Introduces students to the cultural diversity of Africa with courses in ancient and contemporary history, traditional political systems, art and literature. Students are encouraged to spend a semester or a year studying in Africa.

Offers an interdisciplinary framework for the examination of the societies and cultures of Asia. Students may focus on East Asia, South Asia, or a comparative theme linking these two regions.

Allows students to study transformational processes such as colonialism, industrialization, modernization, globalization, and development within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. Students must compare two regions or cultures of the world, and one of these must be a geographic region or culture located in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or Latin America and the Caribbean.

Interdisciplinary program which include areas of study focusing upon Africa, Asia, Russia and Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin American and the Caribbean.

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Designed to acquaint students with the central historical, socio-political and religious issues of Middle Eastern culture through a sustained interdisciplinary mode of analysis. Students may opt to concentrate in Islamic/Arab or Jewish/Israeli studies, or combine the study of these cultures.

Deals with Russia, the former Soviet Union, and the changes evolving in the post-Soviet period. Students receive a broad background in the history, politics, economics, society, literature, and culture of Russia and regions of the world previously under Soviet influence.