Dual degree electives

For the dual degree program, students are required to complete elective coursework. This elective coursework can be satisfied by (1) courses in the foreign language of interest and/or (2) courses that focus on the concepts of globalization or related topics. A list of approved electives are provided below. Please note the following: 

  1. The course list provided is only courses offered at Lafayette. Students often satisfy this requirement in part or in whole during their semester abroad. Contact the program chair about abroad courses satisfying the requirement. The course syllabus is expected to be provided to the program chair.
  2. Many of the courses on the list are not offered every year.
  3. Lafayette courses not on this list may be approved after consultation (including a copy of the syllabus) with the program chair.
  4. A maximum of one (1) course may be taken at the 100 level to satisfy this elective requirement.

Global courses available for all languages

GOVT 230 International Politics of the Middle East and Persian Gulf
GOVT 231 Global Environmental Politics
GOVT 232 International Political Economy
GOVT 235 International Law and Organization
GOVT 332 Globalization and Security
GOVT 336 International Conflict
GOVT 405 US Foreign Policy in a Changing World
GOVT 415 Nationalism in World Politics
GOVT 419 Global Governance
IA 230 Global Perspectives on Gender and Equity
IA 240 Pursuing Global Sustainability
IA 250 Atrocity, Genocide and Reparations
IA 310 Mapping World Cities
IA 330 Global Extraction, Resistance and Human Rights
IA 350 Global Migration

Chinese

ART 128 Introduction to Asian Art
ART 228 East Asian Art and Architecture: China and Japan
ART 242 Chinese Art and Architecture
ASIA 101 Introduction to Asian Studies
CHN 212 Advanced Chinese II
CHN 311 Contemporary China
CHN 312 Contemporary China II
CHN 411 Chinese Culture and Society I
CHN 412 Chinese Culture and Society II
CL 210 Chinese Science Fiction in Context
CL 230  Gender, Orientalism and Transnational Chinese Cinemas
GOVT 238 East Asian International Relations
GOVT 270 Chinese Foreign Policy
HIST 248 East Asia’s Last Dynasties: Japan, Korea and China 1600-1900
HIST 249 20th Century East Asia: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
REL 209 Sacred and Scared: Strange Tales and Popular Religions in East Asia
REL 218 Confucianism: Self and Society
REL 233 Female Divinities and Demons in East Asia

French

A&S 241 Racial Formations in Postcolonial Europe
CL 301 French Cinema in English
FREN 321 High and Popular Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France
FREN 322 Reason, Wit, and Wild Imaginings: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Civilization
FREN 323 Iconoclasts: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Literature
FREN 324 Turning the World Upside Down: French Civilization since 1789
FREN 327 New Horizons: Youth & Identities in the Sub-Saharan and Caribbean Francophone Worlds
FREN 421 The Sword, The Rose, and the Pen: Constructing Identity in French Medieval Renaissance Literature and Culture
FREN 423 The Artist as Outsider: French Literature of the Nineteenth Century
FREN 424 Literature, Ideas, and Film
FREN 425 French Cinema
GOVT 331 Politics of the European Union
GOVT 412 Politics of European Integration
HIS 225 From Revolution to European Union: Modern European History
HIST 350 France from the Margins: History of Modern France
IA 380 Contemporary Europe: Between Crisis and Cooperation
INDS 122 Lumiere Noire: The African Diaspora in Paris

German

GERM 212 Vienna and Berlin in Architecture, Literature, and Film
GERM 311 German and Austrian Identities as Reflected in Contemporary Media
GERM 312 Exploring German America
GERM 322 German Literature and Culture after 1750
GERM 423 German Literature and Culture in the Age of Imperialism
GERM 424 From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond: Literature and Film of the German-Speaking World in the Twentieth Century
GERM 431 Literature and Film as a Mirror of Socio-Historical Issues in the Contemporary German-Speaking World
GOVT 331 Politics of the European Union
GOVT 412 Politics of European Integration
HIS 225 From Revolution to European Union: Modern European History
IA 380 Contemporary Europe: Between Crisis and Cooperation
INDS 202 A Journey through the German-Speaking World: Exploring its History, Society and Arts
INDS 256 Green Europe: Cultures of Sustainability in Germany and Beyond
MUS 226 1859: Charles Darwin, Richard Wagner and the Uses and Abuses of 19th Century Science

Japanese

ART 128 Introduction to Asian Art
ART 228 East Asian Art and Architecture: China and Japan
ART 240 Japanese Art and Architecture
ASIA 101 Introduction to Asian Studies
FAMS 364/HIST 363 Imperialism, War and Visual Culture in East Asia: 1847-1945
GOVT 238 East Asian International Relations
HIST 248 East Asia’s Last Dynasties: Japan, Korea and China 1600-1900
HIST 249 20th Century East Asia: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
HIST 250 Japan Goes to War 1895-1945
REL 209 Sacred and Scared: Strange Tales and Popular Religions in East Asia
REL 233 Female Divinities and Demons in East Asia

Russian

ART 241/REES 241 History, Art and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe
CL 161/REES 161 Literary Masters of Tsarist Russia
CL 162/REES 162 Soviet and Russian Literature: Avant-Garde to Putin
CL 163/REES 163 Back in the USSR: Encounters with Soviet Russia on the Page and Screen
CL 265/REES 265 Dostoevsky in a Global Context
CL 365/REES 365 “War and Peace” Tolstoy’s Novel and Its Undying Questions
GOVT 225 Politics of Russia, the Other Post-Soviet States, and Eastern Europe
GOVT 412 Politics of European Integration
HIST 118 The Cold War
HIST 241 History, Art and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe
HIST 243 Imperial Russia
HIST 244 Russia from Lenin to Putin
HIST 354 Seminar: World War I
IA 380 Contemporary Europe: Between Crisis and Cooperation
REES 267 Revolution! Russian Culture and the Radical Tradition
REES 270 National and Transnational Cinemas
RUSS 209 Survey of Russian Literature I
RUSS 210 Survey of Russian Literature II
RUSS 311 Russian Short Story
RUSS 316 Soviet Russian Literature

Spanish

A&S 263 Latin American Ethnography
FAMS 277/LACS 277 Media and Social Movements in Latin America
GOVT 220 The United States and Latin American Relations
GOVT 227 Latin American Political History from the Conquest to the Present
GOVT 331 Politics of the European Union
GOVT 412 Politics of European Integration
GOVT 420 Issues in Contemporary Latin American Politics
HIST 114 Food Histories in the Americas
HIST 245 Latin America: The Colonial Period
HIST 246 Latin America: The National Period
HIST 345 Colloquium: Histories of Argentina
HIST 368 Seminar in Latin American History
IA 260 Latin America in Exile
IA 380 Contemporary Europe: Between Crisis and Cooperation
INDS 226 Constructing Madrid, Spain, and Iberian Worlds
LACS 101 Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS 104 Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies: The Arts
LACS 201 Perspectives and Debates in Latin America
REL 217 Latina/o Religions: Not Just Catholicism
REL 232 Religions in Latin America
SPAN 303 Texts and Contexts: Iberia (pre-1900)
SPAN 304 Texts and Contexts: Latin America (pre-1900)
SPAN 310 Survey of Spanish Literature I
SPAN 311 Survey of Spanish Literature II
SPAN 313 Texts and Contexts: Iberia (post-1900)
SPAN 314 Texts and Contexts: Latin America (post-1900)
SPAN 315 Introduction to Visual Cultures of the Iberian Peninsula: Spanish Culture and Society through Film
SPAN 316 Visual Cultures of Latin America
SPAN 318 Survey of Spanish American Literature II
SPAN 340 Latin American Crime Fiction
SPAN 341 Topics on LGBTQ+ Literature and Cultures
SPAN 342 Latin American Youth Cultures
SPAN 343 Images of Immigration in Spain
SPAN 345 Indigenous Philosophies and Cultural Productions
SPAN 346 Introduction to Caribbean Studies
SPAN 347 Afro-Descendent Writers in the Hispanic Caribbean
SPAN 349 Introduction to Spanish Literature (pre-1700)