Cultures & Peoples 
Cultures and Peoples courses allow students to study in depth one or more aspects of a non-Western culture (i.e., those of Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and indigenous cultures of Oceania, and North and South America) or to study historical and contemporary interactions between non-Western and Western cultures. Courses may consider art, music, drama, literature, religion, science, philosophy, history, politics, or social norms and practices of non-Western cultures and peoples. Courses may also focus on a non-Western sub-culture within a Western culture. In this case emphasis should be placed on the sub-culture's non-Western roots and on its effort to preserve a distinct identity within the mainstream culture. To be approved, the content of a course must be substantially on non-Western cultures and peoples, that is, at least half of the semester should be devoted to non-Western cultures and peoples.
Completion of a Cultures and Peoples course has been a part of the College's general education requirements since June 2005. Prior to this date, courses in Cultures and Peoples were offered as electives.
Courses used to satisfy the Cultures and Peoples requirement may be used to satisfy prerequisites and major requirements, but not another general education requirement. Courses currently approved by the Wofford faculty to fulfill the Cultures and Peoples requirement are listed below:
Art 241 – African Art
Art 297 - Asian Art
Chinese 223 – Freshman Seminar in Global Perspectives
Chinese 280 – Selected Topics in Chinese Study
Chinese 306 (305) – Intercultural Communication between East and West
Chinese 307 (241) – Modern China: 1850 - Present
Chinese 411 (299) – Chinese Film
Chinese 412 (480) – Chinese Literature
Economics 336 (482) – Economics of Native Americans
Economics 441 – Comparative Economic Systems
English 319 - Native American Literature
English 320 (411) - African American Literature
English 324 – Ethnic American Literature
English 339 - Comparative Literature of the Emerging World
English 497 - Crossing Boundaries, International Coming of Age in Fiction (Special Topics course)
FL 223 – Freshman Seminar in Global Perspectives
French 223 – Freshman Seminar in Global Perspectives
French 306 – The French World: Africa, Europe, and the Americas
French 400 – Francophone Women Writing on "Other" Cultures*
German 223 – Freshman Seminar in Global Perspectives
German 406 – Multiculturalism and Diversity in the German-Speaking World
Government 361 - Middle East Politics
History 391 – Modern Middle East
History 392 – Modern East Asia
History 396 – Colonial Latin American History
History 397 – Modern Latin American History
History 490 – The Family in Latin American History**
LACS 320 – Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar I
LACS 321 – Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar II
Philosophy 331 – African Philosophy
Philosophy 335 – Buddhist Philosophy
Religion 200 – Religions of the World
Religion 204 – Introduction to Religion
Religion 205 - Religious Pilgrimage
Religion 355 – Religions of the Middle East
Religion 356 – Religions of Asia
Religion 357 – Buddhism
Religion 358 – Hinduism
Sociology 205 – Cultural Anthropology
Sociology 225 – Human Ecology
Sociology 297 - Contemporary African Politics
Sociology 298 – Intercultural Perspectives on Childhood**
Sociology 311 – Ecological Anthropology
Sociology 312 – Medical Anthropology
Sociology 313 – Southeast Asia and Oceania
Spanish 223 – Freshman Seminar in Global Perspectives
Spanish 305 – The Hispanic World: Spanish America
Spanish 309 (281) – Building Linguistic and Cultural Competence Through Oral Texts
*No longer offered
**Special topics courses are numbered in the 280 and 480 series and do not satisfy the Cultures and Peoples requirement unless course titles are shown on the list of approved courses that will fulfill the requirement.