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This course is to look at contemporary Chinese cinema as a visual art and to illustrate the ways in which it has been shaped by Chinese cultural, social and political tradition over the past three decades. Emphasizing on both film contexts and film texts, this course invites students to a broad cinematic analysis. In order to achieve such goals and inspire critical thinking, ten filmmakers and movies in diverse style and subject are carefully selected to cover a range of cultural, cross-cultural, intellectual, social, ethnic, and political issues.

 This course introduces students to contemporary Chinese literature produced after 1949, and particularly after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), by selecting literary works that are not widely taught outside China and that depict and directly affect life in China today. China has made some of the most dramatic changes in its history during the last thirty years, and the literary works created after 1976 are equally meaningful and certainly rival, if not surpass, many works produced during the Republic.

The course introduces basics of cross-cultural communication, including main theories of culture. The course lays out the effect of language, nonverbal language and cultural identity on communication. How people adjust in different cultures, their acculturation stages and strategies will be discussed. Effective and appropriate communication practices between Chinese and non-Chinese will also be discussed, such as communication between Sino-USA people, Sino-German, Sino-Japanese etc. This course will include case studies, games, role-plays and movie watching. 

This course is designed to introduce non-Twi speakers to the spoken language of Twi. The course content, covered by the student and instructor interactively, is structured to ensure that you gain a basic understanding of the Twi language.

Ghana experiences many of the same infectious diseases found elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa and other tropical regions of the world. These include well-known diseases such as malaria, as well as the so-called ‘neglected tropical diseases’ that are marked by high morbidity but low mortality. This course focuses on infectious and parasitic diseases present in Ghana and will explore aspects of epidemiology; disease progression and pathology; challenges in disease control or eradication; and, as relevant, historical context. Course material accommodates students from all majors.

Students will enroll in Spanish for Heritage Speakers, and will then take an additional 20 hours of modules including: Spanish Business (10 or 20 hours), Spanish and Latin American Literature (10 hours), Spanish Art History and History (10 hours).

Transitional justice is an emerging field of law and inter-disciplinary academic study.  Latin America has been at the forefront of the transitional justice movement since the early 1980s, and countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Peru continue to serve as models for other societies seeking a peaceful post-conflict transition.  This course will introduce students to the study and application of transitional justice by exploring and analyzing the way South American societies have transitioned from dictatorship and war to democracy and peace.  Case studies of transitiona

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Four quarter credits.An introduction to the cultural, social and political history of the Swahili Coast region of eastern Africa. Through a mixture of lectures, discussion, guest lectures and relevant field trips, this course will explore the unique identity of this region, long characterized by global mixing through centuries of contact with the larger Indian Ocean World.

12 quarter credits.Students are placed in Swahili courses according to their level of proficiency.Courses are taught by faculty members from the Institute of KiSwahili and Foreign Languages at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA). All instructors are native speakers with years of experience teaching Swahili to international students.