Students choose from special topics, with an emphasis on cultures and societies outside of the West.
For this reason, wide variation among offerings is to be expected. The subject matter of the course should extend the exploration of the fundamental diversity questions to living in our global comtemporary world. The course should interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretical. Writing and research, appropriate to a junior-level course. Moral and ethical reasoning, with an emphasis on a greater complexity and sophistication, appropirate to the content and goals of the course.