Non-Western Culture Requirement

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For the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Science, and the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 3 credits of an approved course in the study of a non-Western culture is required in addition to the course used to fulfill the university-wide Mason Core  requirement in global understanding.

A course used to fulfill the university-wide Mason Core  global understanding requirement may not be simultaneously used to satisfy this college-level requirement.

A course used to fulfill this requirement may be used simultaneously to fulfill any other requirements (university-wide Mason Core  requirements, college-level requirements, or requirements for the major).

Approved Non-Western Culture Courses

• ANTH 114 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
    
• ANTH 300 - Civilizations
    
• ANTH 301 - Native North Americans
    
• ANTH 302 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
    
• ANTH 303 - Peoples and Cultures of the Andes
   
• ANTH 306 - Peoples and Cultures of Island Asia
    
• ANTH 307 - Ancient Mesoamerica
    
• ANTH 308 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
    
• ANTH 309 - Peoples and Cultures of India
    
• ANTH 313 - Myth, Magic, and Mind
    
• ANTH 314 - Zombies
    
• ANTH 316 - Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
    
• ANTH 323 - Digging and Dealing in the Dead: Ethics in Archaeology
    
• ANTH 330 - Peoples and Cultures of Selected Regions: Non-Western
    
• ANTH 332 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Globalization
    
• ANTH 381 - Medical Anthropology
    
• ANTH 383 - Cities of the Global South
   
• ANTH 396 - Issues in Anthropology: Social Sciences
    
• ARAB 420 - Survey of Arabic Literature
    
• ARAB 440 - Topics in Arabic Religious Thought and Texts
    
• ARTH 203 - Survey of Asian Art
    
• ARTH 204 - Survey of Latin American Art
    
• ARTH 319 - Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
    
• ARTH 320 - Art of the Islamic World
    
• ARTH 380 - African Art
    
• ARTH 382 - Arts of India
    
• ARTH 383 - Arts of Southeast Asia
    
• ARTH 384 - Arts of China
    
• ARTH 385 - Arts of Japan
    
• ARTH 386 - The Silk Road
    
• ARTH 482 - Advanced Studies in Asian Art
    
• CHIN 318 - Introduction to Classical Chinese
    
• CHIN 320 - Contemporary Chinese Film
    
• CHIN 325 - Major Chinese Writers
    
• DANC 118 - World Dance
    
• ECON 361 - Economic Development of Latin America
    
• ECON 362 - African Economic Development
    
• FREN 451 - Topics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Culture
    
• FREN 454 - Topics in Caribbean Francophone Literature and Culture
    
• GGS 101 - Major World Regions
    
• GGS 316 - Geography of Latin America
    
• GGS 325 - Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
    
• GGS 330 - Geography of the Soviet Succession States
    
• GGS 399 - Selected Topics in Geography
    
• GOVT 328 - Non-Western Political Theory
    
• GOVT 332 - Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
    
• GOVT 333 - Government and Politics of Asia
    
• GOVT 340 - Central Asian Politics
    
• GOVT 341 - Chinese Foreign Policy
    
• GOVT 345 - Islam and Politics
    
• GOVT 432 - Political Change and Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
    
• GOVT 433 - Political Economy of East Asia
    
• HIST 251 - Survey of East Asian History
    
• HIST 252 - Survey of East Asian History
    
• HIST 261 - Survey of African History
    
• HIST 262 - Survey of African History
    
• HIST 271 - Survey of Latin American History
    
• HIST 281 - Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization
    
• HIST 282 - Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization
    
• HIST 326 - Stalinism
    
• HIST 327 - The Soviet Union and Russia Since World War II
    
• HIST 328 - Rise of Russia
    
• HIST 329 - Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
    
• HIST 353 - History of Traditional China
    
• HIST 354 - Modern China
    
• HIST 356 - Modern Japan
    
• HIST 360 - History of South Africa
    
• HIST 365 - Conquest and Colonization in Latin America
    
• HIST 366 - Comparative Slavery
    
• HIST 367 - History, Fiction, and Film in Latin America
    
• HIST 387 - Topics in Global History
    
• HIST 426 - The Russian Revolution
    
• HIST 460 - Modern Iran
    
• HIST 461 - Arab-Israeli Conflict
    
• HIST 465 - The Middle East in the 20th Century
    
• HIST 466 - Origins of Conflict in Southern Africa
    
• JAPA 310 - Japanese Culture in a Global World
    
• JAPA 340 - Topics in Japanese Literature
    
• MUSI 103 - Musics of the World
    
• RELI 211 - Religions of the West
    
• RELI 212 - Religions of Asia
    
• RELI 240 - Death and the Afterlife in World Religions
    
• RELI 272 - Islam
    
• RELI 313 - Hinduism
    
• RELI 314 - Chinese Philosophies and Religious Traditions
    
• RELI 315 - Buddhism
    
• RELI 337 - Mysticism: East and West
    
• RELI 365 - Muhammad: Life and Legacy
    
• RELI 374 - Islamic Thought
    
• RELI 375 - Qur’an and Hadith
    
• RELI 379 - Islamic Law, Society, and Ethics
    
• RELI 387 - Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights
    
• RELI 490 - Comparative Study of Religions
    
• RUSS 353 - Russian Civilization
    
• RUSS 354 - Contemporary Post-Soviet Life