Courses by Category
The courses by category list below may not be exhaustive. Other courses could be acceptable by petition to the Director. A course may qualify for different categories. Consult the Director as you fill out the Major Check List.
National and Ethnic Literatures
See listings in the following departments and programs: Classics; Theatre and Performance Studies; English; International Literary and Cultural Studies (ARB, CHNS, GER, ILVS, JPN, JS, RUS); Romance Studies (FR, ITAL, LAS, POR, SPN). These listings include: African, African-American, Asian-American, Caribbean, Chinese, Greek and Latin, English and American, French, German, Hebrew and Judaic, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Latin American, and other literatures.
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See listings in the Department of Art and Art History (including courses cross-listed with language & literature departments), the Visual and Material Studies Department at SMFA, and the visually oriented courses of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies.
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- AMER 65 American Film Studies
- ANTH 164 Media, the State, and the Senses (C-List FMS 107)
- ARB 55 Cultural History of the Modern Middle East (C-List ILVS 55, ILCS 73)
- ARB 57 Arab and Middle Eastern Cinemas (C-List ILVS 57, FMS 76)
- ARB 157 War and Cultural Memory in Literature and Cinema of the Middle East (C-List FMS 119, ILVS 157, ILCS 163)
- CSHD 167 Children and Media (C-List FM 100, CVS 147)
- CHNS 70 Introduction to Chinese Popular Culture
- CHNS 80 Introduction to Chinese Cinema (C-List FMS 72)
- CHNS 81 New Chinese Cinema (C-List FMS 74, ILVS 81)
- CHNS 82 Rural & Urban China through Cinema
- ENG 80 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, and Ideology (C-List FMS 55, ILVS 57, WGSS 50)
- ENG 81 Postmodernism and Film (C-List FMS 87, ILVS 89)
- ENG 82 Political Cinema (C-List FMS 49)
- ENG 86 Jane Austen Goes Abroad
- ENG 87 Invisible Spectacle: Cinema, Discipline, Desire
- ENG 88 Film Noir and the American Tradition (C-List FMS 54)
- ENG 186 How Films Think (ILVS 186, FMS 186)
- HAA 78 African Film and Photography
- FMS 26 Dance & the Hollywood Musical (C-List DNC 85)
- FMS 73 History and Aesthetics in Hitchcock (C-List VMS 100)
- FMS 74 Neo-Noir and its Contexts (C-List VISC 101)
- FMS 57 Latinx Theatre and Film (C-List TPS 16, LST 51)
- FMS 59 African American Theatre and Film (C-List AFR 48, TPS 18)
- FMS 104 Media of the Middle East (C-List ILVS 144, ANTH 144, cvs 134)
- FMS 116 Latin American Cinema (C-List HAA 184)
- FMS 120 New Latin American Film (C-List SPN 151, LAS 151)
- FMS 121 Mexican Cinema & Identity (C-List SPN 184, LAS 184)
- FR 75 Love and War in French Film (C-List FMS 63, WGSS 75)
- GER 85/185 German Film (C-List FMS 79)
- ILCS 92-01 Special Topics: Tarkovsky & Slow Cinema (C-List RUS 92-01, ILVS 92-01)
- ILCS 175 Visualizing Colonialism (C-List CST 10, ILVS 101, FMS 117)
- ITAL 75 Italian Film (C-List FMS 77)
- JPN 80 Japanese Film (C-List FMS 78)
- JPN 81 The World of Japanese Animation: Culture, Cult, and Commerce (C-List FMS 75)
- JPN 112 Major Japanese Film Directors (C-List FMS 126)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- RUS 80 Russian Film: Art, Politics, and Society (C-List FMS 80)
- SOC 40 Media, Culture, and Society (C-List FMS 43, CVS 60)
- SOC 185 Digital Dystopias: Hate and Extremism Online (C-List FMS 106)
Cross-Cultural, Gender-Oriented and/or DEIJ Focused
For present purposes, a cross-cultural course is defined as one that explores literary or artistic expression across national or ethnic boundaries, or that of two or more cultures living in proximity, or that of a diaspora culture living in several nations, or that of a racial or ethnic minority living in a particular nation. A gender-oriented course is one that comprises its content by gender, or makes gender experience or gender relations a principal (though not necessarily exclusive) focus of its subject matter. Some courses listed below could count as "Single National or Ethnic" courses.
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(* = knowledge of foreign language required)
- AFR 22 Black World Literature (C-List ENG 20, ILVS 20)
- ARB 62 Modern Arabic Literature
- ARB 63 Arabian Nights (C-List ILVS 63, ILCS 68)
- ARB 66 Border Crossings in Literature and Film (C-List ILVS 66, ILCS 76)
- ARB 68 Arab/Jewish Literature and Film (C-List JS 68, ILVS 68, HEB 68)
- ARB 157 War and Cultural Memory in Literature and Cinema of the Middle East (C-List FMS 178, ILVS 157, ILCS 163)
- CHNS 79 Women and Gender in Modern Chinese Culture (C-List WGSS 42)
- CLS 41 Western Political Thought I (C-List PS 41/ PHIL 41, CVS 18)
- CLS 47/147 Greece, Rome and China (C-List HIST 105)
- CLS 48/148 Time and Festivals in the Ancient World
- CLS 55/155 Greek and Roman Tragedy (C-List TPS 28)
- CLS 56/156 Greek and Roman Comedy (C-List TPS 29)
- CLS 65/165 Journey of the Hero
- CLS 75 Classical Mythology (C-List ILVS 73)
- CLS 110 Empresses, Saints, & Scholars: The Women of Byzantium (C-List HIST 157)
- CLS 140 Epics of Ancient World: A Comparative Approach
- CLS 143 Greeks and Barbarians (C-List HIST 149)
- CLS 145 Shakespeare’s Rome (C-List PS 141)
- CLS 158 Women in Greek Mythology
- ENG 29 Literary Studies Now
- ENG 34 The Nature of Gothic
- ENG 35 Reading at Sea: Experimental Texts of the 20th Century
- ENG 36 Asian American Writers (C-List WGSS 36)
- ENG 37 Twentieth-Century African-American Literature
- ENG 38 First African American Writers
- ENG 45 Non-Western Women Writers
- ENG 49 English Bible
- ENG 58 Short Fiction
- ENG 59 The Paranoid Imagination (C-List ILVS 59)
- ENG 69 Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature (C-List WGSS 69)
- ENG 70 Contemporary Anglophone Literature
- ENG 77 Modernizing the Mind
- ENG 83 Un-American Activities (C-List CIV 63)
- ENG 86 Jane Austen Goes Abroad
- ENG 89 Feminism in 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture (C-List WGSS 89)
- ENG 105 Middle English Literature
- ENG 108 Virgil and Dante
- ENG 109 Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition
- ENG 110 The Renaissance in England
- ENG 113 Renaissance Drama (C-List WGSS 113)
- ENG 116 Epic Strain
- ENG 123 Frankenstein's Sisters: Austen and Shelley (C-List WGSS 123)
- ENG 135 Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Group
- ENG 146 20th C. Black Women's Writing (C-List WGSS 146)
- ENG 147 The African-American Novel
- ENG 148 The American Slave Narrative
- ENG 155 American Women Writers (C-List AFR 155, WGSS 152, AMER 155)
- ENG 159 Contemporary Jewish Fiction (C-List JS 159)
- ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature (C-List ENV 160, ILVS 160, CVS 111)
- ENG 169 20th Century Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
- ENG 174 Sexuality, Literature, and Contemporary Criticism
- ENG 177 Feminism, Literature, Theory (C-List WGSS 150)
- ENG 178 African-American Criticism and Theory
- FR 43 Introduction to Francophone Literature
- FR 46 Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity: Interrogating Frenchness
- GER 66 Jews and Germans: An Intercultural history
- GER 70/170 Grimms' Fairy Tales (C-List WGSS 70)
- GER 73/173 Berlin: An Excursion to Modernity
- GER 182 Imagining the Environment: Cross-Cultural Perspectives* (C-List ENV 82)
- JPN 71 Love & Sexuality in World Literature (C-List CIV 71, ILVS 71, RUS 71, ILCS 63)
- JPN 114 Gender in Japanese Culture
- JPN 118 Haruki Murakami and World Literature (C-List ILVS 118)
- JPN 170 The "Orient" in the Mind of the West
- JS 126 Roots of the Jewish Imagination (C-List REL 185, HEB 133, IVS 133)
- JS 132 The Book of Genesis and Its Interpreters (C-List REL 186, ILVS 132, HEB 132)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- LAS 50 Latin American Civilization* (C-List SPN 50)
- LAT 30/130 Medieval Latin*
- PHIL 55 The Making of the Modern Mind
- RCD 179-04 James Baldwin: Revolutionary (ILVS 192-01, ENG 192-02, AFR 147-02)
- REL 21 Introduction to Hebrew Bible (C-List JS 21, HEB 63)
- REL 22 Introduction to New Testament (C-List CLS 59)
- RUS 70 Gender and Politics in Russian Culture (C-List ILVS 74)
- SPN 31 Latin America: Cultural Perspectives*
- SPN 33 Latin America: Colonial (Dis)encounters*
- SPN 50/150 Latin American Civilization* (C-List AMER 50)
- SPN 101 Latin American Theatre*
- SPN 102 Latin American Short Story*
- SPN 103 Contemporary Latin American Novel*
- SPN 104 Poetry in Spanish America*
- SPN 105 The Dictator in the Latin American Novel*
- SPN 106 Literature and Revolution: Mexico and Cuba*
- SPN 107 Testimonial Literature of Latin America*
- SPN 108 Latin American Women Writers*
- SPN 111 Latino American Literature
- SPN 130 Civilization of Muslim Spain*
- SPN 154 Experiments with Reality in Latin American Fiction
- TPS 1 Introduction Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies
- TPS 10 Ancient and Medieval Theatre
- TPS 11 Early Modern Theatre
- TPS 12 Modern and Postmodern Theatre
- TPS 43/143 LGBTQ+ Theatre & Performance (C-List WGSS 23)
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- AMER 101 Native American Fine Art: Beauty and Meaning (C-List ENV 101)
- AMER 103 Native Americans and Museums: The Politics of Representation
- ARCH 26 Ancient Egypt (C-List HIST 76, CLS 26, ILVS 26)
- ARCH 27 Classical Archeology (C-List HAA 19, CLS 27, ILVS 27)
- ARCH 29 Archeology of Palestine (C-List HAA 18, CLS 29, and JS 77)
- ARCH 128 Mesoamerican Archeology (C-List ANTH 128, LAS 128)
- ARCH 163 Aegean Archeology (C-List HAA 103 and CLS 163)
- ARCH 164 Greek Art and Archeology (C-List HAA 104, CLS 164)
- ARCH 167 Tyrrhenian Archeology (C-List HAA 105 and CLS 167)
- ARCH 168 Roman Art and Archeology (C-List HAA 106 and CLS 168)
- ANTH 135 Visual Anthropology (C-List FMS 48)
- ANTH 162 Art and Aesthetics
- GER 73/173 Berlin: An Excursion to Modernity
- HAA 1 Introduction to World Art I
- HAA 2 Introduction to World Art II (C-List VMS 2)
- HAA 3 Introduction to Contemporary Art (C-List ILVS 3)
- HAA 4 Introduction to the Arts of Africa (C-List AFR 4, ILVS 4)
- HAA 5 Introduction to the Arts of Asia
- HAA 7 Introduction to Latin American Art (C-List LAS 7)
- HAA 8 Introduction to Architecture
- HAA 9 The Art World
- HAA 10/110 Japanese Art and The West
- HAA 11 Buddhist Art
- HAA 21/121 Early Islamic Art
- HAA 22/122 Iconoclasm and Iconophobia: Threat of the Image
- HAA 23/123 Byzantine Art and Architecture
- HAA 25/125 Medieval Architecture (MDVL 32/132)
- HAA 41/141 The Age of Rembrandt and Bernini
- HAA 46/146 Rococo to Revolution: Art in 18th Century Europe
- HAA 47/147 Romanticism and Realism: Art in Europe 1789-1860
- HAA 48 Nature into Art
- HAA 51/151 Nineteenth-Century Art
- HAA 53/153 Origins of Modern Art
- HAA 54/154 Twentieth Century Art in Europe and America
- HAA 55/155 Contemporary Art Since 1960
- HAA 56/156 History of Photography
- HAA 57 Global Conceptualism?
- HAA 70/170 The Contemporary Arts of Africa (C-List ILVS 69)
- HAA 71/171 The Arts of the Afro-atlantic Diaspora
- HAA 78/178 African Film and Photography
- HAA 80/180 Colonial Mexican Art & Architecture: Converging Cultures
- HAA 83 Gender in Latin American Art
- HAA 86 Latinx Art & Visual Culture (C-List LST 86, AMER 86)
- HAA 160 Museum History and Theory
- HAA 164 Who Owns the Past? Art, Heritage, and Global Conflicts (C-List 164, CVS 119)
- ILCS 175 Visualizing Colonialism (C-List CST 10, ILVS 101, FMS 175)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- TPS 32 Evolution of Fashion
- VMS 20 Interpreting Art: Tools for Critiquing, Creating & Curating
- VMS 24 Introduction to Modern Sculpture
- VMS 26 Sculpture in Site: Land Art, Installation Art & Public Art since 1960 (C-List CVS 144)
- VMS 36 Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Americas
- VMS 51 Art in Modern East Asia
- VMS 52 Encounters with Modernity
- VMS 70 Introduction to Visual and Material Studies (C-List ILVS 70)
- VMS 80 Ancient Middle & South America
- VMS 108 History of Photography Through Ideas
- VMS 109 History of Photography Through Ideas II
- VMS 110 Contemporary Art: The Prequel
- VMS 111 Contemporary Art: The Present
- VMS 122 Reassessing Museums: Collecting & Art, Biting the Hand that Feeds (C-List 122)
- VMS 128 Food as Sculpture since 1960 (C-List ENV 128)
- VMS 129 The Greening of Art (C-List ENV 129)
- VMS 152 Art in Contemporary East Asia
- VMS 155 Reimagining the Americas: Colonial Views & Returning Gazes (C-List LAS 155)
- VMS 160 Landscapes and Ecologies
- VMS 161 Art & Environment: Visual Ecology
- VMS 180 Critical Perspectives of the Americas
- VMS 190 The Art of Building Empire
- VMS 192 Latin American Icons
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- AFR 48 African American Theatre & Film (C-List TPS 18)
- ANTH 135 Visual Anthropology
- ANTH 164 Media, the State, and the Senses (C-List FMS 162)
- ARB 55 Cultural History of the Modern Middle East (C-List ILVS 55, ILCS 73)
- ARB 57 Arab and Middle Eastern Cinemas (C-List ILVS 87, FMS 76)
- ARB 155 Visualizing Colonialism (C-List CST 10, ILVS 101, FMS 175)
- ARB 157 War and Cultural Memory in Literature and Cinema of the Middle East (C-List FMS 178, ILVS 157, ILCS 175)
- CSHD 167 Children in the Mass Media (C-List CVS 147, FMS 100)
- CHNS 81 New Chinese Cinema (C-List FMS 91, ILVS 81)
- CHNS 79 Women and Gender in Modern Chinese Culture (C-List WGSS 42)
- CHNS 83 From Beijing to Bollywood: Cinema of China and India (C-List ENG 48, FMS 68, ILVS 85)
- DNC 77 Dance on Camera (C-List ILVS 29, FMS 27)
- ENG 80 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender and Ideology (C-List FMS 81, ILVS 57, WGSS 50)
- ENG 81 Postmodernism and Film (C-List FMS 87, ILVS 89)
- ENG 82 Political Cinema (C-List FMS 49)
- ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature (C-List ENV 160, ILVS 160, CVS 111)
- ENG 186 How Films Think (ILVS 186, FMS 186)
- HAA 84/184 Latin American Cinema (FMS 69)
- HAA 159 Film and the Avant-Garde (C-List FMS 179, ILVS 187)
- FMS 2 Global History of Cinema (Cross-listed ILVS 52)
- FMS 6 Television History (Cross-listed TPS 24)
- FMS 27 Dance on Camera (Cross-listed DNC 77)
- FMS 37 Online Video: Algorithms, Creators & Social Impact (CVS 47)
- FMS 70 Histories of Film, Part One, 1895-1955 (C-List VMS 10)
- FMS 71 Histories of Film II, 1955-Present (C-List VMS 11)
- FMS 72 Cinematic Cities (C-List VMS 105)
- FMS 176 The Horror Film
- FMS 177 Religion and Film (C-List REL 103)
- ILCS 92-01 Special Topics: Tarkovsky & Slow Cinema (C-List RUS 92-01, ILVS 92-01)
- ILVS 100 Classics of World Cinema (C-List WL 101, FMS 71, ILCS 80)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, FMS 84, HEB 188, ILVS 142)
- MUS 56 Music on Film / Film on Music (C-List FMS 82)
- SOC 40 Media, Culture, & Society (FMS 43, CVS 60)
- SOC 185 Digital Dystopias: Hate & Extremism Online (FMS 161)
- TPS 16 Latino Theatre and Film (FMS 83, LST 51)
- TPS 17 Latin American Theatre and Film
- TPS 19 Asian American Theatre and Film
- TPS 23/123 LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance (WGSS 23)
- TPS 120 International Women Film Directors
- VMS 101 - Neo-Noir and Its Contexts (FMS 74)
- VMS 137 Critical Theory- Theorizing Film and Gender
Theory
Below please find courses related to Theory. Such topics include Literary Theory, Film/Media Theory, Visual Theory and Cultural Theory.
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- ENG 29 Literary Studies Now
- ENG 84 Black Comedy (C-List ILVS 84)
- ENG 157 Poets on Poetry
- ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature (C-List ENV 160, ILVS 160, CVS 111)
- ENG 166 Fiction <> Non Fiction
- ENG 167 What the Novel Knows
- ENG 173 Literary Theory (C-List ILVS 173)
- ENG 174 Sexuality, Literature, and Contemporary Criticism
- ENG 175 Post-Structural Literary Theory
- ENG 177 Feminism, Literature, Theory (C-List WGSS 150)
- ENG 178 African-American Criticism and Theory
- ENG 181 The Politics of Reading
- GER 73/173 Berlin: An Excursion to Modernity
- GER 80 Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Experience (C-List ILVS 80)
- ILCS 62 Laughing and Crying (C-List ILVS 25, GER 72)
- ILCS 64 Being Human: Literature & Existentialism (C-List RUS 64, ILVS 24)
- ILVS 60 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
- JPN 118 Haruki Murakami and World Literary (C-List ILVS 118)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- TPS 262 Modern Dramatic Theory and Criticism (graduate courses; consent required)
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- DNC 77 Dance on Camera (C-List ILVS 29, FMS 27)
- FMS 1 Art of the Moving Image (C-List ILVS 51, TPS 20)
- FMS 42 Children and Mass Media (C-List CSHD 167, CVS 147)
- FMS 43 Media, Culture, and Society (C-List SOC 40, CVS 60)
- FMS 44 Introduction to Media Culture and Theory (C-List TPS 22, ILVS 54)
- FMS 45 Media Literacy (C-List TCS 22, CSHD 113)
- FMS 65 Film Theory (C-List ILVS 61)
- FMS 107 Media, The State, And The Senses (Cross-listed ANTH 164)
- FMS 171 Television in the Age of Change (C-List ILVS 72, TPS 121)
- ENG 80 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology (C-List FMS 81, ILVS 57, WGSS 50)
- ENG 81 Postmodernism and Film (C-List FMS 87, ILVS 89)
- ENG 82 Political Cinema (C-List FMS 49)
- ENG 87 Invisible Spectacle: Cinema, Discipline, Desire
- ENG 88 Film Noir and the American Tradition (C-List FMS 92)
- ENG 180 Psychoanalysis and Cinema (C-List ILVS 180, FMS 180)
- ENG 185 Art of the Film
- ENG 186 How Films Think (C-List ILVS 186, FMS 186)
- ILCS 175 Visualizing Colonialism (C-List CST 10, ILVS 101, FMS 175)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- PHIL 54 Philosophy and Film (C-List FMS 66)
- VMS 137 Critical Theory I: Theorizing Film and Gender
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- ANTH 135 Visual Anthropology (C-List 48)
- ANTH 162 Art and Aesthetics
- ANTH 186 Place and Placemaking
- ENG 82 Political Cinema (C-List FMS 49)
- ENG 124 Visual Narrative before Cinema
- ENG 186 How Films Think (ILVS 186, FMS 186)
- HAA 22/122 Iconoclasm and Iconophobia: Threat of the Image
- HAA 48 Nature into Art
- HAA 100 Theories and Methods of Art History
- HAA 101 Historiography and Methodology of Art History
- HAA 160 The Art Museum: History and Theory
- HAA 164 Who Owns the Past? Art, Heritage, and Global Conflicts (C-List 164, CVS 119)
- GER 73/173 Berlin: An Excursion to Modernity
- ILVS 70 Introduction to Visual Studies (C-List VMS 70)
- JPN 113 Japanese Visual Culture (C-List ILVS 75)
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- PHIL 52 Aesthetics (C-List VMS 53, HAA 59)
- TPS 264 Performance Ethnography (graduate course)
- VMS 20 Interpreting Art
- VMS 122 Reassessing Museums: Collecting and Art, Biting the Hand that Feeds (C-List LAS 122)
- VMS 124 Picturing the Body Politic: Art and Visual Culture in the US
- VMS 128 Food as Sculpture since 1960 (C-List ENV 128)
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The courses under this category are generally a) cross-cultural or international in scope; b) conceptual or theoretical in their main subjects; c) concerned with "culture," or with subjects relevant to an understanding of culture; d) more than just a survey of a period, a body of works, or a specific cultural tradition or geographical region, except where such subjects were broadly influential outside their original time and place.
- AAST 12 Race in America (C-List AMER 12, LST 12)
- AAST 62 Childhood Across Culture (C-List CSHD 62, LST 62)
- AAST 182 Asian America (C-List AMER 182)
- AFR 11 Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (C-List AMER 49, SOC 11)
- AFR 22 Black World Literature (C-List ENG 20, ILVS 20)
- AFR 33 African Americans in U.S. History to 1865 (C-List AMER 33)
- AFR 92 Introduction to Africana Studies
- AFR 118 (Mis-)Translating Vodun: Africana Religious Cultures and the Politics of Interpretation (C-List AMER 118, REL 140, CST 118)
- AFR 150 African-American Memory & History
- AFR 167 Critical Race Theory (C-List DLS 208, AMER 186, ED 167, CVS 11)
- AMER 16 American Identities
- AMER 100 American Studies Theories and Methods
- AMER 181 The Constructions of Whiteness: National Formations of Race, 1790-1924
- ANTH 10 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
- ANTH 12 Gender in World Cultures
- ANTH 15 Indigenous Movements in the Americas and Beyond (C-List ENV 15)
- ANTH 16 Introduction to Latinx Cultures
- ANTH 18 Growing Up Latino/a
- ANTH 20 Global Cities (C-List STS 20)
- ANTH 24 Anthropology of the Environment
- ANTH 27 Human Rights and Justice in Cultural Context (C-List CVS 57)
- ANTH 39 Gateway Course in Sociocultural Anthropology
- ANTH 102 Children and Youth in War Zones
- ANTH 117 Coming of Age in Contemporary Africa
- ANTH 118 Culture And Power in Africa
- ANTH 120 Culture, Personhood, and Subjectivity in South Asia
- ANTH 122 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia
- ANTH 126 Food, Nutrition and Culture
- ANTH 130 Anthropological Thought
- ANTH 131 Anthropology of Religion
- ANTH 132 Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (C-List REL 109, WGSS 132)
- ANTH 134 Consuming Cultures: Travel, Tourism, and Display
- ANTH 135 Visual Anthropology (C-List FMS 48)
- ANTH 136 Cultures of Computing (C-List STS 136, FMS 41)
- ANTH 137 Language and Culture (C-List LING 137)
- ANTH 138 The Anthropocene and the End of Nature
- ANTH 144 Popular Cultures of the Middle East (C-List ILVS 144, FMS 47, CVS 134)
- ANTH 145 Power, Politics, and Protest
- ANTH 146 Global Feminisms (C-List WGSS 163)
- ANTH 147 Sex and Money: Anthropology of Sex Work (WGSS 147)
- ANTH 148 Medical Anthropology (C-List STS 148, WGSS 148)
- ANTH 155 Environment, Communication and Culture (C-List ENV 150)
- ANTH 162 Art and Aesthetics
- ANTH 164 Media, The State, and the Senses (C-List FMS 162)
- ANTH 168 Anthropology of Colonialism / Decolonizing Anthropology (C-List CST 168)
- ANTH 169 Anthropology of the State: Subject, Citizen, Sovereignty
- ANTH 170 Colonizing Time
- ANTH 181 Anthropology and Feminism
- ANTH 188 Culture, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Madness
- CSHD 62 Childhood Across Culture (C-List AAST 62, LST 62)
- CSHD 164 Cultural Diversity in Child and Family Services (C-List WGSS 170, CVS 164)
- CSHD 167 Children and Media (C-List FMS 100, CVS 147)
- CVS 20 An Introduction to Civic Studies: Theories for a Better World (C-List: PHIL 20, PS 20)
- ENG 59 The Paranoid Imagination (C-List ILVS 59)
- ENG 80 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology (C-List FMS 81, ILVS 57, WGSS 50)
- ENG 82 Political Cinema (C-List FMS 49)
- ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature (C-List ENV 160, ILVS 160, CVS 111)
- ENG 164 Representing the Jew (C-List JS 164)
- ENG 177 Feminism, Literature, Theory (C-List WGSS 150)
- ENG 178 African-American Criticism and Theory
- GER 70 Grimms’ Fairy Tales (C-List WGSS 70)
- HAA 164 Who Owns the Past? Art, Heritage, and Global Conflicts (C-List 164, CVS 119)
- HIST 3 World in Motion
- HIST 5 History of Consumption
- HIST 6 World Trade, 1000-2000
- HIST 10 Colonialism in Global Perspective (C-List CST 11)
- HIST 11 Worlds to Make: the Global History of International Development
- HIST 12 Global History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Cross-listed STS 12)
- HIST 13 Africa to 1800 (Cross-listed AFR 13)
- HIST 14 Africa since 1800 (Cross-listed AFR 14)
- HIST 15 Global History of Christianity since the Middle Ages (C-List CST 37, REL 64)
- HIST 18 Colonial Latin America (C-List LAS 18)
- HIST 19 Modern Latin America (C-List LAS 19)
- HIST 70 Middle East to World War I
- HIST 71 Middle East and North Africa since WWI
- HIST 72 World of Islam
- HIST 103 Consumption, Power, and Identity: Food and Clothing in Modern Times
- HIST 104 Gender, Travel, and Imperialism
- HIST 107 Islam On the Indian Ocean Rim
- HIST 108 Decolonization in Asia
- HIST 112 Angola and Mozambique: From Liberation to Humanitarian Crises
- HIST 115 Revolution in Latin America: Mexico and Cuba
- HIST 118 Caribbean History
- HIST 138 Confucianism from China to the Modern World
- HIST 139 Women and Gender in East Asian Tradition (C-List WGSS 141)
- HIST 140 Nationalism and Its Critics in South Asia
- HIST 141 Religion, Law and Misplaced Secularity in South Asia (C-List REL 131)
- HIST 142 Islam in South Asia (C-List REL 180)
- HIST 144 South Asia and the World
- HIST 149 Greeks and Barbarians (C-List CLS 143)
- HIST 152 Religious and Spiritual Map of Europe, 300-1500 (C-List 135)
- HIST 153 Science, Magic and Society, 1100-1700
- HIST 154 Health and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (C-List STS 154)
- HIST 155 Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages & Renaissance
- HIST 158 The Balkans since 1453
- HIST 160 France & Africa since the Eighteenth Century
- HIST 162 British Empire and American Nation, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor
- HIST 163 Special Relations: Britain & the U.S. from WWII to the Present
- ILCS 62 Laughing and Crying (C-List ILVS 25, GER 72)
- ILCS 64 Being Human: Literature and Existentialism (C-List RUS 64, ILVS 24)
- ILCS 92-01 Special Topics: Tarkovsky & Slow Cinema (C-List RUS 92-01, ILVS 92-01)
- ILCS 175 Visualizing Colonialism (C-List CST 10, FMS 175, ILVS 101)
- ILVS 162 The End of the World, Plan B
- JS 142 Jewish Experience on Film (C-List REL 188, ILVS 142, FMS 125)
- ML 182 Introd. to General Linguistics
- PJS 01 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies
- PJS 120 Sociology of War and Peace (C-LIST SOC 120)
- PJS 121 Seminar: Political Culture in Comparative Perspective (C-List PS 121, CVS 121)
- PJS 141 Global Justice (C-List PHIL 141, CVS 115)
- PHIL 16 Philosophy of Religion (C-List REL 31)
- PHIL 20 An Introduction to Civic Studies: Theories for a Better World (C-List CVS 20, PS 20)
- PHIL 24 Introduction to Ethics (C-List CVS 14)
- PHIL 41, Western Political Thought I (C-List CLS 41, CVS 18, PS 41)
- PHIL 42 Western Political Thought II (C-List PS 42, CVS 52)
- PHIL 48 Feminist Philosophy
- PHIL 52 Aesthetics (C-List VMS 53, HAA 59)
- PHIL 55 The Making of the Modern Mind
- PHIL 125 Racism and Social Inequality
- PHIL 126 Theories of Human Nature
- PHIL 127 From Athens to Baghdad (Cross-listed CLS 127)
- PHIL 128 Human Rights: History and Theory
- PHIL 134 Philosophy of Social Science (prerequisite PHIL 1 and 33)
- PHIL 140 Liberalism and Its Philosophical Critics (C-List PS 140, CVS 140)
- PHIL 141 Global Justice (C-List PJS 141, CVS 115)
- PHIL 143 Philosophy and Public Policy (C-List PS 143)
- PSY 15 Theories of Personalities
- RUS 75 War Stories (C-List ILVS 83, ILCS 75)
- RUS 78 Warrior Nations: Russia & U.S. (C-List ILVS 88, FMS 58)
- SOC 1 Introduction to Sociology: The Scientific Study of Society
- SOC 23 Self and Society
- SOC 30 Gender in Society (C-List WGSS 40, CVS 30)
- SOC 40 Media, Culture and Society (C-List FMS 43, CVS 60)
- SOC 50 Globalization and Social Change
- SOC 103 Sociological Theory
- SOC 110 Latin American Society
- SOC 113 Urban Sociology
- SOC 121 Law and Society
- SOC 135 Social Movements (C-List CVS 171)
- SOC 141 Medical Sociology
- WGSS 31 Rise of the Modern Woman (C-List AMER 31, HIST 31)
- WGSS 72 Queering Feminisms: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (C-List 72)
- WGSS 73 Introduction to Queer Studies
- WGSS 80 Queer Narratives
- WGSS 140 Feminist Theologies (C-List REL 112)
- WGSS 160 Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Christianity (C-List REL 160)
- WGSS 162 Gender, Work, and Politics in East Asia (C-List PS 128)