Certificate Program: Approved Electives

The following courses are currently approved as electives. Please check with the program director for an up-to-date listing.

• ANT 321 Ritual, Myth, and Worldview
• *ANT 405 Topics in Anthropology: Nationalism and the Politics of Culture
• ANT 414 Representing Difference: Documentary Films as Practice (also LAS 414)
• *ANT 419 Reading Contemporary Ethnography
• ARC 374 Computing and Representation
• *ART 443 Global Exchange in Art and Architecture (also LAS 443)
• CLA 334 Modern Translations of Classical Themes (also COM 334)
• CLA 372 English Literature and the Classics
• COM 310 The Literature of Medieval Europe
• COM 404 Literature across Languages
• COS 436 Human-Computer Interface Technology (also ELE 469)
• EAS 331 Chinese Poetry (also COM 331)
• EAS 447 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
• ECS 330 Communication and the Arts
• ECS 340 Literature and Photography (also COM 340)
• FRE 407 Prose Translation
• GER 373 Modernist Colloquies: Photography and Literature
• *HIS 355 Transformation of the Ancient World: Byzantium 500–1200 (also HLS 355)
• HIS 398 Technologies and Their Societies: Historical Perspectives
• *HIS 420 The Book from Gutenberg to the Internet (also HUM 420)
• ITA 307 Advanced Language and Style
• JRN 447 Politics and the Media
• JRN 448 The Media and Social Issues
• LIN 303 Linguistic Semantics
• LIN 306 The Structure and Meaning of Words
• *LIN 320 From Words and Idioms to Grammar (also PSY 335)
• *LIN 361 Lexical Semantics
• *MUS 431 Topics in History, Analysis, and Interpretation: Music and Spiritual Experience (also ANT 450/REL 431)
• POL 364 Political Systems of the Middle East
• PSY 309 Psychology of Language
• REL 340 Ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (also JDS 340)
• *SLA 412 Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Culture: Language, Culture, and Communication (also LIN 417)
• *SOC 317 The Globalization of Culture
• SOC 344 Communications, Culture, and Society
• SPA 307 Advanced Spanish Language and Style
• *SPA 308 Spanish Islam, A.D. 711–A.D. 1492 (also NES 308/COM 343)
• *SPA 355 Comparative Ethnic Studies (also ANT 355/LAS 355)
• *THR 331 Special Topics in Performance History and Theory: Multicultural Theater Practices
• VIS 342 The Cinema from World War II until the Present
• VIS 343 Major Filmmakers
• WWS 309 Media and Public Policy
• *WWS 470 Special Topics in Public Affairs: Comparative Constitutional Law (also POL 391/CHV 470)
• TRA 301 Introduction to Machine Translation
• COM 210, Language in Literature: Problems and Possibilities
• COS/LIN 280 Computational Linguistics