Non-Western Culture Requirement

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For the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Science, and the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 3 credits of an approved course in the study of a non-Western culture is required in addition to the course used to fulfill the university-wide general education requirement in global understanding.

A course used to fulfill the university-wide general education global understanding requirement may not be simultaneously used to satisfy this college-level requirement.

A course used to fulfill this requirement may be used simultaneously to fulfill any other requirements (university-wide general education requirements, college-level requirements, or requirements for the major).

Approved Non-Western Culture Courses

• ANTH 114 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
   
• ANTH 300 - Civilizations
   
• ANTH 301 - Native North Americans
   
• ANTH 302 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
   
• ANTH 304 - Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific
   
• ANTH 305 - Foraging Societies
   
• ANTH 306 - Peoples and Cultures of Island Asia
   
• ANTH 307 - Ancient Mesoamerica
   
• ANTH 308 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
   
• ANTH 309 - Peoples and Cultures of India
   
• ANTH 311 - Peoples and Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
   
• ANTH 313 - Myth, Magic, and Mind
   
• ANTH 314 - Zombies
   
• ANTH 316 - Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
   
• ANTH 323 - Digging and Dealing in the Dead: Ethics in Archaeology
   
• ANTH 330 - Peoples and Cultures of Selected Regions: Non-Western
   
• ANTH 332 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Globalization
   
• ANTH 381 - Medical Anthropology
   
• ANTH 396 - Issues in Anthropology: Social Sciences
   
• ARAB 420 - Survey of Arabic Literature
   
• ARAB 440 - Topics in Arabic Religious Thought and Texts
   
• ARTH 203 - Survey of Asian Art
   
• ARTH 204 - Survey of Latin American Art
   
• ARTH 319 - Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
   
• ARTH 320 - Art of the Islamic World
   
• ARTH 380 - African Art
   
• ARTH 382 - Arts of India
   
• ARTH 383 - Arts of Southeast Asia
   
• ARTH 384 - Arts of China
   
• ARTH 385 - Arts of Japan
   
• ARTH 386 - The Silk Road
   
• ARTH 482 - Advanced Studies in Asian Art
   
• CHIN 318 - Introduction to Classical Chinese
   
• CHIN 320 - Contemporary Chinese Film
   
• CHIN 325 - Major Chinese Writers
   
• DANC 118 - World Dance
   
• ECON 361 - Economic Development of Latin America
   
• ECON 362 - African Economic Development
   
• FREN 451 - Topics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Culture
   
• FREN 454 - Topics in Caribbean Francophone Literature and Culture
   
• GGS 101 - Major World Regions
   
• GGS 316 - Geography of Latin America
   
• GGS 325 - Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
   
• GGS 330 - Geography of the Soviet Succession States
   
• GGS 399 - Selected Topics in Geography
   
• GOVT 328 - Non-Western Political Theory
   
• GOVT 332 - Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
   
• GOVT 333 - Government and Politics of Asia
   
• GOVT 340 - Central Asian Politics
   
• GOVT 341 - Chinese Foreign Policy
   
• GOVT 345 - Political Islam
   
• GOVT 432 - Political Change and Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
   
• GOVT 433 - Political Economy of East Asia
   
• HIST 130 - History of the Modern Global System
   
• HIST 251 - Survey of East Asian History
   
• HIST 252 - Survey of East Asian History
   
• HIST 261 - Survey of African History
   
• HIST 262 - Survey of African History
   
• HIST 271 - Survey of Latin American History
   
• HIST 281 - Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization
   
• HIST 282 - Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization
   
• HIST 328 - Rise of Russia
   
• HIST 329 - Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
   
• HIST 353 - History of Traditional China
   
• HIST 354 - Modern China
   
• HIST 356 - Modern Japan
   
• HIST 365 - Conquest and Colonization in Latin America
   
• HIST 366 - Comparative Slavery
   
• HIST 367 - History, Fiction, and Film in Latin America
   
• HIST 387 - Topics in Global History
   
• HIST 426 - The Russian Revolution
   
• HIST 460 - Modern Iran
   
• HIST 461 - Arab-Israeli Conflict
   
• HIST 465 - The Middle East in the 20th Century
   
• HIST 466 - Origins of Conflict in Southern Africa
   
• JAPA 310 - Japanese Culture in a Global World
   
• JAPA 340 - Topics in Japanese Literature
   
• MUSI 103 - Musics of the World
   
• RELI 211 - Religions of the West
   
• RELI 212 - Religions of Asia
   
• RELI 272 - Islam
   
• RELI 313 - Hinduism
   
• RELI 314 - Chinese Philosophies and Religious Traditions
   
• RELI 315 - Buddhism
   
• RELI 337 - Mysticism: East and West
   
• RELI 374 - Islamic Thought
   
• RELI 375 - Qur'an and Hadith
   
• RELI 490 - Comparative Study of Religions
   
• RUSS 353 - Russian Civilization
   
• RUSS 354 - Contemporary Post-Soviet Life