "Classics of Iranian Cinema"

GEOG 3223 The British Empire and Its Successor

GEOG 3273 Cultural Geographies of the Colonial Caribbean

GEOG 3223 The British Empire & its Successor States (Inactive)

GEOG 4243 Geography of Asia

GEOG 4563 American Indian Geographies

HIST 1543 Introduction to American Indian History

HIST 1703 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations and Culture (Inactive)

HIST 1723 East Asia to 1600

HIST 1733 East Asia Since 1600

HIST 2013 Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations (Inactive)

HIST 2683 Introduction to Islam

HIST 2713 Survey of African Civilization

HIST 3043 Egypt and Mesopotamia

HIST 3103 Slavery in World History

HIST 3303 Mexico and the United States

HIST 3313 Israeli Culture Through Film

HIST 3633 American Indian Ethnohistory to 1870

HIST 3693 Political and Socioeconomic History of South Africa

HIST 3703 Native Peoples of Latin America

HIST 3723 Africa Since 1945

HIST *3740 "Southern Africa"

HIST 3743 Southern Africa Since 1800

HIST 3783 Africa Since 1800

HIST 3823 A History of Japanese Culture

HIST 3843 International Relations in the Middle East

HIST 3843 History of Korea (Inactive)

HIST 3853 Japan to 1850

HIST 3863 Japan Since 1850

HIST 3873 Traditional China

HIST 3883 Modern China to 1945

HIST 3893 Culture and Society in the Middle East

HIST 3903 Contemporary Japan

HIST 3913 The Samurai in Japanese History

HIST 3923 China Since 1911

HIST 3943 Muslim Societies in Africa

HIST 3953 The Modern Middle East

HIST 3973 Judaism - A Religious History

HIST 3983 Medieval Jewish History

HIST 4203 Classical China

HIST 4213 China’s Art of War

HIST 4463 History of West Africa

HIST 4493 Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

HIST 4553 Environmental History of Latin America

HON *2970 “Culture, Power, and International Development”

HON *2970 “Globalizing Africa”

HON *2970 “Images of Africa”

HON *2970 “Sex and Love in African History”

HON *3993 “Africa and the Urge to Help”

HON “3993 “Christianity and Sub-Saharan Africa”

HON *3993 “Global Youth Cultures”

HON *3993 “Lives in Science: Biography in the History of Science and Medicine”

HON *3993 "Modern African Lives: African History through Biography and Autobiography"

HSCI 3313 Science and Technology in Asian History

HSCI 3453 Science & Civilization in Islam

HSCI 3483 Technology, Politics, and International Development

IAS 1223 Introduction to Asian Philosophy

IAS 2103 Survey of Asian Civilizations and Cultures

IAS 2113 Perspectives on South Asian Society

IAS 2413 Islam

IAS *3003 “Social Change and Development in West Africa” (Inactive)

IAS 3123 Environmental Challenges in Asia

IAS 3133 Ethnic Identity and Conflict in Asia

IAS 3143 Chinese Politics

IAS 3163 International Relations of East Asia

IAS 3173 Rural Life in Modern China

IAS 3193 Environment and Disease Crises in China

IAS 3343 Chinese Philosophy

IAS 3433 International Relations in the Middle East

IAS 3483 Shi’a Islam: History, Memory, and Protest, Middle East

IAS 3513 Twentieth Century India

IAS 3523 Women and Gender in South Asia

IAS 3563 International Politics of South Asia

IAS 3573 Religious Conflict in Asia

INTL *3000 “Archeology and Pre-Hispanic Cultures”

LING 1203 Language Across Cultures

LSTD 3193 Art of the Non-Western World

LSTD 3263 The Art of the Non-Western World

MLLL 3213 Japanese Theatre & Performance

MLLL 3223 Japan through Film and Literature

MLLL 3233 Japanese Literature Since 1945

MLLL 3413 Arabic Lit and Culture

MLLL 3433 Arab Culture and Society Through Modern Fiction

MLLL 3453 The World of the Arabian Nights

MLLL 3463 Arab Culture and Society through Modern Fiction

MLLL 3623 Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

MLLL 3633 Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

MLLL 3643 Japanese Education through Fiction

MLLL 3753 Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

MLLL 3763 Chinese Cinema

MLLL 4123 History of Afro-Brazilian Music

MLLL 4173 Introduction to Francophone Literatures in Translation

MLLL 4183 Contemporary Japanese Drama

MLLL 4993 Epics of India: Ramayana and Mahabharata

MUNM 3113 Introduction to World Music

MUNM 3213 Native American Music

MUNM 3313 African Repercussions

MUNM 3413 Music of the Pacific Rim

MUNM 3513 Music of South Asia

MUNM 3613 Middle Eastern Music

MUNM *4970 “Middle Eastern Music” (Spring 2010 only)

MUNM *4970 “Music Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa”

MUNM *4970 “Music of South Asia”

NAS 1013 Introduction to Native American Studies

NAS 3113 Native American Philosophy

NAS *3693 “Native Cultural Aesthetics and the Heritage Industry”

NAS 4023 Native Cultural Aesthetics and The Heritage Industry

NAS 4123 Contemporary Issues in Native American Studies

NAS 4323 Indigenous Archaeology

NAS 4693 Contemporary Native American Artist

NAS 4893 Contemporary Native American Artist II

NAS 4993 Understanding Native American Art of Today

P SC 3633 Politics in East Asia

PHIL 1223 Introduction to Asian Philosophy

PHIL 3303 East Asian Philosophy

PHIL 3343 Chinese Philosophy

RELS 2303 Islamic Religious Traditions

RELS 2403 Introduction to Comparative Religion

RELS 2503 Introduction to Islam –Interpreting Muslim Voices

RELS 2703 Introduction to Buddhism

RELS 2713 Introduction to Hinduism

RELS *2923 “Introduction to Islam”

RELS 3303 Conceptions of the Afterlife

RELS 3533 The Qur’an

RELS 3543 Islamic Law

RELS 3563 Islamic Theology

RELS 3723 Buddhist Meditation Traditions

RELS *3933 “Buddhist Meditation Traditions”

SOC 3753 Sociology of Africa

SOC 3873 Religion and Society

UNIV *3000 "World Cultures & Traditions"

UNIV *4000 “Islam and the West Since 9/11”