International Studies Suggested Classes for Spring 2007

By region:

AFRICA:

AFAS 204 -- African Diaspora Religion and Culture (3 units)
AFAS 220 -- Introduction to African American Studies (3 units)
AFAS 222 -- African American Studies: A History of Ideas (3 units)
AFAS 223 -- African Philosophical Worlds (3 units)
AFAS 249/FREN 249 -- Images of Africa (3 units)
AFAS 255 -- African American Politics (3 units)
AFAS 304A -- The Social Construction of Race: Whiteness (3 units)
AFAS 340 -- The Politics of Race and the African Experience (3 units)
AFAS 344 -- African American Religion (3 units)
AFAS 467 -- Race and Ethnic Relations (3 units)
AFAS 475 --USA & South Africa: Comparative Historical & Political Perspectives (3 units)

EAST ASIA:

CHN 142 -- Chinese Humanities (3 units)
JPN 245 -- Popular Culture in Japan (3 units)
JPN 272 -- Japanese Civilization (3 units)
JPN 311 -- Death in Traditional Japanese Literature (3 units)
JPN 489 -- History of Japanese Religions: Modern (3 units)

NEAR EAST:

NES 277B -- History of the Middle East: Modern Middle East (3 units)

EUROPE:

FREN 280 -- Introduction to French Language, Linguistics and Culture (3 units
GER 273 -- Tradition and Revolution: German Romanticism (3 units)
GER 274 -- Dialogue of the Sexes: Men and Women in Contemporary German Society (3 units)
GER 375 -- Love, Madness and Decay in fin-de-siecle Vienna (3 units)
POL 341 -- Comparative Public Policy (3 units)
POL 451 -- Soviet and Post-Soviet Foreign Policy (3 units)
RELI 332 -- Jewish Response to the Holocaust (3 units)
R SS 425 / HIS 425-- History of the Soviet Union (3 units)
RSSS 210 -- Utopian Visions: Promises and Reality in 20th Century Russia (3 units)
RSSS 275 -- The Balkans: Identity in Crisis (3 units)
RSSS 315 -- Werewolves and Vampires: Slavic Folklore in our Culture (3 units)
RSSS 340 -- Accursed Questions: Russian Writers and Society, 1825-1904 (3 units)
RSSS 350 -- The Soviet Experiment (3 units)

LATIN AMERICA:

ANTH 203 -- Caribbean Transformations from "Cannibals" to Reggae (3 units)
HIST 361 -- The U.S.-Mexico Border Region (3 units)
HIST 467 -- Contemporary Latin America (3 units)
LA S 369 -- Mexico Since Its Independence (3 units)
LA S 418 -- Southwest Land and Society (3 units)
LA S 462 -- Special Topics in Contemporary Latin America (3 units)
MAS 301 -- Translation and Interpretation: Social Justice and Practice (3 units)
MAS 365 -- Latinos and Latinas: Emerging Contemporary Issues (3 units)
MUS 337 -- Survey of Mexican Folk Music (3 units)
SOC 384 -- Sociology of Latin American Societies (3 units)
SPAN 210 -- Latin America on Film (3 units)