Autumn 2025 Area Studies Courses Draft

Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics

4532 Food Security and Globalization (3 credits)
4597.01 Food, Population, and the Environment (3 credits)
6200 - International Economics and Policy

Business Administration: Management and Human Resources

2000 Introduction to International Business (1.5 credits)
3000 - Advanced Topics in International Business
4010 - International Business Strategies
4021 - Institutions of the International Business Environment
4321 - International Labor and Human Resource Management 

Comparative Studies

1100 - Intro to the Humanities: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
2301 - Introduction to World Literature
2360 - Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies
3302 Translating Literatures and Cultures (3 credits)
3302E Honors
4597.02 - Global Culture
4597.03 - Global Folklore 

Dance 

3402 - Dance in Global Contexts 
 

East Asian Languages and Literatures

1231 East Asian Humanities (3 credits)
3223 - The Buddhist Tradition
3405 Introducing East Asia through Martial Arts Cinema (3 credits)
4200 - Topics in East Asian Culture 
7706 - Teaching Practicum in East Asian Cultures, Literatures, and Linguistics 
8701 Teaching East Asian Languages at the College Level (3 credits)

Chinese

2283 - Chinese Calligraphy
4380 The Chinese Language (3 credits)
4403 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation (3 credits)
4404 - Chinese Drama (3 credits)
4405 China in Chinese Film (3 credits)
5380 Intro to Chinese Linguistics (3 credits)
5474 Chinese Opera
6451 - History of Chinese Literature I
7385 Chinese Dialects (3 credits)


Japanese

2231 Elements of Japanese Culture (3 credits)
5315 Japanese Language: Structure, Culture and Communication I (3 credits)
5271 The Japanese Religious Tradition (3 credits)
5315 Japanese Language: Structure, Culture, and Communication I 
5380 Japanese Linguistics (3 credits)
 

Korean

2231 Elements of Korean Culture (3 credits)
2451 Korean Literature in Translation (3 credits)
5405 - Korean Dramatic Tradition
5405 - Interdisciplinary Courses in Korean Art, Music, Film, and Theatre 

 

Economics 

4130 World Economic Development in Historical Perspective (3 credits)
 

Geography

2750 World Regional Geography (3 credits)
3701 Making of the Modern World (3 credits)
3900.01 - Global Climate Change: Causes and Consequences 
 

History

1681 World History to 1500
1682 World History from 1500 to Present
2402 History of East Asia in the Modern Era
2650 The World Since 1914 (3 credits)
3426 History of Modern Japan (3 credits)
3501 - U.S. Diplomacy, 1920-Present
3552 - War in World History, 1900 - Present
3552 - World War II
 

History of Art 

2003 - The Art and Visual Culture of East Asia
3605 East West Photography (3 credits)
3901 World Cinema Today (3 credits)
4001 Writing Seminar in History of Art (3 credits)
4701 Introduction to Buddhist Art and Iconography
4820 The Arts of Japan
 

International Studies


4597.01 Food, Population, and the Environment (3 credits)
4701 The Development & Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction (3 credits)
5701 Intelligence & National Security in a Changing World (3 credits)
5701E

Kinesiology: Sport, Fitness and Health Program

1169.02 Martial Arts Forms: Judo I (1 credit)
1169.02 Martial Arts Forms: Karate I (1 credit) 
1169.07 Martial Arts Forms: Tae Kwon Do I (1 credit)
1169.13 Martial Arts Culture Around the World

Law

7124 International Dispute Resolution (3 credits)

Music

2250 Music Cultures of the World (3 credits)
 

Philosophy

2120 Asian Philosophies (3 credits)
 

Political Science

1300 Global Politics (3 credits)
3220 - Politics of the Developing World
4332 - Politics of Globalization
4335 - International Environmental Politics
4381 - Comparative International Political Economy
 

Public Health

6000 Introduction to Global Health (3 credits)
 

Sociology

3597.01 World Problems in Global Context (3 credits)


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