Duke University | International Comparative Studies: Comparative and Region

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Fall 2012 courses that are approved to meet ICS requirements are listed below.

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Section number is 01 unless otherwise specified.

A number of these courses are cross-listed in several departments. All cross-listings of a listed course will count even if they are not listed here.

Only one 100-level course in the numbering system that commences in fall 2012 (or its equivalent in the old numbering system) may count toward the Region or Comparative requirement for a major in ICS. One course in satisfaction of either the Region or Comparative requirement should be taken at the 400 level or above in the numbering system that commences in fall 2012 (or its equivalent in the old numbering system).

The approval of the is required for any course not listed here.

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Comparative

Comparative courses are organized by a connective, transnational, comparative, or international approach to cultural, social, historical, political, economic, environmental, or discursive dynamics. Courses approach the above through one or more of the following nodes: (1) institutions, organizations, or systems; (2) identities and lived experiences; (3) circulations, circuits, borders, and migrations; (4) social or other movements; (5) cultural productions and receptions. By definition, course content should not be delimited by a focus on one place or nation-state. Course content is theoretically informed and empirically engaged (ethnography, observation, interviews, archives, surveys, and statistical data; institutional, literary, artistic, cultural, commercial, or environmental artifacts, processes, or forms). Course content examines dynamics that occurred at any time from 1700 to the present, although it may include content that began in earlier periods.

AAAS 103 Intro to African Studies
AAAS 190S African and Afro-Cuban Percussion
AAAS 330 Film and the African Diaspora
AAAS 390.02 (ICS 290) Slavery, Genocide, and Terror
AAAS 465S (ICS 465S) Global Cities
AMES 341 Screening the Holocaust
AMES 511 Documentary and East Asian Cultures
AMI 201 History and Concepts of Cinema
AMI 248 Movie Worlds
ARTHIST 278 European Art 1760-1850
ARTHIST 283 African-American Art
ARTHIST 286D Contemporary Architecture
ARTSVIS 249S The Photobook
ARTSVIS 554S Experimental Communities
CANADIAN 350S The U.S. Border
CULANTH 101 (ICS 101) Intro to Cultural Anthropology
CULANTH 208 Anthropology of Race
CULANTH 222S Sound in Social Life
CULANTH 248 The Arts and Human Rights
CULANTH 290S Language and Culture
CULANTH 290S.02 (ICS 290S.02) Urban Violence
CULANTH 290S.04 (ICS 290S.03) Political Anthropology
CULANTH 290S.06 Ethnography and Avant-Garde Film
CULANTH 425 (ICS 204) Globalization/Anti-Globalization
CULANTH 425S Gender, Sex and Citizenship
CULANTH 525S Culture, Power, History
CULANTH 590S (De)Coloniality and Geopolitics
DANCE 101 (ICS 102) Intro to Dance
DANCE 207S Performance and Social Change
DANCE 315S History of Modern Dance 1880-1950
DOCST 290S (ICS 290S) Building Creative Communities
DOCST 350S Documenting Black Experiences
ECON 305S History of Intl Financial and Monetary Crises
ECON 323S Cities as Incubators of Growth
ECON 352 Economic Growth
ECON 379 Emerging Markets
ECON 355 Internat’l Trade
ENGLISH 204 English Historical Linguistics
ENGLISH 395 Language and Society
ENGLISH 590.03 Lit, Phil, and Non-State Spaces
ENVIRON 538 Global Environmental Health
FRENCH 480D Global France
GERMAN 180 Poetics of Murder
GERMAN 386 Existentialist Cinema
GLHLTH 210.02 Global Health Ethics
GLHLTH 371 Research Methods in Global Health
GLHLTH 390.99 Economics of Global Health
GLHLTH 570 Global Health Policy
HISTORY 157S Gateway Sem: Empires in Hist Perspective
HISTORY 164S Gateway Sem: Antisemitism
HISTORY 190S.03 Gateway Sem: Transnational Social Movements
HISTORY 229 Modern East Asia 1600-2000
HISTORY 278S Nationalism and Exile
HISTORY 285 Western Warfare since 1789
HISTORY 298 Genocide in the 20th C
HISTORY 316S (ICS 209S) Atlantic Slave Trade
HISTORY 345 North American Environmental History
HISTORY 346 Africans in America
HISTORY 465S Capstone Sem: Hist of US/Mexico Border, 18th-20th C
HISTORY 466S Capstone Sem: Militarization of Western World
JEWISHST 341 Jewish Ethics
LINGUIST 201 Intro to Linguistics
LIT 225S Political Economies of Global Image
LIT 320S (ICS 320S) Social Movements/Social Media
LIT 613S (ICS 613S) Third Cinema
LSGS 101S Intro to Latino/a Studies in Global South
MUSIC 130 World Music
MUSIC 140 Intro to Jazz
MUSIC 143 History of Rock
MUSIC 145 Hip-hop/Rap Music
PHIL 262 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
PHIL 270 Business Ethics
POLSCI 275 Left, Right, and Center
POLSCI 353 Comparative Democratic Development
POLSCI 362 Internat’l Security
POLSCI 370 War and Peace
POLSCI 497S-3.02 War and Ethics across Cultures
PSY 211 Media and Health Communication
PUBPOL 166 Intro to Global Health
PUBPOL 506 Politics of US Foreign Policy
PUBPOL 515S Assisting Development
PUBPOL 529S Race and Ethnicity
PUBPOL 530S Gender, Identity, and Public Policy
PUBPOL 561 9/11: Causes, Response and Strategy
PUBPOL580S Water Cooperation and Conflict
PUBPOL 590S.04 North American Security Issues
PUBPOL 598 Economic Growth and Development Policy
PUBPOL 676 Media and Social Change
RUSSIAN 320S End of Life in Russia and U.S.
RUSSIAN 383S The Actress
SOCIOL 111 Contemporary Social Problems
SOCIOL 211 Wealth, Power and Inequality
SOCIOL 218 Sex, Gender and Society
SOCIOL 316 Comp Race/Ethnic Studies
SOCIOL 344 Technology and Organizational Environments
SOCIOL 345 Nations, Regions and Global Economy
SOCIOL 358 Markets and Marketing
THEATRST 201 Sport as Performance
THEATRST 290S Drama and Radio
VMS 202 Traditions in Doc Studies
WOMENST 364S Race, Gender, and Sexuality
WOMENST 371S Gender, Sexuality and the Image

Region

Region courses are focused on cultural, social, historical, political, economic, and/or identity dynamics; theoretically informed and empirically engaged with fieldwork, archives, literary, artistic, and cultural artifacts or processes, and/or statistical data; largely focused on a particular place or region; and examines dynamics that occurred at any time from 1700 to the present, although it may include content that began in earlier periods.