Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores interactions between cultures from early modern period to the present day through films, novels, memoirs and travelogues, bringing alive the experiences of historical and fictional figures, who, through colonialism, trade, war and conflict, travel, and migration, find themselves face to face with people who are not like them, and in particular, their responses to these new situations.