Tulane First Year Abroad Courses
TULANE SPRING SCHOLARS COURSE LIST – FALL 2025
Last updated 6 May 2025
Please note that this information may be subject to change.
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARBC 1940
General Transfer Coursework
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…
Tulane Equivalency: ARBC 1020
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: 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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARHS 1940
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARHS 1940
General Transfer Coursework
AH1091- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARHS 1940
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: CLAS 3170
Textual & Hist Perspectives
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARHS 3910
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARHS 1940
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ANTH 1020
Social/Behavioral Sciences & Global Perspectives (fulfills both)
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ARST 1370
Aesthetics & Creative Arts
Course fee: 100
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.
Tulane Equivalency: SLAM 3030
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 2104
General Transfer Coursework
CL/GS2006- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: GESS 2190
General Transfer Coursework
CL/EN2052- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 2020
Textual and Historical Perspectives
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?
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 2140
Textual/Hist Perspectives OR Writing Tier-1 (cannot fulfull both)
CL2091A- 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).
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 2104
General Transfer Coursework
CL/EN2100- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: ENGL 3620
Aesthetics and Creative Arts
Course fee: 25
CL/GS3075- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: MEMS 2200
General Transfer Coursework
CL/EN3200- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 1940
General Transfer Coursework
Course fee: 25
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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 2810
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: 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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 2810
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE OR EN2020
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. This change updates a woefully outdated description which no longer matches course content and has led to students feeling deceived.
Tulane Equivalency: DMPC 2940
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 3810
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 3810
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: 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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 3810
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: 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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 3810
General Transfer Coursework
CM/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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 3810
General Transfer Coursework
CS1040- INTRO TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING I, 4 credits
Introduces the field of computer science and the fundamental concepts of programming from an object-oriented perspective using the programming language Java. 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 such as arrays and strings.
Tulane Equivalency: CMPS 1100
General Transfer Coursework
DR/EN2000- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: THEA 2100
Aesthetics and Creative Arts
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.
Tulane Equivalency: CMPS 3660
General Transfer Coursework
EC2003- MEDIA INDUSTRIES: STRATEGIES, MARKETS & CONSUMERS, 4 credits
Studies the main characteristics of the 'New Economy' and explores the existing linkages between the digital media, technological innovation and the network economy in relation to the market in a national and international context.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 3810
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 1940
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: EN1000 or placement into EN1010
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.
Tulane Equivalency: ENLS 2104
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisites: EN1010 or placement into EN2020
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, 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.
Tulane Equivalency: COMM 1150
Textual/Historical Perspectives
FM2800- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: FMST 2940
General Transfer Coursework
GS/HI1010- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: HIST 2940
General Transfer Coursework
GS/PY2010- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: GESS 2190 or PSYC 3940
General Transfer Coursework
GS/PY2045 - 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.
Tulane Equivalency: PSYC 3430
Social and Behavioral Science
HI/ME1015- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: HISM 2200
Textual & Hist Perspectives OR Writing Tier-1
Global Perspectives (cannot fulfill both - one or the other fulfills global perspectives no matter what).
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.
Tulane Equivalency: HISE 2940
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: MATH 1110
Formal Reasoning OR Math & Natural Science (cannot fulfill both - one or the other )
Prerequisite: 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.
Tulane Equivalency: MATH 1210
Formal Reasoning OR Math & Natural Science (cannot fulfill both - one or the other )
Prerequisite: MA1025CCM OR ELECMA-30 OR MA1025GE120
MA2041- LINEAR ALGEBRA, 4 credits
Treats applications in economics and computer science, limited to Euclidean n-space. Topics include: the linear structure of space, vectors, norms and angles, transformations of space, systems of linear equations and their applications, the Gauss-Jordan method, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Uses Mathematica for graphics and algorithms.
Tulane Equivalency: MATH 2940
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: PHIL 1030
Textual/Hist Perspectives OR Writing Tier-1 (cannot fulfull both)
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.
Tulane Equivalency: PHIL 2010
Textual/Historical Perspectives & Global Perspectives
PL/PO2003- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: PHIL 3560
Textual/Historical Perspectives
PL2037- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: PHIL 3930
General Transfer Coursework
PL2041- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: PHIL 3930
General Transfer Coursework
PL2072- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: PHIL 3110
Textual/Hist Perspect & Global Perspectives
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.
Tulane Equivalency: POLI 3010
General Transfer Coursework
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.
Tulane Equivalency: POLC 2300
Social/Behavioral Sci
Global Perspectives (fulfills both)
PO2031- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: POLI 2500
Social/Behavioral Sci
Global Perspectives (fulfills both)
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.
Tulane Equivalency: PSYC 1000
Social and Behavioral Science
PY2022- PERSONALITY & INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE, 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.
Tulane Equivalency: PSYC 3010
General Transfer Coursework
Prerequisite: PY1000 (recommended)
PY2043- INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 4 credits
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of abnormal and clinical psychology, including the history and classification systems employed in understanding different forms of psychological disorders. It will cover the etiology, symptoms, and treatments of major psychological disorders, including anxiety, trauma, dissociative, mood, somatoform, eating, schizophrenia, personality and substance-related disorders. The course proposes to explore the intricate interplay of biological, psychological and social factors in the development, maintenance and treatment of psychopathology in the individual.
Tulane Equivalency: PSYC 3330
Social and Behavioral Science
Prerequisite: PY1000
SC1080- 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.
Tulane Equivalency: EBIO 2940 + 2945
General Transfer Coursework