Area Courses

You must read this carefully:

Many departments have special topic numbers. These are denoted by an asterisk in our course lists. All special topics classes require approval from Director of Undergraduate Studies in order to receive GLBL credit. Do not assume you will receive GLBL credit for taking a special topics class if you have not petitioned the Global Studies office. Petitions will no longer be accepted via e-mail and must be submitted through our new Course Credit Request System. This system also serves students seeking to request any other type of UNC course to count towards the GLBL major.

Don’t forget, you can petition to have a class count for major credit. For courses taken as part of a study abroad program, please see the Study Abroad page.

FYS = first-year seminar; ST= special topics; * = departmental approval for credit still necessary

Requirements For Area Studies Courses

Any course approved by individual area studies curriculum will count as an area studies course for the global studies major, provided:

1. The predominant focus of the course is not language instruction. Courses that are predominantly language instruction will NOT count as an area studies course for the global studies major.
2. The course must have the appropriate geographical content. Courses that are not area-specific, even if they appear on the area studies websites‘ lists, will NOT qualify as GLBL area courses.

If a course you have taken has been approved by an individual area studies curriculum and is not on this list but meets these two requirements, please follow these guidelines to have the class count for global studies credit.

AFRICA

ASIA

LATIN AMERICA

AAAD 260 Blacks in Latin America

AAAD 278 Black Caribbeans

AAAD 460 Race, Culture and Politics in Brazil

ANTH 360 Latin American Economy and Society

ANTH 499* Experimental Courses in Anthropology IV

ANTH/FOLK 130 Anthropology of the Caribbean

GEOG 259 Latin America

GEOG 430 Global Migrations, Local Impacts: Urbanization and Migration in the United States

GEOG 457 Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources

GEOG 458 Urban Latin America: Politics, Economy, and Society

GLBL 390* Special Topics

HIST 142 Latin America under Colonial Rule

HIST 143 Latin America Since Independence

HIST 176H Honors Only Special Topics

HIST 242 United States-Latin American Relations

HIST 528 Guerrillas and Revolution in 20th Century Latin America

HIST 532 History of Cuba

HIST 533 History of Brazil

JOMC 447 Mass Communications in Mexico

LTAM 101 Introduction to Latin American Studies

MUSC 147 Intro to Latin American Music

POLI 231 Latin American/U.S. World Politics

POLI 238 Contemporary Latin American Politics

POLI 434 Politics of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean

POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America

POLI 450 Contemporary Inter-American Relations

PORT 270 Modern Brazilian Literature

PORT 275 Portuguese and Brazilian Fiction

PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film

SOCI 453 Social Change in Latin America

SPAN 330 Cultural History of the Hispanic World

SPAN 344 Contemporary Latin America: Mexico, Central America and the Andean Region

SPAN 345 Contemporary Latin America: The Caribbean and the Southern Cone

WMST 280 Women in Latin America

WMST 290* Special Topics

WMST 352 Rahtid Rebel Women: An Introduction to Caribbean Women

WMST 388 International Politics of Sexual Reproductive Health

MIDDLE EAST

ARAB 150 Introduction to Arab Culture

ARAB 151 Survey of Arabic Literature

ARAB 452 Imagining Palestine

ARTH 290* Special Topics

ASIA 062 FYS: Women and Spirituality in Turkey, Zulfikar

ASIA 222 Turkey: Beyond Tradition and Modernity

ASIA 224 Introduction to Iranian Cinema

ASIA 490* Special Topics

COMM 669 Performing Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Afghanistan

GEOG 447 Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East

HIST 276 Modern Middle East

HIST 490* Special Topics

HIST/PWAD 275 History of Iraq

JWST 107 Modern Judaism

POLI 190* Undergraduate Seminar

RELI 064 Re-introducing Islam

RELI 180 Introduction to Islamic Civilization

RELI 181 Modern Islamic Civilization

RELI 480 Modern Muslim Literature

RELI 581 Sufism

RELI 583 Religion and Culture in Iran 1500-Present

RELI 584 Qur’an as Literature

SOCI 419 Sociology of Islam

WESTERN EUROPE/EUROPEAN UNION

ANTH 377 European Societies

ART 152 History of Western Art

ART 283 Picturing Paris

CMPL/EURO/FREN 332H Cultural Identities in European Cinema

CMPL/GERM 270/ JWST/RELI 239 German Culture and the Jewish Question

DRAM 286 Modern Irish Drama

DRAM 289 Contemporary Irish Drama

DTCH 405* Topics in Dutch Culture

ECON 461 European Economic Integration

ENGL 278 Contemporary Irish Writers

EURO/HIST 159 20th Century Europe

FREN 350 Advanced Oral and Written French

FREN 372 Survey of French Literature III

FREN 373 New Wave Cinema

FREN 377 Evolution of Frenchness Since World War II

FREN 398 Contemporary Identities in European Cinema

GEOG 464 Europe Today

GERM 255 Germany and the Cold War

GERM 280 20th Century German Philosophy and Modern Youth Cultures

GERM 302 Language and Culture: Immigration to Germany from 1955-Present

GERM 350 Modern German Literature

GERM 382 Violence and Terrorism in Contemporary German Literature and Film

GERM/POLI/SOCI 257 Society and Culture in Post-War Germany

HIST 259 Women in Europe Since 1750

HIST 262 History of the Holocaust

HIST 390H* Honors-only Special Topics

HIST 475 Great Britain in the 20th Century

HNRS 353 Seminar in Historical Analysis

ITAL 330 Italian Civilization I

ITAL 333 Italian Film and Culture

ITAL 335 Topics on Italian Film and Culture: Social Issues in Italy from the 1960s-Present

ITAL 343 Italian Culture Today

ITAL 398 Undergraduate Seminar in Italian

POLI 190* Special Topics

POLI 239 Introduction to European Government

POLI 433 Politics of the European Union

POLI 438 Undivided Europe

PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian and African Identity in Film

ROML 056 FYS: Italians in Search of Harmony

SPAN 340 Cultures of Contemporary Spain

SPAN 398* Special Topics

RUSSIA/EASTERN EUROPE