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AB1010 - 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.

Course Equivalency: ARAB1099 - VT: Elementary Arabic I

AB1030 - 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…

Course Equivalency: ARAB1099 - VT: Intermediate Arabic I Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: AB1020

AH1003 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - VT:Intro to Art Paris Museums Course fee: 25

AH1020 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts

Course Equivalency: CAH1032 - Survey: Art/Arch. II

AH1091A - TOPICS: INTRO TO GLOBAL ARTS THROUGH PARIS MUSEUMS, 4 credits

Introduction to Global Art through Paris Museums offers undergraduate students an entry point into the history of global art by engaging directly with the diverse collections of major museums in Paris. This course moves beyond traditional, Eurocentric narratives to consider how art reflects—and is shaped by—cross-cultural encounters, colonial histories, and global systems of trade and exchange. Through close visual analysis and on-site museum visits, we will examine artworks not only in terms of their geographic origins but also their materiality—investigating how materials and techniques used in art-making are often deeply connected to histories of conquest, commerce, and colonization. We will also engage critically with issues of appropriation and re-appropriation, the complex histories of provenance, and current debates surrounding restitution and institutional critique. Students will gain tools to analyze art within its cultural and historical contexts, understand key concepts in global art history, and reflect on how museums shape our understanding of the past. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify major artworks in Parisian collections, articulate their global significance, and apply art historical vocabulary to interpret the meaning and legacy of visual objects.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - VT: ST: IntrGlblArt thr Paris Course fee: 25

AH1091B - TOPICS: HISTORY OF EAST ASIAN ART AND VISUAL CULTURE, 4 credits

This course offers an overview of art and visual culture in China, Korea, and Japan from ancient times to the present. It is organized in a loosely chronological sequence, with lectures presenting a variety of case studies on art objects, each addressing specific themes or concepts in East Asian art history. We will delve into topics such as the transcultural adaptations of painting themes, the cross-border movement of artifacts, women and gender representation, the unifying role of Buddhist art, diverse expressions in popular print culture, and the impacts of modernization. To enhance our understanding of the material aspects of art and the viewing experiences shaped by various formats, we will conduct replica handling sessions and organize class visits to the Musée Guimet, Musée Cernuschi, and Musée du quai Branly. This course aims to equip students with fundamental skills in formal analysis and showcase diversities and interconnectivity within East Asian art history.

Course Equivalency: CAH 2190: East Asian Art

AH2000 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - VT: Paris through its Architec Course fee: 25

AH2011 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - VT: Ancient Art & Arch

AH2013 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - Renaissance Art & Architecture

AH2016 - 19TH & 20TH CENT. ART & ARCHITECTURE, 4 credits

Introduces the principal arts and aesthetic issues of the 19th and 20th centuries from the French Revolution to World War II. Studies artists such as David, Turner, Monet, and Picasso, as well as movements such as Romanticism, Impressionism, and Surrealism, stressing continuities beneath apparent differences of approach. Regular museum sessions at the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, and the Centre Pompidou.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - VT: 19th & 20th Cen Art & Arch

AH2018 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CAH1099 - VT: Art and the Market Course fee: 25

AN1002 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Course Equivalency: ANTH1002 - Sociocultural Anthropology

AR1010 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CSA1301 - Drawing Fundamentals Course fee: 75

AR1015 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts Course Equivalency: CSA1401 - Painting: Visual Thinking

Course fee: 75

AR1020 - 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.

Course Equivalency: FA1099 - VT:Mat & Tech of Masters Course fee: 75

AR1032 - INTRO TO SCULPTURE, 4 credits

This course is designed for students who have little or no previous experience in working with sculpture. Students will learn to create work in three dimensions from observation and imagination. A variety of sculptural materials and techniques will be introduced, furthering students' explorations of structure and form in space. There is an additional course fee for materials.

Course Equivalency: CSA1201 - Sculpture: Investigations Course fee: 100

AR1040 - 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.

Course Equivalency: CSA1099 - VT: Printmaking I Course fee: 100

AR1061 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts Course Equivalency: CSA1502 - Intro Digital Photography

Course fee: 100

AR2050 - 2D MIXED MEDIA, 4 credits

2D Mixed Media is a course that demands experimentation. Each exercise will require the overlaying of at least two mutually compatible mediums to obtain visual effects that are impossible to achieve with a single medium. Further, non-traditional supports for each assignment will enhance the artwork of every student and introduce them to the many possibilities available to contemporary artists

Course Equivalency: CSA1099 - VT: 2D Mixed Media

AR2091A - TOPICS: COLOURS OF THE MASTERS, 4 credits

Topics change each semester.

“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”

Course Equivalency: CSA1099 - VT: Fine Arts Topics Course fee: 50

AR2091B – TOPICS- DRAWING FROM LIFE: 4 credits

This drawing course focuses on developing an understanding of and ability to capture the natural world. Units of study include skins and surfaces, skeletons, roots and flowers, seeds and stems, and both the visible and invisible elements of form. Organic subjects, including human anatomy, will be explored with an emphasis on accuracy and proportion.

Students will engage in both direct observational drawing and expressive, source-based approaches. A variety of materials will be used, including both wet and dry media, with exploration of monochromatic techniques as well as color principles.

Course Equivalency: CSA1099 - VT: Fine Arts Topics

Course fee: 50

BA1020 - FOUNDATIONS OF MANAGEMENT, 2 credits

The course introduces students to basic economics and management concepts and how the organizational setting influences human behavior. The course will look at management and organization topics from different domains, such as strategy, finance, marketing, operations and business ethics, to get a rich understanding of managing. Rather than presenting managing a business as a simple social technique by which managers enforce organizational standards, we will take a critical approach to understand how theory influences practice and how our perceptions of leadership and management evolve through changing contexts. An essential context is climate change caused by human activities. Anthropogenic climate change is the most significant unmet challenge facing leaders, managers, organizations and those who study them throughout this century. Through readings, in-class activities, assignments, cases and/or simulations, the course will explore how managing and organizational behavior influences the strategies of organizations and businesses. The course builds upon the active participation of students. We expect students to prepare carefully for each course meeting and engage fully in group work.

Course Equivalency: BADM1099 - VT: Intro Business Experience

BA2009 - 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).

Course Equivalency: BADM1099 - VT: Intercultural Management

BA2020 - 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.

Course Equivalency: BADM3103 - Human Capital in Organizations

BA2040 - 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.

Course Equivalency: IBUS3201 - International Marketing Mgt

BA2050 - CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, 4 credits

The course introduces the foundations of managing creativity and innovation. The readings and discussion will focus on the concepts and frameworks for analyzing how firms create, commercialize and capture value from innovative products and services.

The aim of this course is to provide a solid grounding to students interested in managing creativity and the various aspects of the innovation process within organizations. The course is divided into two parts. The first part focuses mainly on the creativity process around three themes: What is creativity? How can creativity be stimulated? How can creative ideas be translated to innovative products and business strategies? Based on major theories in the field, we discuss whether monetary rewards enhance or undermine creativity, how multitasking or working under time pressure affects creativity, what tools we can provide to stimulate creativity, and the challenges that arise when implementing creative ideas in organizations. The second part of the course examines the organizational issues involved in innovating and in implementing innovations. These issues include management of teams and partnerships, learning within and across projects, the manager's role in funding, directing, and killing innovation projects, technological entrepreneurship, and resistance to innovation.

Course Equivalency: BADM1099 - VT: Creativity & Innnov Mgmt

CL1050 - 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.

Course Equivalency: ENGL1099 - VT:The World, Text &Critic II

CL2006 - 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. Course Equivalency: WGSS2125 - Varieties of Feminist Theory

CL2010 - 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

Course Equivalency: IDIS1099 - VT: Paris through its Books Course fee: 20

CL2028 - THE ART OF SCREENWRITING, 4 credits

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.

Course Equivalency: FILM2155 - Screen Writing

CL2075 - THEATER IN PARIS, 4 credits

This course essentially happens in the theatres of Paris, exploring the city’s fabulous resources, exchanging with practitioners and scholars from other institutions. We see ways of integrating music, dance and “physical theatre,” innovative explorations of classics from European and non-European traditions, avant-garde masters and the brightest young experimental troupes. We have theatre that directly questions political dilemmas, collective theatre and director-driven theatre, machine theatre and theatre based around great individual actors. Papers done in French or English.

Course fee attached.

Course Equivalency: CTAD1099 - VT: Theater in Paris

CL2083 - 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?

Course Equivalency: ENGL1099 - VT: Digital Poetics

CL2100 - 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. May be taken twice for credit.

General Education category (if available): Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts Course Equivalency: ENGL1210 - Intro to Creative Writing

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: FR1200CCF OR FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102 OR FR2103CCI

Course fee: 25

CL3035 - CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE, 4 credits

This course offers close engagement with recently translated fiction and poetry from around the globe. In addition to reading great contemporary writing, students are introduced to today’s new media landscape, which has taken on an increasingly important role in the promotion and evaluation of global literature. Units on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Course Equivalency: ENGL1099 - VT: Contemp World Lit

CL3043 - PARIS ATTRACTION: MODERNIST EXPERIMENTS IN MIGRATION, 4 credits

Explores the work of Anglo-American modernist writers in Paris, concentrating on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and other writers. Relates their formal experimentation to the visual arts and to the psychic dynamics of exile: the experience of liberation from the constraints of one culture and an alienated relation to the new environment.

Course Equivalency: ENGL1099 - VT: Paris Attraction

CL3089 - THE BIBLE, 4 credits

This course intends to help students better understand the Bible's influence on literature and cultural history through a primary and secondary approach: reading the Bible (preferably The King James Version); reading the history of the biblical period (introductions and annotations of the New Oxford Annotated Bible). Readings shall cover the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament. No prerequisites.

Course Equivalency: ENGL1099 - VT: The Bible

CL3091 - TOPICS: STRANGER WORLDS: LATIN AMERICAN SPECULATIVE

FICTION, 4 credits

This course explores how Latin American writers have used the speculative imagination to invent new worlds, unsettle reality, and rethink the futures promised or foreclosed by modernity. We will study works that blur the borders between science fiction, fantasy, metaphysics, and the uncanny. The course approaches Latin American literature as a site that has long generated its own visions of apocalypse, invention, repair, artificial life, spectral history, and alternate futures. We will examine how these works imagine new forms of time, personhood, memory, and political possibility, and how they reframe the postcolonial condition as grounds for radical world-making. Reading across the fantastic, the philosophical tale, magical realism, and science fiction, students will explore how these texts challenge conventional distinctions between realism and fantasy while reimagining history, technology, and the future in the wake of slavery and colonialism.

Course Equivalency: ENGL1099 - VT: ST:New Latin Amer Fiction

CM1011 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course Equivalency: SMPA2101 - Journalism: Theory & Practice Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE

CM1023 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course Equivalency: SMPA1050 - Media in a Free Society

CM1091 - TOPICS: AUDIOVISUAL CRITICAL PRACTICE, 4 credits

This course explores audiovisual production and video editing, not only as creative tools, but as modes of critical inquiry. It is a highly creative, hands-on course designed for students to reflect critically on their own habits of media production and reception while consolidating their audiovisual skills and digital literacy. Students will develop foundational skills in audiovisual production, from image composition to the principles of montage, video editing, sound mixing, audiovisual remix… With each new skill acquired, students will discover alternative ways of weaving criticality and reflexivity into their media practices. They will use the audiovisual medium to ask questions and produce knowledge on the social, cultural and political issues of our times. Students will be encouraged to create videographic projects shaped by their (inter)disciplinary interests and engage creatively with media linked to their other ongoing courses or final thesis. No filmmaking or editing experience required.

Course Equivalency: SMPA1099 - Variable Topics

CM1110 - 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.

Course Equivalency: IDIS1099 - VT: Intro to Fashion Studies

CM1500 - 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.

Course Equivalency: SMPA1099 - VT: Digital Toolkit: Comm Des

CM1850 - MAGAZINE & ONLINE JOURNALISM PRACTICUM, 2 credits

This workshop trains students in magazine writing and production through hands-on experience working on a high-quality student magazine, the Peacock. Students participate in a newsroom setting in a variety of roles -- from writing and editing to pagination and layout -- to produce the Peacock in both print and online versions. Students will learn researching and writing techniques as well as how to interview and source stories for magazines. They will gain pre-professional experience preparing them for entry-level positions in magazine journalism – whether print publications or online magazines. Note: Up to 8 credits for Journalism Practica can be applied toward the degree. May be taken twice for credit.

Course Equivalency: SMPA2110 - Intro to NewsWriting&Reporting

CM1852 - VIDEO JOURNALISM PRACTICUM, 2 credits

This hands-on workshop trains students in video journalism in a real-time newsroom and production studio setting. Students will gain skills working with video production equipment and editing tools including Final Cut Pro. Students will contribute video journalism pieces to “PTV”, the video platform linked to the student media website where their video work contributes to the content mix of news pieces, video work, and magazine stories. Students will produce short video stories, narratives and interviews for the site. They will edit video pieces, post on YouTube, and use social media to promote their stories. The course will prepare students for entry-level positions in video journalism and for more advanced AUP courses in video and broadcast journalism.

Course Equivalency: SMPA2112 - Intro to Video Production

CM2001 - PUBLIC SPEAKING IN THE DIGITAL AGE, 4 credits

Concentrates on the principles of communication in public speaking. Students learn and practice strategies and techniques for effective speech preparation and delivery of informative, ceremonial, persuasive, and impromptu speeches, and panel presentations. Helps students sharpen their oral presentation skills, express their meaning clearly, and become accustomed to public speaking.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Oral Communication

Course Equivalency: COMM1040 - Public Communication Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CC

CM2003 - 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.

Course Equivalency: IDIS1099 - VT: Media Ind: Strat, Mkt, Con

CM2004 - 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.

Course Equivalency: COMM1099 - VT: Comp Hist Communication Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE

CM2006 - 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.

Course Equivalency: SMPA1099 - VT: Media Globalization Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE

CM2014 - 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.

Course Equivalency: SMPA1099 - VT: Comparative Journalism

CM2051 - COMMUNICATION THEORY & RESEARCH METH., 4 credits

The skills learned in this course will prepare students for upper-division communication courses, and provide students with basic research methods in the field of communication. Students will become familiar with a range of research methods (survey, interview, ethnography, discourse, and political economy.

Course Equivalency: COMM3110 - Research Methods-Communication Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR (EN2020 OR EN2020CCE)

CM2091A - TOPICS: REIMAGINING AID & DEVELOPMENT, 4 credits

This course critically examines international development and humanitarian aid as politically charged and culturally embedded practices rooted in colonial histories and global inequality. Challenging the dominant Global North model centered on economic growth and modernization, students engage with anthropological critiques that expose how development discourse obscures structural inequalities and power relations. Through case studies from the Global South, the course analyzes how diverse actors from state officials and NGO workers to aid recipients and activists experience and contest development interventions. Moving beyond critique, the course explores alternative visions grounded in participatory approaches, community-led initiatives, and indigenous epistemologies, examining how anthropology can contribute to more ethical and socially anchored practice.

Course Equivalency: IDIS1099 - VT: Topics

CM2091B - TOPICS: MUSIC PRODUCTION FOR FILM & MEDIA, 4 credits

Music plays a critical role in shaping how audiences understand stories across film, documentary, journalism, podcasts, and digital media. This course introduces students to the creative and technical foundations of producing music for media. Students learn how sound influences emotion, pacing, and meaning, while gaining practical experience producing music cues and audio elements for visual and journalistic storytelling. No prior composition or music theory experience is required. Through workshops and collaborative projects, students will create original music and sound-based narratives using accessible digital tools.

Course Equivalency: IDIS1099 - VT: Topics

CS1040 - COMPUTER PROGRAMMING I, 4 credits

This course is a gentle introduction to the field of Computer Science and the fundamental concepts of programming. It starts with a brief history of computing and the basic elements of the computers' architecture.

It focuses on the correct and fluent use of appropriate terminology in CS to describe fundamental concepts and programs.

It has a strong hands-on approach and leads to understanding fundamental concepts such as flow-charts representation of algorithms, conditional statements, iteration, primitive data types, collections and functions.

Students learn to use the documentation of a programming language and understand error messages for debugging.

Course Equivalency: CSCI1011 - Intro to Programming w/ JAVA

CS1910 - TOPICS: HOW DIGITAL WORKS, 4 credits

Almost everyone today interacts with digital technologies in some way, whether it is through a smartphone, browsing the Internet, hailing an Uber, analyzing data, or dealing with the economics of our digital economy. It's hard to think of an activity today that does not rely on some form of digital technology. However, how much do you know about this technology that surrounds us? Do you know how bits and bytes turn into words, sounds, and images? Do you know how or where your computer finds Facebook or YouTube or Twitter? Do you know how and why your personal information is being collected and analyzed and why or why not that is important? You don't need to know how digital works to live in our technology-dependent world, but you do need to know how it works to take best advantage of the opportunities it provides and to be a mover in our future economy.

This course takes students through the web of technologies underlying our digital world including how the Internet works from the bottom up. In hands-on practice, students will learn to build and publish a basic website.

Course Equivalency: CSCI1099 - VT: ST: How Digital Works

DR2000 - 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. May be taken twice for credit.

Course Equivalency: TRDA1025 - Understanding the Theatre

DS1060 - 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.

Course Equivalency: DATS1099 - VT: Data Science

EC2010 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course fee: 9

EC2020 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course Equivalency: ECON1012 - Principles of Economics II

EN1000 - 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. Although this course carries 4 credits, it does not fulfill the University's English requirement.

Course Equivalency: UW1020 - University Writing

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN0950

EN1010 - 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. This course satisfies only 4 credits of the University's English requirement.

Course Equivalency: UW1020 - University Writing Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1000

EN2000 - THEATER ARTS, 4 credits

Course Equivalency: CTAD1025 - Understanding the Theatre

EN2020 - 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.

Course Equivalency: UW1020 - University Writing Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: EN1010

EN2100 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: A CROSS-GENRE WORKSHOP, 4 credits

General Education category (if available): Creative or Critical Thinking in the Arts Course Equivalency: ENGL1210 - Intro to Creative Writing

FM1010 - 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, analyze 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 practice 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.

Course Equivalency: FILM2151 - Film Theory

FM2028 - 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.

Course Equivalency: FILM2155 - Screen Writing

FM2076 - 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.

Course Equivalency: FILM2154 - History of World Cinema II

FM2091B - TOPICS: MUSIC PRODUCTION FOR FILM & MEDIA, 4 credits

Course Equivalency: FILM1099 - VT: Topics in Film

FM2800 - FILM DIRECTORS: DAVID LYNCH, 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.

Course Equivalency: FILM1099 - VT: Film Directors: Lynch

FR1100 - 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.

Course Equivalency: FREN1001 - Basic French I

FR1200 - 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.

Course Equivalency: FREN1002 - Basic French II

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: FR1100 OR FR1200 OR FR1200CCF

FR1300 - 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

Course Equivalency: FREN1099 - VT: French Lang & Culture III

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: FR1200CCF OR FR1300CCI OR FR1200 OR FR1300

FR2091 - TOPICS: JEWISH AND ARAB PARIS: HIST, MEMORY AND IDENTITIES, 4 credits

This course explores Paris through the singular and often intertwined histories and cultural productions of its Jewish and Arab communities from the nineteenth century (and before) to the present. Combining history, sociology, literature, film, media and urban studies, the course examines how Jewish and Arab histories have transformed the city’s social, cultural, and imaginative landscapes. Focusing on migration, coexistence, conflict and trauma, the readings and screenings are paired with site visits to neighborhoods, museums, and memorial spaces where questions of memory, identity, and republican universalism take material form. The course invites students to reconsider Paris as a plural city, where identities and belonging are negotiated across shared and contested spaces.

Course Equivalency: FREN1099 - Variable Topics

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: FR1300CCI OR FR1300 OR FR2100 OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200 OR FR2200CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102 OR FR2103CCI

FR2100 - 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.

Course Equivalency: FREN1003 - Intermediate French I Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: FR1300CCI OR FR1300

FR2200 - 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

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.

Course Equivalency: FREN1004 - Intermediate French II

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: FR2100 OR FR2100CCI OR FR2101 OR FR2102 OR FR2103CCI

GK1005 - ELEMENTARY ANCIENT GREEK I, 4 credits

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

Course Equivalency: GREK1099 - VT: Elem Ancient Greek I

GS2006 - CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY, 4 credits

Encourages responsible theorizing across disciplines and cultures. Course Equivalency: WGSS2125 - Varieties of Feminist Theory

GS2010 - 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.

Course Equivalency: PSYC2550 - Psychology of Sex Differences

GS2045 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course Equivalency: PSYC2012 - Social Psychology

HI1003 - 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.

Course Equivalency: HIST1099 - VT: The Contemporary World

HI1015 - 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.

Course Equivalency: HIST3810 - History of the Middle East

HI2001 - 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.

Course Equivalency: HIST3145 - The French Revolution

HI2030 - 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.

Course Equivalency: HIST1099 - VT: Intro History, Law, Societ

HI2035 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking in the Humanities and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Course Equivalency: HIST3811 - Emergence of Modrn Middle East

HI3004 - THE HISTORY OF PARIS, 4 credits

Seeks to understand how Paris elucidates the history of France by following its history from its origins to the present. The site of religious and political revolution, Paris testifies to the trials and glories of French history.

Course Equivalency: HIST1099 - VT: History of Paris

LW2030 - INTRO. TO HISTORY, LAW & SOCIETY, 4 credits

Course Equivalency: IDIS1099 - VT: Intro to Hist, Law & Soc

MA1020 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics or Statistics Course Equivalency: STAT1111 - Business & Economic Stat I

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: 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

MA1030 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics or Statistics Course Equivalency: MATH1231 - Single-Variable Calculus I

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: MA1025CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR MA1025GE120

ME1015 - HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST I, 4 credits

Course Equivalency: HIST3810 - History of the Middle East

ME2035 - STATE, SOCIETY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ME, 4 credits

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking in the Humanities and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Course Equivalency: HIST3811 - Emergence of Modrn Middle East

PL1021 - 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.

Course Equivalency: PHIL1099 - VT: Ethical Inquiry

PL1100 - 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.

Course Equivalency: PHIL2111 - History of Ancient Philosophy

PL2003 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking in the Humanities Course Equivalency: PHIL2132 - Social & Political Philosophy

PO1011 - 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.

Course Equivalency: PSC1099 - VT: Found of Modern Politics

PO1012 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Course Equivalency: PSC1001 - Intro to Comparative Politics

PO2003 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 4 credits

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking in the Humanities Course Equivalency: PHIL2132 - Social & Political Philosophy

PO2015 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Global or Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Course Equivalency: PSC1001 - Intro to Comparative Politics

PO2032 - INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 4 credits

Studies the origins, politics, structures, and impact of international organizations with a focus on the United Nations group, specialized agencies, regional organizations, and international administration. Discusses the UN role in peacekeeping, decolonization, refugees, social and health problems, trade and monetary policy, development, technology transfer, and UN reform as well as new developments since the end of the Cold War.

Course Equivalency: PSC2442 - International Organizations

PO2050 - POLITICAL ANALYSIS, 4 credits

This course examines the nature of knowledge claims in political science: how we know what we know and how certain we are. Research schools, the nature of description and explanation in political science, and basis issues of quantitative analysis will form the core elements of this course, while substantive themes may vary each year.

Course Equivalency: PSC2101 - Scope & Methods in PSc

PY1000 - 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.

Course Equivalency: PSYC1001 - General Psychology

PY2010 - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIETY, 4 credits

Course Equivalency: PSYC2550 - Psychology of Sex Differences

PY2013 - UNDERSTANDING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, 4 credits

The course is an introduction to developmental psychology. From various points of view it explores the key question What is, and how can we understand, human development? It engages with central issues of developmental psychology (among others, through the work of influential psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, E. Erikson, Jerome Bruner, Katherine Nelson, Peggy J. Miller, and Michael Tomasello) and puts them into cross- and interdisciplinary contexts. These contexts include evolutionary theory; cultural and sociocultural, narrative, and critical psychology; history; anthropology; and philosophy. Beyond the scientific and conceptual domain, the course also investigates phenomena of human development in literature, arts, and film.

PY1000 is strongly recommended as a prerequisite.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course Equivalency: PSYC2013 - Developmental Psychology

PY2022 - PERSONALITY & INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 4 credits

Personality addresses central psychological questions on how persons think, feel and act. This course provides students with a solid foundation in the basics of theory and research in personality psychology. Students will be introduced to classic and contemporary perspectives in the field, continuing controversies and debates and the rationale and techniques for personality assessment. PY1000 is recommended as a prerequisite.

Course Equivalency: PSYC1099 - VT: Personality & Indiv Diff

PY2045 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 4 credits

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Course Equivalency: PSYC2012 - Social Psychology

SC1020 - 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.

General Education category (if available): Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning or Scientific Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Local/Civic Engagement

Course Equivalency: GEOG1003 - Society and Environment

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: SC1020LLAB AND (MA1005CCM OR MA1020CCM OR MA1025CCM OR MA1030CCM OR MA1091CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR CCMCCM OR MA1010 OR MA1099CCIM OR MA1099CCI)

SC1070 - 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

Course Equivalency: GEOL2106 - Oceanography

Prerequisite/Co-requisite notes: SC1070LLAB AND (MA1005CCM OR MA1020CCM OR MA1025CCM OR MA1030CCM OR MA1091CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR CCMCCM OR MA1010 OR MA1099CCI OR MA1099CCIM)

Course fee: 21

VC2100 - 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.

Course Equivalency: AH1099 - VT: Intro to Visual Culture

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