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AB 1010 - ELEMENTARY ARABIC I, 4 credits

This course is designed to familiarize beginners with the Arabic alphabet system and Arabic writing as well as provide the basis for limited conversation.

GWU Equivalency: ARAB 1099 VT: Elementary Arabic I

AB 1030 - INTERMEDIATE ARABIC I, 4 credits

After studying the principles of morphological derivation which makes the students able to structure their understanding of the vocabulary production system, the course focuses on producing small texts expressing the students’ opinion and description of the material seen during the sessions. AB 530 gives the opportunity to go beyond simple contact and to interact in Arabic within the fields covered by the different documents. The field covered by the didactic documents broadens out to short authentic texts, short articles and literary production, as well as authentic documents such as letters, cards, advertisings, announcements…

Prerequisites: AB1020

GWU Equivalency: ARAB 1099 VT: Intermediate Arabic I

AH 1003 - INTRO TO ART THROUGH PARIS MUSEUMS, 4 credits

Uses the unsurpassed richness of the art museums of Paris as the principal teaching resource. The history of Western Art is studied through the close examination of a limited selection of major works in a variety of media. The works chosen illuminate the political, social and religious contexts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque and Rococo periods, and the modern epoch. The course has an extra course fee of 35 euros.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 1099 VT:Intro to Art Paris Museums

Course Fee (EUR): 25

AH 1020 - INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ART II, 4 credits

Continues the study of selected monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the Renaissance to the 20th-century. Emphasizes historical context, continuity, and critical analysis. Includes direct contact with works of art in Parisian museums. The overall themes of the class may vary by semester.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 1032 Survey: Art/Arch. II

GWU General Education Category: Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts

AH 1091 - INTRO TO ART THROUGH GLOBAL MUSEUMS, 4 credits

The course offers a comprehensive introduction to Global Art History, exploring diverse artistic traditions across different cultures, periods, and regions. Students will examine key works of art and architecture from around the world, analyzing their social, cultural, and historical contexts. Through museum visits, readings, and discussions, the course will address themes such as cross-cultural exchange, colonialism, diaspora, and globalization, encouraging students to critically engage with the concept of Global Art. Emphasizing a range of media – including painting, sculpture, textiles, and digital art – this course fosters an understanding of the role of artistic expression in shaping and reflecting global histories and identities.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 1099 VT: ST: IntrGlblArt thr Paris

Course Fee (EUR): 25

AH 2000 - PARIS THROUGH ITS ARCHITECTURE I, 4 credits

Investigates the growth patterns of Paris from Roman times through the Second Empire. Studies major monuments, pivotal points of urban design, and vernacular architecture on site. Presents the general vocabulary of architecture, the history of French architecture and urban planning, as well as a basic knowledge of French history to provide a framework for understanding the development of Paris.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 3101 Topics: Europe

Course Fee (EUR): 25

AH 2011 - ANCIENT ART & ARCHITECTURE, 4 credits

We will study the visual arts from the Ancient Mediterranean in all media, including architecture, sculpture, vase painting, frescoes, mosaics, cameos, and jewelry. After a brief introduction about the legacy of Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian art, the first half of the course will cover Greek art from the Aegean Bronze Age through the Hellenistic era. The second half of the course will focus on Roman art from the Etruscans through the end of the Roman Empire. Themes we will consider include the ideal of beauty and the development of the “canon,” portraiture and representations of the human body, and ideas about youth and age. To understand the relevance of studying ancient art in modern times, we will also include questions about forgeries and looting, and the contentious issue of cultural heritage. Students are expected to engage closely with original objects of ancient art on view in Paris.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 1099 VT: Ancient Art & Arch

AH 2013 - RENAISSANCE ART & ARCHITECTURE, 4 credits

This course will introduce you to the major works of the Italian and Northern Renaissance from 1300 to 1600. Emphasis will be placed on understanding artworks within their original cultural contexts, paying particular attention to the production and circulation of art in an age of exploration and discovery. Key themes and issues of consideration will include the idea of a classical revival and artistic self-fashioning, questions of imitation and style, courtly values, art collecting and the ethnographic print, as well as the religious debates of the period and the changing status of the sacred image.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 3122 Art/Arch:Early N.Renaissance

AH 2018 - ART AND THE MARKET, 4 credits

Investigates economic and financial aspects of art over several historical periods. Examines painting, sculpture, drawing, and decorative arts as marketable products, analyzing them from the perspective of patrons, collectors, investors, and speculators. Studies artists as entrepreneurs. Assesses diverse functions and forms of influence exercised by art market specialists: critics, journalists, public officials, auctioneers, museum professionals, experts, and dealers.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 1099 VT: Art and the Market

Course Fee (EUR): 25

AH 2091 - TOPICS: FALSE IDOLS, 4 credits

Since the ancient world to the present, people have endowed material objects with powers that go beyond their physical appearance. Statues of gods, miraculous icons, amulets, and relics are just a few examples of art that is believed to point to an otherworldly reality. Yet how were these material manifestations of different gods able to co-exist in an increasingly global world? European trade, colonial initiatives and missionary activity in parts of Africa, Asia, and the Americas brought about the meeting of diverse belief systems and the cult objects that embodied them. How did Europeans react when they encountered the veneration of non-Christian gods and spirits, and how was this encounter informed by Europe’s own image debates? How did African, Asian, and Latin American cultures integrate, appropriate, or resist the introduction of Christianity and its cult images? To answer these questions and others, we will examine the topic of idolatry—the worship of lifeless images or false gods—and its significance for image-making and destruction as part of a global history of art. In doing so, this course will explore the ramifications of cross-cultural encounters between societies whose gods and objects of worship were often perceived to be radically different from one another. Our objects of study will come from the 16th-18th centuries and will include paintings, engravings, codices, textiles, and sculptures.

GWU Equivalency: CAH 1099: VT: Topics: False Idols

AN 1002 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 4 credits

Sociocultural anthropology is the comparative study of human societies and cultures. This course is designed to introduce students to central areas of anthropological inquiry, a range of key theoretical perspectives and the discipline’s holistic approach. Through field-based research projects, students will also gain familiarity with the discipline’s qualitative research methods (especially participant observation). While students will encounter the works of key historical figures in the discipline, they will also discover current debates on globalization and transnationalism. Finally, this course also strives to cultivate students’ ability to reflect critically on their own identities and cultures, thereby gaining a greater understanding and appreciation for diversity and an improved set of intercultural communication skills.

Prerequisites: GWU Equivalency: ANTH 1002 Sociocultural Anthropology

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

AR 1010 - INTRO TO DRAWING, 4 credits

This studio course provides an introduction to the basic ideas and techniques needed for the comprehension and construction of the built environment. Starting with elemental design concerns, students will be asked to use what they learn in order to create ever larger and more complex entities. Site-specific assignments making use of Paris and its history will oblige the students to engage in the “conversation” of the urban world.

GWU Equivalency: CSA 1301 Drawing Fundamentals

Course Fee (EUR): 75

AR 1015 - PAINTING I, 4 credits

For students with little or no previous experience in drawing or painting. First analyzes still life objects in basic plastic terms starting with value. Concentrates during each class session on a new painterly quality until a sufficient visual vocabulary is achieved so that more complicated subjects such as the nude can be approached. Work will be done in oil.May be taken twice for credit.

GWU Equivalency: CSA 1401 Painting: Visual Thinking

GWU General Education Category: Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts

Course Fee (EUR): 75

AR 1020 - MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE MASTERS, 4 credits

Techniques of the Masters Lectures, demonstrations, and workshops focus on materials and techniques used by artists over the centuries. Studies the historical background of techniques of drawing, painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts combined with a hands-on approach so that each student can experience the basic elements of the plastic arts.Please note that an additional fee will be charged for this course. May be taken twice for credit.

GWU Equivalency: FA 1099 VT:Mat & Tech of Masters

Course Fee (EUR): 75

AR 1032 - INTRO TO SCULPTURE, 4 credits

For students who have little or no previous experience. Students learn how to see in three dimensions and work from observation. Mastery of structure and the architecture of form in space are acquired by the building up technique in clay. Work from plaster copies, nude models (male and female), and imagination are followed by an introduction to the carving technique. There is an additional fee in this course for materials.

GWU Equivalency: CSA 1201 Sculpture: Investigations

Course Fee (EUR): 115

AR 1040 - PRINTMAKING I, 4 credits

This course focuses on traditional relief printing techniques for the creation of multiple identical images without the use of a printing press. Once the fundamentals are understood, experimentation is encouraged so that each student can learn how to best exploit the different methods to successfully translate sketches into a powerful printed document. In addition to the making of prints, students will study the history of woodblock and metal printing and will be asked to visit and write about several print collections.

GWU Equivalency: CSA 1099 VT: Printmaking I

Course Fee (EUR): 100

AR 1061 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, 4 credits

This introductory course is an exploration of both technical and aesthetic concerns in photography. Using a digital camera, students will produce original work in response to a series of lectures, assignments, and bi-weekly critique classes. The course will cover the fundamentals of photographing with digital SLR’s, and students will learn a range of digital tools including color correction, making selections, working with layers and inkjet printing. After mastering the basics, students will work towards the completion of a final project and the focus of the remaining classes will be on critiques. Students will be asked to make pictures that are challenging in both content and form and express the complex and poetic nature of the human experience.

REQUIRED EQUIPMENT:

• A digital SLR or mirrorless camera that can shoot “RAW” files in FULLY MANUAL mode (the brand does not matter)

• An SD card of at least 8GB (SanDisk or Lexar brand)

• A camera lens (preferably a 50mm fixed-length lens, but zooms are ok)

• An SD card reader

• Two external hard drives of at least 500GB

• A portfolio box

Your course fee covers standard paper and ink usage, additional usage will be charged to your student account. AUP provides access to a photo inkjet printer, but DOES NOT PROVIDE CAMERAS, LENSES, SD cards, etc. Please note that it is the student's responsibility to purchase all required individual equipment.

Please note that an additional fee will be charged for this course.

GWU Equivalency: CSA 1502 Intro Digital Photography

GWU General Education Category: Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts

Course Fee (EUR): 100

BA 2009 - INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT, 4 credits

Stimulating the intercultural sensitivity, understanding and managing cultural differences are vital business concerns. This course examines different cultures and mindsets, the fundamental elements of intercultural management, and working in an international context: organization, leadership, multicultural teams, intercultural communication, meetings and presentations, manners and taboos. The impact of cultural differences is examined in key activities (managing, communicating, coaching, decision-making, organizing, controlling); and key situations (meetings, negotiations, presentations, sales calls).

GWU Equivalency: BADM 1099 VT: Intercultural Management

BA 2020 - MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 4 credits

The course introduces students to basic Management/Organizational Behavior concepts and enables them to understand the attitude and behaviors on the individual level and the group level within organizations. Students will be enabled to use Organizational Behavior tools and theories to recognize organizational patterns within a complex social situation. Students will be provided with readings, lectures, and cases that provide a diverse and robust understanding of human interaction in organization.

GWU Equivalency: BADM 3103 Human Capital in Organizations

BA 2040 - MARKETING IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, 4 credits

This introductory marketing course develops students’ understanding of the principles of marketing and their use in international business. Students learn how to collect and analyze data sets to make marketing decisions with the goal of understanding customers wants, demands, and needs; they learn marketing from a strategic and functional point of view. With a focus on problem solving, students work in multicultural teams cultivating a greater sensitivity to cultural issues while improving communication skills. Students will consider marketing in the French, US, and international marketplace.

GWU Equivalency: IBUS 3201 International Marketing Mgt

CL 1050 - THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC II, 4 credits

This team-taught course opens up a historical panorama of European literature stretching from the 18th to the 21st century. It does not pretend to provide a survey of this period but rather showcases a selection of significant moments and locations when literary genres changed or new genres appeared. The idea is to open as many doors as possible onto the rich complexity of comparative literary history. In order to help students orient themselves within various histories of generic mutations and emergences, the professors have put together a vocabulary of key literary critical terms in the fields of narrative structure, style, and rhetoric.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1099 VT:The World, Text &Critic II

CL 2006 - CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY, 4 credits

Introduces the methodology of Gender Studies and the theory upon which it is based. Examines contemporary debates across a range of issues now felt to be of world-wide feminist interest: sexuality, reproduction, production, writing, representation, culture, race, and politics. Encourages responsible theorizing across disciplines and cultures.

GWU Equivalency: WGSS 2125 Varieties of Feminist Theory

CL 2010 - PARIS THROUGH ITS BOOKS, 4 credits

Examines how experiences of Paris have been committed to the page from the first century to the present. Considers the uses and effects of overviews, street-level accounts, and underground approaches to describing the city and its inhabitants. Includes visits to the sewers and museums, revolutionary sites and archives, with multiple members of the comparative literature faculty speaking on their areas of expertise.

http://www.aup.edu/paris-through-its-books

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Paris through its Books

Course Fee (EUR): 20

CL 2028 - THE ART OF SCREENWRITING, 4 credits

In Art of Screenwriting students consider the elements necessary for successful screenwriting practices, with close attention to the theory of screenwriting as influenced by other arts. In particular, a close emphasis of the course is on the art of narrative and the central role played by adaptation of novels in screenwriting practice. Character development, structure, dialogue and conflict are analyzed through exemplary scripting such as in the works of Jane Campion, Roman Polanski and others. The course culminates in a hands-on guided approach to scriptwriting by students.

GWU Equivalency: FILM 2155 Screen Writing

CL 2052 - ENGLISH LITERATURE SINCE 1800, 4 credits

From the Romantic period, covers major examples of: prose - the transition from the 19th century models to Modernist experimentation; poetry - the development of modern poetic form and the fortunes of European hermetic influence in an increasingly politicized century; and drama - examples of absurdist and left-wing drama which have dominated the British stage since the 1950s.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 2411 Intro to English Literature II

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities

CL 2083 - DIGITAL POETICS, 4 credits

How do words change when we use them on and offline? What happens to writing and reading when we move between physical books and digital environments? What are the relationships between Literature and the Internet? How do ‘traditional’ or ‘canonical’ literary works dialogue with social media, computer games and Google-generated poetry? What does it ‘mean’ to ‘read’ ‘books’ in the third decade of the twenty-first century?

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1099 VT: Digital Poetics

CL 2091 - TOPICS: SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE, 4 credits

This survey course explores the rich storytelling traditions of Scandinavia, examining the unique narratives of its individual nations and the shared themes that connect them. From ancient Norse sagas to contemporary fiction, we will delve into works that reflect Nordic landscapes, histories, and social conflicts. Key topics include mythology and religion, the human relationship with nature, and the tension between tradition and modernity. A special focus will be placed on Scandinavia’s legacy of children’s literature, whose content often mirrors the themes above. The course also addresses the challenges of translating and promoting Scandinavian literature internationally, with a look at cultural institutes that are based in Paris. We will visit some of these centers and, additionally, take a study trip to one of the region’s major literary events: the Gothenburg Book Fair (Sweden), Bergen International Literature Festival (Norway), or Reykjavik International Literature Festival (Iceland).

Tentative readings for Fall 2025 include: Egil’s Saga (Iceland, c. 1250), Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Denmark, 1835/1849), The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlof (Sweden, 1907), The Wreath by Sigrid Undset (Norway, 1920), Iceland’s Bell by Haldor Laxness (Iceland, 1944), Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (Finland, 1957), On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle (Denmark, 2024), and Beasts of the Sea by Ida Turpeinen (Finland, 2025).

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099: VT: Scandinavian Literature

CL 2091 - TOPICS: WORLDS OF WINE, 4 credits

This course explores the history of French vineyards and winemaking and French literature about wine from the Middle Ages to twentieth century. We will first learn about winemaking methods and the science of wine production, before looking at the history of French winemaking and “terroirs” from Antiquity to the present. This course immerses students in the notions of “taste” and “terroir” as important elements in the production of a distinctive French cultural identity. Students will focus on the history and production of wine in three major winemaking regions (which vary from semester to semester), read French texts celebrating wine, and receive formal wine education to develop their sense of taste. The course includes a study trip to a wine-making region to visit producers.

GWU Equivalency: FREN 3300 Fren&FrancophoneLit&Cult-Trnsl

CL 2094 - FRENCH FICTION NOW: TRADUIRE LE ROMAN FRANCAIS CONTEMPORAIN., 4 credits

Ce cours introduira les étudiants aux techniques et aux problématiques de la traduction littéraire par le cas particulier des traductions en anglais de romans contemporains écrits en français. La traduction sera discutée comme un transfert culturel : en observant comment des écrivains représentatifs (Houellebecq, Djebar, Gavalda…) ont été reçus aux USA, et en GB, et en faisant le commentaire de trois traductions récentes. L’essentiel du cours sera consacré à l’expérience collective et individuelle de la traduction d’un livre non encore traduit.

Prerequisites: FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI OR FR2102 OR FR2101

GWU Equivalency: FREN 3220 Modern French Literature

CL 2100 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: A CROSS-GENRE WORKSHOP, 4 credits

In this course, students practice writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry while exploring the boundaries between genres. The workshop format includes guided peer critique of sketches, poems, and full-length works presented in class and discussion and analysis of literary models. In Fall, students concentrate on writing techniques. In Spring, the workshop is theme-driven.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1210 Intro to Creative Writing

GWU General Education Category: Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts

Course Fee (EUR): 25

CL 3038 - SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT, 4 credits

Considers a selection of Shakespeare's plays in the context of the dramatist's explorations of the possibilities of theatricality. Examines how theater is represented in his work and how his work lends itself to production in theater and film today. Students view video versions, visit Paris theaters, and travel to London and Stratford-on-Avon to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in performance.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1340 Essential Shakespeare

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities

CL 3060 - LITERATURE & THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION, 4 credits

Approaches Western political discourses through major texts of 19th-century literature. Provides an introduction to socialism, anarchism, liberalism, and communism, and relates them to questions of literary production, arguing that the literary and the political imaginations are intimately related. Literary texts studied include fiction by Zola, Gaskell, Dickens, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Conrad, and poetry by French and British writers.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1099 VT: Lit & Political Imagination

CL 3075 - QUEENS, FAIRIES & HAGS: ROMANCE OF MEDIEVAL GENDER, 4 credits

This course is a quest for understanding of the conventions of medieval romance, a genre of predilection for establishing codified, recognizable normative femininities and masculinities through the lens of gender, sexuality and feminist and queer theory. We will explore medieval texts and the social contexts of their production and reception, the aspirations and contradictions of the idealized, and the heteronormative world of knighthood and courtly love.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1099 VT: Queens,Fairies&Hags:Rmc Me

CL 3200 - FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP, 4 credits

Whether a story is an imaginative transformation of life experience or an invention, the writing must be well crafted and convincing, driven not only by plot and theme but also through characterization, conflict, point of view, and sensitivity to language. Students produce and critique short stories and novel chapters while studying fiction techniques and style through examples.

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 2460 Fiction Writing

Course Fee (EUR): 25

CM 1011 - JOURNALISM: WRITING & REPORTING, 4 credits

The introductory course provides students with basic training in writing and reporting in all forms of journalism, print and online. The course gives students with a grounding in the basic principles and practices of the journalism profession: accuracy, fairness, objectivity. Students will learn journalistic writing techniques as well as style and tone. They will analyze possible sources, define angles, and learn to write a hard news story. The course will provide workshop training for students involved in ASM courses focused on the Peacock Plume website.

Prerequisites: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 2101 Journalism: Theory & Practice

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

CM 1019 - PRINCIPLES OF VIDEO PRODUCTION, 4 credits

This course is designed to give you strong technical and conceptual skills in video production. This course will prepare you for future video work in film, journalism, media and communications, studio art, and can be useful across many other disciplines. You will learn to create several complete film and audio projects, each challenging you to explore new skills. Class time will be divided into lectures, screenings, and mostly in-class labs and critique. Homework will consist of readings, writing responses, shooting, editing and screenings.

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 2112 Intro to Video Production

Course Fee (EUR): 90

CM 1023 - INTRO TO MEDIA & COMMUNICATION STUDIES, 4 credits

This course provides a survey of the media and its function in today’s society. It introduces students to the basic concepts and tools necessary to think critically about media institutions and practices. In addition to the analysis of diverse media texts, the course considers wider strategies and trends in marketing, distribution, audience formation and the consequences of globalization. By semester’s end, students will understand the basic structures of today’s media and be able to provide advanced analysis that weighs the social and political implications of its products.

Prerequisites: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE OR EN2020

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 1050 Media in a Free Society

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

CM 1110 - INTRODUCTION TO FASHION STUDIES, 4 credits

This course aims to introduce students to the study of fashion, considered as a multidisciplinary field of analyses. At the intersection of theory and practice, and relying on the key texts of historians, art historians, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers, this course will examine the relationship between fashion and body, identity, art, industry, media, class, culture, subculture, gender, sex, time, space, religion and politics. With an emphasis on experiential learning and drawing on visual and film sources, on historical and contemporary examples for discussion, this class will provide students with the possibility to question the future of the fashion industry by studying the social and environmental impact of fashion and the role of social change that fashion can play.

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Intro to Fashion Studies

CM 1500 - DIGITAL TOOLKIT: COMMUNICATION DESIGN PRACTICUM, 4 credits

In this digital tools training course, students will learn skills, gain hands-on experience, and think critically and ethically about a range of contemporary digital tools for research, creative, and practical purposes in the fields of Communications, Media, and Cultural Studies. Students will acquire facility with and conceptual understanding of online publishing, search engines, privacy protecting tools, digital storytelling, and tools for data management, cleaning, and visualization, among others. As researchers, we will learn about finding quality information online, the ethics of gathering and protecting research data, and the fair and legal use of online content. Readings and lectures will interrogate the different ways in which digitization and datafication affect us as networked users, creators, citizens, and consumers, focusing on unequal access to information retrieval and creation, biases in Machine Learning, surveillance and tracking through datafication, algorithmic culture, and AI. The course prepares students to work with digital tools while critically and responsibly engaging with them. This change updates a woefully outdated description which no longer matches course content and has led to students feeling deceived.

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 1099 VT: Digital Toolkit: Comm Des

CM 2003 - MEDIA INDUSTRIES: STRATEGIES, MARKETS & CONSUMERS, 4 credits

This course examines how the media industries – from movies and television to music and magazines – have been transformed by the disruptive impact of the Internet and new forms of consumer behavior. Economic terms such as “creative destruction” will help students understand how the Internet disrupted old media business models and shifted market power to consumers. Case studies include Apple’s impact on the music industry, the emergence of “streaming” services such as Netflix and Spotify, the decline of traditional print-based journalism with the emergence of online platforms, and Amazon’s transformation of the book industry.

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Media Ind: Strat, Mkt, Con

CM 2004 - COMPARATIVE COMMUNICATIONS HISTORY, 4 credits

This course provides historical background to understand how contemporary communication practices and technologies have developed and are in the process of developing and reflects on what communication has been in different human societies across time and place. It considers oral and literate cultures, the development of writing systems, of printing, and different cultural values assigned to the image. The parallel rise of mass media and modern western cultural and political forms and the manipulation and interplay of the properties and qualities conveyed by speech, sight, and sound are studied with reference to the printed book, newspapers, photography, radio, cinema, television, new media.

Prerequisites: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE

GWU Equivalency: COMM 1099 VT: Comp Hist Communication

CM 2006 - MEDIA GLOBALIZATION, 4 credits

What is globalization? Why study the media? What is the relationship between the media and globalization? What are the consequences of media globalization on our lives and identities? This course critically explores these questions and challenging issues that confront us today. Globalization can be understood as a multi-dimensional, complex process of profound transformations in all spheres – technological, economic, political, social, cultural, intimate and personal. Yet much of the current debates of globalization tend to be concerned with “out there” macro-processes, rather than what is happening “in here,” in the micro-processes of our lives. This course explores both the macro and the micro. It encourages students to develop an enlarged way of thinking – challenging existing paradigms and providing comparative perspectives.

Prerequisites: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 1099 VT: Media Globalization

CM 2014 - COMPARATIVE JOURNALISM : GUTENBERG TO GOOGLE, 4 credits

Studies will study the production of journalism in different historical, political and cultural contexts. Theoretical approaches to media and journalism (for example, authoritarian vs liberal models) will be studied to understand the relationship between politics and journalism – and, more generally, the media that operate as industries regulated by states. The course also examines the transformation of the journalism profession by new technologies, notably the impact of the web and social media on newsgathering and other journalistic practices. Issues such as censorship and surveillance will be examined through case studies such as Google and Facebook and new “gatekeepers” of news.

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 1099 - VT: Comparative Journalism

CM 2091 - TOPICS: BODIES IN DIGITAL MEDIA, 4 credits

This course will examine the significance of digital media and technologies in how (human) bodies are performed, perceived and policed online and offline. It will focus on politics of representation, examining Hollywood’s narrative of human bodily enhancements and comparing it with qualitative scholarship on the everyday experience of a range of bodies interacting through and with digital technologies and media such as, voice recognition, augmented reality, virtual reality, and assistive AI. Students will learn to interrogate gendered and able-bodied narratives, challenge existing paradigms and re-examine the blurring between facts and fiction.

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Topics

CM 2091 - TOPICS: DECOLONIZING FASHION, DESIGN & CULTURE, 4 credits

This course critically examines the effects and entanglements of colonialism in the creative industries, including design and fashion. Colonialism does not refer to a circumscribed period that happened in history. Colonial institutional structures and systems of representation that fashion and design, and more broadly cultures and societies, were built upon are still active to this day. Design continues to reproduce inequality, normative and supremacist stereotypes, extractive productive systems, and culturally appropriate Global South cultures to perpetuate dominant Eurocentric narratives. Students will gain insights into how colonial legacies, neo-colonial and Eurocentric discourses are embedded in global design systems promoting over-consumption and waste, the implications of these structures on marginalized communities, and how decolonization processes can radically transform creative practices. The course will emphasize alternative intersectional approaches to fashion and design, opening the field to a plurality (Indigenous, queer, feminist, diasporic, Global South…) of voices, identities, and knowledge. Through a combination of theoretical readings, site visits, case studies, and hands-on workshops, students will engage with decolonization as an in-process, in-progress agenda toward a more social-, racial-, and climate justice-oriented world.

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Topics

CM 2100 - INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE, 4 credits

This course considers the construction of the visual world and our participation in it. Through a transcultural survey of materials, contexts and theories, students will learn how visual practices relate to other cultural activities, how they shape identity and environmental basic ways, and how vision functions in correspondence with other senses.

GWU Equivalency: AH 1099 VT: Intro to Visual Culture

CS 1040 - INTRO TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING I, 4 credits

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of programming. Starts with practical problem solving and leads to the study and analysis of simple algorithms, data types, control structures, and use of simple data structures. The course focuses on developing fundamental programming skills. The pedagogical methodology emphasizes experiential learning by asking students to solve small problems. There will be a considerable amount of practical work; students should allow at least eight hours of homework per week for this. All classes will take place in the Computer Laboratory so students will experiment and build-on all the theories and algorithms presented in class.

GWU Equivalency: CSCI 1011 Intro to Programming w/ JAVA

DR 2000 - THEATER ARTS, 4 credits

Offers a practical workshop in the art of acting and dramatic expression. Students learn to bring texts to life on stage through a variety of approaches to performance. This course develops valuable analytical skills through play analysis, as well as building confidence in presentation and group communications skills through acting techniques and the rehearsal and performance of play scenes.

GWU Equivalency: TRDA 1025 Understanding the Theatre

DR 2077 - ACTING IN FRENCH, 4 credits

For non-francophones. Aims at improving oral skills, expression, spontaneous production of French using drama and situations closer to reality than usual classroom settings. Thanks to acting techniques, students will learn to use their relationships with the world and others to stimulate their imagination and their own creativity.

Prerequisites: FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: TRDA 1099 VT: Acting in French

DR 3038 - SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1340 Essential Shakespeare

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities

DS 1060 - DATA SCIENCE I: METHODS AND CONTEXT, 4 credits

This project-based course introduces data science by looking at the whole cycle of activities involved in data science projects. Students will learn how to think about problems with rigor and creativity, ethically applying data science skills to address those problems. The course project will address the theoretical, mathematical and computational challenges involved in data science.

GWU Equivalency: DATS 1099 VT: Data Science I

DS 1910 - TOPICS: DATA VISUALIZATION, 4 credits

In 2006, Clive Humby, a British mathematician, coined the sentence “Data is the new oil.” Lots of data is gathered every second, and we are all adapting to the amount becoming available every day. In different fields, people still struggle to find the link between the overwhelming data and our capacity to integrate it into the decision-making process. This course focus on how to properly explore, analyse, and present data to the world.

A quick online search shows that the 5 top skills requested by employers in general are communication, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity and analytical skills. We will incorporate them all in this class. In data analytics, the top skills requested are: databasing, business intelligence tools, Excel, and programming in Python/R.

This course is an introduction to data visualization and will help students develop the numerical skills demanded by today’s employment market:

• Data cleaning and mining,

• Advanced Microsoft Excel (without macros),

• Business intelligence (BI) tools: the popular TABLEAU,

• Visual and oral data communication practice.

This not a course on statistics, although statistical practices will be performed to transform data into a useful form. Nor is this a data science class, since you are not expected to produce inference on your data. Rather, this is an analytics class in which we will explore, synthesize, and present data in a form legible to the general public.

GWU Equivalency: DNSC 1099: VT: Data Visualization

EC 2010 - PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS, 4 credits

Focuses on the role played by relative market prices in our society and on the forces of market supply and demand in determining these prices. Since the actions of consumers and firms underlie supply and demand, the course studies in detail the behavior of these two groups.

GWU Equivalency: ECON 1011 Principles of Economics I

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

EC 2020 - PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS, 4 credits

Examines the determinants of the levels of national income, employment, rates of interest, and prices. Studies in detail the instruments of monetary and fiscal policy, highlighting the domestic and international repercussions of their implementation.

GWU Equivalency: ECON 1012 Principles of Economics II

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

EN 1000 - PRINCIPLES OF ACADEMIC WRITING, 4 credits

Emphasizes the stages required to produce a polished, articulate essay by practicing the necessary components of excellent academic writing: sharpening critical thinking skills, organizing ideas, choosing appropriate and dynamic words, varying prose style, editing, refining, and proofreading.

Prerequisites: EN0950

GWU Equivalency: UW 1020 University Writing

EN 1010 - COLLEGE WRITING, 4 credits

Taught through thematically-linked works of literature from the Ancient world to the present day. Stresses expository writing, accurate expression, and logical organization of ideas in academic writing. Recent themes include: Childhood, Friendship from Aristotle to Derrida, Social Organization and Alienation, Monstrosity, and Music and Literature.

Prerequisites: EN1000 OR EN1010

GWU Equivalency: UW 1020 University Writing

EN 2000 - THEATER ARTS, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: TRDA 1025 Understanding the Theatre

EN 2020 - WRITING & CRITICISM, 4 credits

A series of topic-centered courses refining the skills of academic essay writing, studying a wide range of ideas as expressed in diverse literary genres and periods. Introduces the analysis of literary texts and gives training in the writing of critical essays and research papers. Recent topics include: Utopia and Anti-Utopia, City as Metaphor, Portraits of Women, Culture Conflict, and Labyrinths.

Prerequisites: EN1010 or EN1010 placement

GWU Equivalency: UW 1020 University Writing

EN 2052 - ENGLISH LITERATURE SINCE 1800, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 2411 Intro to English Literature II

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities

EN 2100 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: A CROSS-GENRE WORKSHOP, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 1210 Intro to Creative Writing

GWU General Education Category: Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts

EN 3200 - FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: ENGL 2460 Fiction Writing

Course Fee (EUR): 25

FM 1010 - MODERN FILMS & THEIR MEANINGS, 4 credits

How does the unique language of cinema make meaning and convey emotions? This course provides multiple answers to that question by introducing the formal characteristics of film and enables the students to acquire the key vocabulary necessary to critically describe, analyse and interpret contemporary cinema. Each week, classes will focus on a foundational concept, ranging from principles of narration to different components of film style, and from why cinema matters to issues of spectatorship. Throughout the course, students will encounter a wide array of feature films from different genres around the globe. Students will also have the opportunity to practise close textual analysis through assignments, and during class discussions delve deep into interpreting the dramatic functions of elements of style in the context of a single film.

Students are expected to participate in these activities in order to build their confidence and command over technical terminology, and work towards attaining their own carefully reasoned interpretations of film texts. In addition, students will learn about Parisian film culture and different approaches to film criticism through lectures and assignments.

GWU Equivalency: FILM 2151 Film Theory

FM 1019 - PRINCIPLES OF VIDEO PRODUCTION, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: SMPA 2112 Intro to Video Production

Course Fee (EUR): 90

FM 2028 - THE ART OF SCREENWRITING, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: FILM 2155 Screen Writing

FM 2076 - FILM HISTORY II: POSTWAR NEW WAVES, 4 credits

This course surveys the richest and most alluring

period of cinema from its peak following the end of World War II, through the global movements that revitalized its decline, to its subsequent reformation by digital technologies at the turn of the century. It was by no coincidence that cinema was dubbed the art of the 20th century: taking advantage of technological advancements, newer generations of filmmakers reinvented the expressive possibilities of cinema by turning their cameras directly onto social realities and into individual psyches. Each week, the course will explore key developments in international film cultures by situating films within broader social, political, and cultural contexts. The course will also map the influential aesthetic trends,significant critical developments, and fundamental institutional factors that altogether configured cinema as a voice for political comment as well as a medium of entertainment. Through weekly readings and class discussions, students will learn about the irresistible power of international cinemas and the differing national traditions that resisted the ideological and commercial dominance of Hollywood.

GWU Equivalency: FILM 2154 History of World Cinema II

FM 2091 - TOPICS: A HISTORY OF COMEDY IN THE UNITED STATES, 4 credits

This course investigates comedy in American film and media from the first half of the 20th century. Examples of early cinema, slapstick comedy, and musicals will help to examine the roles of gag, performance, character, and narrative in short and feature films from the silent and sound eras. How do visual and verbal humor take part in these films’ formal construction? How were they produced, distributed, and exhibited to audiences? What were their contexts of reception? What are the different ways of writing their history? Through an approach informed by media archaeology and sound studies, cinema will be situated within a broader network of media industries including the vaudeville stage, phonograph records, radio, and television. Humor’s role in negotiating cultural, social, and political shifts in American society, its potential for both resistance and oppression, will be another guiding question. While this course’s focus is on historical practices in the United States, students will have the opportunity to give presentations that apply the analytical frameworks developed in class to examples of comedy and humor in other national and geographic contexts, as well as in contemporary film, television, and social media.

GWU Equivalency: FILM 1099 VT: Topics in Film

FM 2092 - WOMEN AND FILM, 4 credits

Attempts to understand Hollywood's ambiguous attitude toward women during and after the studio system. What do roles played by women tell us about American culture and its fear of women? Also investigates women's roles in Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, and Truffaut, and the female image presented on the screen by directors such as Jane Campion, Diane Kurys, and Agnes Varda.

GWU Equivalency: FILM 1099 VT: Women and Film

FM 2800 - FILM DIRECTORS: AGNES VARDA, 4 credits

This course explores the work of an individual film directors, whose films will be critically analyzed with respect to the cultural, political and artistic contexts of their production and reception. The course is offered every semester to fulfill the art of directing requirement in the film major, though the thematic focus and methodological perspective may change depending on the director in question. Students will have the opportunity to study a significant portion of the entire output of the filmmaker, whose influence and legacy will likewise feature in the discussions. Students will engage with the published scholarship on the director, perform close analysis of their films and investigate their critical reception, through combination of individual and group assignments.

GWU Equivalency: FILM 1099: VT: Film Directors: AgnesVarda

FR 1100 - FRENCH AND CULTURE I, 4 credits

This course is an introduction to French and is intended to help students acquire the basic elements of spoken and written French. Students will learn how to express themselves in everyday life situations. The students’ basic needs for linguistic and cultural information will be the main focus of this course. In class, work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the city of Paris.

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1001 Basic French I

FR 1200 - FRENCH AND CULTURE II, 4 credits

This course is a second semester Elementary French course, a continuation of level FR 1010 with emphasis on acquiring basic level of proficiency in the language and understanding the culture of France and the Francophone world. This course will enable students to improve their comprehension skills through the use of authentic audio and video material and to acquire vocabulary to face situations in their real life in Paris. The four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) are reinforced and special emphasis is placed on pronunciation.In-class work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the City of Paris.

Prerequisites: FR1100 OR FR1200 OR FR1200CCF

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1002 Basic French II

FR 1300 - FRENCH AND CULTURE III, 4 credits

The aim of the course is to improve and widen the listening, speaking and writing skills of those taking it, consolidating their knowledge of the full range of basic grammatical structures and broadening their general range of vocabulary. By the end of the course, students should have reached approximately the level A2 standard on the Common European Framework References for Languages

Prerequisites: FR1200CCF OR FR1300CCI OR FR1200 OR FR1300

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1099 VT: French Lang & Culture III

FR 1910 - TOPICS: INTENSIVE FRENCH AND CULTURE, 4 credits

This course is a combination of the French and Culture I (FR1100) and French and Culture II (FR1200) courses. It aims at providing an accelerated introduction to the basic structures of French with intensive work on the development of the four skills necessary to learn a language. In addition to improving your listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities in French, you will also gain cultural insight, learning about the diversity of the francophone world and applying your newly acquired language skills to the interpretation and analysis of a variety of authentic texts including poems and other literary texts, visual media such as films, paintings or advertisements, graphic novels and songs. In class, you will be given several opportunities to practice the language through communicative activities such as role-plays, problem-solving tasks and small discussions often carried out in pairs. This course will enable students to improve their comprehension skills using authentic audio and video material and to acquire vocabulary to face situations in their real life in Paris. In-class work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the City of Paris.

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1099: VT:Topics:IntensvFrench&Cult

FR 2077 - ACTING IN FRENCH, 4 credits

Prerequisites: FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: TRDA 1099 VT: Acting in French

FR 2094 - FRENCH FICTION NOW: TRADUIRE LE ROMAN FRANCAIS CONTEMPORAIN., 4 credits

Prerequisites: FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: FREN 3220 Modern French Literature

FR 2100 - FRENCH AND CULTURE IV, 4 credits

This course reviews basic and complex sentence patterns in greater depth through discussions on students experience in Paris. Cultural and historical aspects of the French life are introduced. Students will learn additional vocabulary to express opinions, beliefs, doubts and emotions, and are shown various language registers (formal/informal vocabulary and structures) and intonations. Examples are taken from real life situations, film, television, newspaper articles, etc. The four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) will be reinforced.

Prerequisites: FR1300CCI OR FR1300

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1003 Intermediate French I

FR 2101 - CRIMES AND SOCIETY: THE MAJOR CASES THAT CHANGED FRANCE, 4 credits

Patrick Henry, Marie-Claire Chevalier, the Outreau Trial, Omar Raddad, Guy George... These names are all associated to criminal cases that have deeply marked French society, sparked numerous societal debates, and ultimately, have shaped attitudes and laws. This course will facilitate organizing debates, improving opinion expression, acquiring the necessary vocabulary to qualify statements and address more complex themes, both in writing and orally.

Prerequisites: FR1300 OR FR1300CCI

GWU Equivalency: SOC 1099: VT:CrimesandSoc:MjrCaseChngFre

FR 2200 - FRENCH AND CULTURE V, 4 credits

This high intermediate course will allow students to reach the B1+ CEFR (DELF) competencies by reinforcing and expanding their ability to express themselves, defend an opinion, and debate with others. Special attention is paid to increasing students' ability to form complex sentences to express attitudes, wishes, necessity, doubt, emotions, to link ideas and to speculate. A B1.1 level in French or a passing grade in a French and Culture IV class (FR 2100) is required.

Spontaneously and through active workshops and discussion, they will react and express their point of view on contemporary subjects and questions, such as access to knowledge (university or other) for all, the gaze on information at a time of “fake news” and the over-multiplication of distribution channels (Internet, social networks, etc.), the representation of so-called “visible” minorities in the media sphere, or the consequences of global warming on countries and their inhabitants...

Through learning that is both individual and collective, debates on ideas based on their past and current experiences in and out of class, but also a constant questioning of their representations, students will thus be encouraged to develop, in addition to their linguistic and cultural skills, their critical thinking and to better understand contemporary issues.

Prerequisites: FR2100 OR FR2100CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1004 Intermediate French II

FR 2400 - ADVANCED WRITING IN FRENCH, 4 credits

In this advanced composition course, you will build upon your existing knowledge of genre, style, and French grammar to improve the accuracy and content of your written expression in French, and engage with sample texts of different genres (description, narration, essai, dissertation, and commentaire composé) that will help you write better in la langue de Molière.

Prerequisites: FR2100 OR FR2100CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1099: VT: Advanced Writing in French

FR 3029 - DISSIDENT HISTORIES FROM THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD, 4 credits

Martinique-born poet Edouard Glissant claims that "History [with a capital H] ends where the histories of those peoples once reputed to be without history come together". Students will explore the creative works of dissident voices from Francophone Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, and Europe. Students will develop critical insights into the ongoing dialogue about how who writes History.

Prerequisites: FR2100 OR FR2100CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: FREN 1099: VT: Dissident Hist from Franco

FR 3091 - TOPICS: RETHINKING FRENCH BANLIEUES, 4 credits

This interdisciplinary course in French explores the historical, social, and cultural dynamics of French suburban areas. Through sociology, ethnography & urban studies, literature, art, photography & visual culture, linguistics, music, and film, students will critically analyze representations of the banlieues, their evolution, and the policies shaping them. The course fosters a nuanced understanding of these spaces beyond stereotypes, engaging with themes of migration, inequality, gender, diversity, and identity in contemporary France.

Prerequisites: FR1300 OR FR1300CCI OR FR2100 OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200 OR FR2200CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099: VT: Topics:RethinkFrenchBanlie

GS 2006 - CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: WGSS 2125 Varieties of Feminist Theory

GS 2010 - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIETY, 4 credits

Surveys major issues concerning gender and the science of psychology in an attempt to answer the question: why is there such a gender gap when women and men share more psychological similarities than differences? Topics include: developmental processes and gender; gender roles and stereotypes, biology and gender; cross-cultural perspectives of gender; social-cultural theories of gender; language and gender, emotions and gender, health and gender.

GWU Equivalency: PSYC 2550 Psychology of Sex Differences

GS 2045 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 4 credits

Studies the nature and causes of individual behavior and thought in social situations. Presents the basic fields of study that compose the science of social psychology, and how its theories impact on most aspects of people's lives. Topics of study include: conformity, persuasion, mass communication, propaganda, aggression, attraction, prejudice, and altruism.

GWU Equivalency: PSYC 2012 Social Psychology

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

HI 1002 - HISTORY OF WESTERN CIV. FROM 1500, 4 credits

Continues History 1001, from the Renaissance and the Reformation through commercialism, Absolutism, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the industrial and social revolutions of the 19th century to nationalism and socialism in the contemporary Western world.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 1120 Europe in the World Since 1715

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

HI 1003 - THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, 4 credits

Beginning with the bipolar world of the Cold War, focuses on ideological struggles of the West, East, and Third World and the reactions of nations to the politics of the superpowers. Topics range from decolonization to the rise of the new Asia, African independence, the reemergence of the Muslim world, the collapse of communism, globalization and clash of world cultures.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 1099 VT: The Contemporary World

HI 1010 - WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY I: FROM THE PALEOLITHIC TO 1500, 4 credits

Why do women have less power, make less money, and have fewer opportunities than men do? Why have women's bodies been controlled, stigmatized, and pathologized? This is the first half of a year-long investigation of the origins and impacts of gender inequality. We start with our pre-agricultural Sapiens ancestors up to the beginning of the early modern period, looking primarily but not exclusively at socio-cultural developments that shaped understandings of gender, patriarchy and the role of women in different early cultures around the world.

GWU Equivalency: WGSS 1099: VT:Women in Wrld Hist I:Paleol

HI 1015 - HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST I, 4 credits

This course surveys major themes in the ancient (pre-Islamic) and medieval history of the Middle East. It is organized around two parts. The first surveys successive civilizations and empires that rose in the region or invaded and dominated it, from the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Hittites, the Phoenicians, the Persians, to the Greeks and the Romans/Byzantines. The birth of Judaism and Christianity is presented in this part. The Second covers the rise of Islam, its expansion and the Caliphate it established from the 7th to the late 13th century, when the Mongol seized Bagdad.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 3810 History of the Middle East

HI 1091 - TOPICS: LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY I: EARLY TIMES TO 1800, 4 credits

This course explores the history of Latin America from pre-colonial times to the dawn of the 19th century, critically examining the forces that shaped the region’s colonial past. We will interrogate the very concept of "Latin America" and analyze the diverse civilizations that flourished before European colonization, including the Aztecs, Incas, Guaranis, Tupis, and Amazonian societies. The course will then examine the impact of European rule, focusing on the Columbian Exchange, African slavery, indigenous coerced labor, and the environmental consequences of colonial economies such as sugar production and mining. Key themes include race, resistance, and the dynamics of power in colonial societies. Students will explore pivotal events such as the Valladolid Debate, the Taki Onqoy movement, the Bourbon Reforms, and the rebellion of Túpac Amaru II. We will also study Palmares and other quilombos, the presence of Asian slaves in colonial Latin America, the struggles of Muslim slaves in the Americas, and women’s histories across the continent. The course will conclude with an analysis of the Haitian Revolution and the early independence movements.

Students will work extensively with primary sources, engaging in critical discussions on how to write history that foregrounds the agency of historically marginalized populations. Through these materials, we will challenge traditional narratives and explore alternative perspectives on colonial Latin America.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 1099 Variable Topics

HI 2001 - FRENCH REVOLUTION & NAPOLEON, 4 credits

Examines French history between 1770 and 1815: the rise of the modern monarchical state, population growth and increased commercial wealth calling for flexibility and innovation, new values of the Enlightenment urging a rethinking of traditional beliefs and practices, war and bankruptcy precipitating revolution and bringing to power men such as Robespierre and Napoleon.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 3104 Europe Intellectual History 2

HI 2030 - INTRO. TO HISTORY, LAW & SOCIETY, 4 credits

What role does law play in shaping society? How have courts shaped society, both domestically and internationally? What strategies have people taken to resist unjust laws? Students engage in weekly moot courts that survey gripping historical and contemporary cases, including fugitive slave laws, the death penalty and criminal justice, hate speech, transgender rights, and issues relating to immigration, including asylum and deportation. Readings come from history, literature, sociology, and legal opinions. By the end of this course, students will be able to apply critical approaches to the law to contemporary issues; perform a mock trial, from start to finish; and write persuasive and analytically rigorous papers that demonstrate interdisciplinary thinking.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 1099 VT: Intro History, Law, Societ

HI 2035 - STATE, SOCIETY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ME, 4 credits

This course covers the religious, cultural and linguistic diversities in the Middle East and North Africa. It exposes students to and familiarizes them with the origin of these diversities and traces its impact and influence on the modern Middle East. The Islamic identity of the region, its signifier, from the eyes of those outside the region is closely examined. The second part of the course turns to the rich linguistic and cultural diversities of the region, their origin, particularities, and their contributions to the identities of different groups. The role of linguistic diversity as both a unifying and a divisive force will be examined, and the region’s homogeneity and heterogeneity and the socio-political implications of cultural institutions are further explored through its literature, painting, calligraphy, food cultures and customs of dress.

GWU Equivalency: HIST 3811 Emergence of Modrn Middle East

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

LT 1001 - ELEMENTARY LATIN I, 4 credits

This is a Latin course for beginners. By reading simple Latin texts and trying to write (or, if you like, speak) some Latin yourself, you learn the first grammar essentials and acquire a basic passive vocabulary of c. 1000 words. Choice of a particular textbook and specialization on particular aspects, e.g. Medieval Latin, is possible.

GWU Equivalency: LATN 1099 VT: Elementary Latin I

LW 2030 - INTRO. TO HISTORY, LAW & SOCIETY, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Intro to Hist, Law & Soc

LW 2091 - TOPICS: WHAT IS LAW?, 4 credits

This course introduces students to a fundamental question in jurisprudence: What is law? While this question has been central to legal philosophy, the field remains dominated by perspectives rooted in specific Western historical contexts. This course seeks to move beyond these traditional frameworks by critically examining both classical and alternative approaches to defining law

Students will engage with foundational jurisprudential theories, exploring the works of thinkers such as John Austin, Hans Kelsen, H.L.A. Hart, and Ronald Dworkin. At the same time, they will critically assess whether these concepts are adequate for understanding law across different historical periods and global contexts. The course will challenge Eurocentric conceptions of law by introducing perspectives from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), debates on the colonial roots of customary law, and the critique of Legal Orientalism. Additionally, students will explore definitions of law through the lenses of Critical Race Theory and Feminist Legal Theory, questioning how power, identity, and social structures shape legal norms.

Finally, the course will culminate in a broader discussion about the possibility of a universal definition of law. Students will critically examine who participates in lawmaking, how law is produced through practice, and whether a more inclusive, global approach to jurisprudence is attainable.

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT:ST: Law & Education

MA 1020 - APPLIED STATISTICS I, 4 credits

Introduces the tools of statistical analysis. Combines theory with extensive data collection and computer-assisted laboratory work. Develops an attitude of mind accepting uncertainty and variability as part of problem analysis and decision-making. Topics include: exploratory data analysis and data transformation, hypothesis-testing and the analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression with residual and influence analyses.

Prerequisites: MA0900 OR MA1005 OR MA1005CCM OR MA1005GE120 OR ELECMA-25 OR ELECMA-20 OR ELECMA-30 OR (MA1025CCM OR MA1025GE120) OR MA1030 OR MA1030CCM OR MA1030GE120 OR MA1091 OR MA1091CCM OR MA1091GE120

GWU Equivalency: DNSC 1001 Business Analytics I

MA 1030 - CALCULUS I, 4 credits

Introduces differential and integral calculus. Develops the concepts of calculus as applied to polynomials, logarithmic, and exponential functions. Topics include: limits, derivatives, techniques of differentiation, applications to extrema and graphing; the definite integral; the fundamental theorem of calculus, applications; logarithmic and exponential functions, growth and decay; partial derivatives. Appropriate for students in the biological, management, computer and social sciences.

Prerequisites: MA1025CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR MA1025GE120

GWU Equivalency: MATH 1231 Single-Variable Calculus I

GWU General Education Category: Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics or Statistics

MA 2030 - CALCULUS II, 4 credits

The continuation of MA1030, Calculus I. This course is appropriate for economics, mathematics, business and computer science majors and minors. Topics include: infinite series and applications; differential equations of first and second order and applications, functions of several variables, partial derivatives with applications, especially Lagrange multipliers. Includes the use of Mathematica.

Prerequisites: MA1030CCM

GWU Equivalency: MATH 1232 Single-Variable Calculus II

GWU General Education Category: Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics or Statistics

ME 1015 - HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST I, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: HIST 3810 History of the Middle East

ME 2035 - STATE, SOCIETY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ME, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 VT: Situating the Middle East

ME 2091 - TOPICS: REFUGEES AND MIGRATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 4 credits

The course examines the contemporary human geography, history, and politics of the Middle East with regard to patterns of human settlement, migration, refugees and forced displacement. The course covers the region of the Middle East with a broad understanding: from Lebanon to Iraq, from Syria to Egypt and Sudan, from the Arabic Peninsula to Palestine and Turkey.

In the course, we will explore mobility in the Middle East. We will understand how mobility shapes the patterns of human settlement – from the cosmopolitan but segregated cities of the Gulf countries to the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and Jordan -- across a region characterized by demographic growth, economic and social stagnation, important inequalities within each country and differences in development from one country to another, and political turmoil.

Against the backdrop of contemporary history (20th century until today), we will analyze the relationship between State building and displacement. We will also focus on some of the main conflicts that have propelled millions of people from the Middle East on the roads of exile. The course invites students to understand some of the most tragic humanitarian crises of our time, with a special focus on Palestine and Syria. Involuntary displacement provoked by environmental change will be addressed too.

GWU Equivalency: IDIS 1099 Variable Topics

PL 1021 - ETHICAL INQUIRY: PROBLEMS AND PARADIGMS, 4 credits

How should I live? How can I determine whether an action is right or just? These are perennial questions that philosophers have long considered and attempted to answer. Explores the ethical writings of several philosophers, including Plato, Hobbes, and Mill, in order to help us clarify and articulate our own values as well as discover the nature of philosophy.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 1099 VT: Ethical Inquiry

PL 1100 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I: FROM ANCIENT TO MEDIEVAL, 4 credits

This course offers an overview of ancient and medieval philosophy. Beginning with the earliest Greek philosophers and ending with the late medieval founding fathers of modern scientific thought, we will read and discuss various answers these thinkers gave to questions such as: 'What is a good life?' or 'How can I reconcile my faith with what reason tells me?' Readings include Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Seneca, Plotinus, Anselm, Avicenna, Abelard, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas and Nicolaus of Autrecourt.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 2111 History of Ancient Philosophy

PL 2003 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 4 credits

Political philosophy forms that branch of philosophy that reflects on the specificity of the political. Why are humans, as Aristotle argued, political animals? How are they political? What are the means and ends of the political, and how best does one organize the political with such questions in mind? The course offers a topic-oriented approach to the fundamental problems underlying political theory and practice.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 2132 Social & Political Philosophy

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities

PL 2037 - EMPIRICISM, SKEPTICISM & MATERIALISM, 4 credits

In this course we shall examine the birth of empiricism in polemics over the origins of knowledge and political authority, the limits of human reason, and the possibility of philosophy itself finding a way out of the seventeenth century's religious wars and tyranny towards the creation of free and tolerant societies of rational individuals. Readings from Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 1099 VT: Empiricism Skepticism Mat

PL 2041 - ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, 4 credits

Introduction to ethics by the example of environmental ethics, exploring the role of humans as moral agents with regard to other living beings, the whole planet or its biosphere, and future generations. Through cases studies and to understand implicit assumptions and theoretical problems of standpoints taken by stakeholders in the debate.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 1099 VT: Environmental Ethics

PL 2072 - FREUD & NIETZSCHE, 4 credits

An introduction to one of the key orientations of modern philosophy: critical genealogy and its central problematic, the identity and formation of the subject. The aim of critical genealogy is to unearth the hidden and unsuspected mechanisms, whether institutional or familial, which lie behind the formation of individual and social identities.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 1099 VT: Freud & Nietzsche

PL 3116 - KEY TEXTS: SOCRATES, SOPHISTS, AND THE STAGE, 4 credits

A grand tour of 5th cent. BCE Athens, a fascinating time of intellectual unrest and innovation. Readings include the founding fathers of drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), Old Comedy (Aristophanes), fragments of the Greek sophists, the historiographers Herodotus and Thucydides, Xenophon’s Recollections of Socrates and early Platonic dialogues, such as the Apology and the Phaedo.

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 1099: VT: Key Texts: Socrates, Sophi

PO 1011 - FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN POLITICS, 4 credits

What is politics - the quest for the common good or who gets what, when, and how? We study what defines politics in the modern age: states and nations in the international system, collective action and representation in mass societies, trajectories of democracy and dictatorship, politics and development in the context of capitalism. The course will introduce the student to the concerns, the language and the methods of Political Science.

GWU Equivalency: PSC 1099 VT: Found of Modern Politics

PO 1012 - CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL POLITICS, 4 credits

This course examines key analytical and normative challenges of the present: global rebalancing and the emergence or reemergence of postcolonial states, uneven development, the role of culture in world politics, the future of the nation state, the global environmental imperative, mass forced and free migrations, the new landscape of armed conflict, the sources and implications of sharpening social divides, and the challenges to liberal-democratic theory and practice.

GWU Equivalency: PSC 1001 Intro to Comparative Politics

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

PO 2003 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: PHIL 2132 Social & Political Philosophy

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking in the Humanities

PO 2015 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 4 credits

This course introduces students to the comparative study of politics, focusing on political behavior and the structures and practices that political systems have in common and those that distinguish them. We study different forms of democratic and authoritarian rule, state-society relationships, and key issues of political economy like development and welfare states. While the emphasis is on domestic features, we also analyze the impacts of globalization on national politics.

GWU Equivalency: PSC 1001 Intro to Comparative Politics

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

PO 2031 - WORLD POLITICS, 4 credits

This course analyses the basic setting, structure and dynamics of world politics with emphasis on current global problems, practices and processes. In doing so, it introduces the major theoretical approaches to international politics, and uses theory as a methodological tool for analyzing sources of change and causes of conflict and/or cooperation in the global arena.

GWU Equivalency: PSC 1003 Intro-International Politics

PO 2091A - TOPICS: REFUGEES AND MIGRATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 4 credits

Prerequisites: GWU Equivalency: PSC 1099 Variable Topics

PO 2091B - TOPICS: HISTORY OF LYING, 4 credits

This course explores political manipulation, sexual deception, polite lies, theories of untruth, and totalitarian mass culture. It aims to encourage critical thinking and analysis in relation to visual and written sources. The course will develop student skills as readers of philosophy, legal cases, historical writing, and literature. The course focuses for the most part on the theme of lying in Europe and the United States. Students are welcome to broaden the geographical scope of the course, or reach outside the chronology of the course, through their choice of a subject for their class presentation.

GWU Equivalency: PSC 1099 Variable Topics

PY 1000 - INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY, 4 credits

This course discusses the intellectual foundations of contemporary psychology. Students learn about the concepts, theories and experiments basic to an understanding of the discipline, including classic thought and recent advances in psychology such as psychoanalysis, learning theory,biological mechanisms, developmental, social, cognitive, personality and abnormal psychology.

GWU Equivalency: PSYC 1001 General Psychology

PY 2010 - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIETY, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: PSYC 2550 Psychology of Sex Differences

PY 2045 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: PSYC 2012 Social Psychology

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

SC 1020 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 4 credits

This course is intended to introduce non-scientists to key concepts and approaches in the study of the environment. With a focus on the scientific method, we learn about natural systems using case studies of disruptions caused by human activity. Topics include global warming, deforestation, waste production and recycling, water pollution, environmental toxins and sustainable development. The relationships between science and policy, the media, and citizen action are also addressed.

*Lab required. Please note that an additional fee will be charged for this course.

Corequisite: SC1020LLAB AND (MA1005CCM OR MA1020CCM OR MA1025CCM OR MA1030CCM OR MA1091CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR CCMCCM OR MA1010 OR MA1099CCIM OR MA1099CCI)

GWU Equivalency: GEOG 1003 Society and Environment

GWU General Education Category: Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Local/Civic Engagement

SC 1070 - THE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT, 4 credits

This course is an introduction of the science of oceanic environment, from submarine canyons to zooplankton, from global warming to the growing plastics problem in mid oceanic gyres, from acidification to wave dynamics. We will explain oceanography's most important concepts and debunk its widely (and wildly) held misconceptions.

*Lab required

Corequisite: SC1020LLAB AND (MA1005CCM OR MA1020CCM OR MA1025CCM OR MA1030CCM OR MA1091CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR CCMCCM OR MA1010 OR MA1099CCIM OR MA1099CCI)

GWU Equivalency: GEOL 2106 Oceanography

Course Fee (EUR): 20

SC 1080 - ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, 4 credits

This course explores how and why animals, including humans, behave the way they do. Topics include natural selection; the interplay between genes and the environment; learning; the influence of neurons and hormones on behavior; foraging; mating; cooperation; communication; and social behavior. In the labs, students will use the scientific method to carry out lab- and field-based research projects.

*Lab required. Please note that an additional fee will be charged for this course.

Corequisite: SC1020LLAB AND (MA1005CCM OR MA1020CCM OR MA1025CCM OR MA1030CCM OR MA1091CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR CCMCCM OR MA1010 OR MA1099CCIM OR MA1099CCI)

GWU Equivalency: BISC 2452 Animal Behavior

VC 2100 - INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE, 4 credits

GWU Equivalency: AH 1099 VT: Intro to Visual Culture

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