Major in Global Affairs

Regional Communities and Identities

When do regional communities preserve their autonomy and when do they integrate?  How do diasporas preserve a sense of common fate with their communities of origin?  How are hybrid identities formed in the borderlands?  In what ways do regional literatures and art metabolize global crisis and transformation?  

A full listing of courses that count toward this elective area are regularly updated on Rice’s General Announcements page. These courses include:

  • ASIA 310: Asian Borderlands
  • ENGL 383: Global Fictions
  • FREN 354: Voices of Haiti
  • HART 372: Chinese Art and the World
  • HIST 275: Modern Middle East
  • LING 324: From Slavery to Hip Hop – Linguistic Liberation in the African Diaspora
  • POLI 354: Latin American Politics
  • SOCI 340: Sociology of Immigration