Lower division prerequisite - choose one course (4 units)

CLAS 150g The Greeks and the West

CLAS 151g Civilization of Rome

COLT 150g Origins of Western Literature and Culture

CORE 102 Culture and Values

HIST 102g Medieval Civilization

PHIL 115g Ancient Greek Culture and Society

REL 132g Religions of the West

Core course requirements - two courses (6 units)

CORE 200 Liberal Arts Reading Salons (2): Critical readings of a series of texts in the liberal arts designed to promote discussion of important themes, theoretical approaches, research directions, and interdisciplinary connections.

CORE 301 Modes of Inquiry (4): Modern tools of cultural and discursive analysis which seek to demystify "the natural," as it appears in the formation of cultures, their institutions, and individuals.

Critical Electives

Choose four upper division courses (16 units) including at least one from List A, one from List B, and not more than one from List C; no more than two may come from any one department.

LIST A:  Early

CLAS 310 Pagans and Christians

CLAS 320 Diversity and the Classical Western Tradition

CLAS 333 Cult and City in Ancient Greece

CLAS 470 Democracies Ancient and Modern

COLT 320m Epic and Society in Medieval Europe

EALC 340 Japanese Civilization

EALC 345 Korean Civilization

EALC 350 Chinese Civilization

EALC 355 Studies in Chinese Thought

EALC 365 Studies in Japanese Thought

ITAL 350 Italian Renaissance Literature in Translation

PHIL 345 Greek Ethics

REL 311 The Bible in Western Literature

REL 315 Thought and Life of Islam

REL 317 Ancient Near Eastern Myth and Literature

Modern

COLT 426 Utopias

COLT 445m Eurocentrism

EALC 332 Korean Literature in Translation

EALC 335 Literature of the Korean People

EALC 342 Japanese Literature and Culture

EALC 352 Chinese Literature and Culture

EALC 354 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

FREN 380 Existentialism in French Literature

FREN 446 Contemporary French Thought

GERM 370 Literature and Culture in Vienna at the turn of the Century

GERM 372 Literature and Culture in Berlin of the 1920's

PHIL 337 History of Modern Political Philosophy

PHIL 355 Existentialism

PHIL 437 Social and Political Philosophy

REL 340 Western Religious Thought

SLL 330 Russian Thought and Civilization

SLL 344 Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist

LIST B:  Humanities and Society

COLT 448 Transcultural Representations

COLT 475 Politics and the Novel

ENGL 473 Literature and Society

ENGL 474m Literature, Nationality and Otherness

FREN 370m Equality and Difference around the Enlightenment

ITAL 340 Italian Literature from Unification to Fascism

REL 366 Religion and Social Change

REL 462 Religion and Violence

SLL 345 Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsk

SLL 348 Nabokov's Novels: Art and Exile

Critical Approaches

CLAS 380 Approaches to Myth

COLT 391 Seminar in Literary Criticism

COLT 401 Senior Seminar on a Comparative Literary Topic

COLT 454 Aesthetic Philosophy and Theory

ENGL 472 Literature and Related Arts

ENGL 479 History of Literary Criticism

ENGL 480 Modern Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice

LING 466 Word and Phrase Origins

PHIL 347 Philosophy in Literature

PHIL 361 Philosophy of Religion

PHIL 445 Philosophy of the Arts

LIST C:  Social Science Approaches

ANTH 372 Interpretation of Myth and Narrative

GEOG 325 Culture and Place

HIST 300 Approaches to History

HIST 329 Madness and Society in the Modern Age

IR 325 Rich and Poor States in the World Political Economy

POSC 381 Sex, Power, and Politics

POSC 476 Contemporary Political Thought

SOCI 350 Deviant Behavior

SOCI 360 Social Inequality: Class, Status, and Power