This course examines global health disparities and the unequal distribution of disease, focusing on the health consequences of poverty, structural violence, and globalization. In addition, we critically examine the foundations of global humanitarianism and the complexities, constraints, and prospects for working collaboratively across borders to resolve global health problems.

This course will review the key issues and paradigm shifts in the development of anthropology from its foundations in classical thought through its emergence as an independent discipline to its coming-of-age in the 1960s. The readings will include works from the American, British, and Continental traditions.

This course examines questions of social class within the Mount Holyoke community, at critical intersections with race, gender, and disability. Drawing upon readings in anthropology and film studies that critique the notion of a homogeneous 'community' and offer alternative theoretical models, students will focus reflexively on three projects.

This is a content-and-language-integrated course that explores the characteristics of the Japanese language, including its vocabulary structure, phonetic system, writing system, and dialects. The class will be mainly conducted in Japanese. Readings will be authentic Japanese materials; their language levels are from children's linguistics books to newspaper essays. Students are expected to conduct oral presentations and write short papers in Japanese in addition to readings and informal discussion.

This course continues Asian Studies 324, Third Year Japanese I. Emphasizes attaining a higher level of proficiency in modern Japanese through the extended use of the language in practical contexts. The class will be conducted mostly in Japanese.

This course will improve students' four communication skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) by studying business-related materials in Chinese. Teaching materials include essays, dialogues, business cases, newspaper articles, and supplementary audio-visual materials. Students will learn about the economic and business environment in China. Through case study, students will learn about the business models of selected influential Chinese companies and of international firms that successfully entered the Chinese market.

This course continues Asian Studies 310, Third Year Chinese I, in helping students build linguistic and communicative competence in Mandarin Chinese through reading, discussing, and writing about authentic texts. Newspapers, essays, and short stories will be the teaching materials for the course. An interactive approach will be incorporated into the curriculum to improve students' conversational skills. The class will be conducted mostly in Chinese, and class hours will be supplemented by individual work in the Language Resource Center.

We shop for our food, for our clothes, for our colleges. We purchase cars, manicures, and vacations. It seems that there is little that cannot be bought or sold. But we also give and receive gifts, exchange favors, 'go dutch' in restaurants, and invite friends for potlucks. This course examines exchange systems cross-culturally, in order to understand their cultural significance and social consequences.

This course explores the special characteristics of Japanese art and architecture, from the early asymmetry of Jomon pottery and the abstraction of Haniwa figures to the later elite arts of the aristocratic, military, and merchant classes: narrative scroll painting, gold-ground screens, and the floating world of the color woodblock print. A historical survey of the arts of Japan, highlighting the interplay of art with religious and political issues.

Students in this course will continue perfecting their knowledge of Arabic, focusing on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students should expect text assignments as well as work with DVDs, audio, and websites. Exercises include writing, social interactions, role plays, and the interplay of language and culture. Students will complete Al Kitaab, Book 1 and finish Chapter 10 of Al Kitaab, Book 2 by the end of the year. The prerequisite is Arabic 130-131 or the equivalent.