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CCI Submajor

International Studies (Major)

Effective Winter 2021 Exclusions:

International Studies majors must declare a sub-plan. The sub-plan will be notated on the student's official transcript.

Advising

The International Studies Advisor will assist students in developing a program of study. Advising for the Honors plan is provided by the PICS Director and the PICS Honors Thesis advisor. For more information, see: www.ii.umich.edu/pics/undergraduates/advising.

Grade Policies

Students must earn a C- or better in all required PICS courses. Language requirement courses are not included in the minimum 34 credits required for the major nor in the major GPA.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met before declaration:

  • INTLSTD 101: Introduction to International Studies (Grade of C- or better).
  • Students declaring Political Economy & Development sub-plan must complete ECON 101 with a grade of C or better.
  • Students must have started or completed 4th-term language proficiency.

Requirements

Minimum Credits: 34

PICS Language Requirement for the Major.

Sixth-term proficiency in a language other than English must be obtained prior to graduation; therefore, students should begin the language sequence early.

We believe that language study is a vital part of any liberal arts education and that students who major in international studies should be well prepared to work in environments overseas, or in companies or organizations that interact regularly with people from other countries. The PICS language requirement will not only be of benefit to the students in broadening their skills and their vision of the world but will also be an important signal to employers or graduate admissions committees about how our students are well-rounded and focused on the world and not just the United States.

Please see PICS website for details of and further information about the sixth-term language requirement.

See Sub-Plans for course requirements:

Honors

Students interested in the Honors subplan typically elect the Honors section of INTLSTD 101: Introduction to International Studies, and must complete INTLSTD 101 with a grade of B+ or better. Students who have declared a major in International Studies must have an overall GPA of 3.4, must complete all International Studies requirements for the major with a 3.4 or higher average in those courses, and complete a senior Honors thesis.

Students must earn C- or better in all required PICS courses.

During their senior year, students writing a thesis will enroll in INTLSTD 489 during Fall term and INTLSTD 499 during Winter term. The thesis will have a minimum length of 50 pages. Students are responsible for locating their own PICS faculty thesis advisor. Advisor and topic must be approved by PICS director.

An instructor will oversee the Honors subplan. This will include a class meeting with all Honors thesis students as a collective, at least twice per semester of their senior year, and once at the end of their junior year, to review requirements, answer questions, and discuss research practices and principles.

Each student will have an oral defense of the thesis in a meeting with the Honors thesis advisor, the Coordinator of Experiential, Independent, and Honors Education, plus one outside reader from the faculty.

Student grades on the thesis and Honors level will be determined by the PICS instructor in consultation with the Honors thesis advisor.

Advising for the Honors Plan is provided by the Honors advisor and the PICS Honors Plan advisor.

Comparative Culture & Identity (CCI) (Sub-Major)

Effective Fall 2020

Exclusions:

The Comparative Culture and Identity (CCI) sub-plan is only available to declared International Studies majors and is not a major or minor. The sub-plan will be notated on the student's official transcript.

Advising

The International Studies Advisor will assist students in developing a program of study. Advising for the Honors plan is provided by the PICS Director and the PICS Honors Thesis advisor. For more information, see: www.ii.umich.edu/pics/undergraduates/advising

Grade Policies

Students must earn a C- or better in all required PICS courses.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met before declaration:

  • INTLSTD 101: Introduction to International Studies (Grade of C- or better).
  • Students must have started or completed 4th-term language proficiency.

Requirements

Additional Pre-requisites and/or requirements are listed on the International Studies Major page.

    1. Language Requirement: Sixth term proficiency.
    2. Core Courses (7 credits):
      • INTLSTD 301: Topics in International Studies
      • INTLSTD 401: International Studies Advanced Seminar
    3. Methods of CCI (3 credits): At least one course chosen from the following list:
      • ANTHRCUL 222: The Comparative Study of Cultures
      • COMPLIT 322: Translating World Literatures
      • SOC 310: Sociological Research Methods

      Note: Completion of the Methods requirement is recommended prior to enrolling in INTLSTD 301.

    4. Regional Course (3 credits): One geographic emphasis course devoted to a single world region or country that is related to foreign language of study.
    5. CCI Courses (12 credits): Four courses, chosen from an approved list (see below), to gain knowledge in sub-plan area.
      • Globalization and Culture: One course must be chosen from the following short list:
        • COMPLIT 240: Literature Across Borders
        • GTBOOKS / COMPLIT 212: Great Books in World Literatures
        • INTLSTD 205 / HISTORY 101: What is History?
        • ROMLANG 253: The Mediterranean: History and Culture
      • At least one course must be at the 400 level.
      • Must include at least two academic subjects.

      Note: Complete term specific sub-plan course lists may be found on the PICS courses website.

    6. Three electives (9 credits): The electives are designed to allow students to further personalize their major. Students will elect three advanced courses which will be expected to build upon the theme of their sub-plans. The selected courses should thus contribute to the coherence of the student's overall concentration. Students may select additional sub-plan, regional, or relevant study abroad courses, however there is no preapproved list of electives. Because there is no preapproved list, students must seek and obtain the approval of elective courses - on a course-by-course basis - from a PICS advisor. It is strongly advised that this approval be obtained before taking the class.

 

CCI courses include, but are not limited to:

  • AAS 200: Introduction to African Studies
  • AAS 202: Introduction to Afro-Caribbean Studies (only if elected FA19 or later)
  • AAS 206: Issues in African Studies, section titled "Symbolic Language and Communications in West African Visual and Performing Arts" 
  • AAS 208: Introduction to African Art, section titled "Introduction to African Art and Visual Culture"
  • AAS 211: Dynamics of the Black Diaspora, section titled "Religion and Revolution" (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • AAS 247 / HISTORY 247: Modern Africa
  • AAS 317 / ENGLISH 307 / WGS 347: Threads: What Does Clothing Have to Do with Race, Culture, Politics, and the Environment?
  • AAS 342: Hip Hop Africa
  • AAS 355 / ANTHRCUL 355 / HISTORY 355: Health and Illness in African Worlds
  • AAS 358: Black World Studies, section titled "Jewish Life in Colonial North Africa"
  • AAS / ENGLISH 385: African Literature
  • AAS 395 / GERMAN / HISTORY 396: Black Germany
  • AAS 407 / HISTART 406: Looking at African Things
  • AAS 422 / ANTHRCUL 411: African Cultures
  • AAS 426: Cities in Contemporary Africa, section titled "Cities in Contemporary Africa"
  • AAS 458: Issues in Black World Studies, sections titled
    “Human Rights & LGBTI in Sub-Saharan Africa”
    “Business & Politics in Developing Countries”
    “Fighting with Human Rights – Africa”
  • AAS 495: Senior Seminar, section titled "Justice in Africa"
  • ALA 210: Defining Critical Global Issues
  • ALA 211: Addressing Critical Global Issues
  • ALA 470: Applied Liberal Arts Topics, section titled "Organizing for Global Justice"
  • AMAS 311: Arab American Studies and the Humanities, sections titled "Art and Music of the Islamic World" or "Contemporary Film of the Islamic World"
  • AMCULT / ASIANPAM 325 / ENGLISH 388: Pacific Literary and Cultural Studies
  • AMCULT 405: Topics in American Culture, section titled "Border Country: Mexico, American and Country Music"
  • ANTHRARC / MATSCIE 281: Making Things: Three Million Years of Materials and Culture
  • ANTHRARC 296: Archaeology Topics, section titled "Making Things: Three Million Years of Materials and Culture"
  • ANTHRARC 386: Early Civilizations, section titled "Early New World Civilization"
  • ANTHRCUL 222: Comparative Study of Cultures 
  • ANTHRCUL 237: Digital Futures: Media Technologies and Social Transformation Around the World
  • ANTHRCUL / ISLAM / RELIGION 246: Anthropology of Religion
  • ANTHRCUL 254: The Anthropology of Food
  • ANTHRCUL / LING 272: Language in Society
  • ANTHRCUL 256 / ENVIRON 256: Culture, Adaptation and Environment
  • ANTHRCUL 298: Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, section titled "Transborder Trade"
  • ANTHRCUL 319: Latin American Society and Culture
  • ANTHRCUL 325 / WGS 324 (WOMENSTD 324): Childbirth & Culture
  • ANTHRCUL 328: Globalizing Consumer Cultures
  • ANTHRCUL 333: Non-Western Legal Systems, I
  • ANTHRCUL 344: Medical Anthropology 
  • ANTHRCUL 348 / INTLSTD 381 / MIDEAST 381: Anthropology of Islam
  • ANTHRCUL 349: Indigenous Political Movements
  • ANTHRCUL 355 / HISTORY 355 / AAS 355: Health and Illness in African Worlds
  • ANTHRCUL 356: Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, section titled "In Sickness and in Health: Medical Anthropologies of Kinship, Relatedness, and the Human"
  • ANTHRCUL / LING 370: Language & Discrimination
  • ANTHRCUL / LING 374: Language and Culture
  • ANTHRCUL 404: Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
  • ANTHRCUL 411 / AAS 422: African Cultures
  • ANTHRCUL 430 / HISTORY 430 / MIDEAST 480: History, Memory, and Silence in the Middle East
  • ARMENIAN / HISTORY / MIDEAST 389: From Natives to Foreigners: Armenians in Turkey and the Diaspora
  • ASIAN / HISTORY 205: Modern East Asia 
  • ASIAN / HISTORY 204: East Asia: Early Transformations
  • ASIAN 257: Great Cities in Asia
  • ASIAN / ENVIRON 258: Food and Drink of Asia
  • ASIAN / RELIGION 305: Religion and Violence, section titled "Investigating the Changing World Order"
  • ASIAN 307 / HISTORY 308 / RELIGION 307: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia
  • ASIAN 342 / WGS 332: Gender and Power in Southeast Asia
  • ASIAN 343: SE Asian Politics through the Arts
  • ASIAN 348: Humanities Topics in SE Asian Studies, section titled "Violence and Cultural Change in Southeast Asia"
  • ASIAN / ENVIRON / INTLSTD 351: Chinese Food in Crisis: Health, Ecology, and Identity in an Age of Globalization
  • ASIAN / LING 367: Languages of Asia
  • ASIAN / RCSSCI 371: Natural Disasters in East Asia
  • ASIAN 389: Culture in East Asian Business, Past and Present
  • ASIAN 408 / HISTORY 438 / WGS 408: Gender and Health in East Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
  • BA 310: Cross-Cultural Business
  • BA 319: Developing Global Competency
  • BCS 450: In No Man's Land: Walls, Migrations and Human Trafficking in the Balkans and Mediterranean
  • BL / BUSABRD 411: Cross Cultural Negotiation & Resolution
  • CLARCH 375: Engaging Antiquity: Heritage, Museums, Media, Tourism, and Communities
  • CLCIV 253: The Mediterranean: Classical Studies, sections titled "The Mediterranean: Classics" or "The Mediterranean"
  • CLCIV 250: Topics in the Ancient World, section titled "On the Edges of the Roman Empire: Armenians and Syrians in the Medieval Middle East"
  • CLCIV / HISTORY / WGS 303: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean
  • CLCIV 392: Ancient Medicine in Greece & Rome
  • COMM 306: Survey of Media Topics in the Humanities, section titled "African Digital Cultures"
  • COMM 405: Seminar in Mass Media and Mass Communication, section titled "Media, Culture, and Communication in Contemporary China"
  • COMM 439: Seminar in Journalistic Performance, section titled "Global Threats to Press Freedom"
  • COMM 447: Women and Islam: The Politics of Representation
  • COMM 455: Global Visual Cultures
  • COMM 466: Global Digital Politics
  • COMPLIT 212 / GTBOOKS 212: Great Books in World Literature
  • COMPLIT 240: Literature Across Borders
  • COMPLIT 300: Global Humanities
  • COMPLIT 322: Translating World Literatures
  • COMPLIT 350: The Text and Its Cultural Context, section titled "Nineteenth Century Russian Prose and Beyond"
  • COMPLIT 438: Comparative Studies in Film, section titled "In No Man's Land: Walls, Migrations and Human Trafficking in the Balkans and Mediterranean"
  • COMPLIT 490: Comparative Cultural Studies, section titled “Narratives of Immigration”
  • DANCE 342: Topics in World Dance
  • ENGLISH 317: Literature & Culture, section titled "Armenian Relationality: Diasporas Old, New, and in the Making"
  • ENGLISH 375: World Literatures in English
  • ENGLISH / AAS 385: African Literature
  • ENVIRON 219 / MIDEAST 209: Food and Drink in the Middle East
  • ENVIRON 256 / ANTHRCUL 256: Culture, Adaptation and Environment
  • FRENCH 235: Advanced French, section titled "Sociopolitical and Multicultural Issues"
  • FRENCH 240: French and Francophone Topics in Translation, section titled "Global History of Hip-Hop"
  • FRENCH 444: Readings in French and Francophone Studies (in English Translation), section titled "Jewish Life in Colonial North Africa"
  • FTVM / GERMAN 333: Fascist Cinemas
  • FTVM 353: Film History: Post New Wave
  • FTVM 366: Film, TV & Pop Cult, section titled "Who Gets to Be an Auteur?: Ideology, Gendered Politics, and Filmmakers from the Global South"
  • FTVM 441: National Screens, section titled "Introduction to Global Bollywood"
  • FTVM 455: Topics in Film, section titled "Transnational Women's Cinema"
  • GERMAN 303: Ger Cult & Arts, section titled "Czech, German Jewish"
  • GERMAN 391/ HISTORY / JUDAIC 386: The Holocaust, section titled "Issues in Race & Ethnicity"
  • GTBOOKS 212 / COMPLIT 212: Great Books in World Literature
  • HISTART 253: The Mediterranean: Art History
  • HISTART 285: Visual Culture in Islam
  • HISTART 294: Special Topics, section titled "Mapping Race + (Dis)placement"
  • HISTART 383: Modern Art in a Multi-Ethnic Asia
  • HISTART 393: Topics in U.S. History, sections titled
    "Art & Resistance"
    "Art and Resistance: Global Responses to Oppression"
    "Arts of the Silk Roads"
    "Art and Conflict in the Middle East, 1900-Present"
    "Palestinian Art"
  • HISTART 394: Special Topics in the Humanities, section titled "Living in a Material World: Europe and the Globe, 1492-c. 1800" or "The Art of Power in Colonial Latin America"
  • HISTART 406 / AAS 407: Looking at African Things
  • HISTART 489: Special Topics in Art and Culture, section titled "Soviet Visual Culture: 1917-1953"
  • HISTART 497: Upper-Level Seminar, sections titled "Nomad Civilizations" or "Visualizing Race Comparatively"
  • HISTORY / INTLSTD / RELIGION / STS 209: Death, Immortality, and Afterlife
  • HISTORY 216: World War I
  • HISTORY 230: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled
    "War, Gender, Masculinity, Violence" 
    "Imagining Home in Socialist and Capitalist Societies"
    "On the Edges of the Roman Empire: Armenians and Syrians in the Medieval Middle East"
    "Jews in the Modern World"
  • HISTORY 241: America and Middle Eastern Wars
  • HISTORY 242 / MIDEAST 201 / STS 202: Madness, Medicine, and Magic in the Middle East 
  • HISTORY 247 / AAS 247: Modern Africa
  • HISTORY / JUDAIC 290 / MIDEAST 287: Jews and Muslims
  • HISTORY 308 / ASIAN / RELIGION 307: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia
  • HISTORY 328: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled
    "Global History of the Jews of Spain"

    "Jewish Life in Colonial North Africa"
    "Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths"
    "Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land"
    "Walking and Modern History: Land, Power, and Rights on Foot"
    "Blackness and Jewishness: A History of Encounters"
    "Women and Gender in the Cold War"
    "From Baghdad to Amsterdam: Jews as a Minority Group in Medieval and Early Modern Times"
  • HISTORY 333 / RUSSIAN 375: Literature and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose
  • HISTORY / INTLSTD 348: Latin America: The National Period
  • HISTORY 355 / ANTHRCUL 355 / AAS 355: Health and Illness in African Worlds
  • HISTORY 358: Religion Magic and Mystery
  • HISTORY 384: Antisemitism and Philosemitism: Jews in Myth and Thought
  • HISTORY 399: Topics in History, section titled "Islam and the West"
  • HISTORY 407: Advanced Study in Comparative and Transnational History, sections titled “Japan, Asia and WWII: Culture, History, Memory” or “Christ. & Pol. In Afr. Hist”
  • HISTORY 469: Precolonial SE Asia, section titled "Problems in Early SE Asian History"
  • HISTORY 481: Topics in European History, sections titled "Soviet Visual Culture, 1910s-1940s: Pictures, Propaganda, Politics" or "Soviet Visual Culture: 1917-1953"
  • HISTORY 487: Conversions and Christianities in the Early Modern World and Beyond
  • HISTORY 496: History Colloquium, sections titled
    "Monks & Mystics: Spiritual Striving in Medieval Europe and Byzantium"
    "The World of the Ship"
    "Fascism from a Comparative Perspective"
  • HISTORY 497: History Colloquium, section titled "Making the Modern Mediterranean"
  • INTLSTD 270: INTLSTD Special Topics, section titled "Digital Futures: Media Technologies and Social Transformation Around the World"
  • INTLSTD 348: Latin America: The National Period
  • INTLSTD 351: Chinese Food in Crisis: Health, Ecology, and Identity in an Age of Globalization
  • INTLSTD 384: International and/or Comparative Topics in the Humanities, sections titled "Imagining Home in Socialist and Capitalist Societies" or "Blackness and Jewishness: A History of Encounters"
  • INTLSTD 389: Topics in Comparative Culture and Identity
  • INTLSTD 385: International and/or Comparative Topics in the Social Sciences, sections titled
    "Indigenous Communities vs Globalization in South America"
    "Global Workers' Rights"
    "Modern Africa" 
  • INTLSTD 401: International Studies Advanced Seminar, sections titled
    “Human Rights & LGBTI in Sub-Saharan Africa”
    “Women and Islam: The Politics of Representation”
    “Fighting with Human Rights – Africa”
    “Christ. & Pol. In Afr. Hist”
    “Humanitarian Dilemmas”
    “Migration, Human Smugglings and Trafficking”
    “Business & Politics in Developing Countries”
  • INTLSTD 489: Topics in Comparative Culture and Identity
  • ISLAM 390: Topics in Islamic Studies, section titled "Palestinian Art 1945-Present"
  • ISLAM 392: Humanities Topics in Islamic Studies, section titled "Art and Music of the Islamic World"
  • ISLAM 433 / MIDEAST 433 / WGS 496: Gender and Representation in the Modern Middle East
  • IOE 430: Global Cultural Systems Engineering
  • JUDAIC 218: Humanities Topics in Judaism, sections titled "Policing and Civil Rights" or "Arts and Cultures of Central Europe: Czech, German Jewish"
  • JUDAIC 253: The Mediterranean: Jewish Studies, section titled "Jerusalem: Once City, Three Faiths"
  • JUDAIC / MIDEAST / SLAVIC 281: Jews in the Modern World: Texts, Images, Ideas
  • JUDAIC 318: Humanities Topics in Judaism, sections titled
    "Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land"
    "Jerusalem: One City Three Faiths"
    "Blackness and Jewishness: A History of Encounters"
    "From Baghdad to Amsterdam: Jews as a Minority Group in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
  • JUDAIC 340 / FRENCH 347 / MENAS 341 / MIDEAST 313: Jewish Life in Colonial North Africa
  • JUDAIC 360 / MIDEAST 386: A Global History of Jews in Spain
  • JUDAIC 417: Topics in Judaic Studies, section titled "Jews of the Middle East"
  • LATINOAM 405: Topics in Latina/o Studies, section titled "Border Country: Mexico, American and Country Music"
  • LING / ANTHRCUL 374: Language and Culture
  • LING 497: Capstone Seminar, section titled "Biology and Evolution of Language"
  • MEMS 360: Special Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, section titled "Baghdad to Amsterdam"
  • MIDEAST 202/ RELIGION 201: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  • MIDEAST 203: Sports and Games in the Middle East
  • MIDEAST / ISLAM / HISTART 285: Visual Culture Islam
  • MIDEAST 291: Humanities Topics in Middle East Studies, section titled "Sports and Games in the Middle East"
  • MIDEAST 344: Topics in Humanities, section titled "Art and Music of the Islamic World"
  • MIDEAST 355 / CLARCH 327 / CLCIV 327 / RELIGION 326: Jews in the Roman Mediterranean: Archaeology, Religion, and Culture
  • MIDEAST 391: Humanities Topics in Middle East Studies, sections titled "Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land" or "Blackness and Jewishness: A History of Encounters"
  • PHIL 475: Topics in 20th Century Philosophy
  • POLSCI 353: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • POLSCI 389: Topics, section titled "Culture in East Asian Business, Past and Present"
  • POLSCI 436: Research Seminar on Middle East Politics and Society
  • POLSCI 489: Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science, section titled “Business & Politics in Developing Countries” or "The German and European Left"
  • POLSCI 495: Undergraduate Seminar in Political Theory, section titled "The Muslim Question"
  • PSYCH 477: Current Topics in Clinical Psychology, section titled "Mental Health and Culture: National & International Perspectives
  • RCIDIV 305: The Literature of Environmental and Social Justice,  section titled "Leading a Good Life: Civility, Engagement & Justice"
  • RCIDIV 351: Special Topics, section titled "Refugee Narratives"
  • RCHUMS 235: Topics in World Dance
  • RCHUMS 315: Representation in the Arts, section titled "Art & Music of the Islamic World"
  • RCHUMS 334: Special Topics in the Humanities, sections titled
    "Latina/o Theatre for Social Change"
    "Art and Resistance: Global Responses to Oppression"
    "Art and Conflict in the Middle East, 1900-Present"
    "Literature and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose"
  • RCHUMS 357: What Art Means: Analysis and Interpretation, section titled "Palestinian Art"
  • RCLANG 324: Readings in Spanish, sections titled
    "Travel and Movement: Exploring Cultural Landscapes and the Self"
    "Indigenous Activism in the Age of Globalization"
    "Pigmentocracy, Racism and Social Stratification in Latin America"
    "Women, Words and Images: Literary and Visual Dialogues on Gender in Latin America"
  • RCSSCI 250: Topics in Social Theory and Practice, section titled "Global Workers' Rights"
  • RELIGION / AAS 307 / HISTORY 308: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia
  • REES 230: REES Topics in the Humanities, section titled "Imagining Home in Socialist & Capitalist Societies"
  • REES 405: Topics in REEES, section titled "Soviet Visual Culture, 1910s-1940s: Pictures, Propaganda, Politics"
  • ROMLANG 498: Senior Seminar RLL, section titled "AIDS, the Other Pandemic"
  • RUSSIAN 358: Central Asia through Russian Eyes: Cultural Appropriation of an Exotic Land
  • SEAS 455: Topics SE Asian Study, section titled "Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies"
  • SI 430: Information Technology and Global Society
  • SLAVIC 225: Art & Culture of Central Europe, section titled "Czech, German Jewish"
  • SLAVIC 290: Studies E Euro Cult: Imagining Home in Socialist & Capitalist Societies
  • SLAVIC 470: Topics in Cultural Studies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe, section titled "Soviet Visual Culture: 1917-1953"
  • SOC 350: Human Rights in the United Nations
  • SOC 422: Latin America
  • SOC 495: Topics in Sociology, sections titled
    “Global and Local Connections: Understanding our World at Home and Abroad”
    "Sex, Love, and Marriage in Comparative Perspective"
    "Gender and Family in East Asia"
    "The German and European Left"
  • SOC 503: The Sociology of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
  • SPANISH 232: Second Year Spanish, sections titled
    "The Hispanic World Through Food"
    "LGBTQA in the Hispanic World: Artistic & Cultural Manifestations"
    "Artefactos y patrimonio cultural"
    "Gender Equality in Latin America"
    "Historia, instrumentos, balles y musica de Latinoamerica"
  • SPANISH 280: Conversation Through Spanish/Latin American Film, section titled "Borders and Boundaries" or "Visualizing Spanish contemporaneity through film: from Fascism to Democracy (1936-1982)"
  • SPANISH 295: Introduction to Literature, Culture, and the Arts in the Hispanic World
  • SPANISH 296: Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, section titled "Fact and Fiction: Encounters Between Art and Science in the Hispanic World"
  • SPANISH 315: Contemporary Issues in the Caribbean and South America, section titled "Climate Anxiety in Latin American Cultural Production" 
  • SPANISH 342: Contemporary Latin American Culture
  • SPANISH 373: Topics in Hispanic Culture, sections titled
    "Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World"
    "iGol!: The Culture of Soccer in Latin America"
    "World-Making: Art in Times of Global War"
  • SPANISH 385: Race and Ethnicity in the Hispanic World, sections titled "The Language of Reggaeton" or "Race and Ethnicity in the Hispanic World: An Introduction"
  • SPANISH 423: Visual Cultures in the Hispanic World, section titled "Visions from the Mangrove: The Afro-Pacific Imaginary in Colombia"
  • SPANISH 430: Advanced Studies in Hispanic Culture, section titled "Comparative Topics in Spanish and Portuguese: Stories and Histories of Race in Brazil and Argentina"
  • SPANISH 439: Social Movements in Latin America/Spain
  • SPANISH 444: Nations and Nationalisms in the Hispanic World, section titled "Revolutionary Nationalism and its Discontents in 20th-21st Century Mexico"
  • SPANISH 470: Colonial Latin America, section titled "First Images of the Americas"
  • SPANISH 472: Indigenous Societies, section titled "Indigenous Societies in the Andes"
  • SPANISH 473: Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Latin-American Cultures, sections titled "Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory" or "Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory"
  • WGS 213: Topics in Gender and the Humanities, section titled "War, Gender, Masculinity, Violence"
  • WGS 324 (WOMENSTD 324) / ANTHRCUL 325: Childbirth & Culture
  • WGS 331: Theory of Gender and Health
  • WGS 345: Topic Gender Global, sections titled
    "Gender in Premodern Japan and East Asia"
    "Sexual Violence and the State"
    "Women and the Cold War"
  • WGS / HISTORY 375: A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • WGS 377: Topics in Gender and Social Science, section titled "In Sickness and in Health: Medical Anthropologies of Kinship, Relatedness, and the Human"
  • WGS 400: Reproductive Health
    WGS 433: Advanced Topics in Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., section titled "Border Country: Mexico, American and Country Music"
  • WGS 435: Adv Gender Global, section titled "Transnational Women's Cinema"
  • WGS 462 / SPANISH 432: Gender, Sexuality, and Culture, section titled "The theory of gaze in the Hispanic cinema: visual pleasure between monstrosity and normalization"

Constraints

Students majoring in International Studies may only declare one sub-plan. 

Distribution Policy

No course used to fulfill a major requirement may be used toward the LSA Distribution Requirement. In addition, courses in the INTLSTD subject area may not be used toward the Distribution Requirement.

Comparative Culture & Identity (CCI) (Sub-Major) (Fall 2016 - Summer 2020)

International Studies (Major)

Effective Winter 2021 Exclusions:

International Studies majors must declare a sub-plan. The sub-plan will be notated on the student's official transcript.

Advising

The International Studies Advisor will assist students in developing a program of study. Advising for the Honors plan is provided by the PICS Director and the PICS Honors Thesis advisor. For more information, see: www.ii.umich.edu/pics/undergraduates/advising.

Grade Policies

Students must earn a C- or better in all required PICS courses. Language requirement courses are not included in the minimum 34 credits required for the major nor in the major GPA.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met before declaration:

  • INTLSTD 101: Introduction to International Studies (Grade of C- or better).
  • Students declaring Political Economy & Development sub-plan must complete ECON 101 with a grade of C or better.
  • Students must have started or completed 4th-term language proficiency.

Requirements

Minimum Credits: 34

PICS Language Requirement for the Major.

Sixth-term proficiency in a language other than English must be obtained prior to graduation; therefore, students should begin the language sequence early.

We believe that language study is a vital part of any liberal arts education and that students who major in international studies should be well prepared to work in environments overseas, or in companies or organizations that interact regularly with people from other countries. The PICS language requirement will not only be of benefit to the students in broadening their skills and their vision of the world but will also be an important signal to employers or graduate admissions committees about how our students are well-rounded and focused on the world and not just the United States.

Please see PICS website for details of and further information about the sixth-term language requirement.

See Sub-Plans for course requirements:

Honors

Students interested in the Honors subplan typically elect the Honors section of INTLSTD 101: Introduction to International Studies, and must complete INTLSTD 101 with a grade of B+ or better. Students who have declared a major in International Studies must have an overall GPA of 3.4, must complete all International Studies requirements for the major with a 3.4 or higher average in those courses, and complete a senior Honors thesis.

Students must earn C- or better in all required PICS courses.

During their senior year, students writing a thesis will enroll in INTLSTD 489 during Fall term and INTLSTD 499 during Winter term. The thesis will have a minimum length of 50 pages. Students are responsible for locating their own PICS faculty thesis advisor. Advisor and topic must be approved by PICS director.

An instructor will oversee the Honors subplan. This will include a class meeting with all Honors thesis students as a collective, at least twice per semester of their senior year, and once at the end of their junior year, to review requirements, answer questions, and discuss research practices and principles.

Each student will have an oral defense of the thesis in a meeting with the Honors thesis advisor, the Coordinator of Experiential, Independent, and Honors Education, plus one outside reader from the faculty.

Student grades on the thesis and Honors level will be determined by the PICS instructor in consultation with the Honors thesis advisor.

Advising for the Honors Plan is provided by the Honors advisor and the PICS Honors Plan advisor.

Comparative Culture & Identity (CCI) (Sub-Major)

Effective Fall 2016

Requirements

Additional Pre-requisites and/or requirements are listed on the International Studies Major page.

    1. Language Requirement: Sixth term proficiency.
    2. Core Courses (7 credits):
      • INTLSTD 301: Topics in International Studies
      • INTLSTD 401: International Studies Advanced Seminar
    3. Methods of CCI (3 credits): At least one course chosen from the following list:
      • ANTHRCUL 222: The Comparative Study of Cultures
      • COMPLIT 322: Translating World Literatures
      • SOC 210: Elementary Statistics (until FA20)
      • SOC 310: Sociological Research Methods (FA20 or later)

      Note: Completion of the Methods requirement is recommended prior to enrolling in INTLSTD 301.

    4. Regional Course (3 credits): One geographic emphasis course devoted to a single world region or country that is related to foreign language of study.
    5. CCI Courses (12 credits): Four courses, chosen from an approved list (see below), to gain knowledge in sub-plan area.
      • Globalization and Culture: One course chosen from the following list:
        • COMPLIT 240: Literature Across Borders
        • GTBOOKS / COMPLIT 212: Great Books in World Literatures (FA20 or later)
        • INTLSTD 205 / HISTORY 101: What is History?
        • ROMLANG 253: The Mediterranean: History and Culture
      • At least one course must be at the 400 level.
      • Must include at least two academic subjects.

      Note: Complete term specific sub-plan course lists may be found on the PICS courses website.

    6. Three electives (9 credits): The electives are designed to allow students to further personalize their major. Students will elect three advanced courses which will be expected to build upon the theme of their sub-plans. The selected courses should thus contribute to the coherence of the student's overall concentration. Students may select additional sub-plan, regional, or relevant study abroad courses, however there is no preapproved list of electives. Because there is no preapproved list, students must seek and obtain the approval of elective courses - on a course-by-course basis - from a PICS advisor. It is strongly advised that this approval be obtained before taking the class.

 

CCI courses include, but are not limited to:

  • AAS 200: Introduction to African Studies
  • AAS 202: Introduction to Afro-Caribbean Studies (only if elected FA19 or later)
  • AAS 206:  Issues African St, section titled, "Symbolic Language and Communications in West African Visual and Performing Arts"
  • AAS 211: Dynamics of the Black Diaspora, section titled "Religion and Revolution" (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • AAS / HISTART 224: African Visual Cultures: Akan/Kongo/Yurba
  • AAS 236 / AMCULT / HISTORY / LATINOAM / LACS 226: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context
  • AAS / HISTORY 246: Africa to 1850
  • AAS 247 / HISTORY 247: Modern Africa
  • AAS / WGS 304 (WOMENSTD 304): Gender & Immigration: Identity, Race, and Place
  • AAS / HISTORY / LACS 305: Histories of the Modern Caribbean
  • AAS 317 / ENGLISH 307 / WGS 347:  Clothing,Race,Envirn
  • AAS 342: Hip Hop Africa
  • AAS 346 / ENGLISH 389 / HISTORY 362: Lit in African History
  • AAS 355 / ANTHRCUL 355 / HISTORY 355: Health and Illness in African Worlds
  • AAS / HISTART 362: Expressive Cultures, Black Atlantic: Vision & Time
  • AAS / WGS 365 (WOMENSTD 365): Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Reproduction (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • AAS / ENGLISH 384 / AMCULT 376: Caribbean Literature
  • AAS / ENGLISH 385: African Literature
  • AAS 395 / GERMAN / HISTORY 396:  Black Germany
  • AAS 407 / HISTART 406: African Things (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • AAS 422 / ANTHRCUL 411: African Cultures
  • AAS 407 / HISTART 406: Looking at African Things
  • AAS 409 / ANTHRCUL 408: Maternal/Child Health & Environ Pollution in Africa
  • AAS 420 / ANTHRCUL 347: Race & Ethnicity
  • AAS / HISTORY / LACS / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora
  • AAS / FTVM 440: African Cinema
  • AAS 444 / ANTHRCUL 414: Intro to Caribbean Societies and Cultures, I
  • AAS 458: Issues in Black World Studies, sections titled
    “Human Rights & LGBTI in Sub-Saharan Africa”
    “Business & Politics in Developing Countries”
    “Fighting with Human Rights – Africa”
  • ALA 210: Defining Critical Global Issues
  • ALA 211: Addr Crit Gbl Issues
  • ALA 470: Applied Liberal Arts Topics, section titled, "Organizing for Global Justice"
  • AMAS 311: Arab Amer Stud/HU, section titled, "Art and Music of the Islamic World"
  • AMCULT / HISTORY / LATINOAM / LACS 226 / AAS 236: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context
  • AMCULT / LATINOAM 313 / ANTHRCUL 314: Cuba and its Diaspora
  • AMCULT / NATIVEAM 333: Green Indigeneity (only if elected FA19 or later)
  • AMCULT 376 / AAS / ENGLISH 384: Caribbean Literature
  • AMCULT / FTVM / LATINOAM 380: Studies in Transnational Media
  • AMCULT / SPANISH / LATINOAM 420: Latin Am & Latino/a Film Studies, section titled "Caribbean Cinema"
  • AMCULT 496: SS Approaches to AmCult, section titled, "Indegenous Peoples" 
  • ANTHRARC 296: Archaeology Topics, section titled, " Making Things: Three Million Years of Materials and Culture"
  • ANTHRCUL 222: Comparative Study of Cultures
  • ANTHRCUL / ISLAM / RELIGION 246: Anth of Relig
  • ANTHRCUL / ENVIRON 256: Culture, Adaptation and Environment
  • ANTHRCUL / LING 272:  Lang in Soc
  • ANTHRCUL 300: Doing Ethnography in Havana and Cuba 
  • ANTHRCUL 304: Peoples & Cultures of the Himalaya 
  • ANTHRCUL 309: Anthropology of Europe 
  • ANTHRCUL 314 / AMCULT / LATINOAM 313: Cuba and its Diaspora 
  • ANTHRCUL 317 / REEES 397 / HISTORY 228 / POLSCI 334 / SLAVIC 397 / SOC 317: Communism & Capitalism in E Europe 
  • ANTHRCUL 319: Latin American Society and Culture
  • ANTHRCUL 325 / WOMENSTD 324: Childbirth & Culture
  • ANTHRCUL 328: Globalizing Consumer Cultures
  • ANTHRCUL 330: Culture, Thought, and Meaning 
  • ANTHRCUL 331: Kinship, Social Org, & Society 
  • ANTHRCUL 333: Non-Western Legal Systems, I
  • ANTHRCUL / STS 344:  Medical Anthropol
  • ANTHRCUL 346 / HISTORY 347: Latin America: The Colonial Period 
  • ANTHRCUL 347 / AAS 420: Race & Ethnicity 
  • ANTHRCUL 349: Indigenous Political Movements
  • ANTHRCUL 355 / HISTORY 355 / AAS 355: Health and Illness in African Worlds
  • ANTHRCUL / LING 370:  Lang&Discrim
  • ANTHRCUL / LING 374: Language and Culture 
  • ANTHRCUL 408 / AAS 409: Maternal/Child Health & Environ Pollution in Africa 
  • ANTHRCUL 409: Peoples & Cultures of the N East & N Africa 
  • ANTHRCUL 411 / AAS 422: African Cultures
  • ANTHRCUL 414 / AAS 444: Intro to Caribbean Societies and Cultures, I 
  • ANTHRCUL 416 / HBEHED 516: Global Health: Anthropological Perpectives 
  • ANTHRCUL / WGS (WOMENSTD) / RCSSCI 428: Sex Panics in the US & UK since 1890 
  • ANTHRCUL / HISTORY 430 / MIDEAST 480: Hist Memory Silence
  • ANTHRCUL 440: Environmental Anthropology 
  • ANTHRCUL 447: Culture, Racism, & Human Nature 
  • ANTHRCUL 464: Language, Culture, & Society in S Asia 
  • ANTHRCUL 474: Language, Ethnicity, & Nationalism 
  • ARABAM 311: Arab American Studies and the Humanities, section titled, "Cont Film of Islamic World"
  • ASIAN / HISTORY 204: East Asia: Early Transformations
  • ASIAN 205: Modern East Asia
  • ASIAN / HISTORY 206: Indian Civilization 
  • ASIAN / HISTORY 207: SE Asian Civilization 
  • ASIAN 220 / RELIGION 202: Phil & Religion of Asia 
  • ASIAN / RELIGION 223: Krishna Speaks: Bhagavad-Gita 
  • ASIAN / PHIL / RELIGION 230: Intro to Buddhism 
  • ASIAN 235: Intro to Asian Studies
  • ASIAN / HISTART 243: Intro to S Asian Art: Art of India 
  • ASIAN 259 / HISTORY 255: Modern India & S Asia 
  • ASIAN 260 / HISTORY 252: Intro to Chinese Civilization 
  • ASIAN 261: Intro to Modern Chinese Culture 
  • ASIAN / MIDEAST / HISTORY / MENAS / REEES 340: From Ghengis Kahn to the Taliban: Modern C Asia 
  • ASIAN 343: SE Asian Politics through the Arts
  • ASIAN 307 / HISTORY 308 / RELIGION 307: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia
  • ASIAN 324 / ISLAM / MEMS / RELIGION / HISTORY 325 / MIDEAST 375: The History of Islam in S Asia 
  • ASIAN 325 / RELIGION 323: Zen: History Culture & Critique 
  • ASIAN 343: SE Asian Politics through the Arts 
  • ASIAN 348: Hum Topics: SE Asia, section titled, "Violence and Cultural Change in Southeast Asia"
  • ASIAN / RELIGION 464 / HISTORY 370: From Mystic Saints to Holy Warriors: Islam in SE Asia 
  • ASIAN / RCHUMS 373: The Performing Arts in S & SE Asia 
  • BA 310: Cross-Cultural Business
  • BL / BUSABRD 411:  CrossCult Neg&Resol
  • CLCIV 253: The Mediterranean: Classical Studies, sections titled "The Mediterranean: Classics"  or "The Mediterranean"
  • COMM 306: Media Topics in HU, section titled, "African Digital Cultures"
  • COMM 432: Foreign News Coverage 
  • COMM 440: Global Iconic Events 
  • COMM 447: Women and Islam: The Politics of Representation
  • COMM 455: Global Visual Cultures
  • COMPLIT 212 / GTBOOKS 212: Great Books in World Literature
  • COMPLIT 240: Literature Across Borders, section titled “Matters of Life and Death”
  • COMPLIT 260: Europe and its Others 
  • COMPLIT 280: America and its Others 
  • COMPLIT 300: Global Humanities
  • COMPLIT 322: Translating World Literatures
  • COMPLIT 490: Comparative Cultural Studies, section titled “Narratives of Immigration”
  • DANCE 241 / RCHUMS 260: The Art of Dance
  • EDUC / MENAS 462: Lrn Character Play 
  • ENGLISH 317: Literature&Culture, section titled "Armenian Relationality: Diasporas Old, New, and in the Making"
  • ENGLISH 375: World Literatures in English
  • ENGLISH / AAS 384 / AMCULT 376: Caribbean Literature 
  • ENGLISH / AAS 385: African Literature
  • ENGLISH 389 / AAS 346 / HISTORY 362: Lit in African History
  • ENGLISH 407: Topics in Lang & Lit, section titled "Lit & Human Rights" 
  • ENVIRON 256 / ANTHRCUL 256: Culture, Adaptation and Environment
  • FRENCH 235: Advanced French, section titled "Sociopolitical and Multicultural Issues"
  • FTVM / GERMAN 333: Fascist Cinemas
  • GERMAN 391/ HISTORY / JUDAIC 386: The Holocaust, section titled, "Issues in Race & Ethnicity"
  • FTVM 366:  Film,TV&Pop Cult, section titled, "Who Gets to Be an Auteur?: Ideology, Gendered Politics, and Filmmakers from the Global South"
  • FTVM / AMCULT / LATINOAM 380: Studies in Transnational Media 
  • FTVM / AAS 440: African Cinema 
  • FTVM 441: National Screens 
  • FTVM 455: Topics in Film, section titled, "Transnational Women's Cinema"
  • FTVM 485: The Global Screen
  • GERMAN 303: Ger Cult & Arts, section titled, "Czech, German Jewish"
  • GERMAN / MEMS / SCAND 375: Celtic & Nordic Mythology 
  • GERMAN 386: Fairy Tales 
  • GERMAN 401 / HISTORY 416: 19th C German & European Intellectual History 
  • GERMAN 402 / HISTORY 417: 20th C German & European Thought 
  • GERMAN 449: Special Topics in English Translation, section titled "The German & European Left" 
  • GERMAN / SOC 379 / POLSCI 386: Sports, Politics, & Society
  • GTBOOKS 201: Great Books of the Ancient World 
  • GTBOOKS 212 / COMPLIT 212: Great Books in World Literature
  • GTBOOKS / ROMLANG 251: Great Books of Modern Literature
  • HBEHED 516 / ANTHRCUL 416: Global Health: Anthropological Perpectives
  • HISTART / AAS 224: African Visual Cultures: Akan/Kongo/Yurba
  • HISTART / ASIAN 243: Intro to S Asian Art: Art of India 
  • HISTART / MIDEAST / ISLAM 285: Visual Culture in Islam
  • HISTART 294: Special Topics, section titled, "Mapping Race + (Dis)placement"
  • HISTART / AAS 362: Expressive Cultures, Black Atlantic: Vision & Time
  • HISTART 393: Topics in U.S. History, section titled, "Art & Resistance"
  • HISTART 394: Special Topics HU, section titled, "Living in a Material World: Europe and the Globe, 1492-c. 1800"
  • HISTART 406 / AAS 407: Looking at African Things
  • HISTART 497: Upper-Level Seminar, section titled, "Nomad Civilizations"
  • HISTORY 101 / INTLSTD 205: What is History? 
  • HISTORY / ASIAN 206: Indian Civilization 
  • HISTORY / ASIAN 207: SE Asian Civilization
  • HISTORY 228 / REEES 397 / ANTHRCUL 317 / POLSCI 334 / SLAVIC 397 / SOC 317: Communism & Capitalism in E Europe
  • HISTORY / AMCULT / LATINOAM / LACS 226 / AAS 236: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context
  • HISTORY 230: Topics in History/HU, section titled, "Imagining Home in Socialist and Capitalist Societies"
  • HISTORY 239: The World Before 1492
  • HISTORY 241: America and Middle Eastern Wars
  • HISTORY / MENAS / JUDAIC 244 / MIDEAST 284: History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • HISTORY / AAS 246: Africa to 1850 
  • HISTORY 247 / AAS 247: Modern Africa
  • HISTORY 252 / ASIAN 260: Intro to Chinese Civilization
  • HISTORY 255 / ASIAN 259: Modern India & S Asia 
  • HISTORY / JUDAIC 290 / MIDEAST 387: Jews and Muslims
  • HISTORY / AAS / LACS 305: Histories of the Modern Caribbean
  • HISTORY 308 / ASIAN / RELIGION 307: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia
  • HISTORY / RELIGION / MEMS / ISLAM 325 / ASIAN 324 / MIDEAST 375: The History of Islam in S Asia
  • HISTORY 328: Humanities Topics in History, section titled "A Global History of the Jews of Spain" or "Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land" or "Jerusalem: One City, Three Faith" 
  • HISTORY / MIDEAST / ASIAN / MENAS / REEES 340: From Ghengis Kahn to the Taliban: Modern C Asia 
  • HISTORY 341 / POLSCI 397: Nations & Nationalism (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • HISTORY 347 / ANTHRCUL 346: Latin America: The Colonial Period 
  • HISTORY 355 / ANTHRCUL 355 / AAS 355: Health and Illness in African Worlds
  • HISTORY 358: ReligionMagicMystery
  • HISTORY 362 / ENGLISH 389 / AAS 346: Lit in African History
  • HISTORY 370 / ASIAN / RELIGION 464: From Mystic Saints to Holy Warriors: Islam in SE Asia 
  • HISTORY / WOMENSTD 372: Women & Gender in European History 
  • HISTORY 399: Topics in History, section titled, "Islam and the West"
  • HISTORY 407: Advanced Study in Comparative and Transnational History, sections titled
    “Japan, Asia and WWII: Culture, History, Memory”
    “Christ. & Pol. In Afr. Hist”
  • HISTORY 416 / GERMAN 401: 19th C German & European Intellectual History 
  • HISTORY 417 / GERMAN 402: 20th C German & European Thought 
  • HISTORY / AAS / LACS / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora 
  • HISTORY 429 / MIDEAST 432 / RELIGION 496 / WOMENSTD 471: Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam 
  • HISTORY / RUSSIAN / JUDAIC 435: Cultural History of Russian Jews through Lit & the Arts 
  • HISTORY / ISLAM 443 / MIDEAST 487: Modern ME History 
  • HISTORY 478: Topics in Latin Am History, section titled "Latin America, Colonial Period" 
  • HISTORY 490: The Left in Europe 
  • HISTORY 496:  Hist Colloquium, sections titled, "Monks & Mystics: Spiritual Striving in Medieval Europe and Byzantium Monks & Mystics: Spiritual Striving in Medieval Europe and Byzantium" or "The World of the Ship"
  • HISTORY 537 / MIDEAST 419: Near East in the Period of the Crusades, 045-1258
  • INTLSTD 205 / HISTORY 101: What is History? 
  • INTLSTD 389: Topics in Comparative Culture and Identity
  • INTLSTD 401: International Studies Advanced Seminar, sections titled
    “Human Rights & LGBTI in Sub-Saharan Africa”
    “Women and Islam: The Politics of Representation”
    “Fighting with Human Rights – Africa”
    “Christ. & Pol. In Afr. Hist”
    “Humanitarian Dilemmas”
    “Migration, Human Smugglings and Trafficking”
    “Business & Politics in Developing Countries”
  • INTLSTD 489: Topics in Comparative Culture and Identity
  • IOE 430: Global Cultural Systems Engineering 
  • ISLAM / MIDEAST 216 / RELIGION 204: Intro to Islam
  • ISLAM / MIDEAST 315: Intro to Arab Culture 
  • ISLAM / MEMS / RELIGION / HISTORY 325 / ASIAN 324 / MIDEAST 375: The History of Islam in S Asia 
  • ISLAM 392:HU Topics in Islam, section titled, "Art and Music of the Islamic World"
  • ISLAM / MIDEAST / REEES / RUSSIAN 418: Islam and Russia (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • ISLAM / HISTORY 443 / MIDEAST 487: Modern ME History
  • JUDAIC 218: HU Topics in Judaism, section titled "Arts and Cultures of Central Europe: Czech, German Jewish"
  • JUDAIC / MENAS / HISTORY 244 / MIDEAST 284: History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 
  • JUDAIC 253: The Mediterranean: Jewish Studies
  • JUDAIC / HISTORY 290 / MIDEAST 287: Jews and Muslims
  • JUDAIC / RELIGION 296 / MIDEAST 255: Perspectives on the Holocaust 
  • JUDAIC 318: HU Topics in Judaism, section titled: "Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land" or " Jerusalem: One City Three Faiths"
  • JUDAIC 360 / MIDEAST 386: A Global History of Jews in Spain
  • JUDAIC / HISTORY / RUSSIAN 435: Cultural History of Russian Jews through Lit & the Arts
  • LACS / LATINOAM / AMCULT / HISTORY / AAS 236: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context 
  • LACS / AAS / HISTORY 305: Histories of the Modern Caribbean 
  • LACS / HISTORY / AAS / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora 
  • LATINOAM / AMCULT / HISTORY / LACS 226 / AAS 236: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context 
  • LATINOAM / AMCULT 313 / ANTHRCUL 314: Cuba and its Diaspora
  • LATINOAM / AMCULT / FTVM 380: Studies in Transnational Media 
  • LATINOAM / AMCULT / SPANISH 420: Latin Am & Latino/a Film Studies, section titled "Caribbean Cinema"
  • LING / ANTHRCUL 374: Language and Culture
  • LING 497: Capstone Seminar, section titled, "Biology and Evolution of Language"
  • MEMS / RELIGION / HISTORY / ISLAM 325 / ASIAN 324 / MIDEAST 375: The History of Islam in S Asia 
  • MEMS / GERMAN / SCAND 375: Celtic & Nordic Mythology 
  • MENAS / HISTORY / JUDAIC 244 / MIDEAST 284: History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 
  • MENAS / ASIAN / MIDEAST / HISTORY / REEES 340: From Ghengis Kahn to the Taliban: Modern C Asia 
  • MENAS 493 / MIDEAST 483: Comparative Perspec of the Middle East, N. Africa 
  • MIDEAST 200: Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern
  • MIDEAST 202 / RELIGION 201: Intro to Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  • MIDEAST 207 / RELIGION 277: The Land of Israel/Palestine through the Ages 
  • MIDEAST / ISLAM 216 / RELIGION 204: Intro to Islam 
  • MIDEAST 255 / JUDAIC / RELIGION 296: Perspectives on the Holocaust 
  • MIDEAST 284 / JUDAIC / MENAS / HISTORY 244: History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • MIDEAST / HISTART 285: Visual Culture in Islam
  • MIDEAST 287 / HISTORY / JUDAIC 290: Jews and Muslims
  • MIDEAST 291: HU Topics in MES, section titled: Sports and Games in the Middle East"
  • MIDEAST / ISLAM 315: Intro to Arab Culture 
  • MIDEAST 326: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in ME Lit & Film
  • MIDEAST / HISTORY / ASIAN / MENAS / REEES 340: From Ghengis Kahn to the Taliban: Modern C Asia 
  • MIDEAST 375 / ASIAN 324 / ISLAM / MEMS / RELIGION / HISTORY 325: The History of Islam in S Asia 
  • MIDEAST 386 / JUDAIC 360: A Global History of Jews in Spain
  • MIDEAST 391: HU Topics: MES, section titled, "Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land"
  • MIDEAST / ISLAM / REEES / RUSSIAN 418: Islam and Russia (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • MIDEAST 419 / HISTORY 537: Near East in the Period of the Cursades, 045-1258 
  • MIDEAST 483 / MENAS 493: Comparative Perspec of the Middle East, N. Africa
  • MIDEAST 487 / ISLAM / HISTORY 443: Modern ME History
  • NEAREAST 416: The Sultan & His Subjects
  • MIDEAST 432 / HISTORY 429 / RELIGION 496 / WGS 471 (WOMENSTD 471): Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam 
  • PHIL / ASIAN / RELIGION 230: Intro to Buddhism
  • POLSCI 334 / HISTORY 228 / REEES 397 / ANTHRCUL 317 / SLAVIC 397 / SOC 317: Communism & Capitalism in E Europe
  • POLSCI 353: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • POLSCI 346: Comparative Studies in Religion & Politics 
  • POLSCI 386 / GERMAN / SOC 379: Sports, Politics, & Society 
  • POLSCI 397 / HISTORY 341: Nations & Nationalism (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • POLSCI 489: Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science, section titled “Business & Politics in Developing Countries”
  • PSYCH 477: Current Topics in Clinical Psychology, section titled "Mental Health and Culture: National and International Perspectives"
  • RCHUMS 235: Topics in World Dance
  • RCHUMS 260 / DANCE 241: The Art of Dance 
  • RCHUMS 305: Cultural Confrontation in the Arts 
  • RCHUMS / SLAVIC 312: Central European Cinema 
  • RCHUMS 334: Special Topics in the Humanities, sections titled "Latina/o Theatre for Social Change" or "Art and Music of the Islamic World"
  • RCHUMS / ASIAN 373: The Performing Arts in S & SE Asia 
  • RCIDIV 305: Literature in Environmental and Social Justice
  • RCIDIV 351: Special Topics, section titled, "Refugee Narratives"
  • RCLANG 324: Readings in Spanish, sections titled, "Travel and Movement: Exploring Cultural Landscapes and the Self" or " Indigenous Activism in the Age of Globalization"
  • RCSSCI / ANTHRCUL / WOMENSTD 428: Sex Panics in the US & UK since 1890
  • REEES 230:  REES Topics in HU, section titled, "Imagining Home in Socialist & Capitalist Societies"
  • REEES / MENAS / ASIAN / MIDEAST / HISTORY 340: From Ghengis Kahn to the Taliban: Modern C Asia
  • REEES 397 / ANTHRCUL 317 / HISTORY 228 / POLSCI 334 / SLAVIC 397 / SOC 317: Communism & Capitalism in E Europe
  • REEES / MIDEAST / ISLAM / RUSSIAN 418: Islam and Russia (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • REEES / SOC 490 / WOMENSTD 492: Women & Islam
  • RELIGION 201 / MIDEAST 202: Intro to Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  • RELIGION 202 / ASIAN 220: Phil & Religion of Asia
  • RELIGION 204 / MIDEAST / ISLAM 216: Intro to Islam
  • RELIGION / ASIAN 223: Krishna Speaks: Bhagavad-Gita
  • RELIGION / PHIL / ASIAN 230: Intro to Buddhism 
  • RELIGION 277 / MIDEAST 207: The Land of Israel/Palestine through the Ages
  • RELIGION / JUDAIC 296 / MIDEAST 255: Perspectives on the Holocaust 
  • RELIGION / AAS 307 / HISTORY 308: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia
  • RELIGION 323 / ASIAN 325: Zen: History Culture & Critique
  • RELIGION / HISTORY / MEMS / ISLAM 325 / ASIAN 324 / MIDEAST 375: The History of Islam in S Asia
  • RELIGION / AAS / HISTORY / LACS 421: Religions of the African Diaspora
  • RELIGION / ASIAN 464 / HISTORY 370: From Mystic Saints to Holy Warriors: Islam in SE Asia 
  • RELIGION 496 / HISTORY 429 / MIDEAST 432 / WGS 471 (WOMENSTD 471): Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam
  • ROMLANG / GTBOOKS 251: Great Books of Modern Literature 
  • ROMLANG 253: The Mediterranean: History and Culture
  • RUSSIAN 358: Central Asia through Russian Eyes: Cultural Appropriation of an Exotic Land
  • RUSSIAN / REEES / MIDEAST / ISLAM 418: Islam and Russia (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • RUSSIAN / HISTORY / JUDAIC 435: Cultural History of Russian Jews through Lit & the Arts 
  • SLAVIC / RCHUMS 312: Central European Cinema
  • SCAND / MEMS / GERMAN 375: Celtic & Nordic Mythology
  • SLAVIC 225: Art & Culture of Central Europe: section titled "Czech, German Jewish"
  • SLAVIC 290: Studies E Euro Cult, sections titled, "Imagining Home in Socialist & Capitalist Societies"
  • SLAVIC 397 / POLSCI 334 / HISTORY 228 / REEES 397 / ANTHRCUL / SOC 317: Communism & Capitalism in E Europe 
  • SOC 204: International Migration and the Politics of Membership in a Globalizing World (only if elected FA19 or later)
  • SOC 240: Sociology of Culture
  • SOC 317 / SLAVIC 397 / POLSCI 334 / HISTORY 228 / REEES 397 / ANTHRCUL 317: Communism & Capitalism in E Europe 
  • SOC 350: Human Rights in the United Nations
  • SOC / GERMAN 379 / POLSCI 386: Sports, Politics, & Society 
  • SOC 430: World Population Dynamics (only if elected FA19 or later)
  • SOC / REEES 490 / WGS 492 (WOMENSTD 492): Women & Islam
  • SOC 495: Topics in Sociology, sections titled “Global and Local Connections: Understanding our World at Home and Abroad”  or "Sex, Love, and Marriage in Comparative Perspective" or " Gender and Family in East Asia"
  • SOC 503: The Sociology of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
  • SPANISH 232: Second Year Spanish, sections titled "The Hispanic World Through Food", "LGBTQA in the Hispanic World: Artistic and Cultural Manifestations", or "Artefactos y patrimonio cultural"
  • SPANISH 280: Conv Sp/LAm Film, section titled "Borders and Boundaries"
  • SPANISH 295: Introduction to Literature, Culture, and the Arts in the Hispanic World
  • SPANISH 342: Contemporary Latin American Culture
  • SPANISH 373: Topics in Hispanic Subjects, sections titled "Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World", "iGol!: The Culture of Soccer in Latin America",  or "World-Making: Art in Times of Global War"
  • SPANISH 385: Race and Ethnicity in the Hispanic World, section titled, "The Language of Reggaeton"
  • SPANISH / AMCULT / LATINOAM 420: Latin Am & Latino/a Film Studies, section titled "Caribbean Cinema"
  • SPANISH 421: Cinema from Spain
  • SPANISH 430: Advanced Studies of Hispanic Culture, section titled "Comparative Topics in Spanish and Portuguese: Stories and Histories of Race in Brazil and Argentina"
  • SPANISH 438: Political, Economic Thought in Latin America/Spain 
  • SPANISH 439: Social Movements in Latin America/Spain 
  • SPANISH 467: Literary & Artistic Movements in Latin America/Spain, section titled "Literary & Art Move LA" 
  • SPANISH 473: Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Latin-American Cultures,  section titled "Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory"
  • THTREMUS 222: Introduction to Global Theatre and Ethnic Studies (only if elected FA19 or later)
  • UC 254: Sophomore ID Seminar, sections titled 
    "Lang, Privelege & the Law"
    "Cult & Soc Aspects of Global Health"
    "Ideology Lat. America"
  • WGS 213:  Top Gender Hums, section titled, "War, Gender, Masculinity, Violence"
  • WGS 250 (WOMENSTD 250): Race, Gender and Nation 
  • WGS 304 (WOMENSTD) / AAS 304: Gender & Immigration: Identity, Race, and Place 
  • WGS 324 (WOMENSTD 324) / ANTHRCUL 325: Childbirth & Culture
  • WGS 331: Theory of Gender and Health
  • WGS 335 (WOMENSTD 335): Gender & Globalization 
  • WGS 345: Gender in Premodern Japan and East Asia
  • WGS 357 (WOMENSTD 357): Feminist Prractices in a Global Context 
  • WGS 372 (WOMENSTD) / HISTORY 372: Women & Gender in European History 
  • WGS 428 (WOMENSTD) / RCSSCI / ANTHRCUL 428: Sex Panics in the US & UK since 1890 
  • WGS 435 (WOMENSTD 435): Adv Topics in Gender in a Global Context 
  • WGS 365 (WOMENSTD 365) / AAS: Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Reproduction (only if elected WN20 or later)
  • WGS 471 (WOMENSTD 471) / RELIGION 496 / HISTORY 429 / MIDEAST 432: Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam 
  • WGS / HISTORY 375: History Witchcraft
  • WGS 400: Reproductive Health
  • WGS 435:  Adv Gender Global, section titled, " Transnational Women's Cinema"
  • WGS 492 (WOMENSTD 492) / REEES / SOC 490: Women & Islam 

Distribution Policy

No course used to fulfill a major requirement may be used toward the LSA Distribution Requirement. In addition, courses in the INTLSTD subject area may not be used toward the Distribution Requirement.