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Culture Areas and Appropriate Courses
The
following courses, offered in English, may be used to satisfy the culture option for
second part of the Foreign Language Requirement. For students in the Class
of 2009 and beyond, at least one culture option course must focus on the
region of origin (rather than the diaspora). Diasporic courses are
noted below with an *. An updated supplement is issued at the
end of each semester. This list is regularly updated on the bulletin Web site, http://ase.tufts.edu/bulletin.
African and African-American Culture
Classical Culture
East Asian Culture and
Diasporas
French Culture
Germanic Culture
Hispanic Culture and
Diasporas
Italian Culture
Judaic Culture
Middle Eastern
Culture
Native American Culture
Russian Culture
Sign Language/Deaf
Culture
South and Southeast Asian Culture and Diasporas
African and African-American Culture
American Studies
13 Viewing African-American Dance: Perspectives from Art and Science*
140 Imagining Black Freedom*
Anthropology
118 Culture and Power in Africa
180 Place, Race, Memory: The West Medford Afro-American Remembrance Project*
Archaeology
92 The Archaeology of Egypt
Art History
4 Introduction to the Arts of Africa
6 The Royal Arts of Africa
70/170 The Contemporary Arts in Africa
71/171 Arts of the Afro-Atlantic Diaspora*
72 African Art Worlds
73/173 Blackness: Digesting Difference in African American Art*
76 African Art in Motion
75/175 African Art and the City
77 The Decorated Body in Africa
78 African Film and Photography
Classics
26: The Archaeological History of Egypt
160 The Giza Pyramids: Archaeology, History, and Technology
Dance
61 West African Ewe Dances
62 West African Dagomba Dances
70 Viewing African-American Dance: Perspectives from Art and Science*
Drama
45 Third-World Film: Race and Its Discontents
48 African-American Theatre and Film*
English
20 Black World Literature
146 African-American Women's Autobiography*
147 The African-American Novel*
178 African-American Criticism and Theory*
French
61 African Theatre
62 Masterpieces of Caribbean Literature*
63 French African Literature
91 African Text and Film
History
70 Reconstructing Africa's Past to 1850
71 Africa since 1850: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Crises in
Africa
74 Special Topics, Africa
84 Early United States from the Constitution to Civil War, 1789-1877*
95 The African American in United States History to 1865*
96 The African American in United States History since 1865 *
150 Race, Class, and Power in Southern Africa
151 Africa and the African Diaspora to the Americas*
152 Angola and Mozambique: From Liberation to Humanitarian Crises
171 The American South since 1865*
195 Special Topics in African History
Music
11 African-American Music*
12 Blues*
14 African-American Sacred Music*
28/128 Music of Africa
40 History of Jazz*
41 Music as Culture*
50/150 African Music Systems
64 Gospel Choir*
65, 66 Kiniwe African Music Ensemble
100 West African Music Culture
Philosophy
125 Racism and Social Inequality*
Political Science
75 Politics in the City*
76 Race and Class in American Politics*
108 African-American Politics*
117 Politics in the American South*
129 African Politics
130 African Political Economy
186 Africa in the New World Order*
Psychology
51 Black Psychology*
Sociology
110 Racial and Ethnic Minorities*
World Literature
122 South African Writers
Classical Culture
Students may emphasize Greece or Rome or a combination of the two.
Archaeology
27 Introduction to Classical Archaeology
29 Archaeology of Palestine
92 The Archaeology of Egypt
163 Aegean Archaeology
164 Greek Art and Archaeology
166 Classical Portraiture
167 Tyrrhenian Archaeology
168 Roman Art and Archaeology
187,188 Problems in Classical Archaeology
190,191 Materials in Archaeology and Anthropology
Art History
18 Archaeology of Palestine
19 Introduction to Classical Archaeology
103 Aegean Archaeology
104 Greek Art and Archaeology
105 Tyrrhenian Archaeology
116 Roman Art and Archaeology
118 Classical Portraiture
193 Seminar in Classical Art
Classics
26 The Archaeological History of Egypt
27 Introduction to Classical Archaeology
29 Archaeology of Palestine
31 Classics of Greece
32 Classics of Rome
37 History of Ancient Greece
38 History of Ancient Rome
55 Greek and Roman Comedy
56 Greek and Roman Tragedy
65 Journey of the Hero
75 Classical Mythology
83, 84 Special Topics in Classical Literature
85, 86 Special Topics in Ancient History
87, 88 Special Topics in Old World Archaeology
91JC Sports and Spectacle
120 Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs I
121 Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs II
135 Social Life in Greece and Rome
136,137 Classical Biography
140 Classical Epic
141 Classical Historians
146 Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
151 Ancient Philosophy
160 The Giza Pyramids: Archaeology, History, and Technology
163 Aegean Archaeology
164 Greek Art and Archaeology
167 Tyrrhenian Archaeology
168 Roman Art and Archaeology
176 Ancient Medicine Seminar
183,184 Advanced Special Topics in Classical Literature
185,186 Seminar in Ancient History
187,188 Problems in Classical Archaeology
Drama
55 Greek and Roman Comedy
56 Greek and Roman Tragedy
History
16 History of Ancient Greece
17 History of Ancient Rome
Philosophy
151 Ancient Philosophy
Political Science
45 Western Political Thought I
41 Shakespeare's Rome
East Asian Culture and Diasporas
Students may emphasize East Asia, associated diasporas, or a
combination of the two.
American Studies
91 Asian America*
131 Active Citizenship in an Urban Community*
Anthropology
120 Chinese Society
122 Asian Women
149 Asian Societies
Art History
5 Introduction to the Arts of Asia
11 Buddhist Art
12 Arts of Japan
13 Arts of China
15/115 Japanese Architecture
16 Japanese Landscape Tradition
107 Japanese Narrative Painting
191 Problems in Asian Art
Chinese
61 Classical Chinese Literature
62 Modern Chinese Literature
70 Defining Chinese Culture Today
71 Introduction to Religions of China
75 Chinese Mythology
76 The Chinese Ghost Story
78 Youth and Culture in Modern China
80 Chinese Cinema: 1930 to Present
81 Cinemas of the Greater China
91, 92 Special Topics
101 Foundations of Chinese Thought
111 Cultural Perspectives on Chinese Literature
112 Women, Gender, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
191, 192 Special Topics
Comparative Religion
11 Buddhist Art
14 Arts of Japan
15/115 Japanese Architecture
43 Asian Religions
53 Introduction to Religions of China
54 Japanese Religion
136 Religion in Japanese History
Drama
49 Asian-American Theatre and Film*
68 Twentieth Century Chinese Theatre
144 Asian Performance*
English
191J Asian American Literature*
German
84 East-West Perspectives on Fascism: Japan and Germany
History
43 Chinese History I
44 Modern China
47 Japan to 1868
48 Japan from 1868 to the Present
49 Special Topics, East Asia
51 History of the Indian Subcontinent
52 Modern History of Southeast Asia
122 Religion in Japanese History
123 Japanese History through Literature
124 Tokugawa Japan
125 Gender and Sexuality in Japanese History
130 Rise of Empire in Early China, 1200 BCE - 220 CE
137 Nation, Religion, Language, and Class in Modern Asia
138 Asia in the Great Depression
146 Mongol Empire
Japanese
61 Introduction to Japanese Culture
62 Modern Japanese Literature
63 Postwar Japanese Literature
80 Japanese Film
84 East-West Perspectives on Fascism: Japan and Germany
91, 92 Special Topics
110 Major Japanese Writers
111 Japanese Poetry
112 Major Japanese Film Directors
113 Japanese Visual Culture
191, 192 Special Topics
Music
27/127 Music of Asia
Political Science
120 Seminar: Power and Politics in China
126 Chinese Politics
128 Gender, Work, and Politics in East Asia
131 Democracy and Capitalism in Japan
137 State Building in Europe and Asia
World Civilizations
22 East-West Perspectives on Fascism: Japan and Germany
French Culture
Art History
9 Impressionism and Postimpressionism
25/125 Medieval Architecture, 250-1300
51/151 Nineteenth Century Art
53/153 The Origins of Modern Art in Europe, 1860-1914
126 Monasteries and the Arts, 1000-1200
127 Cathedrals and the Arts, 1150-1300
146 Rococo to Revolution: Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe
152 Art in Europe, 1789-1860: Tradition and Innovation
153 Origins of Modern Art in France, 1860-1914
French
42 The Belle Epoque
43 Modern French Fiction until the Mid-Century
44 Malraux, Sartre, Camus
51 Women Writers of Modern France
61 African Theatre
62 Masterpieces of Caribbean Literature
63 French African Literature
75 Classics of French Cinema
History
20 Europe in the Early Middle Ages
21 Europe in the High Middle Ages
24 Europe under the Old Regime, 1600-1789
26 The French Revolution
34 France, 1815-1914
35 Recent History of France, 1914 to Present
118 Era of the French Revolution
Music
10 Opera as Drama and Music
23/123 Nationalism in Music: France
24/124 Music in Paris and Vienna at the Turn of the Century
Political Science
148 Seminar: Political Thought of Montesquieu
World Literature
150 Literature of Chaos
Germanic Culture
Art History
33 German Renaissance Art
79 German Expressionist Art
124 Early Medieval Art
137 Van Eyck to Breughel
144 Gender and Painting, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
English
77 The Modern Mind
German
23 “Germany Live”: Contemporary German Issues on the Internet
24 “Shaping Identity”: Social and Political Perspectives of Writers and Artists
on Germany
59/159 From Bourgeois Emancipation to Class Struggle
68 Martin Luther
70/170 The Grimms' Fairy Tale: Ideology and Politics
71 Scandinavian Literature
76/176 Vienna, A Biography
78 Nineteenth-Century German Art and Literature
79 German Expressionist Art
81 German Culture Since 1945
82 The German Democratic Republic
83 German Short Fiction
84 East-West Perspectives on Fascism: Japan and Germany
85 German Film
86/186 German Women Writers
88 Major German Writers of the Twentieth Century
89 German Expressionism in Its European Context
129 Women in Medieval Art and Literature
130 Literary Theory and Criticism
131 German Drama
132 Documentary Drama
174 Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Art
177 The Romantic Tradition in German Art and Literature
History
31 Modern Germany
116 Martin Luther
Music
6 J. S. Bach
7 Beethoven
8 Mozart's Music and the Myth of Mozart
9 Composer of the Year: Wagner
22/122 The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
24/124 Music in Paris and Vienna at the Turn of the Century
43 History of Western Music
Philosophy
164 Kant
185 From Hegel to Nietzsche
World Civilizations
22 East-West Perspectives on Fascism: Japan and Germany
Hispanic Culture and Diasporas
Students may emphasize Spain, Latin America, Latino, or a combination of the
three.
Anthropology
115 Native Peoples of South America
116 Introduction to Latino Cultures*
128 Mesoamerican Archaeology
146 Latino Popular Music, Migration and Identity*
183 Urban Borderlands*
184 Festivals and Politics in Latin America
Archaeology
128 Mesoamerican Archaeology
Art History
7 Introduction to Latin American Art
81/181 Twentieth-Century Mexican Art
83/183 Gender in Latin American Art
84/184 Latin American Cinema
History
37 Spains
38 Spain: Arrival of Modernity (only through Spring 2006)
39 Twentieth-Century Spain
75 The Americas
77 Colonial Latin America
78 Modern Latin America
79 Special Topics, Latin America
115 Spain an the Atlantic, c. 1492
160 Revolution in Latin America: Mexico and Cuba
161 Revolution and Counterrevolution in Central and South America
Judaic Studies
73 Aspects of the Sephardic Tradition
Music
23 Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
Political Science
121 The Political Economy of Latin America
127 Latin American Politics
Spanish
30 Civilization of Muslim Spain
40 Spanish Civilization
50 Latin American Civilization
73 Contemporary Latin American Fiction
World Literature
150 Literature of Chaos
Italian Culture
Archaeology
167 Tyrrhenian Archaeology
168 Roman Art and Archaeology
Art History
30/130 Fourteenth-Century Art
31/131 Early Renaissance in Italy
32/132 High Renaissance in Italy
33 German Renaissance Art
34/134 Renaissance Venice
41/141 The Age of Rembrandt and Bernini
105 Tyrrhenian Archaeology
106 Roman Art and Archaeology
134 Renaissance Venice
145 Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
194 Seminar in Renaissance Art
Classics
32 Classics of Rome
38 History of Ancient Rome
167 Tyrrhenian Archaeology
168 Roman Art and Archaeology
History
17 History of Ancient Rome
22 Renaissance and Reformation
Italian
31 Readings in Italian Literature I
32 Readings in Italian Literature II
41 Italian Civilization, 1200-1600
42 Italian Civilization, 1600-Present
51 Dante's Inferno
52 Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso
55 The Rinascimento
75 Italian Film
Music
1 Introduction to Music
10 Opera as Drama and Music
21/121 Music in the Age of Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel
Political Science
141 Shakespeare's Rome
145 Political Thought of Machiavelli
Judaic Culture
Comparative Religion
21 Introduction to Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
52 Judaism through the Centuries
78 Jewish Women
84 The Sources of Jewish Tradition
96 Introduction to Talmud
98 Music and Prayer in the Jewish Tradition
126 Roots of the Jewish Imagination
132 The Book of Genesis and Its Interpreters
142 Jewish Experience on Film
194 Jewish Issues Today
Drama
162 Imagining the Holocaust on Stage and Screen
English
49 The English Bible
159 Contemporary Jewish Fiction
History
60 Modern Middle East to World War I
61 Modern Middle East from World War I
64 Medieval Islamic History
Judaic Studies
48 Israeli Film
65 Introduction to Yiddish Culture
73 Aspects of the Sephardic Tradition
78 Jewish Women
84 The Sources of Jewish Tradition
92 Topics in Hebrew Literature and Culture
92F Israeli Film
96 Introduction to the Talmud
126 Roots of the Jewish Imagination
132 The Book of Genesis and Its Interpreters
142 Jewish Experience on Film
175 Contemporary Jewish FictionP
192C Philip Roth and Company
Music
98 Music and Prayer in the Jewish Tradition
Political Science
171 Arab-Israeli Conflict
Middle Eastern Culture
Anthropology
119 Peoples of the Middle East
Arabic
61 Classical Arabic Literature
62 Modern Arabic Literature
63 Arabian Nights in World Culture
91, 92 Special Topics
191, 192 Special Topics
Art History
20 Image and Icon: Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
21/121 Early Islamic Art: The Formation of a Culture (690-1250)
23 Art and Politics of the Middle Ages
27 The End of the World in Art and Thought, Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries
120 Armenian Art, Architecture, and Politics: Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries
192A Seminar in Armenian or Byzantine Art
Comparative Religion
20 Image and Icon: Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
23/121 Early Islamic Art
25 Art and Politics of the Middle Ages
27 The End of the World in Art and Thought, Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries
48 Introduction to Islam
120 Armenian Art, Architecture, and Politics: Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries
150 Introduction to the Qur'an
151: Introduction to Islamic Law
152: Islam and Modernity
192A Seminar in Armenian or Byzantine Art
History
60 Modern Middle East to World War I
61 Modern Middle East since World War I
62 Islamic Activism
63 History of Iran
64 Medieval Islamic History
68 Introduction to the Religion of Islam
69 Special Topics, Middle East and Central Asia
78 A Survey of Armenian History
142 Nationalism and Ethnic Relations in Central Asia
146 The Mongol Empire
147 History of Afghanistan
Political Science
136 Comparative Politics of the Middle East
171 Arab-Israeli Conflict
Spanish
30 Civilization of Muslim Spain
Native American Culture
American Studies
101 Issues in Native American Studies
102 Native American Art: Beauty and Meaning
103 Museums and Native Americans: The Politics of Representation
Anthropology
115 Native Peoples of South America
128 Mesoamerican Archaeology
Archaeology
128 Mesoamerican Archaeology
English
91 Native American Literature (summer)
148 American Indian Writers
History
170 Native American History
Russian Culture
Comparative Religion
73 The Bible in Russian Literature
Economics
81 Soviet Economy and the Economic Reform of Socialism
History
27 Early and Imperial Russia to 1855
28 Revolutionary Russia, 1855-1930
29 Modern Russia
Political Science
122 Politics of the Soviet Union and Disunion
132 Transition Regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe
166 Soviet/Russian Foreign Policy, 1917-Present
Russian
60 Classics of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
61 Russian Literature in Revolution: 1880-1930
62 Soviet Russian Literature: 1930 to Present
65 Dostoevsky
66 Tolstoy
70/170 Women in Russian Literature and Culture
71 Totalitarian Culture in the Soviet Union: Ideology and Representation
73 The Bible in Russian Literature
80 Russian Film: Art, Politics, and Society
114 Satire and Absurdist Literature
115 Stalinism
119 Contemporary Russian Media
Sign Language/Deaf Culture
Child Development
124 American Sign Language I
125 American Sign Language II
South and Southeast Asian Culture and Diasporas
Students may emphasize Southeast and South Asia, associated
diasporas, or a combination of the two.
Anthropology
149 Asian Societies
Comparative Religion
43 Asian Religions
44 Introduction to Hinduism
141 Indian Philosophies
151: Introduction to Islamic Law
152: Islam and Modernity
Drama
61 Film in India
144 Asian Performance*
English
160 Environmental Justice & US Literature
History
51 History of the Indian Subcontinent
52 Modern History of Southeast Asia
53 Science, Colonialism, and Nationalism in South Asia
54 Cities and the Modernity of South Asia
59 Special Topics, South Asia
138 Asia in the Great Depression
143: Writing "India"
Music
27/127 Music of Asia
Philosophy
122 Indian Philosophies
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