Duke International Comparative Studies

ICS Global and Region Courses

FALL 2013 courses that are approved to meet ICS global and region criteria are listed below. Past approved courses can be found in the archive.

Important Notes on Region and Global Courses

  • Courses are listed by home department and many are cross-listed; all cross-listings of a course count even if they are not listed here.

  • ICS Depth Requirements can be found here.

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

  • For more information on the courses listed in this section, log into ACES.

Global Courses

Dept Number Course Title Crosslists 
AAAS 103 Introduction to African Studies  CULANTH 105, HISTORY 129, POLSCI 108
AAAS 190S African and Afro-Cuban Percussion  
AAAS 227 African American Art ARTHIST 283
AAAS 307 Development and Africa PUBPOL 207
AAAS 330 Film and the African Diaspora VMS 228,WOMENST 250
AAAS 343 Migration and Human Trafficking LATAMER 343, SOCIOL 343
AAAS 344 Slavery Genocide and Terror CULANTH 344, ICS 343
AAAS 352 Pigging Out: The Cultural Politics of Food SOCIOL 374, ICS 206
AAAS 465S Global Cities CULANTH 465S, ICS 465S
AMES 201S Cinema of Conflict AMI 206S, JEWISHST 206S
AMES 205 Understanding the Middle East  
AMES  405 Orientalism  
AMES 413S Vampire Chronicles ICS 406S, WOMENST 231S, SXL 231S
AMES 605 East Asian Cultural Studies CULANTH 605, LIT 571
AMI 201 History and Concepts of Cinema ENGLISH 181, THEATRST 278, LIT 110, VMS 289,  DOCST 264
ARTHIST 285D Modern Architecture ICS 231D
ARTSVIS 556S Poverty and the Visual VMS 570S, SOCIOL 556S
CANADIAN 350S The U.S. Border and its Borderlands PUBPOL 216S, POLSCI 343S
CULANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ICS 101
CULANTH 130 Anthropology and Film ICS 104,  VMS 130
CULANTH 206 Anthropology of Law  
CULANTH 208 The Anthropology of Race AAAS 251
CULANTH 216S Global Migration and Ethics ETHICS 262S
CULANTH 271 Gender and Culture ICS 203, WOMENST 217
CULANTH 403S Politics and Obligations of Memory HISTORY 395S
CULANTH 431S Global Tibet AMES 485S
DANCE 207S Performance and Social Change THEATRST 204S
DANCE 368 Gender in Dance and Theatre WOMENST 212, THEATRST 236, ICS 215
DOCST 101 Traditions in Documentary Studies VMS 103
DOCST  153FS US/Mexico Border  
DOCST 344S Our Culinary Cultures CULANTH 258S
ECON 304 International Economy, 1850-Present HISTORY 310
ECON 352 Economic Growth  
ECON 379 Emerging Markets  
ECON 390.03 Financial Crises, Contagion, Globalization  
ENGLISH 377 Contemporary Novel LIT 351
ENGLISH 390S-7 Jewish-Am Lit:  Old Worlds and New  
ENGLISH 390S-7.03 Joyce, Nabokov, Rushdie  
ENGLISH 390S-7.04 Doctors' Stories  
ENGLISH 395 Language and Society LINGUIST 451, SES 385, CULANTH 212
ENGLISH 590S-3.02 Slavery/Problem of Aesthetics AAAS 690S
ENVIRON 216S Environment and Conflict PUBPOL 279S, POLSCI 367S
ETHICS 199FS Refugees, Rights, and Resettlement  
GERMAN 385 Existentialist Imagination LIT 242, PHIL 283
GLHLTH 210 Global Health Ethics PUBPOL 330
GLHLTH 302 Global Narratives of Living with HIV/AIDS  
GLHLTH 341S Ethics of Global Infectious Disease Control  
GLHLTH 560S.02 Global Mental Health PSY 611S, CULANTH 611S
GLHLTH 570 Global Health Policy and Policy-Making PUBPOL 643
HISTORY 157S Gtwy Sem:  Empires in Historical Perspective  
HISTORY 164S Gtwy Sem: Antisemitism: Ethnicity, Race, Religion, Culture  
HISTORY 166S Gtwy Sem:  Anarchism and Its Discontents  
HISTORY 179S Gtwy Sem: Capitalism & Its Critics  
HISTORY 279 The Foundations of Modern Terrorism  
HISTORY 285 Western Warfare since 1789  
HISTORY 286 Europe in the Twentieth Century ICS 237
HISTORY 316S The Atlantic Slave Trade ICS 209S, AAAS 217S
HISTORY 329 Modern Latin America  
HISTORY 346 Africans in America to the Civil War AAAS 246
HISTORY 354D Race:  A World History  
HISTORY 453S Cap Sem: Imperialism and Islamism CULANTH 416S
HISTORY 454S Cap Sem: Globalization and Dev: China and India AAAS 407S, ICS 412S, WOMENST 412S
HISTORY 466S Cap Sem: Militarization of the Western World  
HISTORY 473S Cap Sem:  US and Europe in 20th C  
HISTORY 537S Post War Europe, 1945-1968 POLSCI 515S
ISIS 235 Espionage, Cryptology, Psyops CULANTH 226
LATAMER 390S.02 Building Creative Communities DOCST 390S, ARTSVIS 390S
LINGUIST 201 Introduction to Linguistics CULANTH 201
LINGUIST 213FS Politics of Language SES 215FS, POLSCI 185FS
LIT 320S Social Movements and Social Media AMI 246S, AAAS 247S, ICS 320S, LATAMER  320S
LIT 371S Problems in Global Culture: Globalization Theory  
LIT 490S-2 Stigma and Recognition WOMENST 490S, ICS 490S
LIT 690-6 Historicizing Mother-Child Relations LSGS 690, WOMENST 590
LSGS 101S Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South LIT 143S, SPANISH 160S, AAAS 104S
MUSIC 130 World Music CULANTH 131
MUSIC 140 Introduction to Jazz AAAS 140
MUSIC 145 Hip-Hop/Rap Music Appreciation  
PHIL 192FS Just Thinking ETHICS 129FS
PHIL 270 Business Ethics ETHICS 270
PHIL 539S Race Theory AAAS 580S
POLSCI 231 Wealth and Poverty of Nations  
POLSCI 232 Intro to Terrorism  
POLSCI  267 Theories of Liberal Democracy  
POLSCI 272 Human Rights in Theory and Practice PUBPOL 231, PHIL 262
POLSCI 329S Politics in Violence  
POLSCI 347 Globalization and Domestic Politics  
POLSCI 350 International Political Economy  
POLSCI 370 War and Peace  
POLSCI 645S Political Economy of Growth, Stabilization and Distribution ECON 548S
POLSCI 651S Theories of International Political Economy  
POLSCI 664S Leaders, Nations, and War  
PSY 211 Media and Health Communication GLHLTH 261
PUBPOL 506 Politics of United States Foreign Policy POLSCI 547
PUBPOL 515S Assisting Development POLSCI 546S
PUBPOL 561 9/11: Causes, Response & Strategy POLSCI 544
PUBPOL 598 Economic Growth and Development Policy  
RELIGION 274FS Religion and Politics: Middle East Today  
RELIGION 276S Religion and Race AAAS 276S
ROMST 204 Soccer Politics  
RUSSIAN 320S End of Life Care in Russia and U.S.  
SES 373S Between Moscow, Beijing, Delhi HISTORY 216S
SES 423S City Stops Between Europe and Asia: From Prague to Kabul  
SOCIOL 111 Contemporary Social Problems  
SOCIOL 211 Wealth, Power, and Inequality  
SOCIOL 218 Sex, Gender, and Society  
SOCIOL 342D Organizations and Global Competitiveness  
SOCIOL 345 Nations, Regions, and the Global Economy  
SOCIOL 358 Markets and Marketing  
SOCIOL 650S Global Responses to Rise of China  
SOCIOL 730S Prosem: Topics in Comp and Hist Soc  
SPANISH 306 Health, Culture, and the Latino Community LSGS 306
THEATRST 201 Sport As Performance CULANTH 209, SOCIOL 201
WOMENST 275 Food, Farming and Feminism ENVIRON 209 
WOMENST 290.02 Women of Color in Americas ICS 290S, AAAS 290S, CULANTH 290S.04
WOMENST 290.03 Strike a Pose:  Gender and Yoga ICS 290.02, LIT 290.02
WOMENST 295S Sex Work:  Pol of Sexual Labor SXL 295S, LIT 295S, SOCIOL 295S
WOMENST 364S Race, Gender, and Sexuality SXL 264S, AAAS 242S

Region Courses

Search by: Africa | China and East Asia | Europe | Latin America and the Caribbean | Middle East | Russia and Central Asia  |South Asia

Africa

Dept Number Course title Crosslists
AAAS 103 Introduction to African Studies CULANTH 105, HISTORY 129, POLSCI 108
AAAS 307 Development and Africa PUBPOL 207
AAAS 310S Conflict Analysis in Africa CULANTH 310S, PUBPOL 218S
AAAS 330 Film and the African Diaspora VMS 228, WOMENST 250
DANCE 130 African Dance Technique I  
DANCE 230 African Dance Technique II  
DANCE 432 Repertory: African Dance  
HISTORY 203 History of Africa: Antiquity to Early Modern   

 

China and East Asia

Dept Number Course Title Crosslists
AMES 232S Chinese Literature and Culture in Translation                       LIT 248S
AMES 333 Traffic in Women: Chinese Prostitution CULANTH 334, WOMENST 233, SXL 233
AMES 361 Anime: Origins, Forms, Mutations AMI 260
AMES 376S Modern Korean Buddhism in the Global Context RELIGION 325S
AMES 471 World of Korean Cinema LIT 212, AMI 256, VMS 234
AMES 475S North Korea: Politics, Economics and Culture  
AMES 605 East Asian Cultural Studies CULANTH 605, LIT 571
ARTHIST 234 Japanese Architecture ICS 309
CULANTH 343A Themes in Chinese Culture and History HISTORY 224, POLSCI 298A
CULANTH 431S Global Tibet AMES 485S
HISTORY 223 Survey of Modern China , 1800-Present AMES 238
PHIL 263 Chinese Philosophy  
POLSCI 324 Chinese Politics  
RELIGION 120 Buddhism  
RELIGION 290S Religion and Medicine  
RELIGION 323S Buddhist Meditation  
RELIGION 680S Buddhist Thought and Practice  
SOCIOL 650S Global Responses to Rise of China  

 

Europe

Dept Number Course Title Crosslists                                                          
ARTHIST 255 Art in Renaissance Italy                                             MEDREN 225, ITALIAN 386
ARTHIST 285D Modern Architecture ICS 231D
ARTHIST 303 History of Photography, 1839 to the Present VMS 303
CULANTH 265 Cult and Pol of  Contemp Europe ICS 236
ENGLISH 346 Victorian Poetry  
ENGLISH 390S.02 Poetry and Drama of Yeats  
ENGLISH 546S Victorian Lit: Novel, Anthrop, Fem Theory  
ENGLISH 590S-3 Sovereignty and Human Limits  
GERMAN 264 German Film VMS 280
GERMAN 385 Existentialist Imagination LIT 242, PHIL 283
HISTORY 257 Reformation Europe MEDREN 281
HISTORY 270 Britain and Brit Emp in Amer Rev  
HISTORY 285 Western Warfare since 1789  
HISTORY 286 Europe in the Twentieth Century ICS 237
HISTORY 537S Post War Europe, 1945-1968 POLSCI 515S
MUSIC 257 Music History III: After 1850  
MUSIC 259 Music and Modernism  
POLSCI  267 Theories of Liberal Democracy  
POLSCI 323 Political Development of Western Europe  
POLSCI 664S Leaders, Nations, and War  
VMS 338 Paris: A City and its Culture 1850 - 1930  

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

Dept Number Course Title                                                Crosslists
DANCE 207S Performance and Social Change                              THEATRST 204S
HISTORY 326 Latin America: Colonialism/Consequences  
HISTORY 329 Modern Latin America  
LATAMER 390S.02 Building Creative Communities DOCST 390S, ARTSVIS 390S
PORTUGUE 490 Brazil, Race, Sex and the Body  
PORTUGUE 490.02 Blackness in Latin America  
PORTUGUE 490.03 Dictatorship and Memory  
SPANISH 412D Mayas, Aztecs and Incas ICS 460D, CULANTH 367D,LSGS 412D, HISTORY 412D

 

Middle East

Dept Number  Course Title                                                             Crosslists
AMES 201S Cinema of Conflict AMI 206S, JEWISHST 206S
AMES 205 Understanding the Middle East  
AMES 220S Al-Qaeda's Terrorism  
AMES 225 Egypt: Mother of World  
AMES 325 Islamic Awakening RELIGION 372
AMES  405 Orientalism  
ARTHIST 290 Islamic Art  
RELIGION 140S Judaism  
RELIGION 160 Islam  
RELIGION 274FS Religion and Politics: Middle East Today  
RELIGION 388S Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law  
WOMENST 290S Gender/Sexuality in Middle East ICS 290S.03, SXL 290S.03, AMES 390S

 

Russia and Central Asia

Dept Number  Course Title                                                                          Crosslists
DANCE 326S The Diaghilev Ballet:1909-1929 MUSIC 341S, RUSSIAN 218S
RUSSIAN 316 Russian Short Fiction  
RUSSIAN 325 Tolstoy and the Russian Experience HISTORY 277
RUSSIAN 375S Early Soviet Culture, 1917-1934 ARTHIST 282S
SES 356 Imperial Russia 1700-1917 RUSSIAN 356, HISTORY 275

 

South Asia

Dept Number Course Title Crosslists
AMES 251 Indian Cinema                                                                            LIT 211, AMI 253, VMS 231
RELIGION 290S.03 Religion and Colonialism in S. Asia  
RELIGION 323S Buddhist Meditation  
RELIGION 680S Buddhist Thought and Practice