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Non-Departmental Courses for Thematic Concentrations

A sample of Catalog Courses offered outside the History Department that help fulfill Concentration (consult with your advisor for fuller list of non-departmental courses that count toward your Concentration)

Empires, Nations, Migrations & Politics
AFST 100: Introduction to Africana Studies
AFST 240: Readings in Literatures of the Black Diaspora
ANTH 260: War and Militarism
ANTH 271: African Cultures
ARTH 234: East West Encounters
ARTH 332: Representation in Japanese Visual Culture
ASIA 250: China on Screen
ASIA 282: Modern Japanese Novelists
CLST 256: The Impact of Empire: Augustus to Constantine
CLST 283: Classica Africana
ECON 210: The History of Economic Thought
ECON 330: Asian Economics
EDUC 305: The American High School: Anatomy of an Educational Institution
EDUC 325: History of American Education
ENG 363: Renaissance and Early Modern British Literature
ENG 371: American Literature: Revolution and Renaissance
GRMN 117: Societies Past and Future: Marxism, Fascism, and In-Between in German Culture
GFS 201: Outsiders and Insiders: Immigration in Post-colonial France
GFS 319: Plural Histories
HISP 339: Spanish Civilization
HISP 444: Spanish American Literature
ITAL 376: Italian through Film
LAT 431: Roman Historians
MUS 231: Jazz History
MUS 233: Miles and ‘Trane
PHIL 340: Classical Political Philosophy
POLS 220: African American Politics
POLS 370: American Foreign Policy
WGSS 262: Transnational Feminisms

Gender & Sexuality
ANTH 255: Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 380: Anthropology of Reproduction in the Americas
ARTH 235: Women and Medieval Art
ARTH 334: Women and East Asian Art
EDUC 350: Women in Education
ENG 264: Women and Literature: Topics
ENG 390: Women and Literature: Advanced Topics
FILM 311: Topics in Gender, Sexuality and Cinema
GFS 202: Sex, Gender, and Identity in Contemporary France
GFS 303: Queer Francophone Identities
PHIL 242: Philosophy of Sex and Gender
REL 354: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Islam
SOC 217: Queer Theory/Queer Lives
SOC 334: Prison History and Culture
SOC 342: Women, Health, and Social Control
WGSS 225: Sexuality, Culture, and Power
WGSS 260: Women of Color in the U.S.
WGSS 340: Feminist Theory
WGSS 342: Women, Health, and Social Control
WGSS 355: Educating Women
WGSS 360: Women and the Internet
WGSS 362: Feminist Approaches to Environmentalism

Ideas, Health, the Body, & Science
ANTH 259: Anthropology of Death
ANTH 261: Archaeology of the Body
ANTH 380: Anthropology of Reproduction in the Americas
ANTH 383: History of Anthropology
ARTH 281: Histories of Performance Art
ASIA 150: Introduction to Taoism
BIO 105: Human Genetics
BIO 130: Plants in Human Cultures
Chemistry 100: Medicinal Plants for Poets
CLST 274: Backroads, Witchcraft, Romance: The Ancient Novel
CLST 281: Airs, Waters, Places: Classics and the Environment
ECON 210: The History of Economic Thought
ECON 465: Health Economics
EDUC 275: Radical Philosophy and Education
EDUC 322: Thinking, Learning, and Ways of Knowing in Education
ENG 191: Reading Literature: Science, Nature, and Technology
GRMN 115: Science and Technology in the Modern World
GLH: Introduction to Global Health
MUS 130: Musicking
MUS 170: Foundations of Music Education
PHIL 216: History of Western Philosophy: Early Modern
PHIL 360: Philosophy of Science
PHYS 203: Cosmology
PHYS 300: Historical Astronomy
PSY 305: History of Psychology
PSY 353: Intelligence and Creativity
REL 281: Religion, Healing, and Medicine
SOC 222: Social Deviance
SOC 242: Medical Sociology
WGSS 340: Feminist Theory
WGSS 362: Feminist Approaches to Environmentalism

Race, Religion, & Identity
AFST 240: Readings in Literatures of the Black Diaspora
AFST 291: Identity Politics
ANTH 360: African Diaspora Religions
ANTH 366: Performing Latin American Culture
ARTH 236: Eccentrics & the Exotic in 17th & 18th C. China & Japan
ARTH 282: Art + Liberation
ASIA 150: Introduction to Taoism
ASIA 251: Classical Chinese Literature
EDUC: Deconstructing Difference: Education and Society
EDUC: Critical Multiculturalism
ENG 263: African-American Literature
ENG 265: Asian American Literature
ENG 266: Native American Literature
FILM 260: African American Cinema
GFS 201: Outsiders and Insiders: Immigration in Post-colonial France
GFS 303: Queer Francophone Identities
HISP 333: Spanish as a Heritage Language
PHIL 363: Philosophy of Religion
POLS 323: The Politics of Race
POLS 335: Muslim Political Thought
REL 342: Jewish and Christian Origins
REL 354: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Islam
SOC 237: Racial and Ethnic Relations
SOC 322: Black Issues and Identity
WGSS 332: Women, Culture, and Identity
WGSS 380: Chicana Feminisms