An introduction to the patterns of social life in China and how these have changed since the revolution in 1949. Topics covered include political and economic instutions, rural social change, family life, education, and social stratification. A survey of pre-Modern Islamic literature, including translations of poetry, prose, popularr literature, and selections from the Quran. Modern Hebrew Literary Classics Prose and poetry of a century of writing. From the beginning of the Hebrew literary renaissance to contemporary Israeli literature including works of Bialik, Agnon, Hazaz, Amichai, Oz and Yehoshua.
Discussions stress historical development and authors' treatments of tradition and modernity.
Geography of the middle East and North Africa Cultural and physical regional patterns of the Middle Eat and North africa. The diversity within the Islamic community is considered, espcially in its encounter with modernity. Regional focus to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. 20th Century Latin America A survy of the main societal trends shaping Latin America in this century, with particular emphasis on such themes as populism, urbanization, reformism, modernization, nationalism, revolution, the military dictatorship, and the development process. An interdisciplinary course in Latin American studies designed to introduce undergraduates to the divers, rich and complex history, politics, economy, culture and society of Latin America.