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