Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Course Title:
World Cultural Regions
Course Number:
18373
Course Description:
The course is conceived as an introduction to world cultural diversity, conducted through the analysis of major world regions. The first part introduces the concepts of ¿world regions¿ and ¿cultural areas¿ and its defining features, and presents different systems and proposals of world cultural regionalization, in order to then explain major features of some selected world cultural regions: the Arab world, Monsson Asia, the Slavic world, the Western world, Latin-America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. These cultural regions are assumed to be realms with a population sharing similar cultural features and traits, including elements such as history, cultural landscapes (understood as the cultural outcome of relations between societies and their surrounding physical environments), language, religion, food systems, political systems and traditions, etc. Attention will be paid to wider underlying metaphysical structures, cosmovisions and mythological systems (their formation, diffusion and mixing) as key elements having configured
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HNRS 130, INTS 299
Attachment Files:
World Cultural Regions uc3m.pdf
