Course Catalog 2006-2007.pdf - The American University of Paris

2006-07
Catalog
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ACADEMIC CALENDAR
FALL SEMESTER 2006
2 September (Saturday) ..................................................................Orientation begins
6 September (Wednesday)..............................................................Registration for returning students
7–8 September (Thurs–Fri).............................................................Registration for entering students
11 September (Monday)..................................................................Classes begin
18 September (Monday)..................................................................Last day to DROP/ADD courses
25 October (Wednesday).................................................................Mid-semester
27 October (Friday)...........................................................................Mid-term grades due
30 Oct–1 Nov (Mon–Wed) ..............................................................Fall break (no classes)
10 November (Friday) ......................................................................Last day to withdraw from a course;
Last day to choose CR/NC grading option
13 December (Wednesday).............................................................Last day of classes
14–15 December (Thurs–Fri) .........................................................Reading days
18–22 December (Mon–Fri) ...........................................................Final examination period
SPRING SEMESTER 2007
6 January (Saturday)........................................................................Orientation begins
11 January (Thursday) .....................................................................Registration for entering students
12 January (Friday) ..........................................................................Registration for returning students
15 January (Monday) .......................................................................Classes begin
22 January (Monday).......................................................................Last day to DROP/ADD courses
26 Feb–9 March (Mon–Fri).............................................................Spring break (no classes)
14 March (Wednesday)....................................................................Mid-semester
16 March (Friday) .............................................................................Mid-term grades due
30 March (Friday).............................................................................Last day to withdraw from a course;
Last day to choose CR/NC grading option
9 April (Monday) ...............................................................................Easter Monday (no classes)
30 April (Monday).............................................................................Last day of classes
1 May (Tuesday) ...............................................................................Fête de Travail
2–9 May (Wed–Wed) .......................................................................Reading days
8 May (Tuesday) ...............................................................................Victoire
10–16 May (Thurs–Wed).................................................................Final examination period
24 May (Thursday) ...........................................................................Graduation
SUMMER I 2007
3 June (Sunday) ...............................................................................Orientation begins
5 June (Tuesday) ..............................................................................Classes begin
5 July (Thursday) ..............................................................................Last day of classes, final examinations
SUMMER II 2007
8 July (Sunday) .................................................................................Orientation begins
10 July (Tuesday)..............................................................................Classes begin
9 August (Thursday).........................................................................Last day of classes, final examinations
FALL SEMESTER 2007
1 September (Saturday) ..................................................................Orientation begins
5 September (Wednesday)..............................................................Registration for returning students
6–7 September (Thurs–Fri).............................................................Registration for entering students
10 September (Monday)..................................................................Classes begin
17 September (Monday)..................................................................Last day to DROP/ADD courses
24 October (Wednesday) .................................................................Mid-semester
26 October (Friday) ..........................................................................Mid-term grades due
1–2 Nov (Thurs–Fri).........................................................................Toussaint (no classes)
9 November (Friday).........................................................................Last day to withdraw from a course;
Last day to choose CR/NC grading option
11 December (Tuesday) ..................................................................Last day of classes
12–14 December (Wed–Fri) ...........................................................Reading days
17–21 December (Mon–Fri) ...........................................................Final examination period
SPRING SEMESTER 2008
(TBA)
SUMMER I 2008
(TBA)
SUMMER II 2008
(TBA)
Please note that all dates are subject to change.

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CONTENTS
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS 2
■ Accreditation
■ University Facilities
■ Library and Information Resources
■ Computer Services
■ Academic Research Center and Writing Lab
■ The English Foundation Program
■ Summer Term
■ Division of Student Affairs
ADMISSION 4
■ Application Policies and Procedures
■ Language Proficiency Requirements
■ Procedures for Students Admitted to the University
■ Visas and Residence Permits
■ Advanced Academic Standing
■ Transfer of Academic Credit
■ Readmission
UNIVERSITY GRANTS, LOANS, AND STUDENT
EMPLOYMENT 6
■ University Financial Assistance
■ U.S. - Based Loans and Grants
■ Other Loan and Scholarship Options
■ Working in France
COSTS AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION 7
■ Tuition
■ Other Required Payments
■ Payment Procedures and Policies
■ Payment Plan Options
■ Good Financial Standing
■ Other Financial Information
■ Withdrawal and Refunds
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 10
■ Student Status
■ Special Academic Programs and Study Options
■ Graduate Programs
■ Academic Procedures and Policies
■ Academic Integrity Policies
■ Academic Misconduct Procedures
■ Challenge of Final Grade Procedure
■ Release of Student Information
■ Academic Honors
NON-ACADEMIC POLICIES 18
■ Conduct in the Community
■ Standards of Conduct
■ Judicial Procedures
■ Appeal Committee
■ Sexual Harassment
DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS 20
■ Graduation Requirements
■ General Education Requirements
■ Majors
■ Minors
■ Second Diplomas
■ Double Majors
THE DEPARTMENTS OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 23
■ Art History and Fine Arts
■ Comparative Literature and English
■ Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science
■ Economics
■ European and Mediterranean Cultures
■ Film Studies
■ History and Social Sciences
■ International and Comparative Politics
■ International Business Administration
■ International Communications
■ Center for Language Research and Teaching
■ French Studies Major
■ Philosophy Program
■ Psychology Program
MINORS 56
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 60
FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION, AND BOARDS 94
■ Faculty
■ Faculty Emeriti
■ Administration
■ Board of Trustees
■ Institut de commerce international et des sciences
de l'information (ICISI)
INDEX 100
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THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
The American University of Paris (AUP) was founded in 1962
to provide quality American undergraduate liberal arts
education to students from all national, linguistic, and
educational backgrounds. The language of instruction is
English.
Situated in one of the world's great cultural centers, AUP offers
its degree-seeking students, as well as visitors from other
colleges, an education based on an understanding of and
sensitivity to diverse cultures. The University's bachelor's
degrees conform to American higher education standards and
its courses carry academic credit according to the American
system. Therefore, students may transfer course credits from
other universities to AUP. Similarly, AUP course credits may
transfer to other American universities.
Both the academic excellence and the international dimension
of AUP's programs have been important advantages for our
graduates in gaining admission to top graduate programs, as
well as in pursuing career opportunities in the U.S.A., France,
Great Britain, and elsewhere around the world.
ACCREDITATION
The American University of Paris is accredited in the United
States by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle
States Association of Colleges and Schools (3624 Market
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2680, USA - tel: 267 284- 5000).
The American University of Paris is a nonprofit educational
institution incorporated in the State of Delaware and licensed
by the State Board of Education as a Delaware institution of
higher education. The American University of Paris is registered
by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (c) (3)
not-for-profit organization.
The Institut de commerce international et des sciences de
l'information (ICISI), which includes the Departments of
International Business Administration, Economics, and
Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science, is recognized
by the French Ministry of Education as an Etablissement
d'enseignement technique privé.
The University confers the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor
of Science degree under authority granted by the Delaware
State Board of Education.
UNIVERSITY FACILITIES
The American University of Paris is an urban institution centrally
located in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, on the Left
Bank, near the Eiffel Tower and the Seine. Like many urban
American and European colleges and universities, the campus
of The American University of Paris is a composite of its
buildings and its surrounding neighborhood.
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
RESOURCES
The University Library, located in the Monttessuy building,
provides access to more than 72,000 books, 9,000 print and
electronic journals and 1,600 films. The collections are
developed to support the curriculum. The library databases,
e-reference tools, as well as a document delivery service
facilitate access to materials not owned by the Library. All
electronic library resources are available from any computer
on campus.
The Library's Web site and a “University Library Guide” describe
the various services, policies and resources available. An
introduction to the use of information and research techniques
form part of the curriculum of the FirstBridge freshman year
program and other courses.
The University Library is a unique resource, reserved for the use
of AUP students, faculty and staff. While other library resources
in Paris are available to AUP students and faculty, the University
Library is the primary and only one that is open every day of the
week, when classes are in session.
COMPUTER SERVICES
The University IT department manages over 30 servers running
Linux and Windows and supports over 200 department PCs
and over 45 printers in six buildings.
Extensive computer resources and support are extended
to students yielding a student-to-computer ratio of 7:1.
Student resources include:
■ 5 computer labs containing in excess of 100 PCs
and 25 iMacs (G5)
■ Library research computer facilities (12 PCs)
■ Library Laptop lending program (25 laptops)
■ Academic Resource Center Laptop Lending Program
(25 laptops)
Students have free e-mail accounts, file storage space, and
Internet access, as well as use of a variety of software, printers,
projectors, and scanners. All AUP buildings are fully equipped
with wireless Internet access and students can use the wireless
network from their own laptops as well as AUP-owned laptop
computers*.
The University has a growing number of smart classrooms
equipped with computers, projectors, DVD/video players, and
Internet connections.
*AUP implements the latest in security and encryption
standards, and students wishing to connect to the AUP wireless
network will need wireless devices that are WPA compliant.
Note: The latest version of this catalog may be found on the University
Web site: www.aup.edu.
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ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER
AND WRITING LAB
ARC is AUP's Academic Resource Center, which serves as both
“information commons” and research center. Located in the
Grenelle classroom building, students find many useful
resources here -- both human and digital. ARC@AUP is a link
between technology and the curriculum for AUP faculty and
students, and hosts the Writing Lab and peer-tutoring groups.
Services provided to the students include access to the
University Library catalog and databases, “My AUP” on-line
Blackboard course sites, and a digital multimedia corner for
graphics and video production.
ARC peer-tutoring programs make the most of AUP's exceptional
students to provide mentoring and academic support for fellow
students. ARC tutoring services currently include the Writing
Lab tutors (AUP's strongest student writers), the ARC-Link tutors
(trained to assist with specific, challenging courses) and Tech
Tutors for instructional technology and multimedia applications.
Services provided to the faculty include support for research
projects, lectures and presentations and assistance with
teaching and learning technologies (such as the Blackboard
platform and digitization projects). ARC includes a modular
classroom featuring a data/video projector, instructor
workstation and wireless laptop computers. The classroom is
available for special presentations, classes and film screenings.
ARC's cyber café/vending area welcomes students with study
space and laptop plug-ins at every table. Additional information
about ARC may be found at http://www.aup.edu/infotech/arc/.
AUP's Writing Lab is a comfortable, collaborative, intellectually
stimulating space where students' individual needs are met.
The Writing Lab staff — student tutors and faculty director — are
dedicated to assisting both experienced and inexperienced
student writers. During highly interactive, one-on-one conferences,
tutors suggest possible strategies for turning writing weaknesses
into writing strengths by guiding students through every step of
a paper in progress, from the idea and thesis stages to the
conclusion and editing stages. The more students work
through their papers in the Writing Lab, the more confidence
and independence they gain in their university writing.
THE ENGLISH FOUNDATION PROGRAM
The American University of Paris offers a sequence of courses
to those students who have been accepted into the University
on the basis of their academic accomplishments but whose
language skills in English are not yet adequate for full-time
undergraduate work (see English Foundation Program, page 28).
DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
The Division of Student Affairs provides non-academic support
to all students of the University. The Division complements the
academic mission of the institution and helps students have
valuable learning experiences outside the classroom. The
services provided include:
■ Orientation. A mandatory program held prior to the start
of each semester and each summer session. Orientation
familiarizes new students with the University and with life in
Paris. Academic advising, course registration, placement tests,
and housing assistance are some of the many activities that
occur during Orientation.
■ Housing. The Housing Office assists students in finding
suitable housing, which may be independent rooms, rooms with
French families, or apartments. The Housing Office is open
year-round to assist students with any issues related to housing.
■ Cultural Programs. The Office of Cultural Programs
organizes all study trips related to University courses.
The Office also organizes a variety of daylong and weekend
cultural excursions throughout France and Europe and
facilitates access to the wealth of cultural events in Paris.
■ Student Activities. Activities vary from year to year
according to the talents and interests of the student body.
Leadership in student groups and control of the student activity
budget are the responsibility of the Student Government
Association.
■ Sports. The University offers a limited number of intramural
sports activities depending on the interests of the student body.
Students have access to discounted membership in a local
health club and to the wide variety of private sports clubs in
Paris.
■ Career Counseling. The Internship/Career Development
Office guides students and alumni in the career planning
process by assisting them in conducting self-assessment,
exploring career options, targeting potential employers,
enhancing cover letter and resume writing skills, developing
interviewing and career networking capacities, researching
trends in the job market, investigating and applying to graduate
school, and gaining professional experience via internships,
part-time and summer jobs, volunteer work, and extracurricular
activities. The office maintains contact with potential
employers and AUP alumni for recruitment and networking
purposes, and posts local and international job offers. The
office also schedules workshops and presentations on issues
related to careers and postgraduate education.
■ Personal Counseling. A psychological counseling service
is affiliated with the University for students seeking short-term
assistance during the period of adjustment to Paris and college
life.
More detailed information concerning student activities and
services can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office.
SUMMER TERM
From early June to mid-August, The American University of Paris
offers a variety of credit-bearing courses adapted from its
regular course catalog to fit intensive study formats. Enrollment
is open to returning AUP students as well as visitors, 18 and
older, who have completed secondary education. The flexible
schedule allows students to earn from 3 to 16 credits. The term
is structured around two 5-week Sessions that are complemented
by two 3-week French Immersion programs and various 3-week
Fast Track courses.
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ADMISSION
APPLICATION POLICIES
AND PROCEDURES
Candidates for admission should have attended, or be
attending a high school recognized or accredited by their state,
regional, or national educational certifying agency. The American
University of Paris evaluates applicants based on the breadth of
their program of study, their academic record, the results of
national examinations, and the evaluation of teachers and
counselors. The applicant's written statement of purpose, as
well as evidence of his or her maturity, also weigh heavily.
Admission interviews, either in person or by telephone, are
strongly encouraged. The Admissions Committee welcomes any
other supporting material that reflects the applicant's special
qualities and achievements. In the American system, all facets
of an applicant's personality are taken into consideration, in
combination with his or her academic accomplishments.
The University complies with the Statement of Students' Rights
and Responsibilities in the College Admission Process of the
National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC).
Decisions on admission are made without regard to the race,
color, sex, religion, or national origin of the candidate.
Further information and application materials may be obtained
from the University Web site or from:
The American University of Paris
International Admissions Office
6, rue du Colonel Combes
75007 Paris, France
Tel. 33 / (0)1 40 62 07 20
Fax 33 / (0)1 47 05 34 32
E-mail: admissions@aup.edu
The American University of Paris
United States Office
950 South Cherry Street, Suite 210
Denver, Colorado 80246
USA
Tel. 1 (303) 757 6333
Fax 1 (303) 757 6444
E-mail: usoffice@aup.edu
University Web site: www.aup.edu
To provide sufficient time to acquire the necessary student visa,
candidates living in the USA, Canada, South America (except
Brazil), and the Caribbean should send all application materials
to the U.S. Office. All other candidates (including Brazil) should
send their materials to the International Admissions Office in
Paris.
For application deadlines, please see the University Web site.
All documents must be certified and submitted in either English
or French. Original documents in other languages should be
accompanied by a certified translation into one of these two
languages. Submission of inaccurate or false information may
be grounds for rejection of an application or subsequent
disciplinary action, including dismissal from the University.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
REQUIREMENTS
English
Since English is the language of instruction at AUP, all candidates
for admission must demonstrate English proficiency at a level
that will insure their ability to complete successfully universitylevel
work. Therefore, all candidates whose mother tongue is
not English must provide the results of either the TOEFL, TOEIC,
or IELTS not more than two years old. Students who encounter
difficulties in meeting this requirement must contact the
appropriate Admissions Office for instructions.
Candidates may also satisfy this requirement by taking AUP's
English pre-placement test, which is given only at AUP and can
be scheduled to coincide with a visit to the University.
The University will use the results of these tests to make a
preliminary English-level placement. Some candidates may be
required to enroll in one or more courses in the English
Foundation Program (see page 28); such study may require one
or more semesters to complete. These courses carry academic
credit applicable to the AUP degree; however, other universities
may not accept these credits for transfer.
Candidates may accept their preliminary placement or may
choose to take the English Placement Test offered during
Orientation at the beginning of each semester. Those students
who do not submit results from the TOEFL, TOEIC or IELTS, or
from AUP's Intensive English Test must take this latter test at
Orientation. Final English-level placement will be determined in
consultation with faculty from the Department of Comparative
Literature and English (see page 26).
French
Proficiency in French is not required for admission, however,
before graduation, all degree candidates must achieve or
demonstrate proficiency in French at a level equivalent to the
completion of French 4 (Intermediate II) and FrenchBridge.
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PROCEDURES FOR STUDENTS
ADMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY
Applicants who have been offered full-time admission to AUP
will be requested to confirm in writing their intention to attend
the University. At the time of confirmation, they must submit a
non-refundable deposit, which will be credited towards their
tuition.
Offers of acceptance assume successful completion of work in
progress. Accepted freshmen students are required to send a
transcript indicating final grades and graduation date to the
Admissions Office in order to complete their admissions file.
Transfer students must also have a final college transcript
forwarded. Only official copies of transcripts are accepted.
VISAS AND RESIDENCE PERMITS
All non-EU nationals intending to enroll at AUP must obtain a
student visa for France before leaving their country of origin.
Once registered, they will be required to apply for a Carte de
Séjour. Students from the ten new countries that entered the
EU on 1st May 2004 are still required to apply for a student
visa and Carte de Séjour (until further notice). Contact your
local French consulate for more information.
The Carte de Séjour Office of the University helps all full-time
students comply with this requirement. Students who enter with
a student visa, and who are required to have the Carte de
Séjour, may not return to France once they leave unless they
have complied with this requirement. Students who reside
in France without the proper documents are subject to
deportation proceedings.
It is illegal to enter France on a tourist visa with the intention of
staying longer than three months. Student visas can only be
issued to you from your local French consulate in your country
of residence. Information on obtaining the necessary visa is
sent from the Office of Admissions to accepted students.
Questions or concerns about any visa or Carte de Séjour
procedures can be addressed to the Admissions Office.
ADVANCED ACADEMIC STANDING
Advanced Standing will be granted in the following cases:
■ 30 semester credits for IB Diploma results of 30 or above
■ 6 semester credits for IB Diploma results between 24 and
29 for each HL score of 4 or above
■ 6 semester credits for each IB HL Certificate with a score
of 4 or above
■ 30 semester credits for French Baccalauréat, Lebanese
Baccalauréat
■ 30 semester credits for German Abitur with a minimum grade of
3,00, Italian Maturita with a minimum grade of 60/100, Swedish
Fullständigt Slutbetyg från Gymnasieskolan with a minimum
average grade of VG (15.00), Norwegian Vitnemål – videregående
opplærin with a minimum average grade of 4,00, Danish
Studentereksamen with a minimum average grade of 9,00,
Finnish Ylioppilastutkintotodistus/Studentexamensbetyg with
a minimum average grade of magna cum laude approbatur (5)
■ 6 semester credits for each Advanced Placement Test of the
College Board passed with a grade of 4 or above, NOT TO
EXCEED 30 CREDITS
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■ 10 credits per subject for each GCSE 'A' Level examination
in which an A, B or C was achieved, NOT TO EXCEED 30
CREDITS
The University does not recognize any other secondary school
examinations for advanced standing.
TRANSFER OF ACADEMIC CREDIT
Students may apply credits earned outside the university toward
a BA or BS degree under the following conditions:
■ New Transfer students may apply a maximum of 75
semester-hour credits from all sources (including Advanced
Academic Standing semester credits); a maximum of 66
semester-hour credits will be accepted from a junior or
community college.
■ Transfer students wishing to use previously earned general
education credits to fulfill requirements in the two thematic
rubrics - “Comparing Worlds Past and Present” and “Mapping
the World: Social Experience and Organization”- will need to
supply a syllabus for each of the courses concerned to the
Office of Academic Affairs for review by the General
Education Committee.
■ Once matriculated, AUP students may transfer in (but not
surpass the above total 75 semester-hour credit limit):
a maximum of 36 credits from recognized AUP study-abroad
programs OR a maximum of 18 credits from sources other
than recognized AUP study-abroad programs OR a total of 36
credits from recognized AUP study-abroad and other sources
(with a maximum of 18 credits from other sources).
■ At least 45 semester-hour credits must be earned in
residence, including the last 15, and half of all upper level
core courses must be completed at AUP.
Credits will be accepted from:
■ Regionally accredited American colleges and universities,
provided the courses are similar to those offered by The
American University of Paris and in which a grade of at least
"C" was earned. English composition courses will be
assigned EN or elective credit depending on results obtained
on the AUP English Placement Test. Credit is not granted for
EFL or ESL courses.
■ Non-American nationally recognized colleges or universities,
provided the courses are similar to those offered by The
American University of Paris and in which minimum passing
grades were achieved.
■ Other institutions, subject to the discretion of the Office of
Academic Affairs (see Credit Earned Outside the University,
page 12).
Visiting students for one semester or one year will not receive
transfer credit, but are granted appropriate class standing.
READMISSION
Full and part-time students who have withdrawn from the
University, who have been absent for one or more semesters,
or who have been dismissed, must make a petition to the
Registrar no later than sixty days before the beginning of the
semester for which readmission is sought. In certain cases,
additional material may be requested. Students accepted for
readmission must confirm their intention to enroll with a
Confirmation Deposit.
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UNIVERSITY GRANTS,LOANS
AND STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
The University provides a limited program of tuition assistance
in the form of academic scholarships as well as tuition
reduction grants based on both a student's academic strength
and family financial circumstances. Academic scholarships are
awarded as follows:
€3,000 per year for:
IB Diploma results of 34 and above
French Bac results of 14 and above
GPA (or equivalent) of 3.75 and above
€2,000 per year for:
IB Diploma results of 30-33
French Bac results of 13-13.9
GPA (or equivalent) of 3.50-3.74
€1,000 per year for:
IB Diploma results of 28-29
French Bac results of 12-12.9
GPA (or equivalent) of 3.25-3.49
New students' application for admission, as well as the financial
information they supply with the application for financial aid,
will determine the amount of University assistance offered.
Financial aid procedures are as follows:
■ Students must reapply for financial assistance each year.
■ The average award is 1/3 of tuition. The maximum offered is
1/2 of tuition (including an academic scholarship).
■ Full tuition grants are not offered.
■ Only full-time degree-seeking students registered for at least
12 credits per semester are eligible for University funds,
unless they are in their final semester of studies.
■ To request financial assistance, current AUP students must
have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0. Students who
have received University funds must maintain a minimum
cumulative 2.5 GPA (3.0 cumulative GPA for academic
scholarships) while enrolled.
U.S.-BASED LOANS AND GRANTS
Certification of loan eligibility by the Student Finance Center
does not guarantee the loan. If a family applies for a loan
sufficient to pay the entire semester's tuition and fees, and
the loan has not been approved at the time of registration, a
minimum payment equivalent to the first monthly payment
(under the monthly payment plan) must be paid to the Bursar's
Office for the student to be allowed to register.
Student loans are made available by banks in the United
States. Students may use their own lender or the University
lender.
Although U.S. citizens may participate in the Federal Student
Loan Program (Stafford and PLUS), U.S. students are not
currently eligible for receiving Pell Grants, Perkins Loans,
Federal Work Study or FSEOGs for study outside of the U.S.
Visiting students from the U.S. may qualify for loans or other
forms of financial aid through their home institutions.
OTHER LOAN AND SCHOLARSHIP
OPTIONS
Students of other nationalities may be eligible for special loan
or scholarship programs available to them through their
national loan agencies. The University also works with an
international loan program that offers loans to all nationalities,
including U.S. citizens; however, a U.S. citizen co-signer is
required.
WORKING IN FRANCE
Only students who are nationals of European Union member
countries (not including new EU countries as of May 2004 - with
the exception of Malta and Cyprus) or the European Economic
Area, or who already possess working permits, have the right to
work in France. Others should not expect to obtain a work
authorization that allows them access to employment.
However, citizens of some countries may benefit from special
working privileges extended by the French government. For
more information, contact your local French Consulate.
All citizens and resident aliens of the United States who are
enrolled and degree-seeking at the University may be eligible to
participate in the Stafford Loan Program. Parents and
independent students may borrow through the PLUS and
unsubsidized Stafford Loan Programs respectively.
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COSTS AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION
For information on the current year's tuition and fees, please
refer to the Tuition Charges and Academic Fees insert or
contact the Bursar's Office.
TUITION
Full-time Tuition Fee
Full-time tuition covers basic tuition for five courses per
semester. Credits taken beyond this normal course load will be
charged at the part-time rate per credit hour. One-credit
courses may be taken as a sixth course without an overload
fee; only one of these options may be taken per semester. The
following student services are also covered by full-time tuition:
■ Student Activities
■ Academic Support Services
■ Housing Service
Part-time Tuition Fee
Part-time students' tuition is determined on a per-credit basis.
Auditor Fee
Auditors pay a reduced fee determined on a per-credit basis.
OTHER REQUIRED PAYMENTS
Application Fee
The non-refundable Application Fee must be sent with the
Application Form. For more information, consult the AUP
Web site.
Confirmation Deposit
Upon acceptance by the University, new students are required
to pay a non-refundable deposit that is credited toward the first
semester's tuition. If students confirm and then fail to register
for the semester for which they have reserved a place, the
deposit is forfeited. New students will receive invoices once
they pay the confirmation deposit and submit the Bursar's
Payment Option Form. The confirmation deposit will be
deducted from the refunds of new students who withdraw
during the full-refund period.
Orientation and Advising Fee
The Orientation fee covers all activities that occur during the
Orientation Program of a student's first semester including
academic advising, course registration, workshops, cultural
activities, materials, and temporary housing during Orientation.
Health Insurance
The University is legally responsible for ensuring that all
full-time students have adequate health insurance coverage.
Students are automatically enrolled in, and billed for, the
comprehensive and mandatory plan arranged for by the
University unless the student can provide one of the following
to the Bursar's Office at the start of the semester:
■ a valid certificate attesting to the fact that the French
resident has French Sécurité Sociale (Please note that the
University is not affiliated with the French Sécurité Sociale.)
■ a complete and translated E111 or E128 form (available to
residents of European Union countries)
■ certified proof of private comprehensive health insurance
coverage valid in France, which includes medical coverage
equivalent to AUP's Student Health Care Plan
A photocopy of the appropriate documents or a letter from the
insurance company should be submitted to the Bursar's Office
in English or French. Students applying for a Carte de Séjour
must submit the original document or a certified translation of
the document into French. The document should include the
name of the student, the dates of coverage, and a description
of the coverage for outpatient and hospital care.
The appropriate documents must be submitted to the Bursar
prior to registration; no exceptions will be made. Documents
received after this date will not be accepted, and students will
be charged the full price for health insurance.
Health insurance is automatically renewed from semester to
semester unless a valid exemption is provided at the beginning
of the semester. If a student's health insurance changes
during the course of study at AUP, they are responsible for
notifying the Bursar about such a change.
Housing Insurance
French law requires that all renters have housing insurance.
Students housed through the Housing Office are automatically
billed for renter's insurance; other students may request this
insurance as well. Housing insurance is automatically renewed
each semester, unless an exemption request form is submitted
to the Bursar's Office at the beginning of the semester.
Overdue, or Lost, or Damaged Library Materials
Students are responsible for library materials borrowed against
their AUP student identification card. Fees are charged for
damaged, lost or unreturned materials at the end of each
semester.
Unpaid overdue fines block further loans; fines of 15 euros and
over will be billed by the Bursar's Office.
Further details regarding these fines are available through the
University Library.
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PAYMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
The Bursar's Office maintains all financial records for students.
Each AUP student has an account that reflects all required
charges and payments.
Financial Responsibility
Students and/or their Financially Responsible Person (FRP)
are accountable for full payment of tuition and fees by the
deadlines indicated by the Bursar's Office. The FRP is the
individual who agreed to be financially responsible for a
student's University expenses. The FRP receives all invoices
and financial notices and is liable for all fees. To change the
FRP, students should contact the Registrar's Office; to change
the FRP before their arrival on campus, they should contact
their admissions counselor.
Payment Due Dates
Full-time and part-time tuition, along with any other required
fees, must be paid in full prior to or at registration for each
semester. The only exception to full payment concerns
students opting for the Monthly Payment Plan (available to
full-time students only). Students will not be allowed to register
if payment has not been made.
PAYMENT PLAN OPTIONS
Monthly Payment Plan
Full-time students may apply to pay on the Monthly Payment
Plan. This plan has four monthly payments each semester;
the first installment must be paid before registration and the
subsequent installments are due during the semester.
All non-tuition fees must be included with the first month's
payment. A service fee is charged for the monthly plan.
Semester Payment Plan
Full-time students may opt to pay one-half of the annual
amount of tuition prior to the start of each semester. Students
who do not pay for the entire semester's tuition prior to the
beginning of the semester are automatically enrolled in the
Monthly Payment Plan.
Yearly Payment Plan
Full-time students may pay for a full academic year (Fall and
Spring semesters). Payment must be received prior to Fall
semester registration. Students using this plan benefit from a
tuition reduction. Students receiving a University tuition grant
are not eligible for this tuition reduction. Yearly payments are
not accepted during the Spring semester.
Note: Part-time students are not eligible for any of the payment
plans; they must pay for the semester in full.
Currency of Payment
Student accounts are maintained in Euros and all students
must pay their tuition and fees in Euros.
Methods of Payment
Fees may be paid on-line at (www.aup.edu). Choose Webmail
and IT Services-My AUP-MY Payments, then follow the instructions.
Fees may also be paid by personal check, bank check,
wire transfer, money order, traveler's checks, or cash. Credit
card payments (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express) can
only be processed in euros.
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Special fees
Special fees (indicated on the Bursar's Information Sheet)
include: Transfer Credit Fee, Re-registration Fee, Change of
Intended Graduation Date fee, Duplicate Diploma fee, Check
Collection Fee, Returned Check Fee, and other various
processing fees. When appropriate, they are charged by the
Bursar's Office directly to the student's account.
Interest Charges and Collection Fees
Student accounts are charged interest at the rate of 1% per
month on any outstanding negative balance, calculated on a
daily basis. If a student's account is sent to a collection agency,
because of non-payment, there will be an extra charge of 30%.
Non-payment of Fees
The Bursar's Office reserves the right to withdraw students from
their classes in the event of non-payment of fees.
GOOD FINANCIAL STANDING
A student's account is considered in good financial standing
when both of the following conditions are met:
■ all payment plan agreements have been respected or the
account shows a positive balance
■ there are no outstanding obligations to the Library, the
Bookstore, or the Housing, Cultural Programs, Student
Affairs, or Bursar's Offices at the end of a semester or
academic year
Transcripts and grades will not be issued to a student whose
account is not in good financial standing. Students will be
refused re-enrollment for the following semesters and summer
sessions, until all debts are cleared.
OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Only students whose accounts are in good standing may use
the following services:
Emergency Cash Fund
The Bursar's Office maintains a special emergency fund for
students in need of quick cash. Students may borrow up to
€100. Emergency Cash Fund loans not repaid in cash within
two weeks incur a €1 per day late charge. The Emergency
Cash Fund service stops three weeks before the end of the
semester and is not available during the summer.
Emergency Loan
For unexpected situations or emergencies requiring more than
the €100 Emergency Cash Fund, the Dean of Students can
authorize emergency loans paid directly to the student and
charged to the student's account. To receive an emergency
loan, a student's Financially Responsible Person must submit a
letter or fax authorizing the loan, and the student's account
must be in good standing.
Check Countersigning Service
The University has a special arrangement with two exchange
agencies allowing students to cash personal U.S. dollar checks
countersigned by the Bursar's Office. One check for a
maximum of US$ 600 can be countersigned every two weeks.
The service stops three weeks before the end of the semester
and is not available during the summer.
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WITHDRAWAL AND REFUNDS
Withdrawal from a Course
■ Full-time registered students who drop to part-time status by
the end of the Drop/Add week will receive an appropriate
adjustment to their tuition charges.
■ Full-time students who withdraw from a course after the
Drop/Add week will not be given tuition refunds.
■ Part-time students who withdraw from a course during the
Drop/Add week will receive a refund according to the Tuition
Refund Schedule.
Withdrawal from the University
All students who wish to withdraw from the University must
notify the Registrar of the University in writing prior to the first
day of Registration.
Tuition refunds are calculated on a percentage basis dependent
upon the official date of withdrawal.
Students who withdraw during the fall semester when payment
has been made for the full year forfeit their right to the yearly
tuition reduction.
New students who withdraw during the full-refund period,
prior to the first day of classes, will have the non-refundable
Confirmation Deposit deducted from their refunds.
Withdrawal from the University does not release the Financially
Responsible Person from tuition obligations. All outstanding
debts, including those related to the termination of the Monthly
Payment Plan, are due in full within thirty days of the official
withdrawal date.
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Students who receive University service grants and then
withdraw will forfeit their right to receive the grant, however the
applicable portion of the grant will be credited to the student's
account.
Students who are awarded a University tuition grant and then
withdraw from the University will receive refunds calculated
based on the full-time tuition fee less the grant amount
awarded, according to the Tuition Refund Schedule.
Example: A student receiving a €1525 grant, withdrawing
during the first 2 weeks of classes, would receive a tuition
rebate of:
60% x [Full-time Tuition Fee - €1525].
Students who have received Title IV loan funds through the
Department of Education and then withdraw from the University
are subject to the return policy outlined in the Code of Federal
Regulations (34CFR668.22).
Part-time students withdrawing before the first day of classes
will be charged a processing fee.
Any questions of a financial nature not covered in this catalog
should be addressed to:
The Bursar's Office
The American University of Paris
102, rue Saint Dominique
75007 Paris, France
Tel: (33-1) 40.62.07.10/11
Please note that the University’s withdrawal policy gives specific dates and corresponding refund percentages which are strictly applied
(see the Tuition refund schedule below).
Tuition refund schedule
Full-time Students
Fall 2006 Spring 2007 Tuition Refund
Prior to first day of Registration Sept 6 Jan 12 100%*
During the first two weeks of classes Sept 11 - Sept 22 Jan 15 - Jan 26 60%
During the second two weeks of classes Sept 25 - Oct 6 Jan 29 - Feb 6 40%
After the fourth week of classes Oct 6 Feb 9 none
Part-time Students
Prior to first day of Registration Sept 6 Jan 12 100%**
Prior to the end of Drop/Add Sept 18 Jan 22 50%
After the end of Drop/Add Sept 18 Jan 22 None
* Less non-refundable Confirmation Deposit
** Less €50 processing fee
Note: Dates subject to change
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
STUDENT STATUS
Full-time Status
Full-time students usually complete their bachelor’s degree in
four years by taking 15 credits each semester to earn a total of
120 credits (see Graduation Requirements, page 20).
Full-time students who withdraw from classes and are enrolled
in fewer than 12 credits after the drop/add period maintain
their full-time status and are not granted partial refunds of
tuition.
Full-time, degree-seeking students may petition the Registrar to
change their status to part-time after at least one semester of
full-time enrollment and before a new semester begins. The
Registrar will examine his/her request between semesters and
only after having received written agreement from the student’s
Financially Responsible Person.
Full-time students may audit one course per semester by
permission of the Registrar and the instructor concerned. Audit
petition forms must be submitted to the Registrar during the
drop/add period at the beginning of each semester. Audited
courses will appear on students’ transcripts.
Part-time Status
Students registered in fewer than 12 credits per semester,
including courses audited, are considered part-time students.
Tuition for part-time study is calculated on a per-credit basis.
Part-time students must be 18 or older and have successfully
completed secondary education. Non-native speakers of English
must also submit TOEFL scores of at least 101 on the iBT or the
equivalent.
Part-time students are not eligible for student visas (except if
their status is due to a registered internship within the context
of full-time study) and The American University of Paris cannot
assist them in gaining French resident status. Part-time study
does not qualify students for financial aid from the University or
a convention de stage in order to work in French companies.
There are three categories for part-time study:
■ Part-time Degree-seeking Students must apply through the
AUP Admissions Office by submitting the regular application
along with supporting documents to be considered for
acceptance into the University. This status is deemed
exceptional as the University encourages full-time study.
These students have the right to academically-related AUP
services (advising, registration, etc.) but do not participate
in orientation, are not eligible for AUP housing, nor other
non-academically-related student services. They may
pre-register for their classes. They may petition the Registrar
for full-time status at the beginning of any semester.
■ Part-time, Credit-seeking, Non-degree Students are welcome
to enroll in courses on a space-available basis provided they
have, prior to, satisfied any applicable prerequisites. These
students must submit the part-time study application along
with an official copy of their last transcript and may pre-register
for their classes. If they wish to change their status to
degree-seeking, they must apply to the University through
the AUP Admissions Office.
■ Auditor Status (Auditeur Libre) is designed to meet the needs
of the adult community in the Paris area. Persons accepted
in this category may audit up to 11 credits per semester.
Auditors pay reduced tuition (for all but participatory art,
language, science, or computer science courses) but do
not accumulate academic credit. The grading of exams,
assignments, term papers, etc. for auditors is left to the
discretion of the instructor. Auditors register in courses on a
space-available basis during “walk-in registration” at the
beginning of each semester and upon presentation of a valid
piece of photo-ID (e.g. passport, carte nationale d’identité).
Visiting Student Status
Visiting students may apply to attend AUP for a semester or a
year.
SPECIAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
AND STUDY OPTIONS
Academic Advising
All full-time and part-time students are assigned a faculty
member as an academic advisor. The AUP advising program
is designed to closely follow each student's academic progress.
Freshmen will be advised by the faculty member who is
teaching their FirstBridge course during the first year at AUP, or
by the coordinator of the Advising Program. During the second
year of study, or before the student has declared a major, an
advisor from the Advising Center will be assigned. Once the
student has declared a major, the student will be assigned to
a faculty member in the department of their major.
ARC Seminars
As students in the English Foundation Program move into AUP's
general curriculum, they may elect to take student-facilitated
support seminars attached to entry-level courses. The ARC
seminars focus on study skills, note taking, paper and exam
preparation, and public speaking. Successful upper-division
students in the majors lead students enrolled in the ARC
seminars.
Directed Study
Directed Study allows the exceptional degree-seeking student
to work in an area of special academic interest under the direct
supervision of a faculty member. The student is expected to
develop his or her topic in close collaboration with the faculty
supervisor. Students with a minimum of junior standing and a
GPA of 3.0 are eligible. Directed Study projects may not be
taken on a “Credit/No Credit” basis. The successfully
completed project may earn one to three credits; a student may
take no more than one Directed Study in a given semester, and
submit no more than nine Directed Study credits for graduation.
Completed Directed Study forms must be submitted to the
Registrar by the end of the Drop/Add period.
The English Foundation Program
(For details concerning this program, see page 28)
Internships
The AUP Internship Program offers students the opportunity to
acquire professional experience while earning academic credit.
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In addition to what is typically a 10- to 20-hour workweek, the
student must fulfill certain academic requirements. Academic
internships earn 1, 3, or 6 credits per semester on a Credit/No
Credit basis. For some majors, internships are required; in
others, they may be pursued as elective or departmental
credits. Up to 6 internship credits may be applied toward
graduation. Students participating in internships are expected
to be in good academic standing, have upper-class standing,
and demonstrate personal maturity.
The Internship/Career Development Office maintains listings of
internship opportunities in a variety of domains and assists
students in their search, but students are responsible for
obtaining their own internships.
A non-credit internship option is available to currently enrolled
degree-seeking students who have completed a minimum of 30
university credits (specific conditions and fees apply). In order
to facilitate the transition to the world of work, a graduating
senior may choose to pursue this option when all degree
requirements have been met but prior to receiving his or her
diploma. In this case, the student will be considered a
graduate of the semester when the internship is registered, and
the duration of the internship must not exceed six months after
the end of the student's final academic semester. Once they
have graduated, students are no longer eligible to pursue an
internship. More information on the AUP Internship Program is
available on the AUP Web site under the heading “Student Life.”
Language Study at Another Institution
Students who wish to study a language not offered at AUP, or
who are prepared for very advanced level work, may register at
another institution (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Institut
National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Goethe
Institut, Centro di Lingua e Cultura Italiana, Association
Culturelle Franco-Japonaise, Instituto Cervantes, Cámara Oficial
de Comercio de España, Centre Culturel Arabe Syrien or Centre
Culturel de Chine). A minimum GPA of 2.8 is required. For
more information, please consult the Office of Academic Affairs.
Study Abroad
AUP students are welcome to spend one or two semesters in an
approved AUP study abroad program at New York University,
The University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles,
Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz), The
University of Miami (Florida), Goizueta Business School of
Emory University (Atlanta, GA), or at The University of Cape
Town (South Africa). Individual arrangements are also possible
with other universities.
Students participating in an approved AUP study abroad
program are charged AUP tuition, and those receiving financial
aid will retain their financial aid. The Study Abroad Office will
assist students with their application to the host institution.
Candidates for study abroad may transfer a maximum of 36
semester credit hours towards their graduation. Some
restrictions apply (see Transfer of Academic Credit, page 5).
Students who study abroad outside of an approved AUP study
abroad program pay tuition to their host institution however,
they do not retain their AUP financial aid, and the Study Abroad
Office is not available for assistance. Students studying
outside the approved study abroad programs are limited to a
total of 18 transferable semester credit hours from all sources
towards their graduation requirements. Some restrictions apply
(see Transfer of Academic Credit, page 5).
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All AUP students wishing to study abroad for one semester or
one year must request permission from the Office of the
Registrar prior to their departure. By doing so they will retain
privileges and rights of AUP students. They will therefore be
allowed to pre-register before they return to AUP provided they
have given the Registrar's Office a contact address. Students
whose request for study abroad has been approved do not need
to re-apply in order to return to AUP (see Credit Earned Outside
the University, page 12).
The University also has established formal agreements to
receive students from New York University, George Washington
University, The University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine,
Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa
Cruz), Goizueta Business School of Emory University (Atlanta,
GA), Monmouth College (Illinois), Northeastern University
(Boston, MA), New England College (New Hampshire), The
University of Hartford (Connecticut), The University of Miami
(Florida), Tulane (Louisiana), CIS (Madrid, Spain), Loyola
(Maryland), and The University of Cape Town (South Africa)
allowing their students to attend AUP as visitors.
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
In Spring 2005, AUP began offering with the Institut Catholique
de Paris (ICP) a dual-language, dual-degree Master of Arts in
International Affairs, Conflict Resolution, and Civil Society
Development.
AUP launched an Executive Master of Science in Finance in
conjunction with Baruch College in the spring semester 2006.
AUP is currently developing a Master of Arts in Global
Communications that will begin admitting students in the fall
semester 2006.
Updated information on each of these programs appears on the
AUP Web site.
ACADEMIC PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
Placement Tests
■ During Orientation, all entering freshmen and transfer
students are required to take placement tests in English,
French, and mathematics.
■ Visiting students must take the French Placement Test if they
intend to register for French courses, and the Mathematics
Placement Test if they plan to register for classes in
mathematics.
These tests allow the University to place students at the proper
level in these subjects. Placement test results do not appear on
any official record.
Registration
Registration dates are shown on the University Calendar.
Instructions for registration are issued to all students prior to
the beginning of each semester. A Late Registration Fee is
charged to students who do not register during walk-through
registration. Only students in good financial standing are
permitted to register (see also Good Financial Standing,
page 8).
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Pre-registration
Returning students may, after consultation with their academic
advisors, pre-register for classes for the following semester
through the Registrar's Office. Both the student's academic
advisor and the student must sign pre-registration forms. The
two-week pre-registration period is preceded by a two-week
advising period. The dates and times of the pre-registration
period are announced and posted during the academic year.
Registration Check-in
All students must return to campus and check in at the
Registrar's Office by the end of the second day of classes.
Students who do not meet this deadline will have their classes
cancelled and they will have to re-register during Drop/Add,
paying a substantial late re-registration penalty of €100 per
credit hour. There is no guarantee that students can re-register
in the courses which were dropped.
Course Load
The normal course load is five academic courses per semester.
The minimum course load for full-time students is 12 credits.
Upon petition, a student who has earned a cumulative GPA of
at least 2.80 in courses taken at AUP may be permitted to
register for six academic courses. Course Overload Petitions are
available from the Registrar's Office.
Tuition is charged for the sixth course at the part-time per credit
rate. Students may pursue a one-credit course without paying
an overload charge.
Classification of Students
Students are classified as follows, according to the number of
semester hours they have completed:
Freshman: 1-29 Junior: 60-89
Sophomore: 30-59 Senior: 90 or more
Student Identification Cards
At registration, each student receives a University Student
Identification Card. This card is necessary for access to all
University facilities. Loss of this card during the year should be
reported immediately to the Registrar; a fee will be charged for
replacement of a lost card. Student cards are issued for
regularly enrolled students; students withdrawing from the
University must return their cards to the Registrar's Office.
Course Substitution Policy and Waiver of Degree
Requirements
Students may submit a Substitution/Waiver Petition:
■ to obtain permission to substitute a course for a specific
major requirement or general education requirement
■ to request to waive completely an AUP degree requirement
Students requesting to substitute a course taken at a previous
institution for an AUP degree requirement or to waive an AUP
degree requirement based on previous course work or
experience must do so (and have the request approved) by the
end of the first year of enrollment at AUP. Students must
supply the necessary supporting documents from the previous
institution (transcript and appropriate catalog, course
description, or syllabus) or organization. The student's
academic advisor, the Chair of the department offering the
course to be substituted/waived, and the Associate Dean of
Academic Administration must approve substitutions and/or
waivers. Substitution/Waiver petitions are available from the
Office of the Registrar.
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Credit by Examination
The University does not provide for credit by departmental
examination, nor does it recognize such credit granted by other
colleges or universities.
Credit Earned Outside the University
Students who wish to take courses for credit outside the
University, whether as part of a study abroad program, during
summer school at another university, during a vacation break,
or while taking a leave of absence from AUP, must secure
written permission from the University Registrar prior to taking
the intended courses. Otherwise, these credits will not be
approved for transfer back to AUP. Exceptions will be granted
only in cases of severe hardship and at the discretion of the
Registrar in consultation with the Office of Academic Affairs.
Any credits retroactively approved upon appeal to the Registrar
will carry a fee equal to one-half of the normal tuition charged
per credit.
Procedure for securing permission to earn credit outside the
University:
■ Students wishing at any time to earn credit outside the
University may obtain an External Course Approval and
Permission Form from the Registrar's Office.
■ This form must list each course requested for approval, and
the student must submit a complete course description.
■ The form must be signed by the student's academic advisor,
Department Chair, and the Associate Dean of Academic
Administration, as well as by the student, and then returned
to the Registrar.
■ Upon examination of the requested courses and a review to
affirm that the requested courses will apply toward the
student's general education or major requirements, the
Registrar will sign the permission form and present the
student with a copy. The original copy is placed in the
student's permanent file.
■ To have these approved credits applied as transfer credit
toward the degree, the student must present an official
transcript from the external university or college. It is the
student's responsibility to have official transcripts sent
directly by the institution to the Office of the Registrar within
six (6) weeks after the completion of the course.
No credit will be accepted for transfer for grades below “C”
or for courses taken on a “Credit/No Credit” basis.
Attendance
Students of AUP are expected to attend all scheduled class
sessions. Each instructor's individual policy on absences is
published on the course syllabus.
Exceptions to the rule pertain to:
■ Involuntary absences due to illness or family emergencies,
which must be reported to the Office of Student Affairs who,
upon presentation of documentary proof of illness or
emergency, will notify instructors of a student's excused
absence
■ Excused participation by the Associate Dean of Academic
Administration, in course-related study trips, which have
caused absences from other classes
In all cases the responsibility for making up missed work rests
solely with the student. However, the instructor may
recommend withdrawal of a student whose absences, excused
or not, have made it impossible to continue in a given course at
a satisfactory level.
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Grading and Credits
Grades are reported for all students at the end of each
semester. Students whose work is unsatisfactory at the
midpoint of each semester receive warnings. Grades are
neither discussed over the telephone nor given out by e-mail.
The following grading system is used, based on the 4.00
system:
Excellent
Good
A = 4.0 B+ = 3.3
A- = 3.7 B = 3.0
B- = 2.7
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
C+ = 2.3 D+ = 1.3
C = 2.0 D = 1.0
C- = 1.7 D- = 0.7
CR/NC
F
W
IN
AU
R
= Credit/No Credit
= Failure
= Official Withdrawal
= Incomplete
= Audit
= Indicates repeated course
“Incomplete” Grade
The grade of “Incomplete” (IN) is assigned in those cases where
the requirements for a course have not been completed for
justifiable reasons or in extraordinary circumstances beyond the
student's control. An Incomplete Request Form must be filed
with the Registrar's Office, and the professor, the Department
Chair, and the Associate Dean of Academic Administration must
approve the grade. A fee may be charged for final exams taken
outside the regularly scheduled final exam period.
The grade of “Incomplete” becomes an “F,” administratively
assigned, unless the work is completed by the deadline set by
the instructor. This deadline can be no later than the date of
the mid-term grade-reporting period for the semester
immediately following the term in which the “Incomplete” was
assigned.
Change of Grade Policy
If a student suspects that an error has been made in recording
a final course grade, he/she should immediately contact the
professor involved. Grade changes are limited to correction of
errors. Grade changes may take place according to this
procedure no later than the end of the semester following the
semester the grade was issued.
Any grade change that takes place after this deadline must be
approved by the Chair of the department and by the Associate
Dean of Academic Administration. A change of grade will not
be considered after one year.
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Credit/No Credit Option
Students may designate one course per semester to be graded
“Credit/No Credit” (“CR/NC”). The student must choose this
option no later than the deadline date for withdrawal from a
course (see University Calendar). Once exercised, this option
cannot be revoked. All courses may be taken for “CR/NC”.
The granting of “CR” means that the student has satisfactorily
completed the requirements of the course with a performance
at least equal to the grade of “C”. Credits so earned will count
toward graduation requirements, but will not be used in the
computation of the grade point average. Students electing to
take a course “CR/NC” are not eligible for Dean’s List.
Repeat Courses
Courses in which the student has earned a grade of “C-” or
below may be repeated for credit. In such cases, the lower
grade and credit will not be used in calculating the cumulative
GPA, although a record of the course will remain on the
student's transcript. A Repeat Course Form must be filed with
the Registrar's Office.
Withdrawal from a Course
A course that is dropped during the first six class days of the
semester (Drop/Add period) is not recorded on the student's
transcript. Withdrawal from a course can be approved up to
the deadline announced in the University Calendar. Failure to
follow the withdrawal procedure will result in the grade of “F”
(see Withdrawal and Refunds, page 9).
Academic Standing
All degree-seeking students, including part-time degree- seeking
students, must maintain a cumulative grade point average
(GPA) of 2.00 to be in good academic standing at the University.
The standards listed below apply to degree-seeking students
whose GPA falls below 2.00.
Credit Hours Probation Dismissal
Attempted
12-23 1.50 to 1.99 0 to 1.49
24-35 1.60 to 1.99 1.50 to 1.59
36-47 1.70 to 1.99 1.60 to 1.69
48-59 1.80 to 1.99 1.70 to 1.79
60+
First semester freshmen students are permitted a period of one
semester's grace. Transfer students and students granted
advanced standing are allowed a first semester minimum GPA
of 1.50. Thereafter the standards cited above (which include
transfer or advanced standing credits) apply.
Students in disagreement with a final grade issued by a faculty
member may challenge the grade by following the appropriate
steps (see Challenge of Final Grade Procedure, page 16).
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Probation
Students who have earned fewer than 24 credits and whose
GPA is below 1.50 will be placed on special probation. They will
be required to follow a specified course of study that includes
repeating, whenever possible, courses in which their grades
were below “C”. Students will be required to meet the
standards listed above.
Students placed on probation may register for no more than
four courses and are not permitted to hold office or to
participate in any extracurricular activity of the University during
the probation period.
Students who wish to run for positions on the Executive
Council of the Student Government Association must have a
minimum cumulative GPA of 2.50 at the time of election. Once
elected, they must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.50 or they
must step down from their position.
Dismissal
Any student placed on probation for three consecutive
semesters will be dismissed from the University.
A student who is dismissed from the University due to poor
academic performance will be allowed to file an appeal.
The appeal must be submitted in writing to the Registrar. The
appeal should outline the reasons for poor academic
performance and a plan for improvement should the student
be readmitted.
A Committee for Readmission will review the appeal and may
recommend one of three options:
■ readmission on probation with specified courses and
conditions
■ readmission on a non-degree-seeking, part-time basis only
■ denial of readmission to the University
The Registrar will notify all readmitted students of the
conditions for their readmission. Readmitted students must
meet with members of the Readmissions Committee on the day
following the last day of Drop/Add week to review their
compliance to conditions pertaining to their readmission.
Withdrawal from the University
To withdraw from the University a student must:
■ discuss his/her withdrawal plans with the Director
of Student Affairs.
■ complete a Withdrawal Form, available from the Registrar's
Office, which includes confirmation from the Bursar's Office
that the student is in good financial standing and has cleared
all financial obligations with the University Library, the
Housing Office, and the Office of Student Affairs
■ return the Withdrawal Form to the Registrar's Office with
his/her Student Identification Card
Following withdrawal, the designation “W” is recorded on the
student's transcript.
Students who leave the University without following the above
procedure are considered unofficially withdrawn. In this case,
the grade of “F” is recorded for each course in which a student
was registered (see also Withdrawal and Refunds, page 9).
Students who have withdrawn from the University and wish to
be reenrolled, must petition the Registrar (see Readmission,
page 5).
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Transcripts
Students must request a transcript from the University in
writing. One transcript is furnished without charge; a fee is
charged for any additional copies. No transcripts will be issued
for a student who is not in good financial standing with the
University.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICIES
Academic Integrity at AUP*
AUP faculty believes that the honest and equitable assessment
of student learning is an integral part of the educational
process. Students will be asked to demonstrate their
knowledge and comprehension through academic exercises
that may include written assignments, homework, in-class
examinations, and oral presentations. As is traditional in the
American educational system, this assessment occurs
continuously and in association with individual courses.
It aims to provide feedback so that students can improve their
learning during the course and also to summarize student
performance at the conclusion of the course.
For faculty to perform this assessment function, students must
maintain the integrity of their academic work. Integrity in this
context means a true and valid indication of a student's
individual achievements.
A number of different activities can compromise academic
integrity and thus represent instances of academic dishonesty.
Academic dishonesty aims to mislead faculty about an
individual's performance and thereby to gain for the student an
unfair advantage. The most egregious types of academic
dishonesty include plagiarism, fabrication, and cheating.
1. Plagiarism
Academic integrity requires distinguishing between one's own
thoughts and those of others, be it in written, oral or electronic
form. Ideas, words, and data from another person's work,
whether published or unpublished, must be acknowledged by
completely citing the source; verbatim statements must be
indicated by quotation marks.
Plagiarism is defined as the presentation of someone else's
work as one's own, and it is unacceptable practice at AUP.
Plagiarism can take the following forms:
■ using another person's phrases, sentences, paragraphs,
or entire written pieces of work without acknowledging the
source
■ presenting as one's own another person's ideas, opinions,
or theories
■ borrowing facts, statistics, or other illustrative materials that
are not common knowledge, without proper acknowledgment
of the fact
■ copying another student's test answers, or presenting
academic exercises prepared totally or in part by another
student as one's own
■ copying a computer file that contains another student's
assignment, and submitting it, in part or in its entirety, as
one's own
* We thank colleagues of Northwestern University and the University of
Delaware for sharing their statements of academic integrity with us.
Many of the ideas and wording in this statement draw their inspiration from
or directly cite student handbooks from these universities.
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■ working with another student on an assignment and/or
sharing the computer files and programs involved, and then
submitting individual copies of the assignment as one's own
work instead of as a team project
If students have doubts about what acts may constitute
plagiarism or how to properly cite sources, they should consult
with individual faculty members, the Writing Lab, or recognized
handbooks in the field.
2. Fabrication
Academic integrity requires the accurate and complete use of
information. It rests on the assumption that students honestly
interpret results and present them truthfully. Fabrication is the
use of invented information, or the falsification of research or
of other findings, and thus is an unacceptable practice. It
includes but is not limited to the following acts:
■ citing sources that do not exist
■ listing sources in a bibliography not directly used in the
academic exercise
■ submitting, in a paper, thesis, lab report, or other academic
exercise, falsified, invented, or fictitious data or evidence, as
well as deliberate and knowing concealment or distortion of
the true nature, origin, or function of such data evidence
3. Cheating
Academic integrity requires conformance to standard testing
and evaluation procedures so the test or exercise submitted
honestly demonstrates a student's mastery of information.
Cheating is the act or attempted act of deception to mislead
or misrepresent this mastery and is unacceptable behavior.
Examples of cheating include:
■ copying from another student's test paper
■ helping another student to copy from a test paper
■ in a manner unauthorized by the instructor, using a course
textbook, notes, or other material to complete a test or other
assignment
■ in a manner unauthorized by the instructor, collaborating on
a test, quiz, or other project
■ in a manner unauthorized by the instructor, using or
possessing specially prepared material during a test, such
as notes, formula lists, or calculators
■ submitting the same paper or assignment for more than one
class without the permission of all faculty involved
4. Academic Misconduct
Finally, academic integrity involves assuring fair and equitable
treatment for all students so that performance can be
measured under constant conditions. Acts that purposely
subvert this intention and dishonestly give a student an unfair
advantage are unacceptable at AUP and are considered to be
incidents of academic misconduct.
Examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited
to the following:
■ stealing, reproducing, circulating, or otherwise gaining access
to examination materials prior to the time authorized by the
professor
■ retaining, possessing, using, or circulating previously given
exam materials, when those materials clearly indicate that
they are to be returned to the professor at the conclusion of
the examination
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■ intentionally interfering with another student's academic work
■ stealing, defacing, or concealing library materials with the
purpose of depriving others of their use
■ tampering with grades or student records with the purpose
of obtaining an unfair advantage over other students'
academic work
■ providing false information in connection with an inquiry into
purported instances of academic dishonesty
ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT PROCEDURES
Informal Procedure
All professors at The American University of Paris have, as part
of their normal duties in evaluating their students' work, the
responsibility to verify the originality of assignments and to
insure that the University's standards of Academic Integrity are
upheld. Professors who have questions about the originality of
student work may informally discuss these questions with a
student without bringing charges of academic dishonesty
against the student. In doing so, professors may express their
concerns and choose to question students about the methods
and materials they used on a paper or assignment, ask to see
notes, rough drafts, or other materials, may request more
detailed information about research sources, etc. Professors
have until mid-semester of a following semester to investigate
concerns about academic dishonesty and to bring charges
against a student. In order to support the originality of their
work, if it is ever called into question, students are encouraged
to keep materials used in preparing papers and assignments at
least until the end of this period.
During or after this informal procedure, when a professor
believes that a student has committed academic dishonesty,
he/she may propose one of the following sanctions to the
student:
■ A verbal or written warning
■ A repeat of the assignment or assignment of additional
project(s)
■ A reduced grade for the assignment
■ A reduced grade for the course
■ A failing grade for the course
Should the student and professor agree that academic
dishonesty has occurred and agree upon one of the above
sanctions, the matter will be terminated there. At any time in
this informal procedure, professors may consult with their
Department Chair or the Dean of the College, at all times taking
measures to insure the privacy of the student involved.
Students may also consult with others for advice, e.g., their
academic advisor, the Office of Student Affairs, or fellow
students. It should be noted that all findings of academic
dishonesty could be reported in writing to the Department
Chair, who may choose to place this record in the student's file.
Formal Procedure
When a professor and a student are unable to reach an
agreement through the informal procedure, or when a professor
believes that a sanction more severe than failure in the course
is warranted, the professor must then put the charge of
academic dishonesty in writing. This charge is then communicated
to the Dean of the College. The student and the academic
advisor will receive a copy of this charge at the same time.
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A student may also initiate this formal procedure when he/she
disagrees with either a professor's findings concerning
academic dishonesty or with the sanctions the professor wishes
to impose. The student must request in writing to the Dean of
the College that the charge of academic dishonesty be
reviewed.
The Dean of the College will then call the concerned professor
and student together and attempt to resolve the issue. If any
party is dissatisfied with the outcome, they may request that
the Academic Honor Board be convened.
At the beginning of each academic year, the Academic Honor
Board will be formed to hear alleged cases of academic
misconduct. The Academic Honor Board will consist of two
professors, selected by the Chair of the Faculty Council, two
students, named by the Student Government Association, the
Associate Dean of Academic Administration, and the Dean of
the College, who will chair meetings of the Academic Honor
Board, but vote only in cases of ties. No later than two weeks
after receiving an appeal, the Academic Honor Board will
convene in order to review the charges of academic dishonesty
and any proposed sanctions. Students and professors will be
notified in writing of the meetings. The Academic Honor Board
may interview all parties concerned and review all relevant
materials before making a judgment.
A person of their choice, from the AUP community, may assist
students at any time during the formal procedure. The outcome
of the appeal procedure will be determined by a majority vote of
the Academic Honor Board.
Decisions of the Academic Honor Board are final and will be
communicated in writing to all parties concerned. A written
record of proceedings of the Academic Honor Board will be kept
on file in the Office of the Dean of the College, and a written
record of the Board's conclusions will be placed in the student's
file.
CHALLENGE OF FINAL GRADE
PROCEDURE
The American University of Paris recognizes the right of its
students to be fully informed about the grading policies used in
each class and provides them with an opportunity to appeal
when they believe that they have been erroneously or unfairly
graded.
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Students who wish to pursue the matter further, should follow
these steps:
STEP 1
■ Students may appeal a grade by submitting a written
statement to the Dean of the College.
A challenge of grade procedure cannot be initiated any later
than the end of the semester following the assigning of a
specific grade.
■ The appeal statement must include all of the following items:
– the title of the course and the name of the instructor
– details of the grade that has been given
– reasons for the appeal
– a copy of all relevant related documents (papers, exams, etc.)
STEP 2
■ The Dean will respond in writing within 15 days,
acknowledging receipt of the challenge of grade request.
■ The Dean will discuss the issue with the two parties and with
the Chair of the relevant department, seeking informal ways
of resolving the disagreement.
■ If the student is not satisfied with the results of this attempt,
step 3 will be implemented.
STEP 3
■ The Dean will convene the Challenge of Grade Appeal
Committee.
■ The Challenge of Grade Appeal Committee consists of the
following members:
– The Deans of Academic Administration and College
or his/her representatives who will be chairing the
Committee
– The Chair of the department involved
– Two members elected by the department involved (Every
year during the first meeting of the fall semester, all
academic departments elect two representatives and a
substitute.)
– The student's academic advisor or a faculty member
chosen by the student
■ The Challenge of Grade Appeal Committee shall investigate,
consult with all the involved parties and, by a majority vote,
decide on an appropriate action no later than 45 days after
receipt by the Dean's Office of the student's written appeal.
The Challenge of Grade Appeal Committee will send the
involved parties a written response to the appeal.
■ A student can institute no further appeal, with respect to the
issue(s) raised in the initial complaint, once the Challenge of
Grade Appeal Committee has reached a final decision.
However, students should understand that:
■ AUP presumes that its faculty members are professional and
will grade students fairly, consistently, and objectively.
■ A challenge of grade procedure is a serious intrusion upon
teaching prerogatives and, therefore, needs to be carefully
thought through before being initiated.
■ Students are strongly encouraged to contact their instructor
with any queries about a grade, and, if need be, to get in
touch with the Chair of the relevant department before
initiating such a procedure.
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RELEASE OF STUDENT INFORMATION
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a
federal law of the United States of America designed to protect
the privacy of a student's educational records. The law applies
to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of
the U.S. Department of Education. Although The American
University of Paris is subject to French law by reason of its
location, and a large percentage of the student body are
citizens or residents of other countries, the University is
incorporated in the United States under the laws of the State of
Delaware. Therefore, the University complies, insofar as is
permitted by French law, with the American statute.
FERPA states that students have the right to inspect and review
all of a student's education records maintained by the school.
Schools are not required to provide copies of materials in
education records unless, for reasons such as great distance, it
is impossible for students to inspect the records. Schools may
charge a fee for copies.
Students have the right to request that a school correct records
believed to be inaccurate or misleading. If the school decides
not to amend the record, the student then has the right to a
formal hearing. After the hearing, if the school still decides not
to amend the record, the student has the right to place a
statement with the record commenting on the contested
information in the record.
Generally, schools must have written permission from the
student before releasing any information from a student's
record. However, the law allows schools to disclose records,
without consent, to the following parties:
■ school employees who have a need to know
■ other schools to which a student is transferring
■ certain government officials in order to carry out lawful
functions
■ appropriate parties in connection with financial aid to
a student
■ organizations conducting certain studies for the school
■ accrediting organizations
■ individuals who have obtained court orders or subpoenas
■ persons who need to know in cases of health and safety
emergencies
ACADEMIC HONORS
Dean's List
The Dean's List, which is published at the end of each
semester, includes the names of students who have achieved a
distinguished level of academic performance. Students are
eligible for Dean's List honors after they have completed 15
graded credits at The American University of Paris. A student
who has completed at least 12 credits in a given semester, has
not received an “Incomplete” in a course, has not elected to
take a course on a “Credit/No credit” basis, and who has
earned a minimum semester grade point average of “B+” (3.3)
with no grade below “C+” (2.3), will be named on that
semester's list. Students taking a course with an obligatory
“Credit/No credit” grading policy (internship, external language
course) are not excluded from Dean's List.
Academic Honors
Academic Honors are a tradition in the curriculum of AUP. Some
degree programs offer an honors track to exceptionally
motivated students who wish to be challenged beyond the
scope of regular degree requirements (see degree requirements
for the departments concerned).
Graduation Honors
Graduation Honors are awarded to candidates for the
bachelor's degree who have completed a minimum of sixty
credits in residence and whose cumulative grade point average
is as follows: 3.70 or above for summa cum laude; 3.50-3.69
for magna cum laude; and 3.30-3.49 for cum laude.
Honor Societies
Chapters of the following academic honor societies exist at
The American University of Paris:
■ PI DELTA PHI (National French Honor Society)
■ PHI SIGMA IOTA (International Foreign Language Honor
Society)
■ SIGMA TAU DELTA (National English Honor Society)
■ OMICRON DELTA EPSILON (International Economics Honor
Society)
Schools may also disclose, without consent, “directory” type
information such as a student's name, address, telephone
number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates
of attendance. However, schools must tell parents and eligible
students about directory information and allow parents and
eligible students a reasonable amount of time to request that
the school not disclose directory information about them.
Under FERPA, a student's grades are confidential, and may not
be released even to his/her parents without her/his written
consent, which AUP requests during the Fall and Spring course
registration periods.
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NON-ACADEMIC POLICIES
CONDUCT IN THE COMMUNITY
The American University of Paris is an educational institution
that exists for the transmission of knowledge, the pursuit of
truth, and the development of its students. To preserve its
integrity as an educational community, the University has
certain institutional standards for the conduct of its members:
students, faculty, and administrative staff. The scope of these
standards is limited to the protection and promotion of the
University's educational goals and to the preservation of the
human rights of each of its members. Specifically, the
University must attempt to protect and maintain:
■ freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry for all
members of the University community, subject to the
limitations that such freedom shall not extend to the denial
of another's rights nor to attacks on individuals and on the
University community as a whole.
■ an atmosphere of mutual respect in which the improvement
of opportunities for individual intellectual development is the
paramount concern.
■ the safety, welfare, and property of all members of the
University community, and the safety and property of the
University itself.
It is the responsibility of each member of the AUP community to
support these standards. The University provides a mechanism
for student participation in the formulation of standards of
conduct and in judicial proceedings.
The standards of conduct do not restrict the right of the faculty
to control conduct in the classroom within accepted standards
of academic freedom and responsibility.
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT
■ The possession of firearms or other dangerous weapons or
substances on University premises is prohibited.
■ The use, transfer, distribution, possession, or sale of any
substance classified as a narcotic by French law is prohibited.
■ The use of the University name in such a way as to imply
representation of the community, in any public statement or
demonstration, without prior authorization by the Office of
the Dean of Student Services, is prohibited.
■ The use of force, or the threat of force, by any member of the
community against any other is prohibited.
■ Theft or willful destruction of the property of any member of
the community or of the University and the storage of stolen
property on University premises are prohibited. This policy
relates to both the theft of physical and of intellectual
property.
■ Conduct disturbing or disrupting the authorized use by others
of University facilities is prohibited.
■ The posting or distribution of announcements, publicity,
publications, or products that are not related to the
University's academic or non-academic programs is
prohibited, unless approved by the Office of the Dean
of Student Services.
■ Dogs and other pets and animals are permitted on University
premises only when they are authorized for instructional or
laboratory use or when they are trained guide dogs for the
visually impaired.
■ Smoking is prohibited in all public areas of the University,
including classrooms, hallways, entryways, and offices open
to the public. Smoking is permitted only in the AMEX Café.
■ Violations of the University's computer security systems and
altering the configuration of University computers, software,
e-mail accounts, or any other computer files are prohibited.
■ Conduct outside of the University, including study trips and
cultural excursions organized by the University and within a
student's housing, which violates either the University's
Standards of Conduct or French Law, is prohibited and can
result in disciplinary action.
■ Sexual Harassment, as defined below, is prohibited at the
University.
JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
All cases of alleged violations of the University's standards of
conduct should be reported to the Office of the Dean of Student
Services. The Dean investigates all allegations as soon
as possible after the reported violation. When s/he has
determined that the standards of conduct have been violated,
s/he may impose any one or more of the following sanctions:
■ Warning: a verbal or written reprimand indicating that a
student's conduct is in violation of the standards of conduct.
■ Censure: a written reprimand, not noted on transcripts,
indicating that a student's conduct is in violation of the
standards of conduct.
■ Assessment of damages and requirement of payment:
a student may be required to settle claims for damage or
theft, the amount of which is determined by the Dean of
Student Services.
■ Non-academic Probation: students on non-academic
probation are not permitted to hold elected office or
participate in extracurricular activities of the University during
the probation period. Should they violate other standards of
conduct while on probation, they may be suspended or
dismissed from the University.
■ A recommendation to the President of the University that a
student be suspended from the University for a limited period
of time.
■ A recommendation to the President of the University that a
student be dismissed from the University for non-academic
reasons. Students who have been suspended or dismissed
may not enter or use the University's facilities.
APPEAL COMMITTEE
Students wishing to appeal the decision made by the Dean of
Student Services must submit a written petition within five
class days of such a decision to the Dean of Student Services,
who will convene the Appeal Committee, which is composed of
the Dean of the College, the Chair of the Faculty Council, and
the President of the Student Government Association. The
Appeal Committee will meet as soon as possible to review the
case and the decision of the Dean of Student Services.
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The Appeal Committee will then make a recommendation to the
President to uphold or revise the decision of the Dean of
Student Services. The President will make a final decision within
two days of the Appeal Committee's recommendation. During
the appeal procedure, the Dean of Student Services will determine
which, if any, sanctions will be imposed awaiting a final
decision by the President.
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
The American University of Paris affirms its commitment to
the principle that no student, employee or applicant for
employment shall be subject to sexual harassment. Sexual
harassment is a violation of the standards of conduct at AUP
and is defined as any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for
sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual
nature where:
■ Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or
implicitly a condition or term of a student's status in a
course, program or activity or a condition of work.
■ Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is
used as the basis for academic or other decisions affecting a
student or employee.
■ Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably
interfering with a student's academic performance,
educational experience, or creating an intimidating, hostile,
or offensive environment.
It is a violation of University policy to initiate any action of
reprisal against a member of the University community
who in good faith reports incidents of sexual harassment.
Complaints of sexual harassment should be filed with the Dean
of Student Services. If the complaint concerns the conduct of
another student, the Dean of Student Services will initiate an
investigation and follow the procedures outlined above under
the standards of conduct for the University and the judicial
procedures where appropriate. If the complaint concerns the
conduct of a University employee, the Dean of Student Services
will forward the complaint to the Office of Academic Affairs or to
the Director of Personnel, whichever is appropriate, and an
investigation will begin immediately. Should allegations of
sexual harassment be found to be true, disciplinary actions will
be initiated.
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DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
A Bachelor's degree usually requires four academic years
of study and a minimum of 120 credit hours, which are
accumulated by taking a series of courses. Each completed
course counts as one to four credits toward a degree. Students
graduate with one of two degrees depending on the academic
discipline studied: the Bachelor of Arts (BA) for a major in the
humanities and social sciences, or the Bachelor of Science (BS)
for a major in computer science or applied international
finance, or quantitative and computatinal methods in the social
sciences.
BA and BS Degrees are awarded to candidates who meet the
following criteria:
■ Completion of a minimum of 120 credits, distributed among
general education requirements, major requirements, and
electives. At least 45 credits, including the last 15, must be
earned in residence. Students must complete at least half of
the upper-level courses required for the degree at The
American University of Paris.
■ A minimum GPA of 2.00 (C) with no grade below “C-” in
courses specified as requirements for the major.
■ Clearance of all financial obligations to the University.
The University confers BA and BS Degrees in January, May, and
August. A graduation ceremony is held in May for students who
have completed all graduation requirements. A degree application
must be filed with the Office of the Registrar.
GENERAL EDUCATION
Envisioning A World of Interdependence
A pillar of the American model of education is the
undergraduate general education program that exposes
students to a broad range of academic disciplines. In the
American system, this “generalizing” stream of courses is
balanced by concentrated or “specializing” study in a single
discipline or “major.”
In academic year 2004-2005, AUP inaugurated its new general
education program, “Envisioning a World of Interdependence.”
This four-year program has been designed to complement work
in the major, by running parallel to it over the course of a
student's academic trajectory. Students must fulfill the
following requirements:
FirstBridge
Freshman students begin their general education studies
with the FirstBridge program during the Fall semester at AUP.
This program is a set of two creatively joined courses linked by
a reflective seminar. Limited to twenty-four students, each set
of FirstBridge courses will bridge several academic disciplines
connecting peers from many cultures, with a team of two AUP
professors, and with Paris itself.
Once a week, FirstBridge classes divide into two smaller groups
of twelve students for a reflective seminar led by one of the two
professors. Throughout FirstBridge, students explore a range of
interdisciplinary issues and questions, complete individual and
team projects, enjoy occasional field trips in Paris, France, or
other European countries, while improving skills in writing,
public speaking, and information literacy. The FirstBridge
program carries seven credits.
Freshman students entering in the Spring semester do not
follow the FirstBridge program, but are required to attend a
workshop on information literacy.
Speaking the World: Language and Cultural Literacies
English
This requirement consists of six credits (two courses) in English
writing and humanities. EN courses require substantial reading,
analysis, writing and revision in the context of important works
of world literature in a range of genres.
Students fulfill this requirement with one semester of EN
110 (College Writing) and one semester of EN 120 (Writing and
Criticism). Some majors require additional English or
Comparative Literature courses.
Entering degree candidates (Freshmen and Transfers) take the
AUP English Placement Test during the Orientation period of
their first semester on campus (see Language Proficiency
Requirements, page 4). Based on the result of this
examination, a student takes pre-requisites for the requirement
listed above, follows the requirement listed above, or is
exempted from the above requirement (by placing above EN
120). A grade of “C” or above must be earned in these
courses to meet the general education requirement. Since
writing in English forms the basis for success in most other
courses, students are expected to take English every semester
until they have successfully completed their first EN 120.
Students receive credit for Advanced Placement Test results of
4 or above in English, for GCSE 'A' Level examinations taken in
English for results of C or above, and for International
Baccalaureate Higher Level English results of 4 or above.
Depending on the AUP English Placement Test results students
will receive elective credit or EN credit for the above. Furthermore,
entry into upper Level EN courses, or exemption, depends on
the results obtained in the AUP English Placement Test.
French
AUP students are required to demonstrate not only intermediate
language proficiency, but also provide evidence of their ability
to engage in intellectual and cultural activity in the French
language.
■ All new students must take a placement test at Orientation
(except students holding the French Baccalauréat diploma).
Either by means of exemption or completion of the necessary
French language sequence, students must demonstrate a
proficiency level equivalent to that obtained in Intermediate
French II (FL 4). A minimum grade of “C” is necessary in
each course to fulfill the requirement (up to 16 credit hours).
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■ Then a student must take either an upper-level course taught
in French, or exercise the FrenchBridge passerelle option (see
the General Education section of the AUP Web site for
information). Students holding the French Baccalauréat
diploma are exempted from this requirement.
Modeling the World: Scientific and Mathematical
Investigations
AUP students must fulfill one natural or physical science and
one mathematics general education requirement.
■ One natural or physical science course with laboratory
(4 credits)
■ Demonstration of mastery of basic math and quantitative
reasoning skills, by means of assessment at Orientation. In
the case of failure to demonstrate those competencies, one
specially designed general education course in basic math
and reasoning skills with Lab (4 credits)
Comparing Worlds Past and Present: Historical
and Cross-Cultural Understandings
This requirement consists of six credits (two courses) chosen
from an approved annual list of general education courses
(see the General Education section of the AUP Web site for
information). In choosing a total of 12 credits from this and the
“Mapping the World” rubrique, students must select courses in
at least two different disciplines and those disciplines must be
different from the student’s major discipline(s).
Mapping the World: Social Experience and Organization
This requirement consists of six credits (two courses) chosen
from an approved annual list of general education courses
(see the General Education section of the AUP Web site for
information).
All AUP students must complete the requirements listed above
in order to fulfill their general education program. Special
recognition will be entered on the transcript of students electing
to complete all of the foregoing plus the Building Communities
option and the Senior Capstone option. See the AUP Web site
for additional information on the General Education program.
MAJORS
The American University of Paris offers majors in fourteen fields
of study:
■ Applied International Finance
■ Art History
■ Comparative Literature
■ Computer Science
■ European and Mediterranean Cultures
■ Film Studies
■ French Studies
■ History and Social Sciences
■ International Business Administration
■ International Communications
■ International Economics
■ International and Comparative Politics
■ Psychology
■ Quantitative and Computational Methods in the Social
Sciences
Detailed information regarding each department and the
specific course requirements for each major can be found
starting on page 23. Please note that some course titles
may by shortened within the department pages. Consult the
Course Descriptions (page 60) for full course titles.
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In addition to courses in the fourteen majors, the curriculum
includes a full complement of other liberal arts offerings.
Courses are available in the following disciplines: anthropology,
astronomy, biology, drama, fine arts, German, gender studies,
Italian, mathematics, music, physics, sociology, and Spanish.
Courses satisfying General Education requirements must come
from a discipline other than that of the student's major. An
exception is made, however, for students completing the
requirements of a double major: in such instances, courses
applied towards meeting the requirements of a major can also
be accepted as satisfying a part of the General Education
obligations.
MINORS
Students may choose to further broaden their academic
horizons by completing one of the twenty-eight minors offered
by AUP:
■ American Studies
■ Applied Mathematics
■ Art History
■ Cities: Architecture and Urban Culture
■ Classical Civilization
■ Comparative Literature
■ Comparative Politics and European Affairs
■ Computer Science
■ Development Studies
■ European and Mediterranean Cultures
■ Film History and Theory
■ Film Studies
■ Fine Arts
■ French Studies
■ Gender Studies
■ Global Studies
■ History
■ Information Technology
■ International Business Administration
■ International Communications
■ International Economics
■ International Journalism
■ Medieval Studies
■ Philosophy
■ Psychology
■ Renaissance Studies
■ Social Sciences
■ Theater and Performance
Requirements for Minors are listed on pages 56-59.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Most minors consist of 18 credit hours, but some (Applied
Mathematics, Computer Science, French Studies, Information
Technology, International Economics) currently total as many as
22 credit hours. The obtaining of a minor does not require
additional credits beyond the minimum of 120 needed for the
BA or BS degree. In exceptional circumstances, a department
may authorize a limited substitution for courses identified as
minor requirements. Minors must be completed at the same
time as the BA or BS degree.
No more than 8 credits from courses taken outside AUP may be
applied towards a minor, and these courses must be specifically
accepted by the department supervising the minor. All courses
counting in a minor must be completed with a minimum 2.0
cumulative grade point average, with no individual grade lower
than “C-.”
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at least three courses which are not being applied towards a
major or towards another minor. Courses taken to satisfy the
General Education requirements, including FirstBridge courses,
may be applied towards a minor.
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Minors do not appear on diplomas but are noted on students'
transcripts.
A self-designed minor is an option for students with a GPA of
3.5 or higher; the student and his or her advisor design these
minors.
SECOND DIPLOMAS
Graduates of The American University of Paris may pursue a
second BA or BS degree at the institution. To do so they must
obtain prior approval from the Associate Dean of Academic
Administration, have a GPA of 3.0, and take at least 30
additional credits in residence. The program for the second
degree must conform to all the requirements for the major in
the field.
DOUBLE MAJORS
Students may elect to graduate with two majors, and receive
one BA or BS degree in both disciplines. In such instances,
students must fulfill all requirements of each of the majors.
The successful completion of a double major may be realized
through one or another of two optional means:
Option A: In satisfying the requirements of two majors, some
courses may be found to be applicable to both. Such courses
(including cross-listed offerings) may be counted towards each
major, but not beyond a maximum permitted overlap of 5
courses (3 or 4 credit courses).
Option B: In the case of two majors where the particular
courses which are specifically required show an overlap in
excess of 15 credits, the double major can be realized with the
obtaining of a total number of credits in the two majors (beyond
the General Education Requirements) that is not less than 72
credits.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
AND FINE ARTS
FINE ARTS
ART HISTORY
MAJOR
The educational experience of Art History majors at The
American University of Paris regularly includes direct contact
with the monuments of art and architecture both in museums
and on site. The major requirements may be fulfilled at the
introductory level in two ways: Option I or Option II. Introduction
to the History of Western Art initiates students to the discipline
and its methodologies, while the Materials and Techniques
of the Masters course provides a historical and technical
introduction to the basic problems of artistic creation.
Sophomore level area courses focus on art in five
chronological periods. At the upper level, a Junior Seminar,
a Senior Seminar, and five art history electives complete the
degree requirements. Students are expected to read and
understand French texts. Students considering graduate
programs are encouraged to study a third language.
The Department offers four minors: Art History, Fine Arts,
Cities: Architecture and Urban Culture, and Medieval Studies,
the latter two in conjunction with the Departments of European
and Mediterranean Cultures and Comparative Literature.
Study trips to other sites in Europe are an integral part of the
program. They allow the student to study works of art located
outside Paris, under the guidance of the professor.
Faculty
Christine Baltay
Madeleine Beaufort
Filiz Burhan
Kathleen Chevalier
Suse Childs
Clara DeLamater
Robert Ogle
Ralph Petty
Complementary
Faculty
George Wanklyn
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN ART
HISTORY
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 16 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4)
3/4 French language or literature beyond FL 4
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
OPTION I
Core Courses
15 Credits
6 AH 100 and 120 Introduction to
Western Art I and II
3 AR 120 Materials and Techniques of the
Masters
3 AH 390 Junior Seminar (must be taken
in the Junior year)
3 AH 490 Senior Seminar*
Area Courses
12 Credits: 4 out of 5 courses, ideally taken
in chronological order
3 AH 211 Ancient Art and Architecture
3 AH 212 Medieval Art and Architecture
3 AH 213 Renaissance Art and Architecture
3 AH 214 Baroque and Rococo Art and
Architecture
3 AH 216 19th- and 20th-Century Art and
Architecture
OPTION II
Core Courses
12 Credits
3 AH 120 Introduction to Western
Art II
3 AR 120 Materials and Techniques
of the Masters
3 AH 390 Junior Seminar (must be
taken in the Junior year)
3 AH 490 Senior Seminar*
Area Courses
15 Credits: all courses, ideally taken
in chronological order
3 AH 211 Ancient Art and Architecture
3 AH 212 Medieval Art and Architecture
3 AH 213 Renaissance Art and Architecture
3 AH 214 Baroque and Rococo Art
and Architecture
3 AH 216 19th- and 20th-Century
Art and Architecture
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15 Credits (required for both Option I and Option II)
9 At least 3 courses at the AH 300 level
6 To be freely chosen; they can include:
a) cross-listed courses: AH/ES
b) AH courses at the 200 level
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 Credits
* AH 490 may be taken twice for credit
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE IN ART
HISTORY WITH
A VISUAL
CULTURE TRACK
DEPARTMENTAL
HONORS
Students with a GPA of
3.3 or above in 8 upperlevel
Art History courses
are eligible for
departmental honors.
Information on additional
requirements is available
from the Department
Chair.
CORE COURSES
3 AH 100 Introduction to Western Art I
3 AH 120 Introduction to Western Art II
3 CM 123 Media Analysis
3 FM/CM 110 Films and Their Meaning
Plus one of the following (the other course may be used as an elective):
3 CM 400 Topics: Museum as Medium
3 ES 110 Europe and Cities: The Modern City
VISUAL CULTURE ELECTIVES
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AH 206 Putting It in Prints
AH 218 Art and the Market
AH 353 Princes and Patrons: Art Collecting and Patronage in 17th-Century Europe
AH/ES 316 Society and Spectacle: Painting, Photography and Film in Germany and Russia
between the Two Wars
AH 317 History of Photography
AH 372 Taste and Society: 18th-Century French and English Art and Art Collecting
AH/PL 374 The Philosophy of Aesthetics
CM 306 Color as Communication
CM 352 Rhetoric and Persuasion, Visual and Verbal
CM 375 Media Aesthetics
CM 362 Media Semiotics
CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
CM/GS 304 Communicating Fashion
CL 302 Word and Image: Literature and the Visual Arts
ES 105 Europe and Cities. The Italian Renaissance
ES 200 Approaches to Culture: Frames, Practices, and Objects
ES/HI 317 Europe and Cities: The Islamic City: History, Space, and Visual Culture
ES/FM 300 The Film Culture of Europe’s Cities
FM 275 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Film I
FM 276 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Film II
FM 292 Women and Film
FM 327 Film Theory and Criticism
GS/PY 208 Gender Identity, Homosexuality and the Cinema: A Psychoanalytic Approach
GS/HI 213 Women in Parisian History and the Arts
GS/HI 314 Art, Culture and Gender in the Italian Renaissance
GS/HI 319 Women Artists in European History
GS/HI 332 The Power of Images in Western History
GS/HI 326 Women in the French Renaissance
3 VC 400 SENIOR THESIS OR SENIOR PROJECT: interdisciplinary in nature, linking an art
historical issue to at least one other discipline
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE AND ENGLISH
COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
CREATIVE
WRITING
DRAMA
ENGLISH
COMPOSITION
ENGLISH
FOUNDATION
PROGRAM
COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
MAJOR
The Comparative Literature Major traces the traditions of
Western literature from antiquity to contemporary works from
Europe and the Americas. Each course is an integral part of a
diachronic presentation of this literature and sheds a particular
light on the many readings of the literary tradition. This light
is fueled by the knowledge of several literatures, by related
work in other disciplines of the humanities, and by recent
movements in literary and critical theory.
In the final year, the student usually undertakes a research
project on a literary topic or theme in more than one literature
under the guidance of a professor.
This senior project provides the opportunity to pursue in detail
a specific interest, which has emerged from the student's
reading.
There are also an Honors Major and a Minor in Comparative
Literature, as well as a Minor in Theater and Performance, a
Minor in Classical Civilization and a Minor in Medieval Studies.
In addition, the Department houses the Creative Writing
courses. It offers a variety of internships, including several
positions with the AUP-Emory Beckett Correspondence Project,
and positions with Paris publishing houses.
Faculty
Brian Brazeau
Cheryl Caesar
Alice Craven
William Dow
Mark Ennis
Oliver Feltham
Geoffrey Gilbert
Kate Green
Daniel Gunn
Adrian Harding
Lissa Lincoln
Linda Martz
Ann Mott
Marc Pelen
Richard Pevear
Rebekah Rast
Roy Rosenstein
Margery Safir
Celeste Schenck
Charles Talcott
David Tresilian
Andrea Trocha Van Nort
Complementary
Faculty
Richard Beardsworth
Jerome Charyn
Jérôme Game
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE COURSES
6 CL/EN 251 and CL/EN 252 Masters of English Literature
6 CL 257 and CL 258 Masters of French Literature or
CL 253 and CL 254 Masters of Spanish Literature or
CL 255 and CL 256 Masters of Italian Literature
3 CL 385 Literary Theory and Criticism
3 CL 400 Interdisciplinary Topics in Literature
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RESEARCH BY PERIOD (Select one course from each of the following)
3 Ancient
CL 313 Classical Hellenic Antiquity or
CL 315 Death and Desire in Imperial Rome or
CL/PL 317 Plato and Cicero
3 Medieval
CL 257 The Rise of the Hero and the Poet in French Literature or
CL 322 European Arts of Love or
ES/CL 323 Chaucer and Medieval Culture or
ES/CL 325 Dante and Medieval Culture or
ES/CL 327 Historians of Medieval Culture
3 Renaissance
CL 253 The Golden Age in Spain and Europe or
CL 255 Saints and Sinners in the Renaissance or
CL 258 Loves Sacred and Profane in French Lyric or
CL 329 In Praise of Love, Honor and Folly or
CL/HI 333 Discovery and Conquest: Creation of the New World or
CL 336 Cervantes and the Modern Novel or
CL/DR 338 Shakespeare in Context
3 18th- and 19th-Centuries
CL 351 The Romantic Novel of Revolution or
CL 352 European Romantic Poetry or
CL/HI 353 In 1871…: Case Study in Comparative Literature and History or
CL/ES 354 The 18th-Century Divide Between Philosophy and Literature or
CL 356 Dostoevsky and the 19th-Century Novel or
CL/GS 357 19th-Century Women Writers or
CL 358 The Realist Novel or
ES/CL 359 Baudelaire and Flaubert or
CL 360 Literature and the Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century or
CL 362 Conquering Colonies or
CL 368 Varieties of Russian Fiction
THE HONORS MAJOR
To the requirements for
the BA degree with a
major in Comparative
Literature add:
Intermediate-level
proficiency in a third
language (4 semesters
of study) or successful
completion of a literature
course in that language;
one course taught in the
second language; Senior
Thesis of forty typewritten
pages demonstrating
critical ability in at least
two literatures.
SUGGESTED MINORS
American Studies
Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Theater and Performance
Classical Civilization
3 20th-Century
CL 254 Modern Latin American and Spanish Literature or
CL 256 French and American Exchanges or
CL 302 Word and Image: Literature and the Visual Arts or
CL/ES 343 The Attraction of Paris: Modernist Experiments in Migration or
CL/GS 363 Writing Women: Feminism, Freud, and Literary Inscriptions of Femininity or
CL 364 Contemporary Latin American Fiction or
CL 365 Post-War European Literature or
CL/FM 369 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction or
CL 371 20th-Century Latin American Writers or
CL 373 Ulysses and British Modernism or
CL 374 Russian Modernism or
CL 376 Modern Sexuality and the Process of Writing or
CL 377 The Experience of Time in Early 20th-Century Writing or
CL 379 Proust and Beckett or
CL/GS 384 Writing from the Margins
SENIOR FIELD
3 An additional 300-level CL course or
CL 495 Senior Project: Critical or Creative Paper
3 CL 490 Senior Seminar: Special Studies in Comparative Literature
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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The English Foundation Program at The American University of Paris, created for students whose mother tongue is not English, is
a one- or two-semester curriculum designed to help students integrate into a new academic system.
First semester, students take:
■ EN 003 Intensive Writing
■ EN 060 English Grammar Review
■ EnglishBridge
EnglishBridge is composed of two linked courses that may be from a variety of subject areas critical to a liberal arts education.
Students begin to understand how different subject areas see a given problem in different ways while they develop the language
skills they need to function in an English-speaking classroom environment.
Second semester, students take:
■ EN 001 Advanced Intensive Writing
■ Other classes to be chosen with the help of the student's advisor
The English Foundation Program is tailored to students' preparation levels. Freshman and Transfer placements into Tracks One
and Two are made during the admissions process. Freshman and Transfer placements into Tracks Three and Four are made according
to a placement test taken during Orientation. Students may also be placed at intermediate stages in these tracks.
The first year of the English Foundation Program must be completed successfully (with an overall grade average of “C”) before
students are allowed to proceed further into their academic curriculum. Students earning less than a grade of “C” must repeat the
courses in which their grade was below C. If language skills are not yet adequate at the end of the semester, the student
may choose to repeat elements of the program. Please note: EN courses below EN 110 receive elective credit, of which 15
credits may be applied toward the student's degree.
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THE ENGLISH FOUNDATION PROGRAM AND THE ENGLISH WRITING PROGRAM AT AUP
Track One
(students placed
into the EFP)
Track Two
(students placed
into EN 001)
Track Three
(students placed
into EN 090)
Track Four
(students placed
into EN 100)
Track Five
(students placed
into EN 110)
Track Six
(students placed
into EN 120)
First Year Fall
EN 003 Intensive
Writing and
EnglishBridge and
EN 060 English
Grammar Review
First Year Fall
EN 001 Advanced
Intensive Writing
and FirstBridge
(ARC link suggested
for other course)
First Year Fall
EN 090 Principles
of Academic Writing
and FirstBridge
(ARC link suggested
for further courses)
First Year Fall
EN 100 Principles
of Advanced
Academic Writing
and FirstBridge
(ARC link suggested
for further courses)
First Year Fall
FirstBridge
(student may
choose to take EN
110 concurrently
with FirstBridge)
First Year Fall
FirstBridge
(student may
choose to take EN
120 concurrently
with FirstBridge)
First Year Spring
EN 001 Advanced
Intensive Writing
(ARC link suggested
for further courses)
First Year Spring
EN 090 Principles
of Academic Writing
(ARC link suggested
for further courses)
First Year Spring
EN 100 Principles
of Advanced
Academic Writing
(ARC link suggested
for at least one
other course)
First Year Spring
EN 110 College
Writing
First Year Spring
EN 110 College
Writing
First Year Spring
EN 120 Writing
and Criticism
Second Year Fall
EN 090 Principles
of Academic Writing
(ARC link suggested
for at least one
other course)
Second Year Fall
EN 100 Principles
of Advanced
Academic Writing
(ARC link suggested
for at least one
other course)
Second Year Fall
EN 110 College
Writing
Second Year Fall
EN 120 Writing
and Criticism
Second Year Fall
EN 120 Writing
and Criticism
Second Year Fall
(Some majors
require 3 further
writing credits)
Second Year Spring
EN 100 Principles of
Advanced Academic
Writing
Second Year Spring
EN 110 College
Writing
Second Year Spring
EN 120 Writing
and Criticism
Second Year Spring
(some majors
require 3 further
writing credits)
Second Year Spring
(some majors
require 3 further
writing credits)
Third Year Fall
EN 110 College
Writing
Third Year Fall
EN 120 Writing
and Criticism
Third Year Fall
(some majors
require 3 further
writing credits)
Third Year Spring
EN 120 Writing
and Criticism
Third Year Spring
(some majors
require 3 further
writing credits)
Fourth Year Fall
(some majors
require 3 further
writing credits)
Students enrolled in EN 001 and EN 090 who wish to change their English writing tracks may choose to take a placement test, which
will be offered only during orientation and in the final weeks of each semester. Requests for special administration of the placement
test at other times will be denied. Track changes as a result of the placement test are contingent upon the student's obtaining a
passing grade in the class in which s/he is currently enrolled.
For information on ARC links, see page 3.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE,
MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE*
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
MATHEMATICS
SCIENCES
COMPUTER
SCIENCE MAJOR
The Computer Science Major, leading to a Bachelor of Science
degree, has as its objective the training of students as
software generalists who will be well prepared for immediate
employment as programmers and analysts or for graduate
study in computer science. The focus of the program is,
therefore, neither computer engineering nor business-oriented
data processing. Students are expected to become extremely
competent programmers in several computer languages. The
program insists on the theoretical underpinnings of software
development, a mastery of which is essential for the graduate
who must be prepared for work and study in a field in which
radical change is the normal condition.
* This department is a component of the ICISI (Institut de
commerce international et des sciences de l'information).
Faculty
James Clayson
Ruth Corran
Susan Cure
Marie-France Derhy
Abdolreza Faiz
Eugeni Gentchev
Antonio Kung
Claudia Roda
Georgi Stojanov
Alexandra Svoronou
Roger Tellio
Complementary
Faculty
Laurent Sauerwein
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BS
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE COURSES
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
4 MA 130 Calculus I
3 MA 140 Discrete Mathematics
1 CS/CM 101 Introduction to Web Authoring
4 CS 140 Introduction to Computer Programming I
4 CS 150 Introduction to Computer Programming II
3 CS 271 Languages and Data Structures
3 CS/IT 315 Computer Architectures
3 CS 325 Network Architectures
3 CS 332 Operating Systems
3 CS/CM 348 Human Computer Interaction
3 CS/IT 353 Software Engineering
3 CS/IT 368 Database Applications
3 CS 398 Internship
3 CS 491 Senior Seminar I
3 CS 492 Senior Seminar II
RECOMMENDED
MINOR
Applied Mathematics
6 Two advanced courses to select amongst those listed below:
MA 241 Linear Algebra
CS 326 Artificial Intelligence
CS/IT 335 Computer and Network Security
CS/IT 351 Web Applications
CS 372 Compilers Design
3 Select one of:
A second EN 120 Writing and Criticism course
BA 402 Entrepreneurship
CM 303 Communication Skills
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 Credits
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE MAJOR
IN QUANTITATIVE
AND
COMPUTATIONAL
METHODS IN
THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year.
Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
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CORE COURSES
3 CS 110 Introduction to Computational Environments
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
4 MA 130 Calculus I
3 BA/MA 366 Multivariate Analysis or
4 MA 207 Operations Research: Mathematical Programming
4 CS 140 Intro to Computer Programming I
4 CS 150 Intro to Computer Programming II
3 CS 271 Languages and Data Structures
3 CS/IT 368 Database Applications
3 CS 310 Computational Methods in the Social Sciences: Agent Based Simulations
3 CS 491 Senior Seminar I
3 CS 492 Senior Seminar II
Plus one of the following minors or one of the following concentrations:
Minor in Comparative Politics and European Affairs
Minor in Development Studies
Minor in International Business Administration
Minor in International Economics
Minor in Psychology
Psychology Concentration
CS/CM 348 Human Computer Interaction
PY 220 Experimental Psychology
CS 326 Artificial Intelligence
Business Administration Concentration
CS 353 Software Engineering
BA 420 Computational Finance
One 300-level CS or BA course
International Affairs Concentration
PO 250 Political Analysis
PO 351 Globalization or
PO 316 Ideas of Europe
CS 357 Wireless Communications or
CS/CM 348 Human Computer Interaction
Economics Concentration
CS 353 Software Engineering
Select two of:
EC 361 Game Theory
EC 377 Mathematical Methods in Economics
(if not taken as core requirement)
EC 386 Introduction to Econometrics
Logistics Concentration
BA 370 Operations Management
CS/CM 348 Human Computer Interaction
CS 357 Wireless Communications
Marketing Concentration
CS/CM 348 Human Computer Interaction
CS 357 Wireless Communications
BA 240 Marketing
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 Credits
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THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS*
INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMICS
MAJOR
Courses in the International Economics Major are designed
to provide students with tools, techniques, and a scientific
system of analysis, which will be valuable to them in their
understanding and appraisal of current economic issues,
the pursuit of graduate work, and a future career in business,
finance, government, and international organizations.
The program examines the structure, functioning, and
interaction of economic systems. The curriculum familiarizes
students with the laws and tendencies that govern the
functioning of firms and the decision-making process of
consumers, and proceeds to emphasize issues such as growth,
employment, inflation, balance of payments, and income
distribution. Students are concomitantly exposed to important
topics in international economics, such as the causes and
consequences of international exchange, trade models, trade
barriers, monetary aspects of international trade, adjustment
policies under fixed and floating exchange rates, reform of
the international monetary system, development, and
under-development.
The Economics Department also offers a BS degree in
Applied International Finance in cooperation with the
Department of International Business Administration
(see page 42).
* This department is a component of the ICISI (Institut de
commerce international et des sciences de l'information).
Faculty
Sharam Alijani
Gerardo della Paolera
Karl Dunz
Barbara Fliess
Farhad Nomani
Ali Rahnema
Kirsten Ralf
Complementary
Faculty
Ali Fatemi
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMICS
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
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CORE COURSES
4 MA 110 Applied Finite Mathematics
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
4 MA 130 Calculus I
3 A second EN 120 Writing and Criticism or
EN 130 Advanced Critical Analysis or
any CL/EN or CL course (200 level or above)
3 BA 201 Financial Accounting
3 IT 130 Applied Computing
3 EC 210 Principles of Microeconomics
3 EC 220 Principles of Macroeconomics
3 EC 230 Introduction to International Economic Relations
3 EC 310 Intermediate Microeconomics or
EC 311 Quantitative Intermediate Microeconomics
3 EC 320 Intermediate Macroeconomics
12 Economics Electives: four upper-level EC courses
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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THE DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN AND
MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES
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EUROPEAN AND
MEDITERRANEAN
CULTURES
The Department of European and Mediterranean Cultures
is the academic home of the major in European and
Mediterranean Cultures. This interdisciplinary major introduces
the student to a broad span of human action, accomplishment
and experience in both public and private spaces, extending
back to Antiquity and culminating in our own time.
The major relies heavily on the University’s location in one of
the premier capitals of Europe. Its interdisciplinary curriculum
investigates particularities and distinctions in the long and
intertwined histories of Europe and the Mediterranean world.
The social and cultural histories of nations and cities are
explored, to seek out the specific local development of
intellectual, artistic, religious and economic life, and to
comprehend the links and transfer of ideas and influences
between the areas and sites which are surveyed. The
geographic span which is taken for study is both precisely
defined and vast, and the courses which sustain the major
take students through a succession of historical epochs in
which culture came to be defined in these parts of the world.
Extensive use is made of literature and cinema in the diverse
analyses that collectively compose the major. Study trips to
many European and Mediterranean urban locales, together
with excursions to Parisian museums and monuments,
combine to give a more complete, immediate and personal
comprehension of the material being studied.
The department also formulates or participates in a number of
minors, including Cities: Architecture and Urban Culture,
Classical Civilization, European and Mediterranean Cultures,
Gender Studies, History, Medieval Studies and Renaissance
Studies.
Faculty
Marie-Christine Navarro
Marie Roussel
George Wanklyn
Complementary
Faculty
Petermichael von Bawey
Kathleen Chevalier
Oliver Feltham
Jérôme Game
Geoffrey Gilbert
Daniel Gunn
Camille Hercot
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Linda Martz
Justin McGuinness
Marc Pelen
Roy Rosenstein
Myriam Wissa
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
EUROPEAN AND
MEDITERRANEAN
CULTURES
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE COURSES
3 ES 100 Sources of European Culture
3 ES 105 Europe and Cities: The Italian Renaissance or
ES 110 Europe and Cities: The Modern City
3 ES 200 Approaches to Culture: Frames, Practices, Objects
3 ES/PL 215 Philosophy and the City
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Note: A minimum of
three courses must be
selected which focus
entirely or principally
on epochs or historical
spans which are
pre-1800. These courses
come from the two lists
European and
Mediterranean Urban
Cultures and Contexts,
Illuminations, and
Reflections, and the ES
105 Europe and Cities:
The Italian Renaissance
course.
DEPARTMENTAL
HONORS
In addition to all required
course work, a student
must have a cumulative
GPA of 3.3, be proficient
in two European languages,
and write an honors
thesis.
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Four courses from the list below:
12 European and Mediterranean Urban Cultures
ES/HI 301 European Urban Culture: Berlin from Imperial Germany to the Third Reich
ES/HI 302 European Urban Culture: Berlin from Allied Occupation to German Capital
ES/CL 303 European Urban Culture: Naples and Palermo: The Two Sicilies
ES/HI 304 The History of Paris
ES/HI 305 European Urban Culture: Rome from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation
ES/HI 306 European Urban Culture: Vienna from Baroque to Modernism
ES/AH 307 European Urban Culture: The Glory of Ancient Athens
ES/HI 308 European Urban Culture: Amsterdam and Antwerp from the 15th- to the 17th-Century
ES/HI 309 European Urban Culture: Venice from the Renaissance to the Fall of the Republic
ES/CL 310 European Urban Culture: Edinburgh the City, Scotland the Kingdom
ES/HI 311 European Urban Culture: Prague from Imperial City to National Capital
ES/HI 312 European Urban Culture: The Jewish Presence, from the Origins to the 17th-Century
ES/HI 313 European Urban Culture: The Jewish Presence, from the 17th- to the 20th-Century
ES/AH 314 European Urban Culture: Istanbul, an Imperial Palimpsest
ES/HI 317 Mediterranean Urban Culture: The Islamic City: History, Spaces,
and Visual Culture
ES/HI 318 European Urban Culture: Paris at War
ES/FS 321 Paris au Quotidien: Témoignages Littéraires I (du Moyen Age à la fin de l’Ancien Régime)
ES/FS 322 Paris au Quotidien: Témoignages Littéraires II (de la Révolution à la fin du 19e Siècle)
ES/FS 323 Paris au Quotidien: Témoignages Littéraires III (de la Belle Epoque à nos Jours)
CL/ES 343 The Attraction of Paris: Modernist Experiments in Migration
Three courses from the two lists below:
9 European and Mediterranean Film Studies
FM 275 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I: From Méliès through
the Hollywood Studio Era and World War II
FM 276 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II: From 1945 to the Present
FM 281 Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
FM 292 Film Genres and Topics: Women and Film
FM 293 Film Genres and Topics: Cinema and Poetry
FM 294 Film Genres and Topics: The Documentary
FM/PL 295 Film Genres and Topics: Philosophy and Film
FM 300 Topics in Film Studies (if the topic is appropriate)
FM/ES 300 Topics: The Film Culture of Europe’s Cities
FM 327 Film Theory and Criticism
FM 330 Directors and Directing
FM/CM 332 Paris Documentaries
FM/CM 372 German Cinema
FM 374 Italian Cinema
FM 375 East European Cinema
FM 376 Arab Cinema
FM/FS 386 French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague
FM/FS 387 Paris Cinema
FM 396 Junior Seminar (if the topic is European)
Contexts, Illuminations, and Reflections
ES/GS 205 Daughters of Hera and Hecate: Women’s Life in Ancient Greece and Rome
ES/HI 210 French Cultural History, 1453-1715
PL/ES 213 Philosophy and Religion I: From the Ancient to the Medieval World
PL/ES 214 Philosophy and Religion II: From the Early Modern to the Postmodern World
ES 300 Topics in European and Mediterranean Cultures
CL/ES 323 Chaucer and Medieval Culture
CL/ES 325 Dante and Medieval Culture
CL/ES 327 Historians of Medieval Culture
CL/ES 354 The 18th-Century Divide Between Philosophy and Literature
CM/ES 370 Culture and the European Idea
ES 381 History of French Civilization I: Origins of France to 1610
ES 382 History of French Civilization II: 1610-1914
ES 384 Contemporary French Civilization: 1914 to the Present
6 ES and FM electives to be chosen from the three lists above: European and
Mediterranean Urban Cultures; European and Mediterranean Film Studies; Contexts,
Illuminations, and Reflections
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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DEPARTMENT OF FILM STUDIES
FILM STUDIES
MAJOR
Film Studies
Film is the defining art form of the twentieth century and the
first universal language. From Chaplin to Garbo, from Al
Pacino to Jeanne Moreau, the “filmed face” has haunted us for
a hundred years. Students have a chance to “explore” film
through the unique and prestigious film institutions like La
Cinémathèque and La FEMIS in Paris, Paris that has always
been the world capital of cinema, much more potent and
provocative than Hollywood.
In a newly constituted Film Department, the Film Studies Major
expands, offering courses that allow students to study the
history and aesthetics of well-rooted American and European
cinema as well as discover the new tendencies of rising Asian
and Arabic cinema, and to work on their own video projects
and screenplays, under the guidance of professional
filmmakers. Class work will be combined with real-world
experiences, as on an intimate and informal level students will
have a chance to meet filmmakers, set designers, actors, and
producers active in today’s film industry. Students also
have the opportunity to travel to Berlin, Rome, and Prague
for exclusive visits of some of Europe’s landmark film studios.
Beginning in 2007, an annual film festival on the work of a top
international director will feature a master class led by the
director. The film major prepares students for strong careers in
media and film-working for major film and television production
houses and to continue studying at the very best schools
throughout the world.
This degree is offered in cooperation with the Department of
International Communications and also draws on courses from
other departments.
Faculty
Jerome Charyn
Nathalie Debroise
Jérôme Game
Lawrence Pitkethly
Complementary
Faculty
Justin McGuinness
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN FILM
STUDIES
DEPARTMENTAL
HONORS
In addition to all required
course work a student
must have a cumulative
GPA of 3.3, and write an
honors thesis or complete
a creative project.
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE COURSES
3 FM/CM 110 Films and their Meanings or
CM 123 Media Analysis
3 FM 275 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I
3 FM 276 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II
3 FM 227 Film Theory and Criticism
3 CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography or
CM 362 Media Semiotics
3 FM 396 Junior Seminar in Film Studies
If an FM course offered as an option course is not chosen in the core, it may be taken as a
course in Group A; if a CM course offered as an option course is not chosen in the core, it may be
taken as a course in Group B.
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GROUP A Film Pragmatics and the Art of Directing (4 of the following)
12 FM/CL 228 The Art of Screenwriting
FM/CM 218 Writing Fiction for Television
FM 225 Set Design in Cinema
FM 238 Producers and Producing
FM 338 Pragmatics of Producing
FM 339 Directing Fiction
FM/CM 229 Making a Documentary
FM 280 Film Directors: Orson Welles and His Inheritors
FM 281 Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
FM 282 Film Directors: Tarantino and his Many Fathers
FM 286 Film Directors: The American New Wave, 1967-1979
FM/CM 332 Paris Documentaries (if not taken in Film Genres and topics)
FM 330 Directors and Directing
CM 329 Principles of Video Production
CM 428 Advanced Video Production
GROUP B Film Genres and Topics (2 of the following)
6 FM 290 Film Genres and Topics: Film Noir
FM 291 Film Genres and Topics: The Western
FM 292 Film Genres and Topics: Women and Film
FM 293 Film Genres and Topics: Cinema and Poetry
FM 294 Film Genres and Topics: The Documentary
FM 295 Film Genres and Topics: Philosophy and Film
FM 300 Topics in Film Studies
FM/ES 300 Topics: The Film Culture of Europe’s Cities
FM/CM 332 Paris Documentaries (if not taken in Film Pragmatics)
FM/CL 369 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction
FS/FM 377 Du Livre à l’Image
GROUP C International Cinema (2 of the following)
6 FM/CM 372 German Cinema
FM 373 Asian Cinema
FM 374 Italian Cinema
FM 375 East European Cinema
FM 376 Arab Cinema
FS/FM 386 French New Wave
FS/FM 387 Paris Cinema
FM 378 Iberian and Latin American Cinema
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GROUP D Film in the Modern World (1 of the following)
3 AH/ES 316 Society & Spectacle: Painting, Photography & Film in Germany and Russia
AH 317 History of Photography
CM 123 Media Analysis (if not taken in Core Courses)
CM/SO 331 Media Sociology
CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography (if not taken in Core Courses)
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
CM 362 Media Semiotics (if not taken in Core Courses)
FM/CM 110 Films and their Meanings (if not taken in Core Courses)
Senior Project
FM 495 Senior Project
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES
ANTHROPOLOGY
GENDER STUDIES
HISTORY
SOCIAL SCIENCES
HISTORY AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES
MAJOR
History and Social Sciences
Recognizing the profound transformations shaping our world
today, the Department of History and Social Sciences offers an
interdisciplinary degree program, featuring the choice between
two Tracks:
I. Historical Cultures and Nations
II. Gender Studies and Social Cultures
An interdisciplinary senior seminar is required, and an
internship offering practical experience may be arranged.
To prepare students for a fuller understanding of today's
globalized society and multi-civilizational world, the degree
program integrates courses in history, gender studies, and
social sciences — anthropology and psychology — in such a
manner as to relate the content of courses in one area to that
in the other areas.
I. The Historical Cultures and Nations Track formulates
with its courses historical narratives that investigate the
legitimization of political languages, social actions, cultural
representations, or ideological projections. Courses examine
public life within geographical areas, national zones, or cultural
spaces.
II. The Gender Studies and Social Cultures Track shapes
with its courses a different cultural zone, one where traditional
discourse is altered and transformed through notions of
gender, identity, difference, or projection. What is investigated
is the social transformation of humans within civilizational
processes.
Note: Track II is an interdisciplinary concentration with
course options in Anthropology, Art History, Comparative
Literature, Communications, History, International Affairs,
and Psychology.
Faculty
Petermichael von Bawey
Blanca Heredia
Terence Murphy
Christy Shields
Myriam Wissa
Complementary
Faculty
Georges Allyn
Kathleen Chevalier
Elaine Coburn
Steve Ekovich
Oleg Kobtzeff
Linda Martz
Mia Vieyra
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
HISTORY
AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
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DEPARTMENTAL
HONORS
Students may graduate
with “Honors in History
and Social Sciences”
by achieving a 3.7 grade
point average and
successfully completing
a Senior Honors Thesis.
TRACK I: HISTORICAL CULTURES
AND NATIONS
Core Courses
3 HI 101 Western Civilization up to 1500
3 HI 102 Western Civilization from 1500
3 HI 103 The Contemporary World
6 Plus two of the following:
SO 100 Introduction to the Social Sciences
PY/GS 210 Psychology and Gender
AN 101 Social Anthropology or
AN 102 Cultural Anthropology
Required Courses
24 Eight courses total from Historical
Cultures and Capitals and Nations
Historical Cultures
HI 305 Encounters and Discoveries:
Europe and the New World 1450-1800
HI/PO 315 Contemporary Ideologies
CL/HI 333 Discovery and Conquest:
Creation of the New World
CL/HI 353 In 1871…: Case Study in
Comparative Literature and History
HI 338 Social and Political Discourse in
Early Modern Europe
HI 339 History and Science, Technology
and Human Values
HI 342 Europe from 1914 to 1945
HI 343 Europe from 1945 to Present
HI/PO 354 20th-Century Diplomatic
History
HI 363 Reason and Choice: The Age of
Enlightenment
HI/ES 371 Crisis and Decline: From
Liberalism to Fascism
Capitals and Nations
HI 201 The French Revolution and
Napoleon
HI 202 France in the Modern World
HI 241 American Civilization:
Origins to 1877
HI 242 American Civilization:
1865 - Present
HI/ES 225 Contemporary Germany
PO/HI 358 Russian Foreign Policy:
From 17th-Century to the Present
ES/HI 301 Berlin From Imperial Germany
to the Third Reich
ES/HI 302 Berlin From Allied Occupation
to German Capital
ES/HI 304 The History of Paris
ES/HI 306 Vienna From Baroque
to Modernism
ES/HI 311 Prague: From Imperial City
to National Capital
3 HI 490 Senior Seminar
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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TRACK II: GENDER STUDIES AND SOCIAL
CULTURES
Core Courses
3 SO 100 Introduction to the Social Sciences
3 PY/GS 210 Psychology and Gender
3 AN 101 Social Anthropology or
AN 102 Cultural Anthropology
6 Plus two of the following:
HI 101 History of Western Civilization up
to 1500
HI 102 History of Western Civilization
from 1500
HI 103 The Contemporary World
Required Courses
24 Eight courses total from Gender
Studies: Identity and Difference, and
Social Cultures: Individual and Society
Gender Studies: Identity and Difference
GS/CL 206 Contemporary Feminist Theory
PY/GS 208 Gender Identity,
Homosexuality, and the Cinema
PY/GS 245 Social Psychology
CM/GS 304 Communicating Fashion
GS/HI 314 Art, Culture, and Gender
in the Italian Renaissance
CL/GS 318 Sex, Politics, and Culture I
HI/GS 319 Sex, Politics, and Culture II
GS/HI 326 Women in the French
Renaissance
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
CL/GS 357 19th-Century Women Writers
CL/GS 363 Writing Women: Feminism,
Freud, and Literary Inscriptions of
Femininity
PO/GS 205 The Political Economy of
Developing Countries
GS/PO 386 Women and Politics
Social Cultures: Individual and Society
HI/GS 332 The Power of Images in
Western History
CL/GS 384 Writing from the Margins:
Women Writers, Postcolonial Identities
PY 100 Introduction to Psychology
PY 207 Madness, Mania and the
Cinema: A Psychoanalytic Approach
PY 221 Psychoanalytic Theories of
Personality
PY 242 Abnormal Psychology:
A Psychodynamic Approach
PY/GS 251 Sexuality, Aggression,
and Guilt
PY/GS 261 Love, Sexuality, and the
Cinema
AN 203 Political Anthropology
CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography
GL/AN 362 Science in Archeology
PO/GS 324 Politics of Human Rights
HI 324 Nietzsche's Philosophy
HI/GS 328 Existentialism: Choice,
Sex, and Will
HI 355 Social Theory and Political
Utopias
3 HI 490 Senior Seminar
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THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL
AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Catalog 2006-07
INTERNATIONAL
AND
COMPARATIVE
POLITICS
MAJOR
Students of International and Comparative Politics at The
American University of Paris examine the interrelated nature
of political institutions and processes, their historical and
geographical development, and their impact on an increasingly
interdependent world.
International and Comparative Politics aims to study in a
systematic, interdisciplinary fashion how values and resources
are allocated among individuals, groups, socio-economic
classes, regions, nation-states and international actors.
The program provides students with rigorous analytical tools
to understand the complex political issues and relationships of
the 21st century.
Faculty
Richard Beardsworth
Larry Eaker
Steven Ekovich
Hall Gardner
Blanca Heredia
Oleg Kobtzeff
Julie Newton
Susan Perry
Douglas Yates
Complementary
Faculty
Terence Murphy
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
INTERNATIONAL
AND
COMPARATIVE
POLITICS
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
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It is recommended that International and Comparative Politics students take introductory level
Philosophy and History courses.
All students are asked
to choose one of the
following tracks for their
major in International and
Comparative Politics.
Each track offers an
entry-level course that
develops the analytical
framework for the
concentration. These
tracks allow students to
concentrate on a salient
feature of the discipline,
reinforcing their
knowledge of politics
while laying the
groundwork for graduate
school and/or a future
career in government,
civil society, law,
international institutions
or development.
DEPARTMENTAL
HONORS
All ICP Honors students
must take all three
economics courses (EC
210, 220, 230), plus PO
250 Political Analysis, in
addition to all other ICP
requirements. They must
have a minimum average
of 3.5 in all courses
related to the ICP
program (including the
three economics courses
and Political Analysis) and
an overall GPA of 3.0.
They must obtain an “A”
in their senior seminar.
CORE COURSES
3 PO 107 Great Dates: Critical Junctures in Politics
3 PO 115 Comparative Politics
3 PO 231 World Politics
3 PO/PL 203 Political Philosophy
3 PO 250 Political Analysis
3 HI/PO 354 20th-Century Diplomatic History or
PO/HI 360 War and Peace
3 PO 361 International Law
3 PO 490 Seminar in International Affairs
Strongly recommended:
3 EC 210 Principles of Microeconomics
3 EC 220 Principles of Macroeconomics
3 EC 230 Introduction to International Economics
TRACKS
12 Choose 4 courses from a track
Track 1: Global Studies
PO 112 Introduction to
Political Geography and
Geopolitics
PO/GS 324 Politics of
Human Rights
PO 332 International
Institutions
PO 333 Int'l Politics of the
Environment
PO 343 European Security
PO/HI 346 American Foreign
Policy
PO 352 Global Hot Spots and
Conflict Resolution
PO 356 The Cold War and
After
PO 357 Politics in Central and
Eastern Europe
PO/HI 358 Russian Foreign
Policy
PO 365 Revolution
PO 378 The Use of Force in
International Relations
Track 2: Comparative
Politics
PO 210 European Politics
PO 306 Politics of Latin
America
PO 322 Contemporary Africa
PO/GS 324 Politics of Human
Rights
PO 326 Politics of European
Integration
PO 327 Politics in China
PO 332 International
Institutions
PO 334 Comparative Public
Policy
PO 343 European Security
PO 345 Politics in Russia
PO 353 Politics in France
PO 357 Politics in Central and
Eastern Europe
PO/HI 358 Russian Foreign
Policy
PO 372 Politics of the
Middle East
Track 3: Development
Studies
PO/GS 205 The Political
Economy of Developing
Countries
PO 306 Politics of Latin
America
PO 322 Contemporary Africa
PO/GS 324 Politics of Human
Rights
PO 327 Politics in China
PO 329 International
Relations in Asia
PO 332 International
Institutions
PO 333 International Politics
of the Environment
PO 336 Bureaucracy,
Development, Corruption
PO 352 Global Hot Spots and
Conflict Resolution
PO 365 Revolution
GS/PO 386 Women and
Politics
Track 4 : International Law
(This track is in development, please refer to
the AUP Web site for the latest update.)
Track 5 Political Communications
(This track is in development, please refer to
the AUP Web site for the latest update.)
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION*
Catalog 2006-07
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
MAJOR
International Business Administration
The International Business Administration Department offers
two opportunities for students seeking a major in business
studies: the Applied International Finance degree, offered in
cooperation with the Department of Economics, and the
International Business Administration degree.
The International Business Administration program introduces
students to organizational behavior, economic theory, and
quantitative methods, as well as the basic functional areas of
business: finance, law, marketing, operations management,
and human resources management. Students are required to
learn fundamental accounting, statistics, and computer
applications necessary for the solution of business problems.
The senior year of the program consolidates students' earlier
study by focusing upon general management and corporate
strategy through the Strategic Management class. It uses case
studies and a computer simulation as a vehicle for the
identification of business problems and the formulation of
appropriate courses of action for their solution.
The theoretical knowledge and the wide variety of practical
skills acquired in gaining their BA degree from The American
University of Paris prepare graduates in International Business
Administration for responsible positions in the modern
business world and, if they so choose, entry into graduate
school.
Faculty
Djamchid Assadi
Kate Carpenter
Fred Einbinder
Ali Fatemi
Eric Guévorkian
Gail Hamilton
Gary Linn
Michel Rakotomavo
William Sara
William Stewart
Complementary
Faculty
Sharam Alijani
Peter Barnet
James Clayson
Farhad Nomani
Kirsten Ralf
Alexandra Svoronou
* With the Economics and Computer Science, Mathematics
and Science Department, the IBA Department is a component
of the ICISI (Institut de commerce international et des sciences
de l'information).
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
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CORE COURSES
4 MA 110 Applied Finite Mathematics
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
3 A second EN 120 Writing and Criticism or
EN 130 Advanced Critical Analysis and Writing
3 EC 210 Principles of Microeconomics
3 EC 220 Principles of Macroeconomics
3 EC 230 Introduction to International Economic Relations
3 IT 130 Applied Computing or
CS 110 Introduction to Computational Environments
3 BA 201 Financial Accounting
3 BA 202 Managerial Accounting
3 BA 220 Management and Organizational Behavior
3 BA 240 Marketing
3 BA 310 Corporate Finance
3 BA 370 Operations Management
3 BA 380 Business Law
3 BA 480 Business Policy
12 International Business Administration Electives (Upper level BA or EC courses,
one 3 credit internship, computer science courses above CS 110, or mathematics
courses above MA 120)
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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APPLIED
INTERNATIONAL
FINANCE
MAJOR*
Applied International Finance
The Bachelor of Science degree in Applied International
Finance is designed to enable students to become competent
professionals in the field of International Finance. The
combination of courses in this program provides the specific
skills, modes of analysis and institutional background useful
to work both in the finance areas of international profit-making
business organizations and for profit centers of finance firms
dealing with multinational financial products. The requirement
of six credit hours of internships in international organizations,
commercial corporations, research institutes, and news media
offers a working experience for the student, as well as the
opportunity to apply classroom knowledge to daily work
problems.
Students who successfully complete this course of study
are well prepared for work in the field or for further
specialization in the more advanced areas of the subject.
* This degree is offered in cooperation with the Department
of Economics.
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BS
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
APPLIED
INTERNATIONAL
FINANCE
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE COURSES
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
4 MA 130 Calculus I
3 MA 241 Linear Algebra
3 IT 130 Applied Computing or
CS 110 Introduction to Computational Environments
3 BA 201 Financial Accounting
3 BA 202 Managerial Accounting
3 BA 301 Finance and Accounting for Multinationals
3 BA 310 Corporate Finance
3 EC 210 Principles of Microeconomics
3 EC 220 Principles of Macroeconomics
3 EC 230 Introduction to International Economic Relations
3 EC/BA 353 International Monetary Economics
3 BA 350 International Financial Markets
3 EC/BA 373 Money, Banking and Finance
3 BA 410 Investment Analysis
3 BA 418 Multinational Business Finance
3 BA 420 Computational Finance
6 BA 398 Internship
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Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 Credits
Candidates for this degree are advised to pass the French ACTFL (American Council on Teaching
Foreign Languages) intermediate-medium level. Students whose French language skills are more
advanced than FL 4 may take the test directly.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS
Catalog 2006-07
INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS
MAJOR
Effective international communications is one of the foremost
challenges of our times. The past two decades have seen the
birth of a technological revolution, which is transforming our
lives, and profoundly shaping our societies, our occupations,
our leisure, and the very ways we conceptualize the world.
News, high culture, and popular culture are increasingly shared
across national boundaries, and interpersonal communication
has taken on whole new meanings in the age of the Internet.
News media have become increasingly global in their
audiences, their courses, and their ownership. Graduates
capable of critical and creative thinking about new and old
media on a global scale are in increasing demand. Corporate
managers must communicate constantly with customers,
suppliers, and shareholders in every part of the globe.
Students must be equipped to understand and to master this
rapidly changing environment.
The major in International Communications is founded upon a
core of courses in the general field of communication skills
and concepts, followed by specialized studies in one of three
optional communications tracks:
■ International Journalism
■ Corporations and Organizations
■ Media Studies
Faculty
Nathalie Bardin
Peter Barnet
Jim Bittermann
Elaine Coburn
Waddick Doyle
Tanya Elder
Jayson Harsin
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
George Kazolias
Justin McGuinness
Adrienne Russell
Julie Thomas
Pat Thompson
Complementary
Faculty
Sharam Alijani
Mark Ennis
Geoffrey Gilbert
Lawrence Pitkethly
Claudia Roda
Laurent Sauerwein
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR IN
INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
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CORE COURSES
3 CM 123 Media Analysis
3 CM 204 Speech, Sight and Sound
3 CM 205 Communication and Society
3 CM 206 Media Globalization
3 CM 251 Communication Theory and Research Techniques
3 CM 352 Rhetoric and Persuasion, Visual and Verbal
1 CS/CM 101 Introduction to Internet Authoring
TRACK I: INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
Track requirements (18 credits)
3 CM 211 Journalism I
3 CM 212 Journalism II
3 CM 313 Broadcast News Writing
3 CM 346 Media Law, Policy, and Ethics
3 CM 398 Internship (can be taken twice for credit)
3 CM 412 Feature Journalism
Major Electives Three of the following:
9 CM/GS 304 Communicating Fashion
CM 305 Public Relations and Society
CM 329 Principles of Video Production
CM 333 Scripts for Travel
CM 341 Modules in Mass Communication Techniques
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
CM 400 Topics in Communication
CM 411 Business Journalism
CM 414 Comparative Journalism
CM 417 Media and War
CM 428 Advanced Video Production
CM 473 Media and Society in the Arab World
CM 490 Senior Seminar or
CM 495 Senior Project
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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TRACK II: CORPORATIONS and ORGANIZATIONS
TRACK III: MEDIA STUDIES
Catalog 2006-07
Track requirements (18 credits)
3 BA 220 Management and Organizational Behavior
3 BA 240 Marketing
3 CM 303 Communication Skills in Business and
Organizations or
CM 305 Public Relations and Society
3 CM 361 Cultural Institutions, Actors & Goods or
BA 362 Advertising
3 CM 398 Internship
3 CM 448 Strategic Corporate Communication
Plus Three Major Electives Choose three electives from the
columns below (two must be 300 level or above):
Track requirements (12 credits) Four of the following.
Courses not chosen as a track requirement can be used as
electives.
3 CM 221 Internet and Globalization
3 CM 362 Media Semiotics
3 CM/SO 331 Media Sociology or
CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography or
CM 375 Media Aesthetics
3 CM 490 Senior Seminar
Plus Five Major Electives Choose five electives from the
columns below (four must be 300 level or above):
MAJOR ELECTIVES FOR TRACKS II AND III
BA 330 Human Resources Management
BA 362 Advertising
CM 161 Intercultural Communication
CM 201 Speech
CM 211 Journalism I
CM 221 The Internet and Globalization
CM 303 Communication Skills in Business and Organizations
CM/GS 304 Communicating Fashion
CM 305 Public Relations and Society
CM 306 Color as Communication
CM 329 Principles of Video Production
CM/SO 331 Media Sociology
CM/FM 332 Paris Documentaries
CM 333 Scripts for Travel
CM 335 Theory and Practice of Digital Interactivity
CM 341 Modules in Mass Communication Techniques
CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
CM 361 Cultural Institutions, Actors and Goods
CM 362 Media Semiotics
CM 370 Cultural Dimensions of the European Idea
CM/PO 371 Representing International Politics
CM/FM 372 German Cinema
CM 375 Media Aesthetics
CM 386 Contemporary World Television
CM 398 Internship (only for Track III)
CM 400 Topics in Communication
CM 411 Business Journalism
CM 414 Comparative Journalism
CM 417 Media and War
CM 448 Strategic Corporate Communication
CM 473 Media and Society in the Arab World
CM 490 Senior Seminar or
CM 495 Senior Project
CS/CM 348 Human-Computer Interaction
EC/CM 203 The New Economy and the Media
FM 227 Film Theory and Criticism
FM/CL 228 The Art of Screenwriting
FM 275 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative
Film I
FM 276 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative
Film II
FM 290-295 Film Genres and Topics
FM 373 Asian Cinema
FM 374 Italian Cinema
FS/FM 386 French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague
IT/CM 302 E-Commerce
IT/CM 338 Digital Media I
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
HONORS PROGRAM
Students who have a GPA
of 3.7 or above in
communications courses
during their Junior and
Senior years are eligible
for Departmental Honors.
Contact the Department
Head.
RECOMMENDED MINORS
Art History
Comparative Literature
Development Studies
Film History and Theory
Gender Studies
Information Technology
International Business Administration
International Economics
Philosophy
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CENTER FOR LANGUAGE RESEARCH
AND TEACHING
FRENCH
LANGUAGE
GERMAN
LANGUAGE
ITALIAN
LANGUAGE
SPANISH
LANGUAGE
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
(under development)
In the Center for Language Research and Teaching, we offer
four Basic Courses focusing on the four communicative skills:
listening, reading, writing and speaking. This series will be
supported by a multimedia program (textbook, video, audio-CD,
CD Rom, Web site exploration, Internet-based exercises and
testing, authentic materials, visits on Paris sites). These courses
will be a type of language teaching that is student-centered,
that uses the challenges they face as a means to engage
them, to facilitate their acquisition of practical communicative
abilities, and to teach them grammar structures, listening,
reading, writing and speaking in context.
These four French Language Courses (Level 1 to 4) aim to
prepare students for the new DELF exam (Diplôme d’Etudes en
Langue Française) level B2.
We also offer two additional groups of language courses
(Group B and C). The group B courses are to help acquire
linguistic skills in French: reading, translating, speaking and
writing. The group C courses are advanced courses of a more
specialized nature designed to improve a particular skill: oral
comprehension, translation, written and oral grammar,
contemporary vocabulary and corrective pronunciation.
These two groups of courses are required for French Major and
Minor students and any student interested in French language.
For more details see the specific pages for Major and Minor in
French Studies.
In the Center for Language Research and Teaching, students
can also study Italian language (Elementary I and II), German
language (Elementary I and II) and Spanish language
(Elementary I and II).
Faculty
Frédéric Attal
Anatole Bloomfield
Marilyne Boursin
Cheryl Caesar
Mark Ennis
Isabel Gardner
Kate Green
Camille Hercot
Dominique Mougel
Claudie Moy
Maria Nieblas
Rebekah Rast
Wolfgang Schröter
Pablo Seijas
Edith Taïeb
Complementary
Faculty
Nathalie Debroise
Marc Monthéard
Marie-Christine Navarro
Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien
Marie Roussel
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Group A courses: French basic language courses
Catalog 2006-07
FL 1 Beginner’s French 1: Paris and Me / Paris et moi
FL 2 Beginner’s French 2: Living in French / Vivre en français
FL 3 Intermediate French 3: Being in France / Etre en France
FL 4 Intermediate French 4: Loving France / Aimer la France
Group B courses: courses to help acquire linguistic skills in French:
reading, translating, speaking and writing.
FL 103 Reading France
FL 203 French for Translation
FL 205 French for Conversation
FL 207 French for International Business
FL 209 French for Literature
Group C courses: advanced courses of a more specialized nature designed
to improve a particular skill: oral comprehension, translation, written and oral
grammar, contemporary vocabulary and corrective pronunciation.
FL 303 Advanced Translation
FL 305 L’art de la Conversation
FL 306 Le français contemporain pour le nouveau Parisien: phonétique corrective
FL 307 Advanced Grammar
German courses
Italian courses
Spanish courses
GM 110 Elementary German I
GM 120 Elementary German II
IL 110 Elementary Italian I
IL 120 Elementary Italian II
SN 110 Elementary Spanish I
SN 120 Elementary Spanish II
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THE FRENCH STUDIES MAJOR
This multidisciplinary major aims at crossing disciplinary
barriers in order to provide students with the historical
background and analytical tools to approach and understand
varied facets of French culture. This understanding will be
presented in depth by the exploration of the following fields of
learning:
• mastery of oral and written French, specialized languages
(international business)
• literature, history of ideas, contemporary anthropology,
psychoanalysis and semiotics
• visual arts and architecture, film studies (generic and
historical approaches)
• cultural studies (France and its Euro-Mediterranean
contexts)
Although some of the courses selected for the French Studies
Major might be taught in English, students will be required to
complete a passerelle (see AUP Web site for details) in all such
courses.
Faculty
Frédéric Attal
Nathalie Debroise
Marie-Christine Navarro
Maria Nieblas
Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien
Edith Taïeb
Complementary
Faculty
Jérôme Game
Adrian Harding
Marie Roussel
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
MAJOR IN FRENCH
STUDIES
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4)
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
Catalog 2006-07
9 Language Courses (in Center for Language Research and Teaching).
Choose three from the following :
FL 103 Reading France
FL 203 French for Translation
FL 205 French for Conversation
FL 207 French for International Business
FL 209 French for Literature
9 Choose three from the following :
FL 303 Advanced Translation
FL 305 The Art of Conversation
FL 306 Phonétique corrective
FL 307 Advanced Grammar
9 Core Literature and Culture courses. Choose three from the following :
FS/DR 277 Acting in French
FS 301 Mouvements littéraires, Histoire des Idées
FS 303 We’ll always have Paris: Deconstructing the Myth
FS 311 Issues in Contemporary French Culture
FS 325 Topics in French Women’s Writing
FS 390 Topics in French Literature
FS 490 Senior Seminar in French Studies (strongly recommended)
12 Choose four from the following:
AH 200 Paris through its Architecture I
AH 204 Paris through its Architecture II
AH 212 Medieval Art and Architecture
AH 216 19th- and 20th-Century Art and Architecture
AH 300 Impressionism/Post-Impressionism
AH Topics courses (if relevant to French Studies)
CL/FS 275 Theater in Paris
CL 258 Masters of French Literature II: Loves sacred and profane in French lyric
CL/ES 359 Baudelaire and Flaubert: Writing Modernity
CL 379 Proust and Beckett
ES 318-322 Parisian Topics
FS/ES 321, 322, 323 Paris au quotidien I, II, III (TF)
FS/FM 377 Du Livre à l’image (TF)
FS/ES 300 Topics in European and Mediterranean Cultures (TF)
GS/HI 213 Women in Paris: History and Art
GS/HI 326 Women in the French Renaissance
GS/HI 328 Existentialism: Choice, Sex and Will
HI 201 The French Revolution and Napoleon
HI 202 France in the Modern World
ES/HI 304 The History of Paris
FS/FM 386 French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague (TF)
FS/FM 387 Paris Cinema (TF)
CM/FM 332 Paris Documentaries
3 FS 398 INTERNSHIP: 120 hours
* TF: indicates courses taught in French; in other courses, students will be required to complete
a passerelle (see AUP Web site for details).
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM
Philosophy
The Philosophy Program remains at the moment of catalog
publication under review (pending submission as a new Major).
The Minor in Philosophy remains effective for the academic
year 2006-2007. The future program will be duly posted on
the University Web site (www.aup.edu).
Faculty
Jérôme Game
Richard Beardsworth
The new Philosophy program will offer a core in the History of
Philosophy and two broad areas of specialization in Philosophy
and the Humanities and in Philosophy and Social Science.
The first area will deal with the various ways in which
Continental philosophy addresses the notions of meaning
and representation with respect to several fields, themes
and objects such as culture, art, cinema, literature, time,
the body and subjectivity. Those concerns are addressed in
author-based as well as topic-based courses offering a set of
reflective tools with which to understand, and intervene
critically in modernity, its origins, and its aftermaths.
The second area concerns the relations between value,
political thought and the practices of social science. Courses
are offered in the history of political thought, modern and
contemporary political philosophy, and cross-disciplinary work
within, and between, philosophy, politics and economics.
Both areas address in their distinct manners the problematic
of philosophical, political and cultural modernity and its
aftermaths.
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PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM
PSYCHOLOGY
MAJOR
Psychology
The study of psychology provides an avenue for increased
understanding and insight into one's own behavior and the
behavior of others. The BA in psychology at AUP provides
students with knowledge of the central developments and
issues in psychology. Moreover the student acquires knowledge
of and experience with the scientific methods used to gather
and interpret data relevant to psychological issues. The core
courses provide a broad and in-depth exposure to the main
content areas and applications of the discipline of psychology.
Cultural differences in behavior are considered and integrated
into almost all courses.
The acquisition of empirical, analytical, and inferential
reasoning skills, and experience in communicating effectively
about psychological topics in both written and oral form are
important aspects of the program.
The program prepares students for both entry into professional
life, and to pursue graduate studies in psychology.
Psychology majors work in a wide variety of fields, where
knowledge of human motivation, critical thinking skills, and
sensitivity are valued. Such fields include jobs in both the
public and private sectors and include working for governments,
nongovernmental organizations, and businesses. Psychology
majors work in the areas of human resources, advertising,
sales and marketing, management, product design, public
relations, and communication. Students also pursue careers
in the educational and health fields. To become a practicing
psychologist, students must pursue a degree at the Masters
or Doctorate levels. They then may work in clinics and
hospitals, or in community mental health agencies,
universities and private practices. They may also work as
school psychologists or as industrial or organizational
psychologists for large corporations.
Faculty
Georges Allyn
Marielle Gorissen
Mia Vieyra
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REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE BA
DEGREE WITH A
MAJOR
IN PSYCHOLOGY
FirstBridge
7 FirstBridge courses change every year. Only for Fall entry Freshmen.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 6 EN 110 College Writing, EN 120 Writing and Criticism
Up to 20 French through Intermediate French II (FL 4) and FrenchBridge
6 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
6 Social Experience and Organization
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
Catalog 2006-07
CORE COURSES
3 PY 100 Introduction to Psychology
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
3 PY 213 Developmental Psychology
4 PY 220 Experimental Psychology
3 PY/GS 245 Social Psychology
3 PY 255 Biological Psychology
DEPARTMENTAL
HONORS
Exceptionally motivated
students who have
a GPA of 3.7 or above
in psychology courses
during their Junior and
Senior years and who
successfully completed a
Senior Honors Thesis may
graduate with
Departmental Honors.
3 Choose one of the following:
PY 221 Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality
PY 242 Abnormal Psychology: A Psychodynamic Approach
PY 243 Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
Upper Level Courses (Choose seven courses from the following)
21 PY 207 Madness, Mania and the Cinema
PY/GS 208 Gender Identity, Homosexuality, and the Cinema
PY/GS 210 Psychology and Gender
PY 221 Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality (if not taken in core)
PY/GS 239 Human Nature and Eros
PY 242 Abnormal Psychology: A Psychodynamic Approach (if not taken in core)
PY 243 Abnormal and Clinical Psychology (if not taken in core)
PY/GS 251 Sexuality, Aggression and Guilt
PY/GS 261 Love, Sexuality and the Cinema
PY 275 Cognitive Psychology
PY 277 History and Systems of Psychology
PY 325 Psychology of Sensation and Perception
PY 327 Psychological Tests and Measurements
PY/LI 335 Psycholinguistics
PY 365 Psychology of Learning and Memory
PY 391 Topics in Psychology
PY/FS 390 Topics in French Literature (only topics on psychoanalysis, maximum
one course)
3 PY 490 Senior Seminar (or honors senior thesis seminar)
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 credits
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THE MINORS
Students may elect to pursue
studies in one or more minor fields
of study while at AUP. Minors offer
students an excellent opportunity to add
intellectual breadth and depth to their
major area of study.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Most minors consist of 18 credit hours,
but some (Applied Mathematics,
Computer Science, French, Information
Technology, International Economics)
currently total as many as 22 credit
hours. The obtaining of a minor does not
require additional credits beyond the
minimum of 120 needed for the BA or
BS degree. In exceptional
circumstances, a department may
authorize a limited substitution for
courses identified as minor
requirements in the list below. Minors
must be completed at the same time as
the BA or BS degree.
No more than 8 credits from courses
taken outside AUP may be applied
towards a minor, and these courses
must be specifically accepted by the
department supervising the minor. All
courses counting in a minor must be
completed with a minimum 2.0
cumulative grade point average, with
no individual grade lower than “C-.”
Courses taken to satisfy requirements
for a minor must include at least three
courses which are not being applied
towards a major or towards another
minor. Courses taken to satisfy the
General Education requirements,
including FirstBridge courses, may
be applied towards a minor.
Minors do not appear on diplomas but
are noted on students' transcripts.
A self-designed minor is an option for
students with a GPA of 3.5 or higher;
the student and her or his advisor
design these minors.
AMERICAN STUDIES
3 HI 241 American Civilization I
3 HI 242 American Civilization II
12 Four relevant courses from the
following in at least 2 disciplines:
AH 319 The French Connection:
American Artists and Collectors
in France
FM 280 Film Directors: Orson
Welles
FM 291 Film Genres: The
Western
CL/ES 343 The Attraction
of Paris: Modernist Experiments
in Migration
CL/HI 333 Discovery and
Conquest: Creation of the New
World
CL 362 Conquering Colonies:
America and European Literature
PO/HI 346 American Foreign
Policy
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
4 MA 120 Applied Statistics
4 MA 130 Calculus I
4 MA 230 Calculus II
3 MA 241 Linear Algebra
6-7 Two courses from the following:
MA 140 Discrete Mathematics
MA 207 Operations Research
MA 305 Probability
MA 330 Calculus III
BA/MA 366 Multivariate
Analysis for Behavior Research
BA/MA 430 Quantitative
Decision-making
ART HISTORY
Option 1: AH 100 and AH 120 plus four
other AH upper-level courses
Option 2: One course from each of the
following periods: Ancient, Medieval,
Renaissance, 17th/18th C., 19th/20th
C., and one additional course
Option 3: AH 120 plus any course from
each of the following periods: Ancient,
Medieval, Renaissance, 17th/18th C.,
19th/20th C.
(see AH requirements for listing of
courses)
CITIES: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN
CULTURE
3 Paris Through Its Architecture
AH 200 From Roman Paris to
1870 or
AH 204 Paris from 1795 to the
Present
6 Two courses from the following:
AH 100 Intro. to Western Art I
AH 200 From Roman Paris to
1870 or
AH 204 Paris from 1795 to the
Present
AH 211 Ancient Art and
Architecture
AH 212 Medieval Art and
Architecture
AH 216 Art of the 19th- and
20th-Century
AH 300-level course (subject to
approval)
3 ES 105 Europe and Cities:
The Italian Renaissance or
ES 110 Europe and Cities:
The Modern City
6 Two courses in European and
Mediterranean Urban Cultures
(see European and
Mediterranean Cultures BA
requirements for listing of
courses)
CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION
3 HI 101 History of Western
Civilization up to 1500
Five courses from the following
with no more than 3 courses
from a single discipline:
15 CL 313 Classical Hellenic Antiquity
CL 315 Death and Desire in
Imperial Rome
CL/PL 317 Plato and Cicero
CL/GS 318 Sex, Politics and
Culture I
PL 211 Crucial Elements of
Ancient Philosophy
PL/ES 213 Philosophy and
Religion I
AH 100 Introduction to Western
Art I
AH 211 Ancient Art and
Architecture
ES/AH 307 The Glory of Ancient
Athens
AH 312 The Power of Images
in the Hellenistic Age
AH 320-329 Topics in Ancient Art
Directed Study in Latin or Greek
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Six Comparative Literature courses
at the 200 level or above (see
Comparative Literature BA
requirements for listing of courses)
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
3 PO 107 Great Dates: Critical
Junctures in Politics (or PO 101
FirstBridge)
3 PO 115 Politics and
Governance
3 PO 210 European Politics
9 Three upper level courses in
the Comparative Politics track.
(This Minor can not be taken in
conjunction with the
International and Comparative
Politics Major).
COMPUTER SCIENCE
3 MA 140 Discrete Mathematics
4 CS 140 Introduction to
Computer Programming I
4 CS 150 Introduction to
Computer Programming II
3 CS 271 Languages and Data
Structures I
6 Two other upper-level Computer
Science courses
DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES
3 PO 107 Great Dates
3 PO 115 Comparative Politics
3 PO/GS 205 Political Economy
of Developing Countries
9 Three Upper level courses in
the Development Studies track.
(This Minor can not be taken in
conjunction with the
International and Comparative
Politics Major).
EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN
CULTURES
3 ES 100 Sources of European
Culture
3 One course from the following:
ES 105 Europe and Cities:
The Italian Renaissance
ES 110 Europe and Cities:
The Modern City
ES/PL 215 Philosophy and
the City
6 Two courses from European
and Mediterranean Urban
Cultures
6 Two courses from European
and Mediterranean Film
Studies and/or Contexts,
Illuminations, and Reflections
(see BA requirements for listing
of courses)
FILM HISTORY AND THEORY
3 FM 227 Film Theory and
Criticism
3 FM 275 History and Analysis
of Narrative Film I
3 FM 276 History and Analysis
of Narrative Film II
9 Three courses from the
following (at least two courses
chosen must be
FR/FM, CL/FM listings):
AH/ES 316 Society and
Spectacle: Painting,
Photography and Film
in Germany and Russia
CM 123 Media Analysis
CM/FM 332 Paris Documentaries
CM 341 Modules in Mass
Communications: Broadcast
News
FM/CL 228 The Art of
Screenwriting
CL/FM 369 The Aesthetics
of Crime Fiction
FM 280 Film Directors: Orson
Welles and his Inheritors
FM 281 Film Directors: Alfred
Hitchcock
FM 290-299 Film Genres
FR/FM 386 French Cinema:
La Nouvelle Vague
FR/FM 387 Paris Cinema
FILM STUDIES
3 CM/FM 110 Films and their
Meanings
3 FM 227 Film Theory and
Criticism
3 FM 275 Introduction to the
History and Analysis of
Narrative Film I
3 FM 276 Introduction to the
History and Analysis of
Narrative Film II
6 Two additional 200- or 300-
level FM courses (taken from
two of the three groups: Film
Pragmatics and the Art of
Directing; Film Genres and
Topics; International Cinema --
see groups in Major in Film
Studies)
FINE ARTS
3 AR 110 Introduction
to Drawing
3 AR 115 Introduction
to Painting
3 AR 120 Materials and
Techniques of the Masters
9 Three courses selected from
the following:
AR 160 Introduction
to Photography
AR 231 Introduction
to Sculpture
Any course chosen among
the Summer Term Fine Arts
offerings (only one Fine Arts
course taken outside the
institution may be applied to
the minor)
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FRENCH STUDIES
In addition to French 4 levels
(FL 1, FL 2, FL 3, FL 4) group A
9 Three courses from the
following (group B):
FL 103 Reading France
FL 203 French for Translation
FL 205 French for Conversation
FL 207 French for
International Business
FL 209 French for Literature
FL 305 The Art of Conversation
FL 303 Advanced Translation
FL 307 Advanced Grammar
FL 306 Phonétique corrective
6 Two courses from the following
(group C):
FS 301 Mouvements littéraires,
Histoire des Idées
FS/DR 277 Acting in French
FS 325 Topics in French
Women’s Writing
FS 390 Topics in French
Literature
FS 311 Issues in Contemporary
FS 303 We’ll always have Paris:
Deconstructing the Myth
FS 490 Senior Seminar in
French Studies
3 1 course from group D in the
French Studies MAJOR
requirements
GENDER STUDIES
3 GS/CL 206 Contemporary
Feminist Theory
15 Five courses selected from the
following* GS/HI 314 Art,
Culture, and Gender in the Italian
Renaissance
AH/CL 318 Sex, Politics,
and Culture I
AH/CL 319 Sex, Politics,
and Culture II
CL/GS 357 19th-Century
Women Writers
CL/GS 363 Writing Women:
Feminism, Freud, and Literary
Inscriptions of Femininity
PO/GS 324 Politics of Human
Rights
PY/GS 208 Gender Identity,
Homosexuality, and the Cinema:
A Psychoanalytic Approach
GS/PY 239 Human Nature
and Eros
PY/GS 251 Sexuality, Aggression,
and Guilt
PY/GS 261 Love, Sexuality, and
the Cinema: A Psychoanalytic
Approach
GS/HI 326 Women in the
French Renaissance
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
GS/PO 386 Women and Politics
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HI/GS 328 Existentialism:
Choice, Sex, and Will
*To ensure true interdisciplinary
work, at least three courses
must be chosen outside the
student's major. A directed
study or an internship may be
substituted for one of the five
required courses.
GLOBAL STUDIES
3 PO 107 Great Dates
3 PO 115 Comparative Politics
3 PO 231 World Politics
9 Three Upper level courses in
the Global Studies track.
(This Minor can not be taken
in conjunction with the
International and Comparative
Politics Major).
HISTORY
3 HI 101 History of Western
Civilization I
3 HI 102 History of Western
Civilization II
3 HI 103 The Contemporary World
9 Three courses from Track I
(see History and Social
Sciences BA requirements for
listing of courses)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
1 CS/IT 101 Introduction to
Internet Authoring - Web sites
3 IT 130 Applied Computing
4 CS 140 Introduction to
Computer Programming I
12-14 Four of the following:
CS 150 Introduction to Computer
Programming II
CS/IT 368 Database Applications
CS/IT 351 Web Applications
IT/CM 302 E-Commerce
IT/CM 338 Digital Media I
CS/CM 348 Human-Computer
Interaction
MA 120 Applied Statistics
BA 330 Human Resources
Management or
CM 303 Communication Skills
in Business and Organizations
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
3 BA 201 Financial Accounting
3 BA 220 Management and
Organizational Behavior
3 BA 240 Marketing
9 Three additional BA courses,
level 200 or above (see
International Business
Administration BA requirements
for listing of courses)
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
3 CM 123 Media Analysis
3 CM 204 Speech, Sight and
Sound
3 CM 206 Media Globalization
9 Three additional International
Communications courses of
which two must be at 300 level
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
3 EC 210 Principles of
Microeconomics
3 EC 220 Principles of
Macroeconomics
3 EC 230 Introduction to
International Economic Relations
3 EC 310 Intermediate
Microeconomics or
EC 311 Quantitative
Intermediate Microeconomics
or EC 320 Intermediate
Macroeconomics
9 Three upper-level EC courses
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
3 CM 211 Journalism I
3 CM 212 Journalism II
12 Four of the following:
CM/GS 304 Communicating
Fashion
CM 313 Broadcast News
Writing
CM 329 Principles of Video
Production
CM 333 Scripts for Travel
CM 346 Media Law, Policy
and Ethics
CM 361 Cultural Institutions,
Actors and Goods
CM 412 Feature Journalism
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
18 Six courses in at least two
disciplines from the following,
which may be supplemented by
other offerings whose relevance
can be demonstrated (such as
100-level courses, topics
courses, or independent study)
AH 212 Medieval Art and
Architecture
AH 331 Painting and the
Written Word
CL/EN 251 Masters of
English Literature before 1800
CL 257 Masters of French
Literature I
CL 322 European Arts of Love
CL/ES 323 Chaucer and
Medieval Culture
CL/ES 325 Dante and Medieval
Culture
ES/HI 312 The Jewish Presence I
ES 381 History of French
Civilization I
PL/ES 213 Philosophy and
Religion I: From the Ancient to
the Medieval World
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PHILOSOPHY
3 PL 100 Belief, Knowledge, Facts
3 PL 211 Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy
12 Four 200- and/or 300-level
Philosophy courses
PSYCHOLOGY
3 PY 100 Introduction to Psychology
15 Five of the following:
PY/GS 210 Psychology and
Gender
PY 207 Madness, Mania and
Cinema
PY/GS 208 Gender Identity,
Homosexuality, and the Cinema
PY 213 Developmental
Psychology
PY 221 Psychoanalytic Theories
of Personality
GS/PY 239 Human Nature and
Eros
PY 242 Abnormal Psychology: A
Psychodynamic Approach
PY 243 Abnormal and Clinical
Psychology
PY/GS 245 Social Psychology
PY/GS 251 Sexuality, Aggression
and Guilt
PY 220 Experimental Psychology
PY 246 Cross-Cultural Psychology
PY 255 Biological Psychology
PY/GS 261 Love, Sexuality and
the Cinema
PY 277 History and Systems of
Psychology
PY 275 Cognitive Psychology
PY 325 Psychology of
Sensation and Perception
PY 327 Psychological Tests and
Measurements
PY 365 Psychology of Learning
and Memory
PY 391 Topics in Psychology
PY/LI 335 Psycholinguistics
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
9 Three courses from the
following four options:
AH 213 Renaissance
Art and Architecture
ES 105 Europe and Cities:
The Italian Renaissance
One of these three CL courses:
CL 253 Masters of Spanish
Literature I: The Golden Age in
Spain and Europe
CL 255 Masters of Italian
Literature I: Saints and Sinners
in the Renaissance
CL 329 Renaissance
Comparative Literature: Love,
Honor, and Folly
One of these two GS/HI courses:
GS/HI 314 Art, Culture, and
Gender in the Italian Renaissance
GS/HI 326 Women in French
Renaissance: From Joan of Arc
to Catherine de’ Medici
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9 Three courses in at least two
disciplines from the following:
AH 213 Renaissance Art and
Architecture (if not chosen as
an option above)
AH 340-349 Topics in
Renaissance Art
CL 253 Masters of Spanish
Literature I: The Golden Age in
Spain and Europe (if not chosen
as an option above)
CL 255 Masters of Italian
Literature I: Saints and Sinners
in the Renaissance (if not
chosen as an option above)
CL 258 Masters of French
Literature II: Loves Sacred and
Profane
CL 329 Renaissance Comparative
Literature: In Praise of Love,
Honor, and Folly (if not chosen
as an option above)
CL/DR 338 Shakespeare in
Context
CL 400 Interdisciplinary Topics
in Literature (where the topic is
appropriate)
ES 105 Europe and Cities: The
Italian Renaissance (if not
chosen as an option above)
ES 300 Topics in European
Cultural Studies (where the
topic is appropriate)
ES/HI 305 European Urban
Culture: Rome Renaissance to
the Counter-Reformation
ES/HI 308 European Urban
Culture: Amsterdam and
Antwerp 15th to the 17th-
Century
ES/HI 309 European Urban
Culture: Venice from the
Renaissance to the Fall of the
Republic
FS/ES 381 History of French
Civilization I: Origins of France
to 1610
GS/HI 314 Art, Culture, and
Gender in Italian Renaissance
(if not chosen as an option
above)
GS/HI 326 Women in the
French Renaissance: From Joan
of Arc to Catherine de’ Medici
(if not chosen as an option
above)
HI 300 Topics in History (where
the topic is appropriate)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
3 SO 100 Introduction to the
Social Sciences
3 AN 101 Social Anthropology or
AN 102 Cultural Anthropology
3 PY/GS 210 Psychology and
Gender or
PY 100 Introduction to
Psychology
9 Three courses representing at
least two disciplines from
Track II (see History and Social
Sciences BA requirements for
listing of courses)
THEATER AND PERFORMANCE
6 DR/EN 200 Theater Arts
12 Four of the following:
FM/CL 228 The Art of
Screenwriting
CL/EN 252 Masters of
English Literature since 1800
CL 253 Masters of Spanish
Literature: The Golden Age in
Spain and Europe
CL 313 Classical Hellenic
Antiquity
CL/DR 338 Shakespeare in
Context
CL 379 Proust and Beckett
FS/CL 275 Theater in Paris
FS/DR 277 Acting in French
EN/CL 300 Creative Writing
CM 201 Speech
CM 262 Interpersonal
Communication
CM 352 Rhetoric and
Persuasion, Visual and Verbal
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
Courses numbered from 100-299 are
introductory courses or courses normally
taken in the freshman and sophomore
years. Courses numbered from 300-399
are normally taken in the junior and
senior years. Courses numbered from
400-499 are senior-level courses.
PREREQUISITES
Students must make certain that they
have the necessary prerequisites for
each course. Failure to do so may result
in inadequate preparation and thus
failure of the course. Prerequisites are
indicated at the end of each course
description.
NOTE: The University reserves the right
to cancel courses that have insufficient
enrollment.
The curriculum may also be subject to
change as a result of ongoing curricular
revisions and program development.
Please consult the University Web site
(www.aup.edu) for the most recent
course descriptions and class
schedules.
Anthropology
AN 101 Social Anthropology
Encourages students to think critically
about social difference from a
comparative perspective and to analyze
notions like the “family” or “ethnic
groups,” which often appear self-evident.
Provides them with a basic introduction
to the research methods used to
investigate social organization. Class
projects include interactive and
ethnographic projects designed to
develop students' research skills and
critical thinking.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AN 102 Cultural Anthropology
Encourages critical thinking about
human variety and the definition of
“culture”. Introduces facts about specific
ethnic and national groups and the ways
that anthropologists have studied their
cultural practices. Class projects help
clarify students' perceptions of their own
cultural experiences and the role culture
plays in their lives. These projects develop
research and critical thinking skills.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AN 203 Political Anthropology
Using ethnographic case studies,
considers issues of power and political
institutions from the cross-cultural and
holistic perspectives of anthropology.
Discusses diverse definitions of power,
authority, and charisma and relates
them to the development of a variety of
approaches in the field of anthropology,
and the social sciences more generally.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AN/CM 349 Media and
Ethnography
(See Communications: CM/AN 349)
AN/GL 362 Science in
Archeology
(See Science: GL/AN 362)
Art
AR 110 Introduction to Drawing
A studio course, which provides an
introduction to basic drawing problems
for the beginning student interested in
developing his or her drawing skills.
Subject matter includes still life,
portraiture, landscape, and the nude.
Mediums introduced are: pencil,
charcoal, and ink wash.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Nominal materials fee. Offered every Fall
AR 115 Introduction to Painting
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
acrylic.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Nominal materials fee. Offered every Fall
AR 120 Materials and 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.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
AR 160 Introduction to
Photography and Documentary
Expression
Provides a basic understanding of
camera controls, optics, film, exposure
and their influences on the final picture.
Primarily “hands-on,” the course also
features slide lectures, discussions, and
critiques to explore photography's many
genres. Equipment requirement: a 35
mm camera with a lens capable of
manually setting the shutter speeds,
apertures, and focus.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Nominal materials fee. Offered every Fall
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AR 212 Advanced Drawing
Explores in greater depth the concepts
of drawing presented in AR 110.
Concentrates on the study of volume,
the construction of shallow and deep
space, and the design of shapes and
negative space. Working from life
provides the main focus; however,
drawing from memory and collage
develop visual imagination and personal
expression.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Prerequisite: AR 110 or an equivalent
course from another institution. Nominal
materials fee. Offered every Spring
AR 216 Advanced Painting
Offers a basic study of visual analysis
and contemporary painting techniques.
Color theory and its practical application
and a solid understanding of painting
materials are central to the course.
Working from life provides the main
focus. Different methods of paint
application are introduced, including
direct painting, glazing, scumbling, and
the use of the palette knife.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Prerequisites: AR 115 or equivalent
course from another institution. Nominal
materials fee. Offered every Spring
AR 231 Introduction to Sculpture
For students who have little or no
previous experience. Students learn how
to see in three dimensions and work
from observation. Mastery of structure
and the architecture of form in space are
acquired by the “building up” technique
in clay. Work from plaster copies, nude
models (male and female), and
imagination are followed by an
introduction to the carving technique.
3 Credits. Nominal materials fee.
Offered every Spring
Art History
Art History Study trips are conceived as
integral parts of many art history
courses. The cost of study trips varies.
One major trip per semester is offered
in many courses.
AH 100 Introduction to Western
Art I: From Greece to the Renaissance
Teaches the skills needed for an
informed approach to art and
architecture by introducing the salient
concepts, techniques, and developments
of Western Art. Studies works from
ancient Greece, Rome, and the
European Middle Ages in their historical,
social, and cultural contexts.
Includes visits to museums and
monuments in and around Paris.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
AH 120 Introduction to Western
Art II: From the Renaissance to the
Present
Continues the study of the most
significant monuments of Western
painting, sculpture, and architecture,
from the Renaissance to the 20thcentury.
Emphasizes historical context,
continuity, and critical analysis.
Includes direct contact with works of art
in Parisian museums.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
AH 200 Paris through its
Architecture: From Roman Paris
to 1870
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.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
AH 204 Paris through its
Architecture: 1795 to the Present
Studies contemporary urban and
architectural projects such as the
Pyramide du Louvre, the Opéra Bastille,
the Bibliothèque de France, the Cité de
la Musique, etc. against the background
of 19th-century Paris. Explores the
modern and post-modern movements,
in particular the architecture of the
Grands Travaux, in terms of a dialogue
between tradition and innovation.
Includes on site study.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AH 206 Putting It in Prints
Prints, from woodcuts to etchings, and
more experimental media, operate as
social satire, political propaganda, and
artistic expression. Addresses the
function and production of prints in the
modern age. Direct contact with originals
introduces issues of connoisseurship
and market values. Focuses on artists
as diverse as Hogarth, Picasso, and
Warhol, and explores the print's power
as modern communication and fine art.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AH 211 Ancient Art and
Architecture
Introduces first the specific contributions
of Greek art to the Western tradition.
Then presents the diversification of
these achievements in the Etruscan
civilization and in the Hellenistic age.
Examines how the Romans absorbed,
continued, and creatively transformed
Greek and Etruscan art and passed the
ancient heritage on to medieval and
early modern Europe.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: AH 100 or by
permission. Offered every Fall
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AH 212 Medieval Art and
Architecture
Explores the adaptation of ancient art by
the Christian religious establishment
and the interaction of early medieval
artists with the Graeco-Roman tradition.
Follows the development of medieval art
in the West to the Gothic period by
analyzing its spiritual dimensions and
diversity as well as the impact on artistic
creation of the changing centers of
power and influences.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 100 or by
permission. Offered every Spring
AH 213 Renaissance Art and
Architecture
Surveys notable developments in
painting, sculpture, and architecture in
Italy and in Northern Europe (late 13th-
16th centuries). Emphasizes the origins
of the Renaissance and the basic
stylistic evolution from Early to High
Renaissance and Mannerism. Explores
the ramifications of the Italian
Renaissance mode as it came into
contact with other historical and cultural
traditions in Northern Europe.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 100, or AH
120, or by permission. Offered every Fall
AH 214 Baroque and Rococo
Art and Architecture
Examines the dynamic and often militant
Baroque style in Counter- Reformation
Italy and its national variants in France,
Spain, and Flanders. Traces the
development of new and different
modes of expression in the emerging
Protestant Netherlands. Explores the
evolution from Baroque to Rococo as
well as the arts of the 18th-Century in
France and England.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 120 or
by permission. Offered every Spring
AH 216 19th- and 20th-Century Art
and Architecture
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
in the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, and
the Centre Pompidou.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: AH 120 or by
permission. Offered every Spring
AH 218 Art and the Market
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.
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Assesses diverse functions and forms
of influence exercised by art market
specialists: critics, journalists, public
officials, auctioneers, museum
professionals, experts, and dealers.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AH 300 Impressionism -
Post-Impressionism
Discusses the stylistic and thematic
concerns of Manet, Monet, Degas,
Pissarro, and Renoir, in the context of
artistic theory and practice in mid-19thcentury
France. Analyzes the art of
Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and
Seurat as responses to Impressionism.
Classes at the Musée d'Orsay are
scheduled regularly.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 120 or by
permission. Offered every Spring
AH/ES 307 European Urban
Culture: The Glory of Ancient Athens
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/AH 307)
AH/ES 314 European Urban
Culture: Istanbul, an Imperial
Palimpsest
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/AH 314)
AH/ES 316 Society and Spectacle:
Painting, Photography, and Film in
Germany and Russia between the Two
Wars
European film, photography and painting
between the two World Wars shared
common concerns in the domains of
style, theme and theory. This course
explores the parallel paths of painters,
photographers and directors associated
with German Expressionism and Soviet
Constructivism to allow students to
investigate the underlying affinities in
artistic attitudes and approaches while
scrutinizing the specific character of
each medium.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
AH 317 History of Photography
Introduces students to the evolution of
photography, which is both closely
related to modern painting and clearly
distinct from it. Focuses on major figures
such as Atget, Weston, Stieglitz,
Steichen, Hine, Brassaï, Man Ray,
in an effort to develop the visual skills
necessary to understand photographs
as specific forms of artistic vision and
creation.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 120 or by
permission. Offered periodically
AH 319 The French Connection:
American Artists and Collectors in
France
Explores the experiences of American
artists in European culture, by
participation in artists' colonies such as
Pont Aven and in the ateliers of French
painters. The expatriate contribution to
19th-century art assessed through
Whistler's career. The course will include
an analysis of American collectors of
French art and their role in introducing
modern art to America.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 120 or by
permission. Offered periodically
AH 320-329 Topics in Ancient Art:
The Ancient Orient, Greece, Etruria,
and Rome
Courses focusing on issues related to
the art of Mediterranean civilizations
explore the legacy of the Ancient Orient
to later civilizations as well as the
frequent reciprocal influences in the
pluri-cultural societies of the Mediterranean
Basin. Topics include: Art and Mythology;
The Power of Images in the Hellenistic
Age; Art in the Age of Augustus. Study
trips to relevant sites.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 100, or AH
211, or by permission. Offered
periodically
AH 330-339 Topics in Medieval
Art
Exposes students to specific issues of
medieval art, focusing on art of limited
periods, geographic areas, or particular
media. Present topics include: Early
Christian and Byzantine Art;
Romanesque Art in Europe; Gothic Art
in Northern France; and Painting the
Written Word: Gothic Illuminated
Manuscripts. Appropriate study trips
planned for each course.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 100,
or AH 212, or by permission. Offered
periodically
AH 340-349 Topics in
Renaissance Art
Examines specific topics in painting,
sculpture, and architecture in Western
Europe from the end of the 13th to the
late 16th-Century. Recent examples
include 15th-Century Art and
Architecture in Florence; Venetian 16th-
Century Painting; and the French
Renaissance. Courses change each year
and generally include study trips.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: AH 120,
or AH 213, or by permission. Offered
periodically
AH 350-359 Topics in 17th- and
18th-Century Art
Offers students more specialized
knowledge of specific aspects of art
produced during the Baroque, Rococo,
and Neoclassical ages. Topics vary.
Offerings include: Three Baroque
Masters: Rubens, Rembrandt, and
Velazquez; Caravaggio and the
Caravaggisti; Princes and Patrons: Art
Collecting and Patronage in 17th-Century
Europe; Taste and Society: 18th-Century
French and English Art and Art Collecting.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 120,
or AH 214, or by permission. Offered
every Fall
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AH 360-369 Topics in Modern Art
Exploring different areas, these courses
emphasize artistic theory as well as practice
and view the art object in its cultural
context, stressing the importance of
conceptual concerns for artists from
1780 to the present. Topics include:
The Age of Revolution; Neoclassicism,
Romanticism, Realism; The French
Connection: American Artists and
Collectors in France; Early 20th-Century
Art; Art Since 1945. Includes museum
sessions and study trips if appropriate.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: AH 120, or AH
216, or by permission. Offered every
semester
AH 372 Taste and Society:
Eighteenth-Century French and English
Art and Art Collecting
This course proposes a new approach
to the study of the Eighteenth-Century
in France and England. The phenomenon
of art collecting will provide the
framework for the study of contemporary
art. National differences and societal
attitudes, the development of the art
market and the establishment of
museums will be explored. Particular
attention will be given to collectors of
note in both countries. Finally the rise of
Neo-Classicism, the Grand Tour and the
considerable influence of the near and
distant past will be considered with
regard to patterns of collecting and
contemporary artistic styles.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: AH 120, AH
214 or permission. Offered periodically
AH/PL 374 The Philosophy of
Aesthetics
(See Philosophy: PL/AH 374)
AH 390 Junior Seminar: the
Historiography and Methodology of Art
History
Introduces the methodologies of the
discipline. Develops skills in research
and analysis by stressing the close,
critical reading of art historical texts
and investigating the assumptions and
perspectives of major art historians.
Provides the opportunity to explore
different methods and approaches.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: junior standing,
or by permission. Offered every Fall
AH 490 Senior Seminar
The senior seminar involves an
in-depth study of major artists, epochs
or themes in art history. The course
regularly changes focus and approach
according to the specialty of the
professor. It will, however, always include
a historiographic component and may
cut across traditional, chronological,
and/or geographical boundaries.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: junior or senior
standing and AH 390, or by permission.
Offered every Spring. May be taken a
second time as an upper-level art
history elective.
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Astronomy
SC 130 Astronomy: Exploration of
the Universe
(See Science: SC 130)
Biology
BI 101 Biology of Organisms
(See Science: BI 101)
BI 102 GENES: From Mendel to
the Human Genome Project
(See Science: BI 102)
BI 105 GERMS: Microbial
Friends and Foes in our Environment
(See Science: BI 105)
Business Administration
BA 105 Principles of Finance
Surveys and studies the main areas of
concern of financial analysis and
management. Emphasizes the valuation
of physical and financial assets, sources
and uses of funds, optimal finance
structure, and financial markets and
instruments.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
BA 201 Financial Accounting
Introduces the basics of financial
accounting and reporting for corporations.
Studies how to measure and record
accounting data and prepare financial
statements. Emphasizes the effects of
transactions on the financial condition
of a company and explores the technical
aspects of the principles underlying
published financial statements.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: sophomore
standing, MA 110. Offered every
semester
BA 202 Managerial Accounting
Provides a basic introduction to the
concepts of accounting for purposes
of management control and management
decision-making. Topics include:
budgeting, budget variance analysis,
break-even analysis, product cost
accounting, and relevant cost analysis.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 201. Offered
every semester
BA 220 Management and
Organizational Behavior
Introduces various aspects of the
process by which people work to achieve
organizational goals, and the structure
and functions of the organization in
which they occur. Using lectures,
discussions, and case studies, the
course focuses on the problems and
challenges facing international
management in the fields of planning,
controlling, and organizing resources,
time, and personnel.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
BA 240 Marketing
Introduces marketing concepts and
their use in contemporary management.
Considers how individuals and firms
process information to make decisions,
and how firms determine and meet
customer demands and needs. Through
lectures, discussions, case studies, and
written analyses, the course examines
the marketing function from a strategic
and functional point of view. Considers
marketing in the U.S. and in an
international context.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 220 or
sophomore standing. Offered every
semester
BA 301 Finance and Accounting
for Multinationals
Introduces the financial and accounting
practices unique to a multinational
enterprise. Includes exchange rate
calculations, business combinations by
purchase and stock swaps, consolidated
financial reports, translation and
transaction exposure and hedging
methods (forward trading, money
markets, futures, and options) used to
offset such exposure.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 201 or by
permission. Offered every Fall
BA 310 Corporate Finance
Examines finance as the practical
application of economic theory and
accounting data in the procurement and
employment of capital funds. Applies the
principles of strong fiscal planning and
control to asset investment, and debt
and equity financing decisions. Emphasizes
sound leveraging in view of the time
value of money, subject to the pernicious
effects of taxation and inflation.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 201, EC
210, IT 130. BA 202 recommended for
simultaneous registration. Offered every
semester
BA 312 Business Ethics
Concentrates on the role of the manager
as an agent for efficient and ethical
decision making in modern organizations.
Classical and modern philosophical
views (variants of the utilitarian,
deontologist, and Marxist views) of ethics
are presented and applied to a variety of
business case studies set in various
locations and industries worldwide.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 220, BA
240, EC 210 or 220, or by permission.
Offered every Fall
BA 330 Human Resources
Management
Offers a systematic analysis of human
resource concepts and practices
designed to enhance organizational
objectives and employee goals.
Studies various aspects of the
employment relationship: job design,
staffing, employee training and
development, diversity management,
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performance evaluation, compensation
and salary administration, employee
and labor relations, and collective
bargaining. Examines contemporary
and emerging human resource systems
and models found in the U.S., Europe,
and Asia.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 220 or
junior standing. Offered every Spring
BA 336 Sales Management
Grounded in the modern relationship
view of sales management, this course
examines the full range of sales
management activity including strategic
sales planning and budgeting,
recruitment, training, compensation,
sales forecasting, and sales ethics.
Emphasis is placed on recent empirical
research in the field with extensive use
of the case study method.
3 Credits. Prerequisites : BA 220, BA
240 or by permission. Offered every
Summer
BA 345 International Marketing
Reviews the basic principles of
marketing and examines the process
of marketing goods and services
internationally. Covers international
marketing strategies and analysis, the
marketing mix and tactics. Places
special emphasis on cross-cultural
problems facing international marketers
and managers. Readings are from
required text, cases, and recent
business press.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 240 or by
permission. Offered every Summer
BA 347 Cyber Marketing
Building on the knowledge of basic
marketing, this course investigates the
opportunities and challenges presented
by the continuing development of Internet
technology. Lectures, short films and
Internet workshops will serve to develop
the marketing mix for both consumer
and B to B firms. Use of the Internet in
market research and general marketing
communication will also be developed.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 240, IT 130
or by permission. Offered every Fall
BA 350 International Financial
Markets
Covers topics such as foreign exchange
markets, eurocurrency, eurobonds,
international stock markets, interaction
and integration of national and
international money and stock markets,
regulation of eurocurrency markets.
Analyzes the uses and valuation of
international financial instruments and
arbitrage relationships concerning such
instruments. Problems are assigned.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 201, EC
220, MA 110. Offered every Spring
BA/EC 353 International
Monetary Economics
(See Economics: EC/BA 353)
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BA 362 Advertising
Concentrates on links between
communication, marketing, and
advertising. Advertising is defined as any
paid form of presentation or promotion
of ideas, goods, or services by an identified
sponsor. Students develop advertising
plans and learn market research
techniques, how to establish objectives,
budgets, and creative strategies, and
how successful advertising is a planned
business building technique to develop
sales and profits.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 240. Offered
every semester
BA/MA 366 Multivariate Analysis
for Behavior Research
Explores the relationships between and
the power and limitations of several
multivariable statistical techniques:
multidimensional scaling, principal
component analysis, correspondence
analysis, canonical correlation, cluster
analysis and conjoint analysis as tools
for meaning making in data analysis in
psychology, sociology, economics and
business. Computer packages used:
Systat, NewMDSx, R, APL and
Mathematica.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 120. Offered
every Spring
BA 370 Operations
Management
Focuses on identifying and solving
managerial problems that occur in the
production and the delivery of goods
and services. Studies project
management, job design, capacity and
layout planning, forecasting, inventory
and quality control. Includes a mixture of
mathematical models and case studies
that help illustrate practical applications
of the concepts.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 201, MA
110, MA 120. Offered every semester
BA/EC 373 Money, Banking, and
Finance
(See Economics: EC/BA 373)
BA 380 Business Law
An introductory course dealing with the
legal aspects of business transactions
and business organizations. Begins by
considering the sources and purposes of
law, the judicial system and methods of
resolving disputes. Focuses on the law
of torts, contracts, sales, agency, and
business organizations. In addition to
the text, discusses the Uniform
Commercial Code as well as other
legislation and cases.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: junior standing
or by permission. Offered every semester
BA 384 International Business
Law
Briefly examines the great legal families
in the world: Common Law, Civil Law,
Socialist Law, and Islamic Law. Within
the Civil Law family, emphasizes French
Contract Law and then explores the law
of the European Union. Studies the legal
aspects of international business
transactions and uses major international
and European projects to examine the
principles discussed.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior or senior
standing. Offered periodically
BA 398 Internship
All Finance majors are required to
complete two 3-credit internships
(minimum 120 working hours each). The
internships may be done in France or
elsewhere. Most internships require
fluency in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered every semester
BA 400 Topics in International
Business
Introduces a variety of issues pertinent
to firms and individuals operating in an
international context. Subjects change
every semester. Recent topics included:
Marketing of New Products, Market
Research, and Consumer Behavior.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior or senior
standing. Offered every semester
BA 402 Entrepreneurship
This course provides the student with
the basic understanding of small
business management and the activities
required for the planning and creation of
new enterprises. Entrepreneurial spirit,
opportunity identification, new venture
selection, ownership options, legal and
tax issues will be discussed. Students
apply concepts by developing a business
plan. Special attention is given to
entrepreneurship in an international
setting.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: junior or senior
standing, IBA major. Offered every
Spring
BA 410 Investment Analysis
Introduces the processes and analytical
tools necessary for investment
decision-making. Provides the basic
skills, modes of analysis and
institutional background useful to work
in the investment area of finance firms
or as an individual investor. Students
who successfully complete the course
are expected to be able to work in the
field or to continue their specialization in
Security Analysis or Portfolio Management.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: BA 310. Offered
every Fall
BA 418 Multinational Business
Finance
Deals with the theory and practice of
multinational financial management.
Topics include: foreign exchange risk
management, multinational working
capital management, managing
intracorporate fund flows, foreign
investment analysis, financing foreign
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operations, and multinational
management information systems.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 301, BA
310. Offered every Spring
BA 420 Computational Finance
This course is an introduction to
numerical techniques for the valuation
and hedging of financial investment
instruments such as options and
other derivatives. It emphasizes
the implementation and use-selected
models, and links them to related
optimization techniques, such as
stochastic programming. It is aimed at
providing the basic necessary analytical
skills useful to working in financial firms
and investment banks.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: MA 120,
IT 130, BA 350. Offered every Spring
BA/MA 430 Quantitative
Decision-Making
Demonstrates the use of simple
mathematical, statistical, computer
techniques to explore marketing,
finance, personnel, and production
problems. Introduces advanced
techniques of operational research:
linear and integer programming,
simulation, decision analysis, and
statistical forecasting. Reviews basic
mathematical concepts underlying these
techniques by illustrating their use in
specific situations. Studies the strengths
and weaknesses of mathematical
models through individual and group
projects.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 370,
IT 130, MA 110, MA 120. Offered
periodically
BA 480 Strategic Management
Concentrates on functional skills already
acquired by students in the area of
general management and corporate and
business-level strategy. Through case
studies, lecture/ discussions,
presentations, and the Business
Strategy Game simulation, students
perfect analytical skills, problem-solving
ability, and the application of strategy
concepts to theformation and
implementation of strategy.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 240,
BA 310, senior standing, IBA Major
(final semester). Offered every semester
BA/EC 490 Seminar in
International Economics
(See Economics: EC/BA 490)
Communications
CM/CS 101 Introduction to
Internet Authoring
(See Computer Science: CS/CM 101)
CM/FM 110 Films and their
Meanings
(See Film Studies: FM/CM 110)
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CM 123 Media Analysis
Begins with the formal analysis of
newspaper writing, advertisements and
logos, and moves on to key elements
of film language and narrative analysis
of films, advertising, and video.
Examines the processes by which media
products are differentiated and
attributed value, and how they are
deployed to form taste. Considers
these in relation to various cultural
and political contexts.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 100.
Offered every semester
CM 161 Intercultural
Communication
Examines how culturally conditioned
behavior affects relations between
groups. Introduces techniques of
ethnological research and observation
and encourages students to examine
issues such as identity formation,
perception of time, space, and body, as
well as nonverbal communication.
Explores through field assignments the
major world views and traditions. Looks
at the importance of developing cultural
sensitivity and awareness.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 090. Offered
periodically
CM 201 Speech
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.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 110.
Offered every Fall
CM/EC 203 The New Economy
and the Media
(See Economics: EC/CM 203)
CM 204 Speech, Sight, and
Sound
Examines the role of communication in
different human societies across time
and space. Studies oral and literate
cultures, the development of writing
systems, printing, and approaches to the
image in different traditions. The parallel
rise of mass media and western
modernity is studied with the invention
of books, newspapers, radio, recording,
cinema, and television.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 100. Offered
every semester
CM 205 Communication and
Society
Introduces contemporary social
communication theory. Teaches
techniques such as interviewing,
observation, participant observation,
and the ethical evaluation of these
techniques. Investigates social
interactions by studying group formation,
social classes, gender relations, and
cultures. Considers how definitions of
communication imply values and beliefs
in everyday life through such terms as
beauty and the good life in various
religious and political contexts.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 110.
Offered every semester
CM 206 Media Globalization
Offers in-depth comparative analysis of
media systems, and how differing types
of state regimes, market pressures and
professional traditions affect media form
and content. Raises ethical and
philosophical questions about the ideal
role for media in public spheres.
Considers the effects of globalization on
media organizations, audiences, and
societies. Critical analysis of newspapers,
films, television news, advertisements,
and entertainment shows.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 100.
Offered every semester
CM 211 Journalism I
Discusses how news is constituted,
gathered and written. Examines
different aspects of reporting and seeks
to impart Accuracy, Precision, Balance,
Objectivity, Tone and Color. Teaches
students to write concise, well-constructed
stories and understand the basics of a
newspaper. Students should expect
to do a lot of writing. Builds basic
reporting and writing skills with weekly
writing assignments.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 110. Offered
every Fall
CM 212 Journalism II
Examines reporting in specific locations
such as courts, police, health, etc.
Studies U.S. Libel and Slander law and
compares it to French, British and other
legislation. Ethics and their practical
implications for the reporter in the field
are also studied. Hones and develops
writing skills with regular writing
assignments.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 211,
or by permission. Offered periodically
CM/FM 218 Writing Fiction for
Television
(See Film Studies: FM/CM 218)
CM 221 The Internet and
Globalization
Drawing on cultural theory formulated
by academics as well as techno-culture
journalists and novelists, this course
explores the development of the
Internet, its role in society, and the
ongoing contests to control it. Topics
include: hackers, file sharing, online
journalism, virtual communities, online
dating, activist networks, intellectual
property laws, e-commerce, and the
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new economy.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 205. Offered
periodically
CM/FM 229 Making a
Documentary
(See Film Studies: FM/CM 229)
CM 251 Communication Theory
and Research Techniques
The skills learned in this course will
prepare students for upper division
communication courses, and provide
students with basic research techniques
in the field of communication. Students
will become familiar with a range of
research methods (survey, interview,
ethnography, discourse analysis, and
political economy approach). Research
exercises are a primary focus of the
course.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EN 100,
CM 204. Offered periodically
CM 262 Interpersonal
Communication
Presents concepts such as “person” and
“identity.” Studies the relation of group
dynamics to gender, class, and culture.
Analyzes Goffman's study of
self-presentation and examines how
patterns of communications relate
to specific settings. Studies the
relationship of self to groups' conceptions
of ethics, and how changes in the idea
of the self relate to new media and
technology.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CM/IT 302 E-Commerce
(See Information Technology: IT/CM
302)
CM 303 Communication Skills in
Business & Organizations
Provides training in analyzing, writing,
and editing different types of corporate
communication. Focuses on building
effective interpersonal and intercultural
skills in a business environment. Leads
to the production – research, writing,
edition, and layout of professional
documents, e.g. presentations,
fundraising letters or grant proposals.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EN 120, junior
standing. Offered periodically
CM/GS 304 Communicating
Fashion
Explores what happens when dress and
grooming become the basis for the
modern phenomena of fashion. Studies
the historical development of fashion:
how fashion relates to the emergence of
artistic, social, and economic forms and
the ways fashion communicates ideas
about status, gender, or culture. Links
these social uses of fashion to
economic issues.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CM 204 and
junior standing. Offered periodically
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CM 305 Public Relations and
Society
Overview and critical examination
of the history, social effects, and ethics
of public relations. Emphasis on
professional skill development, including
writing press releases, speeches, and
fundraising letters. Analysis of public
relations as a process, involving
research, planning, communication, and
evaluation. Focus on professional case
studies from business, non-profits, and
government, as well as international
public relations and crisis management.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EN 120, or CM
211, junior standing. Offered every
semester
CM 306 Color as Communication
Examines the complex nature of color —
the “perception” of color, physiological
and psychological effects, “philosophical”
properties, changing “values” in different
historical and cultural contexts — and
considers how these elements interact
when color is encoded as “sign” in visual
communication: as culturally specific
signifier, as socio-economic marker, and
as international advertising and
marketing tool.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM 313 Broadcast News
Writing
Practical sessions on writing style, news
gathering, and working to deadlines.
Students practice writing in script format
styles similar to those used in regular
broadcast newsrooms, and they write
from authentic news material: wire
dispatches, video rushes, etc. Textbook
material is supplemented with video
material related to broadcast techniques
and current professional issues.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EN 110, CM
211 or by permission. Offered every Fall
CM 329 Principles of Video
Production
Introduces the process of producing
program material for broadcast and
other outlets. Gives students the
understanding of techniques, equipment,
and roles of production personnel.
Teaches various elements of production
through interactive computer lab
training. Includes visits to professional
production facilities in the Paris area.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered every Fall
CM/SO 331 Media Sociology
Concentrates on the production, social
reproduction and effects of the mass
media, drawing on the theories of
classical sociologists, including Marx
and Weber, as well as more contemporary
ones including Bourdieu, Habermas and
Lazarsfeld, and Merton. Students learn
to think sociologically and critically about
diverse mass media, including the print
media, radio, television and the Internet.
Use of course Web site and small group
discussions facilitates the accessing and
understanding of peer-reviewed articles
in contemporary media sociology.
Students develop a reflexive awareness
of their own role in media production
and consumption.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM/FM 332 Paris
Documentaries
Course divided into theoretical and
practical sections. The practical half of
the course includes daily exercises in
“hands-on” documentary research,
scripting, sketching and shooting in the
streets of Paris, with small video
cameras, producing work that will then
be critiqued in class. The theoretical
component surveys the history of
documentary film and different
approaches to making documentaries.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 123 or
CM 329. Offered periodically
CM 333 Scripts for Travel
An introduction to writing features and
guide books for the travel market.
Students will gain insight into the
changing set of processes linked to the
practice of contemporary, commodified
travel, and the way space for tourist
use is represented and used. Urban
place-making and branding strategies
are examined. Students will practice
writing in a variety of travel genres.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 120. Offered
periodically
CM 335 Theory and Practice of
Digital Interactivity
Explores the nature of digital interactivity
through analysis of theoretical models
and through practical experiments.
Students will experience and develop
digital interactivity as applied to
advertising, public relations, business
communications, and as an art form.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: IT 101, EN
110. Offered periodically
CM/IT 338 Digital Media I
(See Information Technology: IT/CM
338)
CM 341 Modules in Mass
Communication Techniques
Introduces a practical area of journalism
or mass communications. Topics
oriented, and subject to change, the
course is taught by a professional
journalist, film maker, or video maker.
Options include: photojournalism, radio
journalism, writing for magazines,
and multimedia, depending on the
availability of professionals and
equipment. May be taken more than
once for credit.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
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CM 346 Media Law, Policy, and
Ethics
Examines how constitutional and
statutory law define and protect media
in different countries. Introduces
students to libel law, copyright and
author's rights, commercial rights issues,
and variations across countries.
Examines the role of government
institutions and regulatory bodies in
formulating policy on matters such as
children's television and advertising
regulation. Explores the process of
self-regulation and issues of journalist's
ethics.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 206, or by
permission. Offered periodically
CM/CS 348 Human-Computer
Interaction
(See Computer Science: CS/CM 348)
CM/AN 349 Media and
Ethnography
Explores how ethnography has been
applied to a variety of media to
understand how audiences receive
media and respond to them. Examines
how ethnographers and anthropologists
use photography and film to explore
‘cultures’ and how ‘cultures’ are
re-appropriating media to express their
own concerns.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: One CM or AN
course. Offered periodically
CM 352 Rhetoric and Persuasion,
Visual and Verbal
Studies rhetoric as a historical
phenomenon and as a practical reality.
Considers how words and images are
used to convince and persuade
individuals of positions, arguments, or
actions to undertake, with particular
attention to propaganda in the 20thcentury
and to advertising. Studies the
use of reason, emotion, and
commonplaces, and compares visual
and verbal techniques of persuasion.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CM 204,
EN 120, junior standing. Offered every
semester
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
Examines the role the media plays in
defining, shaping, and changing gender
roles. The media remains extremely
gender specific; the course therefore
examines how gender differentiates not
only audiences but also audience
reactions and tastes, and studies how
different cultural systems approach
gender and its media representations.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM 361 Cultural Institutions,
Actors and Goods
Explores culture as a dimension of
public policy, emphasizing the
articulation of cultural strategies by a
range of institutions and actors:
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international organizations, national
governments, foundations, NGOs,
trans-national advocacy networks,
cultural workers/artists, and civil society
activists. Focuses on policy issues
arising from both ‘identity politics’ and
the production and consumption of
cultural goods and service in the current
international free trade environment.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM 362 Media Semiotics
Studies radio and television programs,
Web sites, and other media as sign
systems. Teaches advanced textual
analysis of media through the key
concepts of genre, narrative, and how
meanings change in different contexts
and situations. Applies linguistic theory
to media.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 123 or by
permission. Offered periodically
CM/ES 370 Cultural Dimensions
of the European Idea - Selves and
Others
Explores the ways in which Europeans
have used notions of culture to
articulate ideas of European selfhood
and non-European 'Others', the cultural
dimensions of European integration and
enlargement and the efforts of the
council of Europe, the European Union,
private foundations and NGO networks
to elaborate cultural policy in and for
Europe.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM/PO 371 Representing
International Politics
Examines the reciprocal relations
between media and politics. How does
television affect politicians' behavior
What is the impact on democratic
practice, electoral campaigning, and
election results How does this
relationship vary between countries with
fully private and commercial television
systems, and those with an active state
role Focuses on election advertising,
political interviews, and election
coverage from many different countries.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM/FM 372 German Cinema
(See Film Studies: FM/CM 372)
CM 375 Media Aesthetics
What we consider to be pleasing,
appropriate and/or beautiful is
conditioned by culture and 'habitus'.
This course examines how global media
relates to varying aesthetic standards:
the role of media in defining
contemporary aesthetic values as well
as in responding to them.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM 386 Contemporary World
Television
Introduces the operations of
contemporary television. Studies
television genres and networks, their
characteristics, and their place in the
industry. Studies the use of television
genres to structure audience habits and
expectations. Examines the practical
application of these in the development
of schedules and competitive
programming between networks, as well
as the implications of digitalization,
satellite and cable television for this
process.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CM 123,
junior standing. Offered periodically
CM 398 Internship
Students may undertake an internship in
an advertising agency, film company, or
television company. A second internship
can be undertaken for Communications
elective credit. Students have taken
internships at CNN, Harpers, Société
Française de Production, Le Courrier
International, Sixty Minutes, European
Broadcasting Union, amongst many others.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
CM 400 Topics in Communications
Topics vary. Using analytic skills learned
in core courses, students work with an
AUP faculty member, visiting scholar or
professional in an area of current
interest in the field to be determined
by the instructor and the faculty of
the International Communications
Department.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior
standing. Offered periodically
CM 411 Business Journalism
Teaches how to research and write
business stories: writing about business
and for business. Examines the world's
financial and business press: dailies,
weeklies, and monthlies available at
newsstands, radio and television
programs, and specialized publications
for limited readerships. Includes
research methods, ethical questions,
and appropriate style. Gives practical
training in the necessary writing skills.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 211. Offered
periodically
CM 412 Feature Journalism
Introduces students to the craft through
the practice of feature-writing’s most
common forms, including personality
profiles, trend stories, and personal
narratives. Emphasizes good reporting;
analyses leading writers in the field.
While writing a variety of feature articles,
students will gain experience in basic
techniques, from how to generate ideas
to interviewing skills to making writing
more vivid and how to edit their own
overly vivid writing.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 211. Offered
periodically
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CM 414 Comparative
Journalism
Examines how journalism differs across
the world: how journalists approach a
subject differently, how they determine
what is newsworthy, how they distinguish
between what is objective and
subjective. Explores the impact of
language and style of writing.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 211. Offered
periodically
CM 417 Media and War
Surveys major areas of research about
Media and War. Students are
introduced to the following topics:
esthetics of war in film, news, TV, and
print media and resulting construction of
national and historical memory; close
relationship of media entertainment
technologies to practices of war; and
mediation of war in relation to trends in
globalization, empire, and international
politics.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EN 120 and
junior standing
CM 428 Advanced Video
Production
Broadens the basic conceptual skills
needed in the production of audio-visual
material destined for broadcast, Internet,
and other distribution means.
Emphasizes creative content
development through practical work
involving exploration of ideas, scripting,
and creatively writing for video. Actual
production exercises used for adapting
ideas to program formats. Conducted
from the producer/director viewpoint,
stressing content and production
management.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CM 329 or by
permission. Offered periodically
CM 448 Strategic Corporate
Communication
Investigates the global communications
strategies of commercial companies
and how they manage their brands.
Covers the entire process of how brands
are built and marketed and how
corporations use the tools of advertising,
promotion, packaging, identity, public
relations, events, sponsorships, internal
communications and more to create a
desired image for the corporation and its
brands.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: BA 240, senior
standing, or by permission. Offered
every semester
CM 473 Media and Society in the
Arab World
Provides broad cultural background to
the diverse geopolitical region referred
to as 'the Arab World'. Looks at the
interplay between the forces and
process involved in the expansion of
mass media in this context with a
particular focus on state/society
development and the role of the media
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through themes like press freedoms,
satellite broadcasting, discursive
analysis of media text.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered periodically
CM 490 Senior Seminar
In consultation with the faculty member
and with feedback from other students,
IC majors complete a senior project
before they graduate. Students give
class presentations on their projects at
each stage of their research and present
their projects at the end of the semester.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: senior standing.
Offered every Spring
Comparative Literature
CL/GS 206 Contemporary
Feminist Theory
(See Gender Studies: GS/CL 206)
CL/FM 228 The Art of
Screenwriting
(See Film Studies: FM/CL 228)
CL/EN 251 Masters of English
Literature before 1800
Begins with Old English literary texts,
then examines selections from Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales, the conventions of
Middle English drama and lyrics, earlier
Renaissance styles of lyric poetry (Wyatt,
Surrey, Sidney), and then Shakespeare's
Sonnets and a major Shakespeare play.
Reviews the dominant styles of
Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry
(Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Crashaw,
Suckling, Waller, Milton).
3 Credits. Offered every Fall
CL/EN 252 Masters of English
Literature since 1800
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.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
CL 253 Masters of Spanish
Literature I: The Golden Age in Spain
and Europe
Examines the legacy of the Golden Age
in Spain: popular ballad, love lyric,
picaresque novel, mystic poetry,
psychological tale, classical drama,
and moral satire. Readings include La
Celestina, Garcilaso de la Vega, Lazarillo
de Tormes, Cervantes, Lope de Vega,
Tirso de Molina, Calderón, and Quevedo,
concentrating on their sources and
influence across Europe. Written work
accepted in English or Spanish.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 254 Masters of Spanish
Literature II: Modern Latin American
and Spanish Literature
Traces modern continental and Latin
American literature from the Molieresque
comedy of Moratín to the magical
realism of García Márquez. Readings
include Spanish authors (fiction by
Galdós, Unamuno, Cela, Goytisolo),
Spanish-American writers (poetry of
Neruda, Paz and tales by Borges, Rulfo),
and one Brazilian writer (Clarice Lispector).
Conducted in English. Written work
accepted in English or Spanish.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 255 Masters of Italian Literature I:
Saints and Sinners in the Renaissance
Presents a panorama of pre-modern
Italian poetry, prose, and drama within
their European context. Readings
include: early religious and erotic lyrics
(Sicilians, Tuscans, and Stilnovists),
Inferno (Dante), Rime (Petrarch),
Decameron (Boccaccio), the fiction and
drama of Machiavelli, the love sonnets
of Michelangelo, the Socratic dialogues
of Tasso, and the Utopian fiction of
Campanella.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 256 Masters of Italian
Literature II: French & American
Exchanges
Offers a sampling of modern and
contemporary Italian masters beginning
with early modern drama, prose, and
poetry. Concentrates on selections
from 20th-century poetry and short
fiction, with an emphasis on Italian
authors who wrote partly in France or
in French (Goldoni, Casanova, Leopardi,
Ungaretti) or were influenced by
America and its literature (Moravia,
Pavese, Calvino).
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 257 Masters of French
Literature I: The Rise of the Hero and
the Poet in French Literature
Defines the originality of early French
literature through reading of key texts.
Traces innovation and imitation in
French masterworks. Discusses topics
such as epic quests and bride quests;
courts, courtliness, and discourtesy;
women, love, and marriage; Paris
and the bourgeois spirit; bawdy tales
and idealizing poetry; man's place
in the universe and the writer's role in
society. Written work accepted
in French or English.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 258 Masters of French
Literature II: Loves Sacred and
Profane in French Lyric
Follows the development of the love
poetry tradition in France from its
medieval origins through the
Renaissance and into modern times.
Studies troubadour canso, trouvère lyric,
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late medieval ballade, and the
Renaissance sonnet sequence, followed
by works from the Baroque period to
Baudelaire and the contemporary poet
Yves Bonnefoy. Written work accepted in
French or English.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/FS 275 Theater in Paris
(See French: FS/CL 275)
CL/EN 300 Creative Writing
(See English: EN/CL 300)
CL 302 Word & Image: Literature
and the Visual Arts
Focuses on late 19th-century events
from the beginning of typographical
exploration, to the disruptions of
Modernism, to contemporary
investigations of relationships between
literary language and visual form.
Studies works from fin-de-siècle
Symbolist poetry to the violent literary
and artistic products of the First World
War and beyond, including Woolf,
Potter, Proust, Pasolini, Apollinaire,
Ashbery, W. C. Williams, and Godard.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 303 European Urban
Culture: Naples and Palermo: The Two
Sicilies
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/CL 303)
CL/ES 310 European Urban
Culture: Edinburgh the City, Scotland
the Kingdom
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/CL 310)
CL 313 Classical Hellenic
Antiquity
Traces the development and survival of
a number of fictional and historiographic
genres of Greek literature. Considers
epic, romance, tragedy, comedy, lyric,
satire, historical narrative, and biography
in function of aesthetic and critical
traditions. Selected authors: Homer,
Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides,
and Plutarch. Focuses on the cultural
and generic influence of these authors
on modern European literature.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 315 Death and Desire in
Imperial Rome
Introduces Classical Latin authors who
reappear frequently in modern
European vernacular literatures: Virgil,
Ovid, Catullus, Horace, Seneca, Plautus,
Cicero, Livy, and Suetonius. Explores the
leitmotifs of love projected against fate
and death in various literary patterns.
Focuses on the interpretation of works of
wide generic diversity, while giving some
attention to classical theories of
historiography and biography.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
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CL/PL 317 Plato and Cicero
Examines literary and moral problems in
a selection of Platonic dialogues
that influence the development of Latin
and Modern European conceptions of
myth and ethics in poetry. Plato's
works studied include: Euthyphro, Crito,
Apology, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Seventh
Letter, and The Republic. The moral
essays of Cicero (On Ends and Means,
On Duty) re-examine Plato's qualities
as a poet and moralist.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/GS 318 Sex, Politics, and
Culture I
Introduces representations of gender
and sexuality in the Greek classical and
European Early Modern periods.
Examines art historical material and
criticism and literary texts and criticism
in tandem. Focuses on the cultural
production of gender both as it is
represented in major mainstream
works, and in possible alternate
self-representations by increasingly
visible women artists.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 322 European Arts of Love
Pursues the theme of the relationship of
physical love to its spiritual counterpart
in masterpieces of Classical and
Medieval literatures. Analyzes the
writings of Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes,
Boccaccio, and Shakespeare which
refine or subvert models of love with
their rhetoric.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 323 Chaucer and Medieval
Culture
Presents the work of Chaucer in the
perspective of the European
philosophical, humanistic, and poetic
developments of his age. The Latin
philosophical background includes
consideration of the Augustinian ideal of
Christian humanism and the traditions
of speculation on Divine Providence.
Considers the French poetic tradition
and multilingual poetic traditions
supporting the generic diversity of The
Canterbury Tales.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 325 Dante and Medieval
Culture
Offers a detailed investigation of The
Divine Comedy. Traces Dante's
development in several related areas
(love, mysticism, allegory, poetics,
politics) and his affinity with other key
cultural figures (Virgil, St. Augustine,
St. Bernard, St. Thomas, Boccaccio).
Includes an overview of medieval history.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 327 Historians of Medieval
Culture
Traces the evolution of medieval cultural
history through socio-literary analysis of
contemporary texts from Tacitus to
Villon. Topics include: Roman Empire
and Christianity (Agricola, Germania, City
of God, Confessions, History of the
Franks), feudalism (Vita Karoli, Chanson
de Roland, Cantar de Mio Cid). Other
works include: Autobiography of Guibert,
Letters of Héloïse and Abelard, Histoire
de St. Louis, Le Testament.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 329 Renaissance Comparative
Literature: In Praise of Love, Honor,
and Folly
Introduces the Renaissance ideal
through Petrarch. Examines: lyric origins
of the love sonnet and sequence with
influence across Europe; narrative, with
relations of the novella collection to
medieval antecedents and the birth of
the novel; drama, in connection to
classical and modern comedy and
tragedy. Includes: Petrarch, Boccaccio,
La Celestina, Machiavelli, picaresque
novel, feminist poetry, and Golden Age
drama.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/HI 333 Discovery and
Conquest: Creation of the New World
Examines differing perspectives on the
discovery, conquest and creation of the
New World: Columbus and the
encounter of difference; Cortés and the
Aztecs; and, 500 years later, the events
seen through works of contemporary
fiction and post-colonial theory. Includes
15th- and 16th-century documents,
Aztec civilization, and 20th-century
literature by Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz,
and Carlos Fuentes.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 336 The Sanity of Illusion:
Cervantes and the Modern Novel
After reading Don Quixote de la Mancha
together with critical studies, examines
this work by Cervantes as a model for
modern authors and works of fiction.
These authors and works are: Le
Capitaine Fracasse (Gautier), The Idiot
(Dostoevsky), Life of Don Quijote and
Sancho (Unamuno), and One Hundred
Years of Solitude (García Márquez).
Written work accepted in English or
Spanish.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/DR 338 Shakespeare in
Context
Considers a selection of Shakespeare's
plays in the context of the dramatist's
explorations of the possibilities of
theatricality. Examines how theater is
represented in his work and how his
work lends itself to production in theater
and film today. Students view video
versions, visit Paris theaters, and travel
to London and Stratford-on-Avon to see
the Royal Shakespeare Company in
performance.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
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CL/ES 343 The Attraction of Paris:
Modernist Experiments in Migration
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.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 351 The Romantic Novel of
Revolution
Focuses on the Romantic novel in Britain
and France (1780-1840). Readings include:
Laclos, the Marquis de Sade (the bridge
between the Enlightenment and the
Gothic form), Matthew Lewis (Gothic
fiction), Jane Austen (Gothic parody), Sir
Walter Scott (birth of the historical
novel), Mary Shelley (the pleasures and
dangers of individualism), and Stendhal
(historical versus psychological realism).
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 352 European Romantic
Poetry: Feeding Upon Infinity
Focuses on English, German, and Italian
Romanticism, from 1780 to 1820,
concentrating on the open and unstable
poetics of Wordsworth, Hölderlin, and
Leopardi, among others. Contemporary
theoretical works, including Herder,
Schlegel, and Coleridge, are used to
illuminate primary texts where useful,
but the principal concern is the critical
analysis of the poems themselves.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/HI 353 In 1871...: Case Study
in Comparative Literature and History
Examines the literature of 1871. Allows
for theoretical meditation and research
on the local engagements of literature
with historical events and processes,
including philosophical, technological,
and political developments, and work in
the other arts, including opera. Studies
works by Rimbaud, Whitman, Dostoevsky,
Turgenev, George Eliot, Swinburne,
Dickinson, Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx,
Verdi, and Réclus.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 354 The 18th-Century
Divide Between Philosophy and
Literature
Traces the period of European
Enlightenment, the attempt to
reconsider humanity's understanding of
itself, through a literary-philosophical
interpretation of Diderot, Rousseau,
Kant, Defoe, Swift, Voltaire, and Sade.
Analyzes these writers' attempts to
re-forge the relationship between
narrative form and ethical exemplarity,
given the breakdown of traditional forms
of narration and ethics.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
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CL 356 Dostoevsky and the
19th-Century Novel: From Social
Romanticism to Fantastic Realism
Considers the evolution of the Russian
writer's work through a series of books
leading up to The Brothers Karamazov.
Examines the controversial stylistic
qualities of Dostoevsky's work along with
his roles as a great innovator in the
history of the novel and as a participant
in the ideological debates that marked
his century and prefigured our own.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/GS 357 19th-Century
Women Writers
Addresses questions of authorship,
literary inheritance, and generic form
against a backdrop of interdisciplinary
feminist criticism, gender studies, and
19th-century intellectual history. Begins
in 1802 with Madame de Staël's novel
Corinne, or Italy and ends with Emily
Dickinson's cryptic lyrics. Other authors
include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily
Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, and George Sand.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 358 The Realist Novel:
Documents and Desires
Studies the dominant literary mode of
the 19th-century in France and Britain:
the realist novel. Works by Defoe, Richardson,
Dickens, Eliot, the Brontës, Balzac,
Flaubert, Zola, and James. Relates the
effect of realism to surrounding sociological,
historical, and psychological writings,
and analyzes the desires — encoded in
the novel form — to escape and surpass
sociology, history, and psychology.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 359 Baudelaire and
Flaubert: Writing Modernity
Studies the literary works, poetic aspirations
and legal trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire,
while tracing their tremendous influence
on 19th-Century French literature and
their contribution to the emergence of
modernity. Readings include Madame
Bovary, Trois contes, Bouvard et Pécuchet,
and Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
among other works, as well as a range of
critical and philosophical commentaries.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 360 Literature and the Political
Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
Approaches western political discourses
through major texts of 19th-century
literature. Provides an introduction to
socialism, anarchism, liberalism, and
communism, and relates them to
questions of literary production, arguing
that the literary and the political
imaginations are intimately related.
Literary texts studied include fiction by
Zola, Gaskell, Dickens, Turgenev,
Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Conrad,
and poetry by French and British writers.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 362 Conquering Colonies:
America and European Literature
Examines America's indebtedness to
the European tradition and more recent
role in its evolution. Explores Europe's
importance in molding 19th-century
American masters: Hawthorne, Poe,
Melville, Crane. Examines European
visions of America in Amerika (Kafka),
and Poet in New York (García Lorca),
closing on the influence of Faulkner
on the nouveau roman and of
existentialism on Richard Wright.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/GS 363 Writing Women:
Feminism, Freud, and Literary
Inscriptions of Femininity
Studies novels, memoirs, poems, and
essays by 20th-century writers as
evidence of the complex relationship
between gender and literary vocation,
between sexuality and writing. Read
selections from Freud, Virginia Woolf,
Gertrude Stein and Marguerite Duras
against a backdrop of feminist theory,
genre criticism, gender politics, and
20th-century literary criticism.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 364 Magic Realism and the
Fantastic: Contemporary Latin
American Fiction
Offers in-depth study of outstanding
modern authors (Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo,
García Márquez), whose works have
defined the world of 20th-century Latin
American fiction. A world of the fantastic
and magic realism, of philosophical
inquiry and existential quest, of
labyrinths where at the end there is but
one absolute, solitude. All works read in
translation. No Spanish required.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 365 Post-War European
Literature
Addresses major themes and
preoccupations that have concerned
writers since the Second World War.
Focuses on writers who have felt and
expressed with peculiar poignancy the
challenge which the experience of the
war poses to our understanding of
humanity. Selected writers include
Appelfield, Belben, Bernhard, Calvino,
Celan, Duras, Gadda, Hofmann,
Josipovici, Levi, Perec, Sciascia, Spark.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 368 The Varieties of Russian
Fiction: Prose Writers of the 19th-
Century
Explores the breadth and innovativeness
of Russian fiction through works of
different genres by four writers —
Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Leo
Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov — who
together span the 19th-century.
Provides a solid grounding both in the
forms of Russian fiction and in the
variety of its “worlds”— geographical,
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intellectual, and imaginative.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/FM 369 The Aesthetics of
Crime Fiction
Examines works of modernist fiction
writers: Faulkner, Joyce, Proust, Kafka,
Hemingway, Nabokov. Studies works of
a second literary revolution that
included: Hammett, Greene, Highsmith,
Himes. Other readings are: Babel,
Carver, Carter, Sciascia, and
Daeninckx. Also studies the relationship
between the best crime fiction and
innovative crime films such as The
Killing, Chinatown, Le Samouraï, Prizzi's
Honor, and Pulp Fiction.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 371 20th-Century Latin
American Writers: Literature, Politics,
and History
Examines Latin America 500 years after
Columbus: parody, despair, the
grotesque and the carnivalesque in
contemporary novelists. History seen
through the eyes of fiction, includes: the
jail cell of Kiss of the Spider Woman
(Manuel Puig), the jungle brothel of The
Green House (Mario Vargas Llosa), the
satirical and unrelenting vision of
20th-century Mexico, Christopher
Unborn (Carlos Fuentes).
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 373 Ulysses and British
Modernism
Reads Joyce's Ulysses in depth, and in
the context of British modernist
culture. Supporting readings include
works by Wyndham Lewis and Virginia
Woolf, and documents from contemporary
periodicals. Articulates the relationships
between stylistic creativity and the
imagination of new possibilities for living,
arguing that stylistic innovation attempts
seriously and productively to grasp the
emerging difficulties and opportunities
of late capitalism.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 374 Russian Modernism: Topics
in 20th-Century Russian Literature
Considers major prose writers who
continued the line of Gogol and
Dostoevsky into and throughout the
20th-century: Andrei Bely, Evgeny
Zamyatin, Isaac Babel, Andrei Platonov,
Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov,
Daniil Kharms, Abram Tertz, and Viktor
Pelevin. Focuses upon the continuity
of the Russian tradition and its
confrontation with the century's
upheavals. Discusses Russian
modernist visual art and theater.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 376 Modern Sexuality and the
Process of Writing
Considers a range of literary writing
in which experimental prose and
challenging depictions of sex have
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together defined a particularly
subversive force. Reads these works
against the development of particularly
modern varieties of sexual identity and
sexual behavior. Includes works by
Genet, Nabokov, Orton, Bataille, Kathy
Acker, Nella Larsen, among others.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 377 The Experience of
Time in Early 20th-Century Writing
Studies the question: how is the shift to
an explicit engagement with time
assumed by modern writing in the
context of the concern with temporality,
which existed at the beginning of the
20th-century Readings include
theoretical and literary works by:
Benjamin, Bergson, Einstein, Freud,
Heidegger, Musil, Pound, Proust, Rilke,
Svevo, and Woolf.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 379 Proust and Beckett: The
Art of Failure
Examines Proust's view on time
and memory, love and impossibility,
knowledge and jealousy in A la recherche
du temps perdu, the account of
magnificent failure, and a transition
between the 19th-century and modern
novel. The notion of failure is also
central to the work of Beckett, greatly
influenced by Proust. His Trilogy and
selected plays are read.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/GS 384 Writing from the
Margins: Women Writers, Postcolonial
Identities
Introduces writings by women that feature
literary and political border crossing,
métissage (racial, ethnic, and generic),
and non-canonical forms. Explores issues
of subjectivity and subject formation;
considers the relationship between
traditional European literary theory and
the “new writings in English” or hybrid
forms of postcolonial writing. Introduces
alternative definitions of literature and
the artist in postcolonial contexts.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 385 Literary Theory and
Criticism
Examines the major tenets, philosophical
perspectives, and critical orientations of
literary theory from Plato and Aristotle to
the present. Students study critical texts
from literary and non-literary disciplines,
schools, and voices that have come to
impact the Western theoretical canon,
including psychoanalysis, Marxism,
Russian formalism, structuralism,
deconstruction, feminism, queer theory,
new historicism, and post colonialism.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL/ES 386 The Turn of Irony:
Re-cognition in the Western Tradition
Constitutes an historical and
interdisciplinary approach to irony
through classical and modern literature
(with reference to philosophy and
intellectual history). Moving beyond irony
as a figure of speech and/or a dramatic
situation, the course appraises how
irony both organizes limits between the
human and non-human and structures
their (mis)recognition over the Western
tradition (Greek, Christian, Renaissance,
Modern and 20th-century writing).
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 400 Interdisciplinary Topics in
Literature
Changes every year, offering the chance
to study literature from within different
perspectives and across different periods.
Studies literature as it is actively involved
with other artistic practices, such as
painting or music, and engaged with other
disciplines, such as science or philosophy
or cultural studies or gender studies.
Recent examples include: Literature and
Science, Literature and Politics.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CL 490 Senior Seminar: Special
Studies in Comparative Literature
Changes every year. Offers advanced
study in themes, genres, theories, and
issues not treated in regular theories, and
issues not treated in regular departmental
courses. Taught by permanent or visiting
faculty and generally related to the
instructors' research interests and published
scholarship. Recent examples include
Autobiography and Literature, Modern
American Poetics, Logic and Narration,
and Shakespeare and After.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: senior standing,
or by permission. May be taken twice for
credit. Offered every Spring
CL 495 Senior Project
In consultation with a faculty member,
the student undertakes a senior
research project, resulting in a 25 to 30-
page paper, which is normally on a
literary topic or theme in more than one
literature. In certain circumstances, a
student may propose a creative project
in lieu of a critical paper.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered
every semester
Computer Science
CS/CM 101 Introduction to Web
Authoring
Introduces Web publishing in 12 sessions.
Students will learn the basics of HTML
and the use of at least one HTML editor.
Site publishing including file structures,
image and sound files will be covered.
1 Credit. Prerequisite: IT 100 or by
permission. Offered every semester
CS 110 Introduction to the Use
of Computer Environments
We begin with easily-learned Logo
then NetLogo to explore emergent
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characteristics of multiple-agent
systems. Next, we look at Mathematica,
an extraordinarily sophisticated
computational environment. Finally, we
look at some software applications
including ubiquitous Excel. Topics from:
computer graphics; linear algebra;
operations research; statistics; design;
computational methods in biology,
psychology and economics; visual
thinking; general problem-solving and
poetry.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CS 140 Introduction to
Computer Programming I
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.
4 Credits. Offered every Fall
CS 150 Introduction to
Computer Programming II
This is the second part of foundation
course for the Computer Science degree
program. Successful students will have a
thorough knowledge of the computer
language Java, the systematic
development of programs, problem
solving and a knowledge of some of the
fundamental algorithms of computer
science. Essential concepts include
inheritance, polymorphism, and error
handling using exceptions.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 140.
Offered every Spring
CS 220 Computer Games Design
With no prerequisites, the course
provides an in-depth understanding of
how the computer game design process
works. The course is project based.
Students with no or little programming
experience will learn how to create their
own computer games. Depending on
their interest and their background the
students can choose between two
options. The first option is to use
"drag-and-drop" game engines to create
2Dimensional and 3Dimensional games
without any programming. The second
option consists of a soft introduction to
computer programming for wireless
devices (cell phones), using a subset of
Java programming language J2ME, with
examples from the game development
process.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CS 271 Languages and Data
Structures
Uses predefined classes and class
libraries to introduce standard data
structures (stacks, queues, sets,
graphs, etc.). Studies and implements
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algorithms for string searching,
finite-state automata, compression, etc.
Makes comparisons with other
languages, and introduces the use of
formal grammars to describe
programming languages.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 150. Offered
every Fall
CS 310 Computational Methods
in the Social Sciences: Agents Based
Simulations
In this course students will learn
several computational based
methodologies that can be used to
analyze a wide variety of complex
social phenomena in various fields
of study such as economics, politics,
law, human organization, cognition,
and communication. The course is
project based. Students will acquire
knowledge about fundamental model
design principles and gain practical
experience with the entire simulation
development life-cycle including problem
formulation, system and objectives
definition, conceptual modeling,
model design, implementation,
experimentation, and credibility
assessment. While the focus will be
on agents based simulations, students
will become aware of other fundamental
methodologies such as social network
analysis and ontology based e-social
science.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 140. Offered
periodically
CS/IT 315 Computer Architectures
Examines system integration and the
resulting software considerations, digital
arithmetic, storage and access
techniques, micro-programming,
representative machine architecture,
architecture of networks and
telecommunication systems.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CS 150,
MA 140. Offered every Fall
CS 317 Real-Time Systems
Introduces the principles of real-time
systems and embedded systems
programming, as well as several
programming approaches, including
state machines and multithreading.
Introduces real-time programming,
real-time constraints, determinism,
predictability of systems, and
dependability of systems, scheduling
approaches including rate monotonic
analysis, or easiest deadline scheduling.
Describes real-time software engineering
approaches (Statecharts, SA/RT-SD/RT,
OMT, UML...).
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CS 271,
MA 140. Offered periodically
CS 325 Network Architecture
The course explains through an
architecture perspective the principles
and practice of computer networking,
with emphasis on the Internet and on
pervasive computing. The following
topics will be covered: structure and
components of distributed systems,
layered ISO/OSI architectures, protocols,
local Area Networks, wide area
networking issues including routing,
flow control. Some advanced topics
will also be covered such as pervasive
computing, ad-hoc networks, security,
service discovery and queuing theory.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 150. Offered
periodically
CS 326 Artificial Intelligence
Introduces some of the key ideas
and concepts in artificial intelligence
(e.g. knowledge bases, problem solving).
Provides an overview of current
applications (expert systems and
rule-based systems, language
understanding, perception, learning).
Introduces some of the techniques
(matching, goal reduction, tree pruning,
searching, etc.) that are typically used.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CS 271,
MA 140. Offered periodically
CS 332 Operating Systems
Studies the design and implementation
of general purpose operating systems on
digital computers: memory management,
virtual memory, storage hierarchy
evaluation, multiprogramming, process
creation, synchronization, deadlock,
message communication, parallel
programming constructs, I/O management,
and file systems. Includes case studies
of major operating systems.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 271. Offered
every Spring
CS 335 Computer and Network
Security
The course covers principles of
computer systems security. We will
discuss various attack techniques
and how to defend against them.
Topics include basic cryptography,
authentication, secure network
protocols, program security, attacks
and defenses on computer systems,
smart cards and security evaluation.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 271. Offered
periodically
CS 346 Efficient Algorithms
Develops skill in devising combinatorial
algorithms and in analyzing their
behavior. Starts with a brief introduction
on formal systems, automata and Turing
machines and continues with a study of
algorithms for sorting, searching, string
processing, geometry, graphs, numeric,
and algebraic applications.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CS 271,
MA 140, or by permission. Offered every
Spring
CS/CM 348 Human-Computer
Interaction
Introduces theories of human-computer
interaction and analyses human factors
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related to the design, development, and
use of Information Systems. Students
will apply these theories with examples
of design, implementation, and
evaluation of multimedia user
interfaces. The subject of this course is
inherently interdisciplinary and the
students attending the course normally
represent several majors.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS/CM 101
with a minimum 'B' grade or CS 150.
Offered periodically
CS/IT 351 Web Applications
Introduces web-server-side
programming. Students learn the
fundamentals of web applications
and web servers, security, state
management, and dynamic page
generation using server-side Java
technologies such as Java servlets, Java
Server Pages, Java Server Faces and
others. Explores database connection,
site management and “helper
applications” such as FTP servers and
e-mail.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 150.
Recommended: CS/CM 101. Offered
every Fall
CS 353 Software Engineering
Covers methods and tools associated
with the entire software life cycle:
requirement management, testing and
profiling, deployment, change and
configuration management, quality
management, project management and
security. Special emphases are given to
object-oriented software analysis and
design as a foundation to Model-driven
architecture (MDA). Automated and
semi-automated tools that support these
procedures will also be examined.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
CS 357 Wireless Communications
The course introduces state-of-the-art
wireless technologies and services.
The course is project based. Students
with little programming experience will
learn how to develop wireless
applications to solve real life business
and communication problems, using
Wireless Markup Language (WML),
Bluetoothh Wireless technology, i-mode,
Microsoft .NET Mobile Internet Toolkit
and others.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 140 or by
permission. Offered periodically
CS/IT 368 Database Applications
Introduces databases from the
programmer's perspective. IT and CS
students have common lectures but
different projects. IT students learn the
fundamentals of database design, SQL,
and how to integrate a database into
applications. CS students learn the
fundamentals of database design,
application integration, query motors,
and space management.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
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CS 372 Compilers Design
Explores computer languages as
entities, which can themselves be
manipulated by computers by applying
the techniques and tools developed
in CS 271. Describes lexical and syntax
analyzers and their application to
compilers. Teaches students to construct
a complete compiler for a small language.
Studies methods by which data-flow
analysis, control-flow analysis and call
graphs can be used in language processors.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 271. Offered
every Spring
CS 398 Internship
All CS majors are required to complete
a 3-credit internship. May be done in
France or elsewhere.
3/6 Credits. Number of credits depends
on workload. Prerequisites: junior
standing and approval of the
Department. Offered with consultation
of the Department.
CS 400 Senior Option
Each year the Department will offer a
different course or seminar covering a
current CS topic of interest.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
CS 491 Senior Seminar I
First part of a final thesis due at the end
of this course that allows students to
work individually or in groups on a
year-long project. One professor
oversees and coordinates student
work, but other professors may be
involved for special projects. Students
propose functional specifications and
start the implementations. The seminar
presents walk-throughs of designs and
implementations.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: senior standing
in Computer Science. Offered every Fall
CS 492 Senior Seminar II
During this second semester of the
senior project, students will complete
the implementation of their projects and
write a senior thesis.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: CS 491. Offered
every Spring
Drama
DR/EN 200 Theater Arts
Studies performance and dramatic
literature from both a theoretical and
practical point of view. The fall semester
focuses on seminal theories of the
theater, introducing students to several
critical approaches to the stage and
allowing them to experiment with
different performance styles. The spring
semester is a practical workshop in
acting and play analysis for performance.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
DR/FS 277 Acting in French
(See French: FS/DR 277)
DR/CL 338 Shakespeare in Context
(See Comparative Literature: CL/DR 338)
Economics
EC/CM 203 The New Economy and
the Media
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.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
EC 210 Priciples of Microeconomics
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.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
EC 220 Principles of
Macroeconomics
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.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
EC 230 Introduction to
International Economic Relations
Deals with the mechanisms of
international trade and finance. Topics
covered include the theory of trade,
commercial policy, the international
monetary system, the balance of
payments adjustments process, regional
economic integration, and the role of
international organizations in
international economic relations.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered every semester
EC 310 Intermediate
Microeconomics
Uses the concepts of formal economic
analysis to study topics ranging from the
theory of consumer behavior to the
formation of market demand, economics
of the firm, pricing under competition
and monopoly, income distribution,
general equilibrium, and welfare
economics. Emphasizes the application
of various theoretical constructs in the
analysis and interpretation of problems
encountered in the real world.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220, MA 110. Offered every year
EC 311 Quantitative Intermediate
Microeconomics
Uses calculus to study topics such as
the theory of consumer behavior, the
formation of market demand, economics
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of the firm, pricing under competition
and monopoly, general equilibrium,
welfare economics and various types
of market failure. This course covers
essentially the same material as EC 310.
3 credits. Prerequisites: EC 210, EC 220,
MA 130. Offered every year.
EC 315 Industrial Organization
Extends the theory of the firm to
the U.S. and European manufacturing
sectors. Examines the industrial
structure of the U.S. and European
economies from an institutional,
statistical, and theoretical perspective.
Prepares students for analyzing
the nature of competition in an
industry, as well as the welfare
considerations, and policy operations
that are relevant in industries
characterized by monopoly power.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220, MA 110. Offered periodically
EC 320 Intermediate
Macroeconomics
Studies in depth factors influencing
aggregate supply and demand, inflation,
unemployment, interest rates, and
international payments. Develops an
analytic framework for the purpose
of investigating the interrelationships
among principal macroeconomic
aggregates. Discusses current issues
and controversies regarding
macroeconomic policies.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220, MA 110. Offered one regular
semester and Summer
EC 329 Global Economic
History: 1820 - 1990
Examines the development of modern
economics from the first industrial
revolution to the present. Some of the
topics discussed include: Technological
Progress and Innovation in Europe,
International Trade, Migration and
International Capital Flows, the
emergence of Asia and Latin America,
the socialist economies, transition
capitalistic economies in Eastern
Europe and Latin America, Globalization,
Convergence and Inequality.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered every Spring
EC 330 Comparative Economic
Systems
Studies an economic system in terms of
its institutions, goals, instruments, and
economic performance. This course will
analyze the theory and practice of the
capitalist market economies and its
varieties. It will review the theory of
centrally planned “command” economies
and assess the transition economies in
practice. Islamic economics in theory
and practice will also be visited.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered one regular semester
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EC 333 Economics of Technology
Focuses on the economic underpinnings
of the economics of information and
technological innovation. The course
covers topics such as agglomeration
and localization of innovative firms,
impact of innovation on productivity
gains, R & D and spillover effects,
technology and globalization.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered every Fall
EC 336 Economics of the Muslim
World
Examines first the subject, methodology,
laws and meaning of the Islamic
economic system. Studies the nature
of consumer behavior, principles of
production, ownership, and the distribution
of income from an Islamic perspective.
Then focuses on the practice of Islamic
economics in selected countries in the
second part of the course.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210, EC
220. Offered periodically
EC 342 Economic Development
Examines the evolution of the concept
of economic development and its
means of assessment. The course
studies the models explaining the process
of economic development and the
barriers to it. A critical analysis of the
success and failure of development
theories and policies is examined.
A survey of neo-classical, dualist,
structuralist, Third-Worldist, Marxist
and IMF based discourses of
development and underdevelopment
are undertaken.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered one regular semester
EC 343 Economics of
Sustainable Development
This course familiarizes students with
concepts and methods that are used in
the analysis of the interaction between
the economy, the environment and
society, and studies the range of policies
that can be applied to environmental
and social problems. The key issue is
how markets can be made to work for
sustainable development.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered one regular semester
EC 352 International Trade
Theory and Policy
Examines the economic causes and
consequences of international exchange
using the basic tools of price theory.
Applies the trade model to the analysis
of gains from trade, resource transfers,
and economic growth. Topics include:
perfect and imperfect competition trade
models, technology and transportation
cost models, and international
negotiations on trade issues.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EC 230 or by
permission. Offered every Fall
EC/BA 353 International
Monetary Economics
Covers the monetary aspect of international
trade theory. Discusses the balance of
payments and the exchange rate with
reference to the institutional framework,
focusing on demand management or, more
generally, the pursuit of the major economic
goals in an open economy. Relates basic
theory to current international problems,
using a policy-oriented approach.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EC 230 or by
permission. Offered every Spring
EC 360 Managerial Economics
Applies microeconomic theory to business
decision-making, emphasizing efficient
use of resources to maximize profits.
Considers aspects of the decision sciences
as related to business problems while
dealing with a profit-maximizing firm in
private industry. Examines decision-making
under risk and uncertainty, estimation and
use of demand functions for forecasting,
pricing of interrelated products, market
entry strategy, and economic models of
advertising.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220, MA 110. Offered periodically
EC 361 Economic Applications of
Game Theory
Introduces game theory as used in many
different disciplines, with an emphasis on
economics. The course will focus on finding
Nash equilibrium of non-cooperative
games. The reasonableness of various
kinds of equilibria will also be discussed,
as well as departures from the usual
assumptions of rational behavior.
Students will describe a situation as a
game and solve for its equilibria.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered every Spring
EC/BA 373 Money, Banking, and
Finance
Presents an analysis of the general
principles of monetary theory, the role
of money, commercial banking and the
Federal Reserve System, as they relate
to the performance of the economic
system. Considers current problems
concerning inflation and the use of
monetary policy and financial controls.
The Internet is used extensively as a
pedagogical and research tool.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered every Fall
EC 385 Economics of the
European Union
Introduces the rationality and history of
economic integration in general, and the
political economy of the European
integration at different stages of
its development, as well as
microeconomic-macroeconomic policies
and the economic performance of the
European Union in particular.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220. Offered periodically
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EC 386 Introduction to Econometrics
Includes an introduction to the linear
regression model; a review of
elementary statistics; the two-variable
regression model in detail; the multiple
regression model, its use, and problems
arising from violations of its underlying
assumptions; and an introduction to
simultaneous equation models.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220, IT 130, MA 120. Offered every
Spring
EC 391 Topics in Economics
Courses on different and emerging
topics in the discipline, enriching the
present course offerings. These classes
are taught by permanent or visiting
faculty.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210, EC
220. Offered periodically
EC/BA 490 Seminar in
International Economics
Provides a rigorous analysis of key
international economic problems.
Subjects treated vary from semester to
semester. In addition to the application
of tools of analysis developed in previous
courses, further theoretical material may
be presented. Part of the seminar is
centered on the preparation of a major
term project.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: EC 210,
EC 220, EC 230. Offered every Spring
English
For English Literature courses, see
Comparative Literature
EN 001 Advanced Intensive
Writing
Helps students develop greater
sophistication, nuance, and style in
writing academic papers in English. Allows
students to practice all the phases of
preparing and producing quality academic
writing, including critical thinking, essay
planning, outlining and organization,
proofreading, editing, and rewriting.
4 Credits. Although this course carries
4 credits, it does not fulfill the University's
English requirement. Offered every
semester
EN 003 Intensive Writing
Prepares students to become proficient
writers of academic English. Reviews
grammar in the context of writing.
Students learn the essential steps of
writing, such as planning, organization,
mechanics, word choice, style, and
editing.
4 Credits. Although this course carries 4
credits, it does not fulfill the University's
English requirement. Offered every
semester
EN 060 English Grammar Review
Provides an in-depth understanding of
the grammar system of English
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through formal analysis of excerpts
from a variety of sources including
academic and non-academic texts and
film. Covers fine points such as tense,
time, aspect, register, voice, and
idioms. Gives individualized feedback to
help students focus on their particular
needs.
2 Credits. Although this course carries
2 credits, it does not fulfill the
University's English requirement. Offered
every semester
EN 090 Principles of Academic
Writing
Develops students' expertise in writing
with clarity, sophistication, and style.
Focuses on the necessary steps that
lead to strong expressive writing, such
as defining a manageable theme,
shaping a specific thesis statement,
organizing and outlining ideas, being
attentive to mechanics and word
choice, and conducting effective editing
and revising.
3 Credits. Although this course carries
3 credits, it does not fulfill the
University's English requirement. Offered
every semester
EN 100 Principles of Advanced
Academic Writing
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.
3 Credits. Although this course carries
3 credits, it does not fulfill the
University's English requirement.
Offered every semester
EN 110 College Writing
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.
3 Credits. This course satisfies only 3
credits of the University's English
requirement. Prerequisite: EN 100 with
a minimum grade of C, or by AUP
placement. Offered every semester
EN 120 Writing and Criticism
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.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Prerequisite: EN 110 with a minimum
grade of C, or AUP placement. Offered
every semester
EN 130 Advanced Critical
Analysis and Writing
Focuses on defining terms, developing
positions and strategies for
argumentation, based on written and
oral summary and synthesis, and on
how contextual requirements affect the
written and oral expression of ideas.
Teaches the use of critical analysis and
writing skills mastered in EN 120 in a
larger context. Considers issues
concerning cultural, economic, and
technological value systems from a
range of disciplines.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 120 with a
minimum grade of C. Offered every
semester
EN/DR 200 Theater Arts
(See Drama: DR/EN 200)
EN/CL 251 Masters of English
Literature before 1800
(See Comparative Literature: CL/EN 251)
EN/CL 252 Masters of English
Literature since 1800
(See Comparative Literature: CL/EN
252)
EN/CL 300 Creative Writing
Discusses the craft of creative writing,
and workshops student writing. Focus
varies from semester to semester;
generally concentrates on fictional
modes in Fall, poetry in Spring.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Offered every semester
EN 340 The Study of Language: An
Introduction to Linguistics
A basic introduction. Focuses on the
core areas of general linguistics: syntax,
morphology, phonetics/phonology,
historical linguistics, and socio-linguistics.
Discusses first and second language
acquisition and Pidgin and Creole
Languages. A course of interest to both
native and non-native English speakers.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
Environmental Science
SC 120 Environmental Science
(See Science: SC 120)
European and
Mediterranean Cultures
ES 100 Sources of European
Culture
Introduces central elements of European
culture by means of a study of ancient
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religion and of ancient and modern
myth. Examines changing values for Eros
and the Hero/Saint. Studies emblematic
figures that haunt the European memory
in film and filmic text.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
ES 105 Europe and Cities: The
Italian Renaissance
Focuses on Florence as a source of
culture and artistic flowering, and locus
of competition, contestation and strife.
Examines the distribution of wealth and
the structuring of society and politics,
the development of humanist inquiry
and pedagogy, the religious climate and
artistic patronage. Surveys, for
comparison, Rome and Venice.
3 Credits. Offered in alternate years
ES 110 Europe and Cities: The
Modern City
Studies the foundations of the 19th and
20th-century city, examining the cultural
dynamics of key European cities. Uses
film and other texts to question and
explore urban modernity.
3 Credits. Offered every year
ES 200 Approaches to Culture:
Frames, Practices, and Objects
Introduces students to the methods of
contemporary cultural studies, through a
combination of theoretical readings and
practical analysis. Understands cultural
phenomena in terms of their framing
contexts — the institutions, traditions,
and physical spaces that surround them
and control their meanings — and in
terms of the dutiful or idiosyncratic ways
in which individuals and groups use them.
3 Credits. Offered every year
ES/GS 205 Daughters of Hera and
Hecate: Women's Life in Ancient
Greece and Rome, 800 BC-300 AD
Studies selections from ancient law,
medicine, literature, and philosophy to
illuminate the position of women in
Antiquity. Aims to form an opinion as
to how what was written and portrayed
relates to our hypotheses as to what
actually happened. Discusses the
mystification -- the Great Mother
Goddess -- leading to an examination
of marriage and maternity in relation to
ethical, metaphysical, and legal
presuppositions.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES/HI 210 French Cultural History:
1453-1715
This course is specially designed for
students who wish to take the fullest
advantage of their stay in France to gain
first-hand knowledge of France’s rich
cultural heritage. It includes a general
introduction and an historical overview
of the development of the culture of
France within its geographic, artistic,
intellectual, and socio-economic context.
On-site lectures in museums and
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monuments in and around Paris will be
an integral part of the study of French
cultural history from the late Middle
Ages to the death of Louis XIV. Students
will be responsible for some museum
entrance fees.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES/PL 213 Philosophy and
Religion I: From the Ancient to the
Medieval World
(See Philosophy: PL/ES 213)
ES/PL 214 Philosophy and
Religion II: From the Early Modern to
the Postmodern World
(See Philosophy: PL/ES 214)
ES/PL 215 Philosophy and the City
Offers an interdisciplinary, historically
informed reflection on the city and its
role in civilization from the perspective
of philosophy, with emphasis on urban
dwelling and citizenship. Topics to be
considered: the city and politics, the city
and tolerance (law, multiculturalism and
religion), the city and its limits (urbs and
sub-urbs), real to virtual cities (philosophy,
space and digital communities).
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES 300 Topics in European
and Mediterranean Cultures
Courses will be developed from time to
time which examine various aspects of
European cultural and social history,
focusing on different questions,
historical periods and places. These
are taught by permanent or visiting
faculty, and will generally be specific to
their specialization.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES/FM 300 Topics: The Film
Culture of Europe's Cities
Examines the intricate relationship
existing between major European cities
(Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid,
London) and cinema. Structured around
screenings and classroom lectures,
it develops an understanding of how
key metropolitan cities have been
represented in films, but also how
cinematographic art has been influenced
by the very rich and unique cultural
experiences offered by these cities.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES/HI 301 European Urban
Culture: Berlin From Imperial Germany
to the Third Reich
A study of Berlin: From elegant palaces
and parks to commercial and industrial
sectors, investigating the German capital's
cultural transitions from 1870 to 1945.
Selected dramas, films, and novels offer
insight into the political culture of a city
constantly in the process of remaking
itself. Includes a study trip to Berlin.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 302 European Urban
Culture: Berlin From Allied Occupation
to German Capital
Examines the Allied partition of Berlin,
the politics of the Cold War, the Berlin
Air Lift, the emergence of two German
states, the division by the Berlin Wall,
and the reemergence of a unified city in
a new Germany. Films, drama, and
novels trace the historical development
of the city. Includes a study trip to Berlin.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/CL 303 European Urban
Culture: Naples and Palermo: The Two
Sicilies
Focuses on Naples, but also deals with
Palermo and Sicily. Studies three
representative periods through their
history, art, literature, philosophy, and
film: the Baroque and beyond; the
discovery of Pompeii; Fascism, the War,
and their aftermath. Examines
representations of Sicily, the South, and
the Mafia. Includes a study trip to Naples.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 304: The History of Paris
(see History: HI/ES 304)
ES/HI 305 European Urban
Culture: Rome from the Renaissance
to the Counter-Reformation
Studies the history of Rome from the
14th-century through the 17th-century.
Examines the omnipresence of the Church
and the relations between the papal
government and the Roman populace.
Includes a review of the economic basis
of Roman life, the humanistic sphere
and the artistic environment. Includes a
study trip to Rome.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 306 European Urban
Culture: Vienna From Baroque to
Modernism
Studies Vienna's culture and Austria's
history against a background of spatial
transformations from Baroque palaces
to the historicist style of the Ringstrasse
and the modernist architecture of
Wagner and Loos. Investigates building
styles, paintings, novels, memoirs, music
and films to document the city's
development. Some readings are: Freud,
Roth, Schnitzler, Zweig. Includes a study
trip to Vienna.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/AH 307 European Urban
Culture: The Glory of Ancient Athens
Examines the glory of Athens, its
political constitution, and its exceptional
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intellectual and artistic achievements,
and the legacy to subsequent Western
thought, society, and culture. Studies
the period from the end of the Persian
Wars to the death of Socrates (479-399
BC). Includes a study trip to Athens and
the environs.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 308 European Urban
Culture: Amsterdam and Antwerp from
the 15th- to the 17th-Century
Compares the two port cities. Examines
Antwerp's prosperity, which produced a
remarkable cultural flowering, beginning
in the late 15th-century. Studies
Amsterdam's surge to prominence while
Antwerp's fortunes ebbed, an expansion
reflecting new Dutch economic and
political power, enabling the affirmation
of a rich national identity and culture.
Includes a study trip to Amsterdam and
Antwerp.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 309 European Urban
Culture: Venice from the Renaissance
to the Fall of the Republic
Studies the history of Venice from the
end of the 15th-century to the collapse
of the Republic at the end of the 18thcentury.
Examines politics and
government, economics and trade,
society, religion, humanism and the
arts. Includes a study trip to Venice.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/CL 310 European Urban
Culture: Edinburgh the City, Scotland
the Kingdom
Traces the development of Edinburgh
from the Act of Union with England
(1707) to the present, through
architecture, philosophy, religion, cultural
history, literature, and film. Links the city
to Scotland's attempt to define its
identity and achieve greater political
autonomy. Some authors studied include
David Hume, Adam Smith, Irvine Welsh.
Includes a study trip to Edinburgh.
3 Credits. Satisfies CL 400 Topics
requirement. Offered periodically. At
least 2 Urban Culture courses are
offered each semester
ES/HI 311 European Urban
Culture: Prague: From Imperial City to
National Capital
Crown city of the Habsburg Empire,
Prague was for centuries the cultural
threshold between East and West in
Europe. The course focuses on the
political struggles and cultural
interactions of Germans and Slavs from
Habsburg rule to the emergence of
Czechoslovakia and the later Czech
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Republic. Includes a study trip to Prague.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 312 European Urban
Culture: The Jewish Presence I: From
the Origins to the 17th-Century
Considers the way communities of Jews
coexisted in Europe with Christians, and
sometimes with Muslims, throughout
history. Focuses on the Jewish presence
in European urban culture from the late
Middle Ages to the mid-17th-century.
Considers all of Europe with emphasis
on Cordoba, Cologne, Prague, Venice,
Amsterdam, and Ottoman Salonica.
Includes a study trip.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/HI 313 European Urban
Culture: The Jewish Presence II: From
the 17th- to the 20th-Century
Explores the history of the Jews in
Europe from the mid-17th-century to the
present with special attention to the
effects of urbanization on Jewish belief
and practice and the impact of the
Jewish presence on European urban
culture. Reflects on the themes of
assimilation, acculturation, and
alienation. Makes specific reference to
Warsaw, Amsterdam, Paris, London,
and Berlin.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/AH 314 European Urban
Culture: Istanbul, an Imperial
Palimpsest
Covers Istanbul's history from its birth as
a Greek city in the 7th-century BCE
to its transition, first, to Constantinople,
a major capital of Christendom, then,
to its becoming the seat of the Muslim
Ottoman Empire. Examines the city's
patronage and imperial prowess by
concentrating on works of art,
architecture and literature. Includes
a study trip to Istanbul.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/AH 316 Society and Spectacle:
Painting, Photography, and Film in
Germany and Russia between the Two
Wars
(See Art History: AH/ES 316)
ES/HI 317 Mediterranean Urban
Culture: The Islamic City: History,
Spaces, and Visual Culture
Surveys the history of urban form in the
predominantly Muslim cities of the
Middle East and North Africa. Students
will study the relationship between
urban morphology and society, practices
of sacred space, and the interplay of
power, belief, and architectural form.
Also covered are the politics behind the
forms now seen as the defining features
of Islamic building and the question of
the image in Islamic building. On a
contemporary note, students will explore
the symbolic politics of the Muslim built
heritage and examine the extreme
conditions facing many Middle Eastern
urban populations today.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES 318-320 European Urban
Culture: Parisian Topics
Offers a rotation of courses with an
interdisciplinary focus on the history and
culture of Paris. Subjects include:
explorations of the city's life in the
Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, and in
the 17th and 18th centuries,
Revolutionary Paris, Paris at War, and
Paris as a Modern Metropolis.
Supplements classroom lectures by
on-site visits.
3 Credits. Offered periodically. At least
2 Urban Culture courses are offered
each semester
ES/FS 321 Paris Au Quotidien:
Temoinages Littéraires I (du Moyen
Age à la fin de l’Ancienne Régime)
ES/FS 322 Paris Au Quotidien:
Temoinages Littéraires II (de la
Revolution à la Fin du 19ème Siècle)
ES/FS 323 Paris Au Quotidien:
Temoinages Littéraires III (de la Belle
Epoque à nos Jours)
An examination of the daily life of
Parisians, in their personal and
professional environments, studied in
three important periods. A variety of
texts (chronicles, correspondence,
novels, etc.) is used to testify to the
diversity of urban experience and to
illuminate life in the French capital.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: FL 4 or
equivalent. Taught in French. Students
submitting written work in French will be
given ES/FS credit; those submitting
written work in English will be given ES
credit.
ES/CL 323 see CL/ES 323
ES/CL 325 see CL/ES 325
ES/CL 327 see CL/ES 327
ES/PL 325 German Critical Theory
Investigates one of the major intellectual
traditions of the 20th-century and is
centrally important for philosophy,
political theory, aesthetics, and the
theory of art. Examines the works of
Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse,
Benjamin, and Habermas. Topics
include: critique of instrumental
rationalism, repressive civilization,
the mechanical reproduction of art,
one-dimensional thought, the culture
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industry, and the myth of Enlightenment.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES/PL 328 Reflections on
Technology
(See Philosophy: PL/ES 328)
ES/PL 335 Virtual Reality
(See Philosophy: PL/ES 335)
ES/CL 343 The Attraction of Paris:
Modernist Experiments in Migration
(See Comparative Literature: CL/ES 343)
ES/CL 354 The 18th-Century
Divide Between Philosophy and
Literature
(See Comparative Literature: CL/ES 354)
ES/CL 359 Baudelaire and
Flaubert: Writing Modernity
(See Comparative Literature: CL/ES 359)
ES/PL 366 Popular Culture:
Theories and Practice
Considers the roots of Popular Culture in
folk and urban culture. Allies the study
of Modernist theory in Adorno,
Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Marcuse to
postmodern views in Baudrillard and
Bourdieu and examines the detail of
mass cultural phenomena in radio,
telecommunications, film, television,
video, popular music, and the press.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
ES/CM 370 Cultural Dimensions
of the European Idea
(See Communications: CM/ES 370)
ES/CL 377 The Experience of
Time in Early 20th-Century Writing
(See Comparative Literature: CL/ES
377)
ES 381 History of French
Civilization I: Origins of France to
1610
Studies the history of the development
of the culture of France within its geographic,
historic, artistic, and intellectual context.
Designed especially for French Studies
majors; open to all qualified students.
Offers visits to museums and other
resources in Paris, which are an essential
part of the course. Taught in French.
4 Credits. Prerequisites: FL4 or equivalent
and a good ability in written French.
Offered every Fall
ES 382 History of French
Civilization II: 1610-1914
The continuation of FR 381. See
description above.
4 Credits. Prerequisites: FL4 or
equivalent and a good ability in written
French. Offered every Spring
ES 384 Contemporary French
Civilization: 1914 to the Present
Gives a solid background in both the
facts and psychology of 20th-century
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France. Explores the historical and social
development of French society since
1914 and presents a picture of
present-day France through the study of
its institutions and its social and political
life. Students read and analyze daily and
weekly French newspapers. Taught in
French.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent. Offered every Spring
ES/CL 386 The Turn of Irony:
Re-cognition in the Western Tradition
(See Comparative Literature: CL/ES
386)
Center for Language
Research and Teaching
Groupe A courses: Basic French
language courses.
FL 1: Paris and Me/Paris et moi
(Beginner’s French 1)
Taught in French, this course will use
the students’ encounter with a different
country, language and its impact on their
definition of who they are. The student’s
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.
4 Credits.
FL 2: Living in French/Vivre en
français (Beginner’s French 2)
Taught in French, this course
presupposes a basic knowledge of
French grammar and a vocabulary of
1,000 words. The course will enable
students to improve their comprehension
skills through the use of authentic audio
and video material. In-class work will be
supplemented by multimedia activities
and real-life situations in the City of Paris.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 1 or
equivalent.
FL 3: Being in France/Etre en
France (Intermediate French 1)
This course will open students to
discussions on their experience in Paris.
The cultural and historical aspects of the
French différence will be introduced.
Scenes and dialogues taken from French
Cinema will be studied in order to
introduce questions of cultural
differences, of language registers
(formal/informal vocabulary and
structures) and intonations.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 2 or
equivalent.
FL 4: Loving France/Aimer la
France (Intermediate French 2)
The objectives of this course are based
on the principle that studying French
involves understanding the changes
undergone by the foreigner who
integrates into another country. Different
themes will be suggested to the
students by the different instructors. A
close emphasis will be given to grammar
study and exercises, oral work through
class discussions and exposés, skits and
debates.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 3 or equivalent.
Group B courses: Courses to help
acquire linguistic skills in French:
reading, translating, speaking and
writing.
FL 103 Reading France
This course, which may be conducted in
English, is a systematic approach to
written French with a focus on word
recognition and understanding, grammar
and usage, with the principal objective of
acquiring the necessary skills to feel
one’s way in France more easily.
Students will acquire a visual knowledge
of French and of France inside and,
above all, outside the classroom.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 1 or equivalent
(recommended for students registered
in FL 2).
FL 203 French for Translation
This course is designed to help students
learn both linguistic and cultural
differences by translating French prose
into English (specific themes to be
chosen according to students’ interests).
Emphasis will be placed on the acquisition
of vocabulary, grammatical forms and
usages, and sentence structures. The
notion of styles of discourses and the
study of the principles and problems of
translating skills will be introduced.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent.
FL 205 French for Conversation
This course focuses on communicative
strategies in informal social contexts
requiring competence in spoken French.
The ample use of multimedia exercises
and the close study of authentic or
re-created oral situations in dialogues
(in theatre, films, skits, documentaries,
spontaneous situations) will enable
students to acquire the French body
language using their passive and active
vocabulary and grammatical structures
in real life situations.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 3 or equivalent.
FL 207 French for International
Business
This course is designed for students
interested in international business or
who intend to work or travel for business
in French-speaking countries. Students
will learn about the present economic
questions and climate in France and
Europe, learn about practices and
traditions that make French business
different from its counterparts in the
United-States or elsewhere (according to
students’ interests).
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or equivalent.
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FL 209 French for Literature
This course is designed for students
interested in literature. After reading a
series of representative novels’ abstracts
or short fictions, plays and poetry,
students will be taught the main notions
of literary study in French and the
principles of French literary scholarship
(dissertation, commentaire composé,
explication de texte, exposé oral).
Students will improve their written
argumentative and communicative skills
in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent (a good reading and speaking
knowledge of French).
Group C courses: Advanced courses
of a more specialized nature designed
to improve a particular skill: oral
comprehension, translation, written and
oral grammar, contemporary vocabulary
and corrective pronunciation.
FL 301 Initiation à la traduction
Gives intensive study and practice in the
technique of translation from English
into French and French into English.
Studies a range of texts including excerpts
from classical literary works as well as a
variety of current writings. Reviews
grammatical structures when necessary.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4, or by
permission. Offered every Fall
FL 303 Advanced Translation
This course is designed for students
intending to improve their written
French and vocabulary. The tools and
principles of both French-English and
English-French translations will be
taught to help students discuss the
particular questions posed by cultural
transpositions. Texts will derive from
various contexts with an emphasis on
literary, philosophical or political themes
according to the instructor’s choice.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 301 or
equivalent.
FL 305 L’art de la conversation
Using authentic material from various
media, the students will be given
systematic exercises to improve their
comprehension of a large variety of
francophone voices and accents
recorded in different contexts (daily lives,
media interviews or professional
presentations). The students will
summarize the main points of these
short oral texts and therefore improve on
their logical and oral argumentative skills.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent.
FL 306 Le français contemporain
pour le Nouveau Parisien: Phonétique
corrective
For French majors and other students
who plan to enroll in advanced courses.
This course is designed to improve the
students’ spoken French and vocabulary
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while studying and practicing the French
language sound system.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent.
FL 307 Advanced Grammar
This course is designed for highly
motivated students who plan to enroll in
advanced French courses on campus or
abroad. Heavy emphasis will be placed
on individual work based on
customized programs of study in the
Computer Lab or in chosen text-books.
Class time will be devoted to analyzing
the students’ trials and errors, through
group discussions, review and quizzes.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or equivalent.
Film Studies
FM/CM 110 Films and Their
Meanings
Students begin with an analysis of basic
elements of film language (signs, codes,
syntax). They study the technology,
economics and politics of the film
industry as it has developed in the
United States and Europe. In the latter
half of the course they will investigate
the impact of television, video,
computers and digital media in the
history of cinema.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM/CM 218 Writing Fiction for
Television
Over the past twenty years, Grenada,
HBO, and the BBC have been creating
series such as The Singing Detective,
Cracker, MI5, The Sopranos, and The
Wire that are much darker and more
persuasive and perverse than anything
else on television or on the big screen.
Students will examine these “visual
texts,” and will also outline one or two
series of their own, working on individual
scenes that will be dramatized in class.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 225 Set Design in Cinema
Set Design in Cinema is a course that
aims to define the profession of set
design and familiarize students with
some of the greatest set-designers in
cinema as well as recognize their style
throughout films. Students will discover
and analyze the parallel between the
historical and aesthetic development of
set-design as well as its reputation as a
paradoxical art form.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 227 Film Theory and
Criticism
Examines film theory with two motives:
how does it help us read individual films,
and what does it tell us about this
medium Studies theorists such as
Sergei Eisenstein, André Bazin, Robin
Wood, Christian Metz, Joan Mellen,
Laura Mulvey, and Gaylyn Studlar, in
relation to certain seminal films -—
Potemkin, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, A bout
de souffle, and Pulp Fiction.
3 Credits. Offered in alternate years
FM/CL 228 The Art of
Screenwriting
Devoted to the theory and practice of
writing for the screen. Analyzes
selected screenplays, such as Robert
Towne's Chinatown, Jane Campion's
The Piano, and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp
Fiction, in terms of structure, conflict,
and dialogue, and then concentrates
on students' own screenplays, with one
or two individual scenes.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Offered every Spring
FM/CM 229 Making a
Documentary
In this course, students will have
the opportunity to make their own
documentary shorts and to begin work
on longer form projects. They will also be
introduced to some basic documentary
genres and approaches such as social
issue, journalistic, dramatic, personal,
poetic, biographical, experimental. They
will learn how to research, script, shoot,
and edit their work, also how to interview
and improvise.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 238 Producers and Producing
This course documents some of the
great producers who brought movies to
life, from legendary moguls like David O.
Selznick and Dino de Laurentiis to
producers of independent cinema today.
We also look at case histories of movies
where there were tensions between
business and creative sides. Students
will learn how business and art co-exist
in Hollywood compared with Europe and
how movies are budgeted and financed
on both sides of the Atlantic.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 275 Introduction to the History
and Analysis of Narrative Film I: From
Méliès through the Hollywood Studio
Era and World War II
Studies film history, aesthetics, and
techniques of film analysis. Illustrates
the basic theories of filmmaking with
specific films of important directors such
as Griffith, Eisenstein, Stroheim, Chaplin,
Keaton, Murnau, Sternberg, Lubitsch,
Renoir, Hawks, Ford, Welles, and Sturges.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 276 Introduction to the History
and Analysis of Narrative Film II: From
1945 to the Present
Studies postwar cinema, including the
Italian Neorealists, Film Noir, the French
New Wave, Hitchcock, Fellini, Antonioni,
Kurosawa, Coppola, Bergman, Bertolucci,
Scorsese, Penn, Fassbinder, Jane
Campion, Tarantino, Woody Allen, and
Spike Lee.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
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FM 280 Film Directors: Orson
Welles and His Inheritors
Studies Welles' chaotic film career —
his spectacular rise and fall, quest for a
total cinema, exile, frustrations and
triumphs, both as actor and filmmaker —
and his place in American cinema.
Films include: Citizen Kane, The
Magnificent Ambersons, Journey Into
Fear, The Lady From Shanghai,
Macbeth, The Third Man, Mr. Arkadin,
Touch of Evil, and The Trial.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 281 Film Directors: Alfred
Hitchcock
Studies Hitchcock's art and its
contradictions: his pessimism, his
perverse sense of play, his love of
manipulating an audience, his ability to
produce disturbing “fables” about our
deepest anxieties and sexual malaise
while working within the Hollywood
system. Concentrates on the films:
Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Rear
Window, Vertigo, Psycho, North by
Northwest, and The Birds.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 282 Film Directors: Tarantino
and His Many Fathers
Studies the most influential filmmaker
of the past 20 years, and his quirky,
exciting, bewildering narrative,
“cannibalizing” other directors to
produce a highly original vision. Films
include: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction,
Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, and films of
Kubrick, Melville, Godard, and others
which can be seen as influential for
Tarantino's provocative art.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 286 Film Directors: The
American New Wave, 1967-1979
The American New Wave, 1967-1979,
is the most significant period in
American film history; it was the only
time that directors worked as real
creators within the studio system. This
only happened because the studio
system began to fail miserably by the
mid-sixties, and directors such as
Arthur Penn, Robert Altman, Francis
Coppola, and Martin Scorsese were able
to impose their will and their talent upon
Hollywood.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 290 Film Genres and Topics:
Film Noir
Studies America's cinematic myth: Film
Noir, a pessimistic style appearing in
Hollywood in the 1940s. Films include:
The Maltese Falcon, Shadow of a
Doubt, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity,
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Touch
of Evil, Out of the Past, The Woman in
the Window, Murder My Sweet, Force of
Evil, Pickup on South Street, and Kiss
Me Deadly.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
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FM 291 Film Genres and Topics:
The Western
No other film genre has remained rooted
within our psyche as the Western. Explores the
myth of the cowboy, examining classic and
revisionist Westerns including: Stagecoach,
Destry Rides Again, Red River, Duel in
the Sun, High Noon, Hombre, Johnny Guitar,
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Wild Bunch,
Blazing Saddles, The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance, and The Unforgiven.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 292 Film Genres and Topics:
Women and Film
Attempts to understand Hollywood's
ambiguous attitude toward women
during and after the studio system. What
do roles played by women tell us about
American culture and its fear of women
Also investigates women's roles in
Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, and Truffaut,
and the female image presented on the
screen by directors such as Jane
Campion, Diane Kurys, and Agnès Varda.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 293 Film Genres and Topics:
Cinema and Poetry
Teaches how to analyze cinematic
language and films critically by focusing
on the work of four modern European
film directors, beginning with Pasolini in
1965 and his contemporaries, followed
by Andrei Tarkovsky. Examines how the
critical concepts learned can be applied
to the work of other directors — taking as
representative examples the works of
Bergman and Kieslowski.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 294 Film Genres and Topics:
The Documentary
The first films documented real or
pseudo-events, but the documentary as
a conscious work of art did not appear
until Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the
North, 1922. Explores the relationship
between the documentary and fictional
narrative: Doesn't the documentary
filmmaker fragment and “fictionalize”
reality, and aren't the best narrative
films often a type of “documentary”
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM/PL 295 Film Genres and
Topics: Philosophy and Film
Uses film to examine various
philosophical ideas and critical
concepts. Students look at a number of
key Western texts and thinkers and
discuss them in the context of a broad
range of films. Uses these films as
illustrations to investigate questions
about knowledge, the self and personal
identity, moral philosophy, social and
political thought, and critical theory.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 300 Topics in Film Studies
Courses will be developed from time
to time which examine various aspects
of film studies, focusing on different
problems, phenomena, practices and
personalities. These are taught by
permanent or visiting faculty, and will be
generally specific to their specialization.
3 Credits. Offered periodically.
FM/ES 300 Topics: The Film
Culture of Europe's Cities
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/FM 300)
FM 330 Directors and Directing
Looks at the aesthetics and techniques
of film directing in a range of styles in
American and European films over the
past 50 years. Examines the relation of
the director to the story, the camera, the
actors, and the editing. Directors
include: Ophuls, Kazan, Bergman, De
Sica, Rossellini, Pollack, Scorsese,
Huston, Fassbinder, Malick, Spielberg,
Frears, and Altman.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: One course in
Film Studies. Offered periodically
FM/CM 332 Paris Documentaries
(See Communications: CM/FM 332)
FM 338 The Pragmatics of
Producing
The Pragmatics of Producing will
introduce students to the business of
filmmaking and compel them to
interrogate the fundamental, financial
role of television in cinema as well as
how this alliance orients the production's
strategy and nature. The producers,
distributors and jurists who will come to
AUP will help students develop an acute
understanding of what the modern-day
producer represents in the film industry.
3 credits. Offered periodically.
Prerequisite: one 100- or 200-level FM
course. Offered periodically
FM 339 Directing Fiction
This course aims to teach the
fundamentals of directing —
storyboarding, preparation of a shooting
script, choice of camera angles and
lenses, etc. — and show the relationship
between the technical and creative
aspects of filmmaking. Students will
analyze direction in films and work as
small production teams on their own
short films to illustrate the "how and
why" of film technique's influence on
storytelling and character portrayal.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 100- or 200-
level FM course. Offered every year
FM/CL 369 The Aesthetics of
Crime Fiction
(See Comparative Literature: CL/FM
369)
FM/CM 372 German Cinema
Focuses on two major periods of
production: Weimar and the New
German Cinema. Features the work of
Lang, Murnau, Wiene, Pabst, and
Lubitsch, and studies their important
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contribution to film form. Attention
given to émigré directors in Hollywood,
and then moves onto works by
Fassbinder, Kluge, Wenders,
Schlöndorff, Herzog, Margarethe von
Trotta, and Doris Dörrie.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 373 Asian Cinema
Studies post-1945 Japanese cinema,
including the Kurosawa epics (Seven
Samurai, Rashomon, Ran, Dream).
Other masters include Ozu, Mizoguchi
and Oshima. Examines Indian cinema
and Satyajit Ray, and his masterful Apu
trilogy. Concentrates on new Asian film,
with works by Chinese (including Hong
Kong and Taiwan) directors such as
Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Wong
Kar-Wai, Tsai Ming Liang, and Ang Lee.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 374 Italian Cinema
Focuses on periods when Italian cinema
was at the cutting edge of World
Cinema. Begins with films such as
Fellini's autobiographical Amarcord.
Studies silent-era spectacles (Quo Vadis,
Cabiria), and Italian film under fascism
and its renaissance with Rossellini and
De Sica. Examines leading filmmakers
including Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, and
Antonioni. Explores Italian comedy, and
the links between cinema and society.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 375 East European Cinema
Examines post-World War II East
European cinema, including Poland,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and social and
political contexts in which films
developed, moving from indoctrination
and dogma to dissent and
independence. Studies basic cinematic
principles and enduring cultural
traditions in Czech cinema (Menzel,
Forman, Prague Spring works), Polish
cinema (Wajda, Polanski, Skolimowski,
Zanussi, Kieslowski) and Hungarian
cinema (Jansco, Szabo, Meszaros, Makk).
3 Credits. Offered periodically
FM 376 Arab Cinema
An exploration of the Arabic-language
film as entertainment, narrative and
cultural event in the Arab Middle East
and North Africa. Themes include
cinema in the Arabophone socio-cultural
context and film-producing institutions in
national and pan-Arab culture. The final
project is based on either visual analysis
of an Arab film or an aspect of the
politics of filmmaking in the Middle East.
3 Credits. Offered periodically.
FM/FS 377 Du livre à l’image
(See French Studies: FS/FM 377)
FM 378 Iberian and Latin
American Cinema
Offers an overview of the “Iberian
and Latin American New Wave”:
a group of national cinemas exploring
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contemporary societies of Latin America
and the Iberian Peninsula. Assesses how
films problematize political and cultural
issues such as dictatorial pasts, post-modern
capitalist democracy, negotiating gender,
sexual and racial identities in phallocentric
post-colonial societies. The course is
structured around screenings and class
lectures/seminars.
3 credits. Offered periodically
FM/FS 386 French Cinema:
La Nouvelle Vague
(See French: FS/FM 386)
FM/FS 387 Paris Cinema
(See French: FS/FM 387)
FM 396 Junior Seminar
Involves a particularly focused look at an
important aspect of film theory or history,
a filmmaker, actor or actress, or a cinematic
topic or genre. Subjects will vary according
to the particular interest of the professor,
with the course work aiming at developing
methodical and critical skills of analysis.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 100- or 200-
level FM course. Offered every Spring
FirstBridge
FirstBridge courses vary from year
to year and may include regularly
scheduled courses from the general
curriculum. Each semester's offerings
appear in the final edition of the
academic schedule.
7 Credits. Offered every Fall
French
FS/CL 275 Theater in Paris
Uses the resources of Paris to study the
history of Western theater: theater visits
and exchanges with directors, theater
historians, actors, and scholars from
other institutions. Taught in French. All
papers and presentations completed in
French for French credit. For all other
students, papers can be done in French
or English.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent. Offered every Fall
FS/DR 277 Acting in French
For non-francophones. Aims at improving
oral skills, expression, spontaneous
production of French using drama and
situations closer to reality than usual
classroom settings. Thanks to acting
techniques, students will learn to use
their relationships with the world and
others to stimulate their imagination and
their own creativity.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 3 or
equivalent. Offered periodically
FS 301 Mouvements
Littéraires/Histoire des Idées
Introduces key figures of French thought
through a survey of major texts, from
the Renaissance to the first part of the
20th-century. Enables the students to
consolidate their sense of historic,
philosophical, and literary chronology
and better understand how literary and
philosophical movements are inscribed
in the broader History of the Emancipation
of Humankind: a religious, political and
social emancipation. Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 level.
Simultaneous registration in a 3OO-level
French Language course recommended
if written French not adequate. Offered
every year.
FS 303 We’ll always have Paris :
Deconstructing the Myth
Starting from the end of the 19thcentury,
this course will recreate the
Paris Mystique, show how historical,
economical and cultural events built its
appeal for travelers from all over the
world, analyze and deconstruct the
functioning of this myth in different
media (cinema, literature, tourists’
guides) on the students themselves, and
on other foreigners arriving in the French
capital. Students’ class projects will test
and investigate the validity of this myth
and be presented to the class. May be
taught in English.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 level.
Offered periodically
FS 311 Issues in Contemporary
French Culture
Considers samples of cultural and art
productions, ideas, issues, objects,
images, historical figures, food, clothes,
film stars, best-sellers, TV shows, etc.,
charged with a special meaning in
today’s France. Traces their importance
and symbolism and replaces them in the
history, ethnography and sociology of the
French Imaginary. Analyzes how these
cultural objects constitute the intangible
fact of Being French today, and places
them in the global Western imagination.
Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 301 or FS
301 or by permission.
FS/ES 321 Paris au Quotidien I
Taught in French (See European and
Mediterranean Cultures: ES/FS 321)
FS/ES 322 Paris au Quotidien II
Taught in French (See European and
Mediterranean Cultures: ES/FS 322)
FS/ES 323 Paris au Quotidien III
Taught in French (See European and
Mediterranean Cultures: ES/FS 323)
FS 325 Topics in French Women’s
Writing
Introduces the important texts written by
women in the history of French literature
and/or the history of the Women’s
movement. Replaces these texts in the
greater history of ideas, philosophy or
sociology and questions ideological
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approaches to the complex question of
sexual difference. Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 301 or FS
301 or by permission. Offered
periodically.
FS/FM 377 Du Livre à l'Image
Through the study of the specificity of
two languages (novel/film) students will
improve their analytic ability. By being
given methodological tools, and by
analyzing the structures of the novel,
which influence the language of movies,
students will develop their critical
acumen. Studies will be based upon
works of M. Duras, J.L. Godard, Zola,
and Flaubert. Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FS 301. Offered
periodically
FS/FM 386 French Cinema: La
Nouvelle Vague
Shows the evolution of modern French
culture in its relationship to cinema.
Examines the early influence of literature
and theater on cinema and its subsequent
detachment, to be recognized as an art
in itself with its own particular form.
Emphasizes the viewing and discussing
of one film each week: two class meetings
plus one film per week. Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent. Offered every Spring
FS/FM 387 Paris Cinema
Studies the numerous facets, whether
real or imaginary, of the close
relationship between Paris and cinema.
Analyzes films made by famous directors
such as Clair, Carné, Godard, Malle,
Rohmer, Polanski, Collard, Kassovitz,
and others. Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent . Offered every Fall
FS 390 Topics in French Literature
Treats a series of topics that change
every year and deal with various aspects
of French literature, civilization, or
linguistics. Courses are taught by
permanent or visiting faculty and are
generally related to their fields of
specialization. Taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: FL 4 or
equivalent. Offered every Spring
FS 490 Senior Seminar in French
Studies
Topics vary. Using reading and analytical
skills acquired in other French Studies
courses, students will study contemporary
viewpoints on the literature, art or culture
of France or the Francophone world not
treated in other courses and related to
the instructor’s research interests and
published scholarship. Students give
class presentations on a research project
in consultation with the faculty member.
Taught in French.
3 Credits. May be taken twice for credit.
Prerequisite: FL 4 or equivalent. Offered
every year
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Gender Studies
GS/PO 205 The Political
Economy of Developing Countries
(See Political Science: PO/GS 205)
GS/ES 205 Daughters of Hera
and Hecate
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/GS 205)
GS/CL 206 Contemporary
Feminist Theory
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.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
GS/PY 208 Gender Identity,
Homosexuality, and the Cinema: A
Psychoanalytic Approach
(See Psychology: PY/GS 208)
GS/PY 210 Psychology and
Gender
(See Psychology: PY/GS 210)
GS/HI 213 Women in Paris:
History and Art
This course focuses on the roles
women have played throughout Parisian
history in the religious, political, and
artistic realms. Images, monuments,
and texts highlight women who
achieved fame (Blanche de Castille,
Catherine and Maria de' Medici,
Mme de Pompadour, Rosa Bonheur,
Louise Michel…), but also the
anonymous parisienne, at the
workplace, “manning” the barricades,
deported, or organizing the home.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
GS/PY 239 Human Nature and
Eros
An interdisciplinary approach to the
theory of love, eroticism, and sexual
orientation in texts by Plato, Lucian,
Plutarch, Plotinus, and Freud. Analyzes
The Symposium thematically from the
point of view of the psychologist, the
classicist, and the gender-studies
specialist. Will relate erotic themes
to modern scholarship, textual
interpretation, and the formulation of
social issues.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
GS/PY 245 Social Psychology
(See Psychology: PY/GS 245)
GS/PY 251 Sexuality, Aggression,
and Guilt
(See Psychology: PY/GS 251)
GS/PY 261 Love, Sexuality and the
Cinema: A Psychoanalytic Approach
(See Psychology: PY/GS 261)
GS/CM 304 Communicating
Fashion
(See Communications: CM/GS 304)
GS/HI 314 Art, Culture, and
Gender in the Italian Renaissance
Examines the art and culture of the
Italian Renaissance from the
ever-expanding modern perspectives of
Gay and Women's studies. Studies the
art of Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo
and lesser-known artists, as well as
Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, within
the broad context of early modern
history and in relation to
contemporaneous sexual practices and
gender roles. Includes Louvre visits.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
GS/CL 318 Sex, Politics, and
Culture I
(See Comparative Literature: CL/GS 318)
GS/HI 319 Sex, Politics, and
Culture II: Women Artists in European
History
(See History: HI/GS 319)
GS/PO 324 Politics of Human Rights
(See Political Science: PO/GS 324)
GS/HI 326 Women in the French
Renaissance: From Joan of Arc to
Catherine de' Medici
Studies the ways women have been
presented (and misrepresented) in
Renaissance France. Case studies
include Joan of Arc; the writings of
Christine de Pisan and Marguerite de
Navarre; political roles of queen
mothers, daughters, sisters, and
mistresses of kings (Diane de Poitiers
and Catherine de' Medici, the “Reine
Margot”); the ways women molded
artistic realities and were pictured
in art.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
GS/HI 328 Existentialism: Choice,
Sex, and Will
(See History: HI/GS 328)
GS/HI 332 The Power of Images
in Western History
(See History: HI/GS 332)
GS/CM 353 Media and Gender
(See Communications: CM/GS 353)
GS/CL 357 19th Century Women
Writers
(See Comparative Literature: CL/GS
357)
GS/CL 363 Writing Women:
Feminism, Freud, and Literary
Inscriptions of Femininity
(See Comparative Literature: CL/GS 363)
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GS/CL 384 Writing from the
Margins: Women Writers, Postcolonial
Identities
(See Comparative Literature: CL/GS 384)
GS/PO 386 Women and Politics
Explores the formal, public domain of
women in politics and the informal,
pragmatic strategies used by women's
organizations throughout the world to
obtain women's rights. Divided into three
units: women's organizations, past
and current women leaders, and
the long-term feminization of politics.
Requires a mid-term exam, a 15-20 page
paper, and a group in-class project.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
Geology
GL 101 Physical Geology
(See Science: GL 101)
GL 102 Historical Geology
(See Science: GL 102)
GL/AN 362 Science in Archeology
(See Science: GL/AN 362)
German
GM 110 Elementary German I
An introduction to the German language
and culture, the course stresses the
development of the student's ability to
read and understand the language.
Grammar, vocabulary and idioms are
studied with this goal in mind.
4 Credits. Offered every Fall
GM 120 Elementary German II
The continuation of GM 110. The students
acquire the mastery of all essential tenses
and grammatical structures in order to
improve oral and written skills. The reading
texts are carefully graded so that the
students can progress to tackling longer
and more difficult texts as they work
their way through the course.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: GM 110. Offered
every Spring
History
HI 101 History of Western
Civilization up to 1500
Surveys the development of Western
civilization and culture, from the ancient
civilizations of the Levant, Greece, and
Rome, through the Middle Ages to the
Renaissance.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
HI 102 History of Western
Civilization from 1500
Continues History 101, from the
Renaissance and the Reformation
through commercialism, Absolutism,
the Enlightenment, the French
Revolution and the industrial and social
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evolutions of the 19th-century to
nationalism and socialism in the
contemporary Western world.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
HI 103 The Contemporary World
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.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
HI 105 Comparative Civilizations:
Mediterranean and Asian Worlds
The Mediterranean, Indus Valley, and
Asia have played an important role in
the development of civilizations. This
course offers a comparative introduction
to the histories, sociopolitical organizations
and arts of the Mediterranean and Asian
Civilizations. Focus is on the rich cultural
exchange of the Mediterranean region
as well as the development of Indian
and Chinese cultures and their links to
other civilizations.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI 201 The French Revolution and
Napoleon
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.
3 Credits. Offered every Fall
HI 202 France in the Modern World
Studies the social revolution in 19thcentury
France as it corresponded to the
new sense of justice in French society.
Examines the redefinition of France's
place in the modern world in the 20thcentury,
and focuses on French military
defeat and the dismantlement of empire
as well as on the present leadership of
France in the building of a new Europe.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
HI/ES 210 French Cultural History
1453-1715
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/HI 210)
HI/GS 213 Women in Paris:
History and Art
(See Gender Studies: GS/HI 213)
HI 241 American Civilization:
Origins to 1877
Discusses the history of the British
colonies in North America and the
United States in terms of economic
development and social and cultural
evolution. Contrasts the emergence of a
unique American civilization with the
internal debate over opposing
conceptions that deteriorated into
sectional strife. Themes include the
genesis of a peculiarly American
mentality, race relations, economic
development, and social conflict.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI 242 American Civilization:
1865 to Present
Discusses the growth of the United
States as an urban, industrialized
society and a global power. Themes
include patterns and problems of
immigration, the ending of the frontier,
the emergence of labor and social
movements, and cultural evolution.
Examines how the rise of the U.S. as a
dominant world power in the 20thcentury
has influenced social and
political life there.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/ES 301 European Urban
Culture: Berlin From Imperial Germany
to the Third Reich
(For HI/ES 301-313 see European and
Mediterranean Cultures)
HI/ES 302 European Urban
Culture: Berlin From Allied Occupation
to German Capital
HI/ES 304 The History of Paris
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.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/ES 305 European Urban
Culture: Rome from The Renaissance
to the Counter Reformation
HI/ES 306 European Urban Culture:
Vienna From Baroque to Modernism
HI/ES 308 European Urban
Culture: Amsterdam and Antwerp from
the 15th to the 17th-Century
HI/ES 309 European Urban
Culture: Venice from the Renaissance
to the Fall of the Republic
HI/ES 311 European Urban
Culture: Prague: From Imperial City to
National Capital
HI/ES 312 European Urban
Culture: The Jewish Presence I: From
the Origins to the 17th-Century
HI/ES 313 European Urban
Culture: The Jewish Presence II: From
the 17th- to the 20th-Century
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HI/GS 314 Art, Culture, and
Gender in the Italian Renaissance
(See Gender Studies: GS/HI 314)
HI/PO 315 Contemporary Ideologies
Surveys the origins of capitalism,
conservatism, absolutism, liberalism,
socialism, nationalism, anarchism,
communism, authoritarianism, and
fascism, using contemporary models.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: One upper division
course in HI or PO. Offered periodically
HI/ES 317 The Islamic City
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/HI 317)
HI/GS 319 Sex, Politics, and
Culture II: Women Artists in European
History
A sequel to Sex, Politics, and Culture I.
Focuses exclusively on modern women
artists and writers from the 17th-century
with particular attention to France and
England. Considers the problematic of
female careers and male canons, and
issues such as motherhood, creativity,
subjectivity, political engagement,
stylistic innovation, sexuality, and
psychoanalysis against a backdrop of
interdisciplinary feminist theory.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/GS 326 Women in the French
Renaissance: From Joan of Arc to
Catherine de Medici
(See Gender Studies: GS/HI 326)
HI/GS 328 Existentialism:
Choice, Sex, and Will
Discusses topics such as choice and
responsibility, sexual attitudes and
gender perceptions, reason and will.
Questions humanity's fundamental
search for meaning, the “why” of
existence, and examines Nietzsche's
statement that anyone “who has a why
to live can bear with almost any how.”
Readings include Simone de Beauvoir,
Camus, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Jaspers,
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/GS 332 The Power of Images
in Western History
This “response theory” course explores
the clout that images, high and low, have
wielded in the distant and recent
Western past. Makers of images are
seen alongside breakers of images. As
“live” objects of exchange and conflict,
images are produced, then reinterpreted,
fetishized, feared, banned, censored,
mutilated and destroyed. Themes
include pilgrimage; art and sexual
arousal; Mapplethorpe; images in war.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/CL 333 Discovery and
Conquest: Creation of the New World
(See Comparative Literature: CL/HI 333)
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HI 338 Social and Political
Discourse in Early Modern Europe
Examines how the debates of the 16th
and 17th centuries set the foundations
of modernity. Studies how rival
interpretations of the nature of political
obligation, religious commitment, and
human freedom defined a public space
where the agents of innovation and
tradition struggled for dominance.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI 339 History and Science,
Technology and Human Values
Examines the claim of objectivity and
passion for secular investigations
emerging in the early modern period and
then extending its hold on the life
sciences and the social sciences.
Investigates the cultural context of the
scientific revolution, the role of germs,
guns, and geography in the evolution of
human history.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI 342 Europe from 1914 to 1945
Beginning with the First World War and
the Russian revolutions of 1917, moves
through the halcyon 1920s to the crises
of the 1930s, and examines the causes,
course, and consequences of the
Second World War.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: HI 101 and HI
102 or equivalent. Offered periodically
HI 343 Europe from 1945 to
Present
Examines the political, social, and
economic forces driving European
history between 1945 and the
emergence of the Economic and
Monetary Union. Seeks to define
Europe's place in the contemporary
world as an independent and vital
political and economic regional power.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: HI 101 and HI
102 or equivalent. Offered periodically
HI/PO 346 American Foreign Policy
(See Political Science: PO/HI 346)
HI/CL 353 In 1871...: Case Study
in Comparative Literature and History
(See Comparative Literature: CL/HI 353)
HI/PO 354 20th-Century
Diplomatic History
Examines the creation of the
Bismarckian state, the origins of World
War I and World War II, and the creation
of a united Europe in the post-war
period. Investigates the efforts of the
European state system to adapt to
the challenges of nationalism and
globalization.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: sophomore
standing. Offered periodically
HI 355 Social Theory and Political
Utopias: From Marx to Marcuse
Begins with Marx's critique of political
economy and his social theory, together
with Freud's metapsychology and
investigation of the unconscious, then
proceeds through selected works of
Weber, Horkheimer, Mannheim to the
political and psychological projects of
Fromm and Marcuse.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/PO 358 Russian Foreign Policy:
From 17th-Century to the Present
(See Political Science: PO/HI 358)
HI/PO 360 War and Peace
(See Political Science: PO/HI 360)
HI 363 Reason & Choice: The Age
of Enlightenment
The debates of the 18th-century opened
the modern period. Investigates the
conflict to control the public space as
Europe made the transition to modernity.
Investigates the major interpretive
schools of the Enlightenment and
evaluates the post-modern critique of
the Enlightenment project.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI/ES 371 Crisis and Decline:
From Liberalism to Fascism
Considers the history of Europe from
1880 to 1940, focusing on the decline
of liberal values and the rise of communism
and fascism. Examines the emergence
of a new political language of
class and race and how that language
prepared the way for communism and
fascism. Readings include selections
from Benjamin, Freud, Hitler, Lenin,
Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI 391-395 Topics in History
Topics may change annually, may be taught
by regular or visiting faculty, and may
introduce areas of study not listed in the
Department's current repertoire of courses.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
HI 490 Senior Seminar
The topic changes from year to year.
See the Academic Schedule for the
description of the seminar offered in
the current year.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Offered every Fall
Information Technology
IT 100 Introduction to the Internet
and the World Wide Web
Introduces Internet concepts. Gives
students hands-on experience in 12
sessions using the Internet, particularly
for academic work. Teaches students to
find information efficiently on the Web
and acquaints them with services such
as e-mail, FTP, and Telnet.
1 Credit. Offered every Fall
IT 130 Applied Computing
The course introduces relevant software
to students with no previous computer
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experience. It provides hands-on
experience with common productivity
applications. Successful students will be
confident in using a variety of tools from
the Microsoft Office Suite (Word,
PowerPoint, Excel) to solve everyday
problems, by creating, handling, and
presenting sophisticated documents,
thereby becoming better-enabled
citizens of the digital world.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
IT/CM 302 E-Commerce
Overview of the business and technical
aspects of electronic commerce.
Introduces issues such as cost structures,
target audiences, and cultural impacts.
Teaches the fundamentals of
e-commerce Web technology through
building a small e-commerce site.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CM/CS 100,
IT 130. Offered periodically
IT/CM 338 Digital Media I
This course supplies students with a
broad view of new electronic media
technologies as well as the ability to
use specialized software tools to acquire,
create and edit both text and graphics.
In addition some social, economic and
regulatory aspects of the use of these
tools and technologies will be discussed.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: CM/CS 101.
Offered every Fall
IT/CS 351 Web Applications
(See Computer Science: CS/IT 351)
IT/CS 368 Database Applications
(See Computer Science: CS/IT 368)
Italian
IL 110 Elementary Italian I
Introduces the Italian language with
emphasis upon speaking, basic
grammatical structure, with a particular
focus on culture. Videos, CD-roms, plus
a field trip to Venice, make this class an
enjoyable challenge.
4 Credits. Offered every Fall
IL 120 Elementary Italian II
Sequel to Italian I, with an emphasis on
debate, more advanced grammatical
structure, plus introduction to literary
texts, newspaper reading, and Italian
cinema. Field trip to Florence or Naples
will fully expose students to Italian
culture.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: IL 110 or by
permission. Offered every Spring
Mathematics
MA 101 Algebra
This course is designed for students with
no background in algebra and for
students who need a review before
proceeding further in mathematics.
Topics are illustrated by examples and
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applications in business and other
sciences and include: linear and
quadratic equations, inequalities,
break-even analysis, graphs,
polynomials, factoring, radical
expressions, integer exponents and
scientific notation.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
MA 105 Math for Life
A general education course designed
for students majoring in subjects not
requiring math skills, and those who
dislike math. Projects are developed
from a range of everyday situations:
banking, the stock market, gambling,
and even art. Meeting alternately in
the classroom and the computer lab to
develop mathematical models,
students will develop quantitative
reasoning, critical thinking, and
problem-solving skills.
4 Credits. Offered every semester
MA 110 Applied Finite
Mathematics
Introduces the mathematical foundation
of quantitative problem solving in
economics, business, and other social
sciences. Combines discussions on
theory with computer-assisted explanation
of the concepts introduced. Gives students
an appreciation of the strengths and
limitations of mathematical model
building. Topics include: functions,
graphs and charts, linear programming,
sensitivity analysis, financial mathematics,
set theory, and probability.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 101 (or
equivalent). Offered every semester
MA 120 Applied Statistics I
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.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 101, or by
permission. Offered every semester
MA 130 Calculus I
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.
4 Credits. Prerequisites: MA 101 (or
equivalent). Offered every semester
MA 140 Discrete Mathematics
This course is designed to highlight
discrete mathematical structures.
Discusses propositional logic, proofs
and mathematical induction, matrices of
relations and digraphs, set theory and
number bases, combinatorial analysis,
graph theory and Boolean algebra.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
MA 207 Operations Research:
Mathematical Programming
This course is intended to study the
computational methodologies of Linear
Programming and its extensions from
the Transportation Problem and Assignment
Model to the Network optimisation. Various
types of applications from the fields of
Economics, Finance, and Advertising will
be investigated, and the methods by
which useful results are obtainable —
together with the reasoning behind the
use of these methods — will be discussed.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 110. Offered
every Spring
MA 220 Applied Statistics II
Familiarizes students with several types
of multivariate statistics methods with
respect primarily to applications and
interpretations in the area of social
sciences. In this course, we will cover
the data-analysis concepts and procedures
used in applied and experimental
psychology, economics, business and in
general in social sciences. Students that
want to go to graduate school in psychology,
in applied statistics, in business
administration, or in economics, will need
the knowledge and skills learned in this
course to prepare for a career in these
fields. Topics include: one-way analysis
of variance (ANOVA), multiple regression,
general linear model, two-way ANOVA,
repeated measures ANOVA, MANOVA
(Multiple ANOVA), logistic regression,
randomization, blocking, and factorial
designs.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 120.
Offered every Spring
MA 230 Calculus II
Examines the strengths and limitations
of mathematical model building.
Reviews functions of several variables,
partial derivatives, and Lagrange
multipliers. Studies double integrals
and their applications in economics
and business, Taylor series and series
in general, and differential equations
of the first and second degrees and their
application in economics and business.
Includes the use of Mathematica.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 130.
Offered periodically
MA 241 Linear Algebra
Treats applications in economics and
computer science, limited to Euclidean
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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.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 130, or by
permission. Offered every Fall
MA 305 Probability
Examines probability in its various
components and through its diverse
applications. Topics include: combinatorial
analysis, axioms of probability, conditioning,
independence, expectation, discrete
random variables and distributions
and continuous random variables and
probability density functions, join
distribution functions, moment generating
functions, and law of large numbers.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: MA 130. Offered
periodically
MA 330 Calculus III
Examines examples from the physical
sciences to illustrate the introduced
concepts. Topics include: trigonometric
and hyperbolic functions; polar
coordinates, parametric curves and
conic sections; vectors, curves and
surfaces in space; vector fields, line
integrals, theorems of Green and Stokes.
4 credits. Prerequisite : MA 230. Offered
periodically
MA/BA 366 Multivariate Analysis
for Behavior Research
(See Business Administration: BA/MA 366)
MA/BA 430 Quantitative
Decision-Making
(See Business Administration: BA/MA 430)
Music
MU 100 Individual Piano
Instruction
Private piano instruction, all levels,
1 credit hour per week (50 minute
sessions), taken from AUP music faculty.
1 Credit. A total of 8 credit hours (1 per
semester) may be counted toward
graduation. Grades are recorded on a
Credit/No Credit basis. Additional fee
required. Offered every semester
MU 131 Music Appreciation: The
Orchestra and Instrumental Music
Traces the historical evolution of musical
forms in masterpieces of symphonic and
instrumental repertoire and enhances
music appreciation by developing
auditory skills. Appropriate for students
without extensive musical training.
3 Credits. Offered every Fall
MU 132 Music Appreciation:
Opera and Vocal Music
This course is an introduction to the
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specific idioms of vocal repertoire, the
styles and genres of opera, oratorio, art
songs, and other aspects of vocal music,
and their interrelation with musical
development in other mediums.
Appropriate for students without
extensive musical training.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
Philosophy
PL 100 Belief, Knowledge, Facts
Introduces the skills and techniques
appropriate to philosophy. Analyzes
examples of philosophical reasoning as
well as ordinary reasoning, to make
clear the nature of argument and show
what is specific to philosophy. Aims to
equip students with essential tools for
the understanding of modern debate.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
PL 121 Ethical Inquiry: Problems
and Paradigms
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.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 122 Critical Thinking: Logic
and Everyday Reasoning
Every day each of us is confronted with
dozens of claims, ranging from
toothpaste to politics. The decisions that
we make about such claims have a
significant influence on our lives. Helps
students develop tools to analyze claims
and arguments in order to make wise
decisions about whether to accept or
reject them.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/PO 203 Introduction to
Political Philosophy
Political philosophy forms that branch
of philosophy which 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.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 211 Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy
Aims to provide a solid grounding in
ancient and selected medieval philosophy
stressing their multiple appearances in
modern philosophical problems. Readings
include the Pre-Socratics, the early
Socratic dialogues, the mid-Platonic
dialogues, Aristotle and Lucretius.
Medieval readings include Maimonides,
Averroes, and Aquinas.
3 Credits. Offered every other semester
PL/ES 213 Philosophy and
Religion I: From the Ancient to the
Medieval World
Although religion and philosophy ask
many of the same questions about the
world and our place in it, their answers
appear to diverge widely and
dramatically. This course explores the
origins and nature of the tension
between religion and philosophy and
examines various attempts by Christians,
Muslims, and Jews in the ancient and
medieval world to resolve this tension.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/ES 214 Philosophy and
Religion II: From the Early Modern to
the Postmodern World
Continues PL/ES 213 through the early
modern and postmodern periods.
Examines modern and postmodern
thinkers, beginning with Descartes,
raises radical questions about the
possibility of acquiring any knowledge.
As a result, the intricate relationship
forged in the Middle Ages between
reason and religion is torn asunder.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/ES 215 Philosophy and the City
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/PL 215)
PL 236 Spinoza and Leibniz:
Causality, Substance and Ethics
Explores selected works by Spinoza and
Leibniz, situated — along with Descartes
— at the 17th-century origins of “Modern
Philosophy.” Topics include: causality,
the existence and nature of God,
modality, substance, necessity and
freedom, the nature of the self and its
relation to the physical world. Pays
particular attention to the historical
context in which their thought develops.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 237 Certainty and Belief:
Descartes and Hume
Studies Descartes, the founder of
modern philosophy: his questions and
positions on Mind/Brain, Certainty,
Consciousness, Human Bodies as
machines, and how to philosophize.
Studies Hume: his Philosophy of Belief
and his comprehensive system of ethics,
which remains a serious possibility in
our pluralistic world.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 271 The Philosophy of Marx
Introduces Marx's work both from
a philosophical perspective and in
terms of the actuality of the 21st
century. Themes elaborated: the
initial problematic of religion, the state,
alienation and labor in early Marx,
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the emergent analysis of money,
capital and techniques within human
organization, and the relation in later
Marx between these analyses and
politics.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 272 Freud and the Open Future
A detailed, philosophical introduction to
the implications of Freudian thought for
contemporary philosophico-cultural
analysis. Provides the opportunity to
read in depth the founding concepts and
texts of the psychoanalytic discipline and
place them in relation to the major
themes of modernity, in particular the
construction and dissolution of the
modern subject.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/FM 295 Philosophy and Film
(See Film Studies: FM/PL 295)
PL 300 Topics in Philosophy
Courses examining focal areas of
modern philosophy will be offered
occasionally. Courses are taught by
permanent or visiting faculty, and
will generally be specific to their
specialization.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/CL 317 Plato and Cicero
(See Comparative Literature: CL/PL 317)
PL/ES 325 German Critical
Theory
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/PL 325)
PL/ES 328 Reflections on
Technology
Reflects on recent developments in
technology and the technosciences that
explicitly blur distinctions between the
natural and the artificial, the human
and the mechanic, the technical and
the symbolic. Does this through a
philosophico-historical account of the
dynamics of technology, one that offers
a framework within which the ethical
dilemmas posed by such blurring can be
situated and debated.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/ES 335 Virtual Reality
Looks at how the de-realization of
identities has led, via a suspicion of
technologies, to a sense that the human
territory is undergoing a final negation.
Attempts to “read” virtuality as a
consistent discourse, seeking the keys
to truth in which the virtual augments
the area of human territory and
possibility. Readings include: Bateson,
Deleuze, Rheingold, Virilio, Levy and
Heim.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 347 Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the most original and influential
philosophers of the 20th-century,
Wittgenstein's work radically redirected
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the development of modern philosophy
and continues to fascinate philosophers,
poets, painters, and filmmakers.
Examines the life and thought of
Wittgenstein through biography, film,
fiction, history, and the philosophical
writings of Wittgenstein himself.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 349 Luck, Theory, and Choice
Aims to question ethical notions in areas
of clear tensions. Examines the common
theses that there are no objective
values, and that we can render our lives
immune to luck. Also concentrates on
the relation between animals and ethical
claims, and the supposed ethics of
warfare, as well as the central problems
of duty and responsibility, using film and
other texts.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 351 Thinking the World:
Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics
The course discusses the pertinence or
not of cosmopolitan thought to analysis
of world politics. Born from a moral
discourse pitched against the power
politics of empire (Greek stoicism),
cosmopolitanism is today defined by a
moral and legal culture of human rights
and an ethical and political culture of
global values and/or goods. Contemporary
proponents and critics of cosmopolitanism
are analyzed in this context.
3 Credits. Offered periodically.
PL/ES 366 Popular Culture:
Theories and Practice
(See European and Mediterranean
Cultures: ES/PL 366)
PL/PO 367 Capitalism and
Democracy
Capitalism is a specific organization of
socio-economic relations between
human beings and between human
beings and nature. Democracy is a
specific institution of political behavior
and culture within, between, and,
perhaps, beyond nation-states. This
course explores the relation between
these two historically resistant and
mutually compatible and incompatible
organizations of human activity in order
to appraise contemporary political
actuality from a philosophical
perspective.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 372 Philosophical Modernity:
Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche
Analyzes Kant's and Hegel's respective
concerns to bring the world and
procedures of metaphysical thought into
the context of historical, secular, and
scientific modernity. Discusses both
Kant and Hegel in this context of
philosophical modernity, ending with
Nietzsche’s critique of the modern.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL/AH 374 The Philosophy of
Aesthetics
Examines major issues in philosophical
aesthetics, involving the definition of art;
theories of aesthetics; natural and
formal beauty; and the value of art.
Supplements classical and contemporary
readings with film and visual materials.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
PL 388 Nietzsche: Genealogy,
Energetics, Ethics
Situates the importance of the influence
of Nietzsche in relation to the three
major movements of his work:
“genealogy” of metaphysical thinking,
a general reading of conceptual
determinism and practice in terms of
“force,” and a “re-evaluation” of Western
ethics from the perspective of the
a-human, the inhuman, and the
“overhuman”.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
Physics
PH 100 Physics for Non-Scientists
(See Science: PH 100)
Planet Earth
SC 110 Planet Earth
(See Science: SC 110)
Political Science
PO 107 Great Dates: Critical
Junctures in Politics
The course of politics is often determined
by seminal events or critical junctures,
great dates in history where the tide
turned and a society or civilization
changed forever. Great Dates in Politics
explores these seminal events across
time and space, analyzing the impact of
these momentous occasions in history
and on contemporary politics.
3 Credits. Offered every year
PO 112: Introduction to
Political Geography and Geopolitics
This course investigates how political
processes shape human geography and,
conversely, how assumptions about
places underpin world politics. It
presents the main theories of political
geography, as well as essential concepts
and terminology. It points to the
historical contingency of political
identities and organizations and reveals
how major world events as well as
spaces are shaped by every day politics.
3 Credits. Offered regularly
PO 115 Comparative Politics
This course introduces students to the
comparative study of politics in the
contemporary world, focusing on political
behavior and the structures and practices
that political systems have in common
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and those that distinguish them. While
the emphasis is on domestic features,
the international context is also considered
so that students may discover the
concerns, the language and the methods
of political science.
3 Credits. Offered regularly
PO/PL 203 Political Philosophy
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.
3 Credits
PO/GS 205 The Political Economy
of Developing Countries
Offers a comparative introduction to the
political systems of developing countries
through the study of decolonization,
nation building, political institutions, and
economy. Studies problems of political
culture, leadership, representation, and
the place of developing countries in the
world system.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 115. Offered
regularly
PO 210 European Politics
Introduces comparative methodology,
and then explores contemporary politics
in several European political systems.
Aims to help understand the nature and
functioning of modern European states:
their development, their socio-economic
settings, and their policy-making
processes.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 115 or by
permission. Offered regularly
PO 231 World Politics
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.
3 Credits. Offered regularly
PO 250 Political Analysis
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.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 101
(FirstBridge), or PO 115. Offered regularly
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PO 300 Topics
Topics courses change every semester,
offering advanced study in themes,
theories and issues beyond the regular
departmental course offerings. Taught
by permanent or visiting faculty, recent
Topics courses include: “Ideas of
Europe”, “The Politics of Oil”, “Waters of
the Globe”, or “Politics of the Mahgreb”.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PO 210, PO 231
or one 300-level course in Political
Science. Offered periodically
PO 306 Politics of Latin America
Examines not only the political culture
and economic growth of the entire Latin
American region but also the confusion,
especially in the United States, regarding
Latin American realities.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PO/GS 205.
Offered periodically
PO/HI 315 Contemporary
Ideologies
(See History: HI/PO 315)
PO 316 Ideas of Europe
Explores the competing visions of
Europe. What kind of Europe emerges
— as a power-pole, or as a looser political
and economic space — will be partly
determined by which “idea of Europe”
eventually dominates. Students will gain
insight into how big and small countries
conceptualize Europe, with particular
attention to Russian, French, Central
European, UK, and U.S. viewpoints.
3 credits. Prerequisite: One 200 level
course. Offered periodically
PO 322 Contemporary Africa
Covers the major political, economic,
and social problems of modern
sub-Sahara Africa. Studies current
affairs from a pluridisciplinary angle.
Examines conflict areas in Africa
using international relations “crisis
management” and conflict theory.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO/GS 205.
Offered periodically
PO/GS 324 Politics of Human
Rights
Examines the work of international
organizations, public and private, that
are engaged in exposing the violation of
human rights throughout the world, as
well as the international agreements
that have been concluded and the
results of these agreements.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO/GS 205 or
PO 231. Offered periodically
PO 326 The Politics of European
Integration
Analyzes the dynamics of the postwar
movement toward economic and
political cooperation among the
European states. Explores the impact
on inter-European relations of the rise
and demise of the Cold War, the
emergence of the Third World, the
transformation and crises of the
international economy, and the
contradictions between emerging
supranationality and resurgent
nationalisms, particularly in Eastern
Europe.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PO 210, PO
231, or by permission. Offered
periodically
PO 327 Politics in China
Examines the evolution of the Chinese
political system with a focus on
contemporary policy issues. Devotes
special attention to the political party,
the military, and the process of
economic and social planning.
Addresses problems of culture, national
leadership, and China's role in world
affairs. Includes an analysis of recent
economic and political reforms. May be
taught in French.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior ICP
standing or by permission. Offered every
Fall
PO 329 International Relations in
Asia
Examines the political, economic, and
strategic factors that led to wars in
Vietnam and that structure
contemporary relations among the
nations of Southeast Asia, with
particular focus on Vietnam, Cambodia,
Thailand, and Burma.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PO/GS 205 or
PO 231, junior standing. Offered
periodically
PO 332 International Institutions
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.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered every
Fall
PO 333 International Politics of
the Environment
Examines concerns about interaction
between environmental degradation and
developmental aspirations that have
recently been placed on political
agendas around the world. Examines
how and to what extent the international
system imposes constraints on and
presents opportunities for nation states
as they attempt to achieve sustainable
development.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered
periodically
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PO 334 Comparative Public Policy
Introduces the skills used by public
policy analysts, applying them through
case studies of real public policy
decisions from a variety of industrialized
and developing countries. Familiarizes
students with policy skills useful in
future careers while analyzing the
underlying assumptions and limitations
of the policy approach. Discusses topics
such as planning, budgeting,
implementation strategies, and program
evaluation techniques.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 210 or by
permission. Offered periodically
PO 336 Bureaucracy,
Development, Corruption
Examines the role of bureaucracy in the
development process. Compares the role
of the state in industrializing Europe and
North America with the fragile states
in the Third World. Evaluates the
administrative implications of different
development strategies, the relative
power of bureaucrats in Third World
policymaking, the vestiges of colonial
influence, and experiments in participatory
administrative structures for rural
development.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO/GS 205 or by
permission. Offered periodically
PO 343 European Security in the
New Europe
Analyzes European security issues in the
post-Cold War era. Traces the evolution
of NATO, as well as British, French, and
German security policy. Focuses on the
security issues facing Eastern Europe
and the ramifications of NATO
enlargement in regard to U.S., European,
and Russian security issues.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 231 or by
permission. Offered periodically
PO 345 Politics in Russia
Focuses on both historical and
contemporary aspects of Russian
domestic politics, with particular
attention to the present day situation.
Provides an insight into the nature of
Russian communism and its economic
infrastructure, and discusses in great
detail, political and social aspects of the
post-communist transition to the
free-market economy.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: junior ICP
standing or by permission. Offered
periodically
PO/HI 346 American Foreign
Policy
Analyzes the formulation and practice of
American foreign policy, with emphasis
on its continually changing relation to
the domestic political process. Topics
include the constitutional and political
power sharing between the President
and Congress, NATO membership, the
Korean War, the Middle East
involvement, and the Cold War. Focuses
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particularly on U.S. policy in the “new
world order.”
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PO 231,
sophomore standing. Offered
periodically
PO 350 European Union Law
This course provides an in-depth
analysis of European Union (EU) law.
The student will study the historical
development of the EU, the institutions
which create its laws and conduct its
legislative process, and the general
principles of EU law. It will then focus
upon substantive policy areas and
conclude by analyzing EU progress
toward a common foreign and security
policy.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: One 200 level
PO course. Offered periodically
PO 351 Globalization
Introduces the basic theories and
practices of political economy through
the lens of globalization. Discusses the
World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund, the OECD and the former GATT as
well as the WTO. Explores the complex
trade relations between Asia, Europe,
and the U.S., and the impact of financial
crisis on world markets.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered every
Spring
PO 352 Global Hotspots and
Conflict Resolution
Examines the changing context of
post- Cold War conflict and how
contemporary disputes may be resolved.
Analyzes the nature of intervention
strategies and their consequences;
negotiation and mediation techniques,
as well as other political instruments to
deal with conflict resolution; the
institutions and regimes of security and
conflict management, plus the problems
related to peace and state building.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PO 231,
sophomore standing. Offered periodically
PO 353 Politics in France
Studies France's development from a
provincial peasant society, hampered by
weak governments and enduring
colonial wars, to a technologically
sophisticated industrial democracy and
a major international power. Studies
France's cultural, social, and economic
contexts, evolving party system, and
institutions and policy-making processes
to better understand this phenomenal
change and its consequences for
France's role in the world.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 210, or by
permission. The ability to read in French
will facilitate research, but is not
required. Offered periodically
PO/HI 354 20th-Century
Diplomatic History
(See History: HI/PO 354)
PO 356 The Cold War and After
Analyzes the history of the post-World
War II U.S.-Soviet relationship. Examines
the foundations of the doctrine of
“containment,” Soviet efforts to counter
U.S. policy, the implications of National
Security Council Directive NSC-68, and
U.S.-Soviet geostrategic relations in
relation to Europe, Asia, and peripheral
regions. Explores the implications of the
Soviet collapse and new relations
between the U.S. and Russia.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 231. Offered
periodically
PO 357 Politics in Central and
Eastern Europe
Analyzes the evolution of political life in
eastern Europe from the socialist bloc
alliance under the Soviet Union to a new
period of democratic and free market
reform. Deals with the revised concerns
of security and nationalism, and analyzes
eastern European relations with western
Europe and the former Soviet Union.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 210, or by
permission. Offered periodically
PO/HI 358 Russian Foreign Policy:
From 17th-Century to the Present
Studies Russian foreign policy, featuring
the historical evolution, the policy-making
process, and the roles of the party and
the military. Emphasizes contemporary
policy issues, e.g. relations with the U.S.,
the Third World, China, and Europe.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: HI/PO 354 or
permission, and junior standing.
Offered periodically
PO/HI 360 War and Peace
Focuses on causes and consequences
of European military conflicts and the
historical transformations resulting
from peace settlements. Examines the
European wars of religion, the
Napoleonic wars, the Franco-Prussian
war, the Treaty of Portsmouth, the Paris
Peace Conference and the Versailles
Treaty as well as World War Two and
the Yalta Conference. The approach is
interdisciplinary, combining history and
political science.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: One 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered
periodically
PO 361 International Law
Covers the formal structure of the
international legal order; sources, uses
and dynamics of law in international
relations; use of force, war crimes; the
status and functions of states,
governments, international
organizations, companies, and
individuals; law of the sea, environment,
jurisdiction, aliens, human rights, the
diplomatic process and its protection,
and treaties. Discusses theory and
future directions of international law.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PO 231, or by
permission. Offered every semester
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PO 365 Revolution
Explores the socio-politico and historical
roots of revolution, considering that a
real revolution is not merely a
changeover of elites but a fundamental
change in many aspects of the society.
Provides a theoretical framework to
study all forms of revolutions and then
discusses contemporary “democratic,”
“Islamic,” and “nationalist” revolutions.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered
periodically
PO/CM 371 Representing
International Politics
(See Communications: CM/PO 371)
PO 372 Politics of the Middle East
Introduces the contemporary politics
of the Middle East, from Turkey and Iran
to the Atlantic Ocean, including all the
Arab countries of West Asia and North
Africa as well as Israel. Focuses on
political trends (nationalism and
religious fundamentalism), key historical
experiences and traumatic events (wars
and revolutions), and the interference of
world powers that contributed to shaping
this sensitive area.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered
periodically
PO 378 The Use of Force in
International Relations
Examines the role of force, including
coercive diplomacy, in contemporary
international relations. Considers
definitions of national security, alliance
systems, force structures, force
deployments, and coercive diplomacy.
Examines the entire spectrum of force
from terrorism and counter-terrorism,
insurgency and counter-insurgency, low
intensity conflict, to conventional and
nuclear weapon systems.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: one 200-level
course in Political Science. Offered
periodically
PO/GS 386 Women and Politics
(See Gender Studies: GS/PO 386)
PO 410/510 The History and
Politics of Civil Society
This MA-level course introduces students
to the philosophical origins, history,
and emergence of the concept of civil
society, and provides an overview of
current transnational society as a
contested arena in a rapidly globalized
world. Topics will include: the history of
civil society; the changing nature of
sovereignty; the multicultural debates;
emerging transnational actors, issues,
and civil society organizations; and
critiques of transnational civil society.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: Advanced
Undergraduates by permission only.
Offered periodically
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PO 490 Senior Seminar
The senior seminar is the culmination of
the degree program and is designed to
encourage students to combine their
skilled analysis of the political in a
challenging new context. While topics
cover all five track concentrations, the
goal of the seminar is to foster a sense
of intellectual autonomy, to facilitate
the ability to assess paradigms, and to
provide a platform for a professional oral
presentation of research results, as well
as the incorporation of original research
in a written thesis.
3 Credits. Senior standing only. Offered
every semester.
Psychology
PY 100 Introduction to Psychology
Psychology is the study of mind and
behavior. In the past few decades, the
biological bases of behavior are getting
more emphasis in psychology. However,
there is more than brain: experience,
and social and cultural influences also
shape our mind. This course explores
various areas within modern psychology,
psychobiology, learning, memory,
cognition, motivation and emotion,
personality, psychological disease and
psychological treatment methods. We
begin with a short history of psychology
and describe psychology as a science
with its methodologies in doing research.
3 Credits. Offered every semester
PY 207 Madness, Mania, and the
Cinema: A Psychodiagnostic Approach
Analyzes alienation and delusional
states psychoanalytically as presented in
contemporary film. First studies acute
hysteria and multiple personalities
(Petrie's Sybil). Then approaches the
elaboration of a persecution complex
(Polanski's Rosemary's Baby),
amnesia-dissociation (Parker's Angel
Heart), and psychotic breakdown
(Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly or
The Hour of the Wolf).
3 Credits. Prerequisite: sophomore
standing. Offered periodically
PY/GS 208 Gender-Identity,
Homosexuality, and the Cinema: A
Psychosocial Approach
Deals with the pathologization of the
human sexual potential by social
pressures and compulsory demand for
normalization. Examines deviance and
stigmatization by way of Goffman's essay
Stigma; studies gender-identity in
Crisp-Gold's film The Naked Civil
Servant; analyzes the problems of
alternative sexual preference as
presented in the Merchant-Ivory production
of Maurice and in Metzger's Thérèse
et Isabelle.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: sophomore
standing. Offered periodically
PY/GS 210 Psychology and Gender
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.
3 Credits. Offered every Fall
PY 213 Developmental Psychology
Provides a comprehensive overview of
normal human development throughout
the life span. It encompasses all of the
topics of interest in psychology through
both normal and abnormal behavior
within the growth of a single individual.
Similarities among people in their
development are examined, as well as
differences due to various individual
experiences.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100. Offered
periodically
PY 220 Experimental Psychology
Students will learn the basics of doing
experimental research in psychology,
from the ethics of working with human
subjects, to researching ideas in the
literature, designing, running, analyzing,
and interpreting experiments. The
principles learned here apply in many
domains, scientific or otherwise, where
systematic examinations of cause and
effect can be brought to bear.
4 Credits. Prerequisites: PY 100, MA
120. Offered every Fall
PY 221 Psychoanalytic Theories of
Personality
Centers on the development of Freud's
metapsychology. Critically examines the
different formulations of the following
concepts: The unconscious, the
structural approach (i.e., Ego, Id, Super
Ego), representation, anxiety, symptom,
drive, cathexis, and the Oedipus
complex. Jung’s revisions of basic
analytic concepts will be examined.
3 Credits. Offered every Fall
PY/GS 239 Human Nature and Eros
(See Gender Studies: GS/PY 239)
PY 242 Abnormal Psychology: A
Psychodynamic Approach
Uses Horney's differentiation of the
situation and the character neuroses to
introduce her theory of a basic neurotic
character structure, consisting of
insecurity, anxiety, hostility, craving for
affection, and the defenses.
3 Credits. Offered every Spring
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PY 243 Abnormal and Clinical
Psychology
Examines the classification systems for
abnormal behavior, and uses the DSM
IV Multiaxial diagnostic system as the
base for studying all currently recognized
major diagnostic categories. Studies
various theories about the development
of these disorders, focusing on non-analytic
theories (behavioral, cognitive, humanistic,
biological). Reviews major psychological
treatment modalities, particularly focusing
on behavioral, cognitive, biological and
other non-analytic treatment methods.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100. Offered
every Fall
PY/GS 245 Social Psychology
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.
Focuses through lectures and
discussions on research in the areas
of: conformity, persuasion, mass
communication, propaganda,
aggression, attraction, prejudice, and
altruism.
3 Credits. Offered every year
PY 246 Cross-Cultural Psychology
Cross-cultural research in psychology has
demonstrated that many psychological
processes once assumed to be universal
are actually quite culture-bound. The
student will become familiar with
psychological theories and findings about
cross-cultural phenomena. Moreover, the
students will reflect on and discuss their
own cultural identity and morality and
the way that these affect their behavior.
Some questions that we would like to
answer are: What is culture How does
culture affect culture basic psychological
processes like visual perception, emotions
and memory How does cultural identity
affect relationships with people from
other cultures How can we analyze
stigma, prejudice, discrimination, and
conflict and how can such an analysis
help us in being a global citizen How
does culture affect the way we negotiate
in international organizations
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PY 100, junior
standing. Offered every year
PY/GS 251 Sexuality, Aggression,
and Guilt
Introduces the study of moral conscience,
repression, and the search for happiness.
Examines Freud and Marcuse's theses
concerning human sexuality and human
rights in terms of antagonisms between,
on the one hand, erotic preference,
gender-identity and aggression, and on
the other, socialization, morality, and
so-called civilized refinement.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: sophomore
standing. Offered periodically
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PY 255 Biological Psychology
Students will learn the biological bases
of behavior, emotion, and thought.
Specific topics include the anatomy and
function of the central and peripheral
nervous systems, neuronal processes,
neurotransmitters, sensory processes,
hormones and sexual behavior, memory
and motivation, and drugs and behavior.
Significant attention is also paid to the
brain processes that correlate with
mental disorders.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100. Offered
every year
PY/GS 261 Love, Sexuality, and
the Cinema: A Psychodynamic
Approach
Applies psychodynamic concepts to the
understanding of contemporary cinema.
Studies in detail the film Dangerous
Liaisons (Frears-Hampton), then
analyzes a selection of the following
films: Nine And A Half Weeks
(Adrian Lyne), L'Amant-The Lover
(Duras-Annaud), Sunset Boulevard
(Wilder).
3 Credits. Prerequisite: sophomore
standing. Strongly recommended: PY
221 or PY 242. Offered periodically.
PY 275 Cognitive Psychology
Students will gain an understanding
of the processes that underlie the
workings of the human mind, including
how we perceive, attend, remember,
think, reason, decide, etc. Cognitive
Psychology encompasses the areas of
attention, pattern recognition and other
perceptual achievements, memory,
problem solving, categorization and
concept formation, language acquisition
and use, textual interpretation, and
decision making. Cognitive processes
will also be placed in a cross-cultural
perspective.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100. Offered
every year
PY 277 History and Systems of
Psychology
Investigates the major's area of
psychological thought and research as
first formulated in classical Greece and
revived during the Enlightenment.
Theories of and debates about
perception, cognition, mind/psyche,
intelligence, learning, memory,
motivation, animal behavior,
psychopathology and the unconscious
will be studied from master works and
secondary sources.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PY 100, one
200-level PY course. Offered periodically
PY 325 Psychology of Sensation
and Perception
Provides a comprehensive overview of
the fundamental operations by which
every human being acquires knowledge
about the external world. This course
provides a scientific understanding of
how and why the human senses affect
the way people perceive the world
around them, including how perceptions
can be distorted by both physical and
experiential factors.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100. Offered
periodically
PY 327 Psychological Tests and
Measurements
This course provides students with a
current analysis of the most widely used
psychological tests in schools,
professional training programs,
business, industry, the military, and
clinical settings. Students will learn how
psychological tests are constructed,
how they are used, and how an
understanding of them can make a
difference in their careers and everyday
lives.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PY 100, MA
120. Offered every other year
PY/LI 335 Psycholinguistics
Studies the psychological processes
involved in the acquisition, understanding
and use of language. Provides an
overview of the following research areas:
speech perception, word recognition,
sentence and discourse processing,
speech production, first and second
language acquisition, bilingual acquisition,
and language processing in the brain.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100
recommended. Offered periodically
PY 365 Psychology of Learning
and Memory
The aim of this course is to introduce
theories of learning and memory and
their application in daily life. The student
learns the most important principles of
basic learning, classical and operant
conditioning and the application of these
in such phenomena as drug addiction,
pain behavior, formation and treatment
of phobias. In the second part of the
course the student learns memory
theories and the application of these
in every day memory, such as
autobiographical memory, childhood
memory and childhood amnesia,
flashbulb memory, false memories and
eyewitness memory. We will also focus
on memory loss and memory training.
3 Credits. Prerequisite: PY 100. Offered
periodically
PY 391 Topics in Psychology
Treats a series of topics that change
every year and deal with various aspects
of psychology. Courses are taught by
permanent or visiting faculty and are
generally related to their fields of
specialization.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: PY 100 and
other, depending on topic, see Web site
for recent information. Offered every
year
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PY 490 Honors Program: Senior
Thesis Seminar
This project is an in-depth investigation
of an issue that requires an integration
and application of course material
and methodological skills acquired in
previous courses. A student selects an
empirical question and does the relevant
background reading; writes a literature
review and research proposal, designs
and conducts an experiment; and, after
performing the statistical analyses,
writes a paper that describes their
research and conclusions. Although the
senior thesis primarily consists of
conducting a year long project, there is
also a seminar component. As a senior
psychology major in the honors program,
we expect you to go beyond the level of
engagement with psychology that you
are used to in regular courses, and to
display curiosity in learning about the
field outside of the classroom.
3 Credits. Prerequisites: major in
psychology, senior standing, GPA ≥ 3.5
or by permission. Offered every year.
Science
BI 101 Biology of Organisms
This course covers the basic structure
and function of living organisms at the
cellular, sub-cellular and organismal
levels, with emphasis on the human
organism. Laboratory exercises may
utilize both plant and animal material.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
BI 102 GENES: From Mendel
to the Human Genome Project
This is a biology course designed for
non-science majors. Topics include
cellular organization, genetics (classical
and molecular) and reproduction of
living organisms, with emphasis on
humans. The effects of recent advances
in biotechnology will be discussed.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Prerequisite:
Knowledge of elementary algebra is
recommended but not required. Offered
every Fall
BI 105 GERMS: Microbial Friends
and Foes in our Environment
This course is designed for non-science
majors. Students will be introduced to
the unseen world of microbes, the first
and most numerous inhabitants of our
planet. Human-microbe relationships will
be explored with an emphasis on the
challenge posed by emerging infectious
diseases and bioterrorism.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered every
Spring
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GL 101 Physical Geology
Studies the processes going on at
present in the physical world. Focuses
on the description and genesis of
different kinds of rocks and continues
with the study of the physical
processes shaping the earth's surface,
ranging from external weathering,
erosion and sedimentation to internal
processes of volcanism, earthquakes,
orogenesis and plate tectonics.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
GL 102 Historical Geology
Studies the origin and evolution of the
earth and life on the earth’s surface.
Deals with the concepts important to
understanding the geological record:
diversity of life, fossilization, correlation
of rock units, and the sedimentary
and tectonic framework of the
continents. Examines the geography
of the continents and the history of
life as it existed in each period,
particularly the continents of Europe
and North America.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
GL/AN 362 Science in Archeology
Introduces the physical, chemical,
and geological techniques used by
archeologists in their study of different
sites. Subjects include: prehistoric and
Neolithic man, skeletal remains, dating
techniques, palynology, and diatoms.
Students present individual research at
seminars. Lab sessions include study of
organic or inorganic remains and may
include participation in a dig.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
PH 100 Physics for Non-Scientists
Discusses some of the basic principles
of physics using as little mathematics
as possible without sacrificing
comprehension. Introduces most ideas
within a historical context and, as much
as possible, relates the topics to
phenomena of interest to students.
Topics may include: Newtonian
mechanics, matter and the structure of
the atom, heat and energy, EM radiation,
radioactivity, fusion and fission.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
SC 110 Planet Earth
With an emphasis on methodology,
discusses: the fundamental laws
of physics from a historical perspective
(from Greek concept of motion to
the theories of the Big Bang), the
formation of the solar system, processes
that have shaped the structure of our
planet, and the origins of life on Earth
and its diversification in the light of the
theory of evolution.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
SC 120 Environmental Science
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.
4 credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
SC 130 Astronomy: Exploration of
the Universe
Covers topics of basic observational
astronomy and introduces topics of
modern astrophysics. Topics include
earth-based astronomy, the telescope,
the solar system, and planetary motion.
Studies the properties of the atom and
of light and discusses the new space
observatories before considering
astrophysics: the birth, evolution, and
death of stars, galaxy formation, and
evidence for the expansion of the
universe.
4 Credits. Must take lab. Prerequisites:
geometry and algebra are recommended
but not required. Offered periodically
SC 140 Energy and the
Environment
This is a conceptual physics course
for non-scientists. It discusses the
principles of physics involved in the
production, distribution and consumption
of energy using various types of fuel.
It also considers the environmental
issues related to the use of fossil fuels
from a scientific viewpoint. Renewable
sources of energy and the economic
and political implications of their
development as well as ways of
conserving energy are also discussed.
4 credits. Must take lab. Prerequisite:
AUP mathematics general education
requirement. Offered periodically
SC 191 Topics in Science
Topics vary. Provides the opportunity to
learn new and different scientific topics
from visiting faculty.
4 credits. Must take lab. Offered
periodically
Social Science
For courses in anthropology, economics,
history, political science, psychology,
and sociology, see separate listings for
these fields.
Catalog 2006-07
SO 100 Introduction to the Social
Sciences
Cultivates an understanding of the
scientific spirit applied to social
structures and relations. Enables
students to confront the dynamics
of social change in the global
environment. Considers the boundaries
of civic society and private life, the
concept of social justice, race and
ethnicity, social stratification and
class structure, division of labor
and economic organization, political
liberty and the state.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
Sociology
SO 105 Introduction to
Sociological Thought and Practice
Introduction to sociology and the thought
and approach of sociology's founders:
Durkheim, Marx, and Weber.
Emphasizes key sociological questions:
relation between self and society, social
inequalities (gender, race, class, and
status), organizations, urban problems,
social change (modernism,
postmodernism, effects of new
technologies), and social movements.
Demonstrates how sociology provides
unique theoretical and methodological
tools to better understand the world in
which we live.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
SO 206 Political Sociology
Analyzes political processes as social
phenomena and the various ways in
which political events and activity can be
explained using conceptual tools drawn
from the disciplines of history,
psychology, and other social sciences.
Considers the formation of political
culture, the nature of ideology, the
functional dynamics of the state and
bureaucracy, the psycho-social
foundations of authority, and the
generation of social movements.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
SO 212 Introduction to French
Society
Introduces France and its culture to
students who want to understand its
people, their mentality, and their ways
of life. Examines the historical factors,
cultural values, demographic evolution,
and social organization, with emphasis
on current social and political issues.
3 Credits. Offered periodically
SO/CM 331 Media Sociology
(See Communications: CM/SO 331)
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Spanish
SN 110 Elementary Spanish I
The elementary class is designed for
students with no or minimal prior
exposure to or knowledge of Spanish.
The class uses a communicative
approach to engage students in the
learning process. The texts are carefully
chosen to not only expose students to
the language but also provide them with
a thorough understanding of the culture
in Spanish-speaking countries around
the world.
4 Credits. Offered every Fall
SN 120 Elementary Spanish II
This course is a continuation of SN 110
focusing on the fundamental elements
of the Spanish language within a cultural
context. Emphasis is placed on the
progressive development of listening,
speaking, reading, and writing skills.
Students will learn how to express
desires or give their advice, and how to
express themselves in everyday life
situations.
4 Credits. Prerequisite: SN 110 or
equivalent. Offered every Spring
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FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION AND BOARDS
FACULTY
Sharam Alijani
Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Economics, Business Administration
and Communications
BA, BS, The American University
of Paris
DEA, Université de Reims
DEA, Université de Marne-la-Vallée
DEA, École Nationale des Ponts et
Chaussées
Docteur ès Sciences Economiques,
Université de Marne-la-Vallée
Georges Allyn
Professor of Psychology
BA, The Johns Hopkins University
PhD, University of London
Laurence Amoureux
Technology Librarian
Maîtrise, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Maîtrise, Université de Paris I-Panthéon-
Sorbonne
Djamchid Assadi
Adjunct Associate Professor
of Business Administration
Licence en sciences de gestion,
Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris
DEA, Doctorat, Université de Paris,
IX-Dauphine
Frédéric Attal
Adjunct Instructor of French
Licence, Maîtrise, DEA, Université
de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
Christine Baltay
Associate Professor of Art History
Chair, Department of Art History
and Fine Arts
BA, Marymount Manhattan College
Diplôme, Ecole du Louvre
PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
Nathalie Bardin
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Communications
Licence de Lettres Modernes, Sorbonne
Licence et Maîtrise de Sciences
Politiques, Panthéon-Sorbonne
DESS, Politiques Publiques et Gestion
des Organisations
MSc, San Diego State University
Jean Bardot
Associate Professor of French
Licence, Maîtrise es Lettres, DEA
Doctorat es Lettres, Université de Paris
IV-Sorbonne
Certificat d’Histoire de l’Art, Ecole du
Louvre
Peter Barnet
Adjunct Associate Professor
of Communications and Business
Administration
BA, Yale University
Petermichael von Bawey
University Professor
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
MA, CPhil, PhD, University of California,
Los Angeles
Richard Beardsworth
Professor of Political Philosophy
Director, Philosophy Program
BA, MA, University of Cambridge
MA, DPhil, University of Sussex
Madeleine Beaufort
Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Art History
BA, University of Connecticut
MAT, Yale University
MA, PhD, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
Jim Bittermann
Adjunct Associate Professor
of Communications
BS, Southern Illinois University
Randall Blatt
Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
Diplôme Supérieur, Diplôme
d'Excellence, Conservatoire Européen
de Paris
Anatole Bloomfield
Adjunct Instructor of French
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de Rouen
DEA, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne
Nouvelle
Ann Murphy Borel
Director, Academic Resource Center
Information Literacy Librarian
BA, University of Minnesota/Northern
Illinois University
MLIS, Dominican University
Marilyne Boursin
Adjunct Instructor of French
Licence, Maîtrise, Maîtrise,
Université de Paris X-Nanterre
Brian Brazeau
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
BA, The American University of Paris
MA, PhD, University of California, Los
Angeles
Filiz Eda Burhan
Associate Professor of Art History
BA, Bryn Mawr College
MFA, PhD, Princeton University
Cheryl Caesar
Adjunct Instructor of English
BA, Michigan State University
MA, University of California, Riverside
DEA, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne
Nouvelle
Kate Carpenter
Instructor of Business Administration
BA, Rutgers University
CPA (Certified Public Accountant)
Jerome Charyn
Distinguished Professor of Film Studies
Co-Chair, Film Studies Program
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres
BA, Columbia College
Kathleen Chevalier
Associate Professor of Art History
and History
BA, University of California, Berkeley
Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Université
de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Suse Childs
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
BA, MLS, State University
of New York, Albany
MA, MPhil, Columbia University
James Clayson
Professor of Business Administration
and Mathematics
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA, University of Chicago
Elaine Coburn
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Communications
BA, University of Toronto
MA, PhD, Stanford University
Ruth Corran
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Co-Chair, Department of Computer
Science, Mathematics, and Science
BS, PhD, University of Sydney
Alice Craven
Adjunct Associate Professor
of Comparative Literature and English
Chair, Department of Comparative
Literature and English
BA, St. John's College
PhD, New York University
Susan Cure
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology
BA, PhD, Stanford University
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Nathalie Debroise
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
and French
Director, Film Studies Program
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres,
Université de Paris-Sorbonne
PhD, State University of New York,
Binghamton
Clara DeLamater
Adjunct Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Premier Prix de Portrait “Paul Louis
Weiller,” Académie des Beaux-Arts
Prix de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts,
Institut de France
Gerardo della Paolera
Professor of Economics
President of the University
Licenciado en Economía, Pontificia
Universidad Católica Argentina
MA, PhD, University of Chicago
Marie-France Derhy
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Licence ès Lettres, Maîtrise, Doctorat
de Troisième Cycle, Université de Nice
DS, University of Essex
William Dow
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
BS, Grand Valley State University
MA, Clark University
PhD, University of Delaware
Waddick Doyle
Associate Professor of Communications
Chair, Department of International
Communications
Laurea, Università di Bologna
BA, PhD, Griffith University, Brisbane
Karl Dunz
Assistant Professor of Economics
BA, Washington University
MA, PhD, University of California,
Berkeley
Larry Eaker
Adjunct Associate Professor of Political
Science
BA, Florida Atlantic University
MA, University of Miami School of Law
JD, University of Florida College of Law
Fred Einbinder
Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Business
Administration
BA, Bradley University
JD, University of Illinois College of Law
Diplôme de Droit Comparé, Université
de Paris-Sorbonne
Diploma in Executive Management,
Centre de Perfectionnement aux
Affaires, Paris
Steven Ekovich
Associate Professor of Political Science
and History
BA, MA, PhD, University of California,
Irvine
Tanya Elder
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Communications
BA, Amherst College
PhD, University of Linköping, Sweden
Mark Ennis
Instructor of English and Communications
BA, Boston University
MAT, School for International Training,
Brattleboro, Vermont
Abdolreza Faiz
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
and Science
BS, PhD, University of Rhode Island
MS, California Institute of Technology
Ali Fatemi
Professor of Business Administration
and Economics
Dean, Graduate School of Business
BS, Fairleigh Dickinson University
MA, PhD, New School for Social
Research
Oliver Feltham
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Comparative Literature
BA, University of Sydney
PhD, Deakin University
Barbara Fliess
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Economics
BA, McGill University
MA, School of Advanced International
Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
PhD, The Graduate Institute of
International Studies, University
of Geneva
Jérôme Game
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Diplôme, Institut d'Etudes Politiques
de Paris
Maîtrise en Droit, Université de Paris I-
Sorbonne
PhD, University of Cambridge
Hall Gardner
Professor of Political Science
BA, Colgate University
MA, PhD, Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies,
The Johns Hopkins University
Isabel Gardner
Adjunct Lecturer in Italian
DEUG, Université François Rabelais
Diplôme, School of Translation and
Conference Interpretation, Georgetown
University
Eugeni Gentchev
Associate Professor of Computer
Science
BA, PhD, University of Technology,
Sophia
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Geoffrey Gilbert
Associate Professor of Comparative
Literature, English, European and
Mediterranean Cultures, and
Communications
BA, MA, University of Aberdeen
PhD, University of Cambridge
Jeffrey Hiroshi Gima
Information Services Librarian
BA, Reed College
MSLIS, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Marielle Gorissen-van Eenige
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Director, Psychology Program
BA, MA, PhD, Radboud University,
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Martin Grandes
Assistant Professor of Economics and
Business Administration
Organizing Director of the Graduate
School of Government
BA, MA, Universidad de Buenos Aires
MA, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
DEA, PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale
Supérieure
Kate Green
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
BS, Georgetown University
MA, New York University
PhD, City University of New York
Eric Guévorkian
Adjunct Instructor of Business
Administration
BA, National University, Teheran
MBA, University of California, Berkeley
DEA, Université de Paris IX-Dauphine
Daniel Gunn
Professor of Comparative Literature,
English, and European and
Mediterranean Cultures
BA, MA, DPhil, University of Sussex
Gail Hamilton
Instructor of Business Administration
Associate Dean of Academic
Administration
BS, Purdue University
BA, State University of New York,
New Paltz
MBA, INSEAD
Adrian Harding
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Comparative Literature, English,
and French
BA, Liverpool University
PhD, University of Cambridge
Jayson Harsin
Assistant Professor of Communications
BA, University of Kansas
MA, University of Illinois
PhD, Northwestern University
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Camille Hercot
Assistant Professor of French
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université
de Paris-Sorbonne
Blanca Heredia
Professor of Political Science
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
BA, El Colegio de México
MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Adjunct Professor of Communications,
Jean Monnet Professor
BA, University of Delhi
Maîtrise ès Lettres
Université de Paris V-Sorbonne
George Kazolias
Adjunct Instructor of Communications
Licence, Université de Paris VIII-
Vincennes
Maîtrise, Université de Paris VIII-St Denis
Oleg Kobtzeff
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political
Science and History
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de
Paris IV-Sorbonne
DEA, Doctorat, Université de
Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne
Antonio Kung
Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science
Diplôme, Ecole Centrale, Paris
MS, Harvard University
Lissa Lincoln
Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature and English
BA, MA, University of Alberta
PhD, McGill University
Gary Linn
Professor of Accounting
Chair, Department of International
Business Administration
BS, Arkansas Tech University
MBA, Indiana University
PhD, Louisiana Tech University
Linda Martz
Assistant Professor of English
and History
BA, Scripps College, Los Angeles
Maîtrise, DEA, Université de Paris VII
Doctorat ès langue et cultures des
sociétés anglophones, Université de
Paris VII
Justin McGuinness
Assistant Professor of Communications
and European and Mediterranean
Cultures
BA, University of Cambridge
MA, University of Durham
PhD, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Marc Monthéard
Assistant Professor of French and Drama
Vice-President and Dean of Student
Services
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, DEA,
Doctorat ès Lettres, Université de Paris
IV-Sorbonne
Ann Mott
Instructor of English
Writing Lab Counselor
BA, MA, University of Alabama
Dominique Mougel
Instructor of French
Director, Center for Language Research
and Teaching
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université
de Clermont-Ferrand
DEA, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
DESS, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne
Nouvelle
Claudie Moy
Instructor of French
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université
de Paris I-Sorbonne
MA, University of California, Berkeley
Terence Murphy
Professor of History and Political
Science
BA, Catholic University of America
MA, City University of New York
PhD, University of Chicago
Sarah Murray
Database Librarian
BA, Birmingham Southern College
MLS, Syracuse University
Marie-Christine Navarro
Associate Professor of French
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Agrégation
de Lettres Modernes, DEA, Université
de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
Julie Newton
Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Political Science
BA, Princeton University
MA, Columbia University
PhD, St Antony's College, Oxford
University
Maria Nieblas
Adjunct Instructor of French
DESS, Licence, Université de Paris IV
Maîtrise, Université de Paris III
Farhad Nomani
Professor of Economics and Business
Administration
Co-Chair, Department of Economics
BS, University of Tulsa
MA, PhD, University of Illinois-Urbana
Robert Ogle
Adjunct Instructor of Fine Arts
BFA, Minneapolis College of Art
and Design
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Marc Pelen
Professor of Comparative Literature
and English
BA, MA, PhD, Princeton University
Susan Perry
Associate Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of International
and Comparative Politics
BA, Brown University
MA, Yale University
DEA, Doctorat, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Ralph Petty
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
University Curator
BFA, University of California, Davis
Diplôme, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Arts Appliqués, Paris
Richard Pevear
Adjunct Professor of Comparative
Literature
BA, Allegheny College
MA, University of Virginia
Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien
Associate Professor of French
Coordinator, French Studies Major
Licence ès Lettres, Université de
Haute-Normandie, Rouen
MA, Dalhousie University
PhD, University of Toronto
Lawrence Pitkethly
Associate Professor of Films Studies and
Communications
Co-Chair, Film Studies Program
BA, University College, London
MSc, London School of Economics
PhD, University of London
Ali Rahnema
Professor of Economics
Co-Chair, Department of Economics
BA, Lewis and Clark College
MA, MALD, The Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Doctorat de Troisième Cycle,
Université de Paris I-Sorbonne
Michel Rakotomavo
Assistant Professor of Business
Administration
BS, Université de Dijon
DEA, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
MS, Stevens Institute of Technology
PhD, City University of New York
Kirsten Ralf
Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Economics and Business Administration
Diplom, Dr. rer. pol., Habilitation,
University of Hamburg
Rebekah Rast
Assistant Professor of English
Director, English Foundation Program
Research Director, Center for Language
Research and Teaching
BA, Sarah Lawrence College
MA, Indiana University
DEA, Doctorat, Université de Paris VIII
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Claudia Roda
Associate Professor of Computer
Science and Communications
Co-Chair, Department of Computer
Science, Mathematics, and Science
BS, Università di Pisa
MS, PhD, University of London
Roy Rosenstein
Professor of Comparative Literature
and English
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de Paris
MA, Harvard University
BA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
Marie-Thérèse Roussel
Assistant Professor of French
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres,
DEA, Doctorat de Troisième Cycle,
Université de Paris VIII
Adrienne Russell
Assistant Professor of Communications
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
MA, Stanford University
PhD, Indiana University
Margery Arent Safir
Adjunct Professor of Comparative
Literature and English
BA, Columbia University
MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University
William Sara
Adjunct Lecturer in Business
Administration
BS, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
MBA, University of Connecticut
Laurent Sauerwein
Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Communications and Computer Science
BS, Boston University
Celeste Schenck
Professor of Comparative Literature
Vice-President for Academic Innovation
and Development
BA, Princeton University
MA, PhD, Brown University
Wolfgang Schröter
Adjunct Associate Professor of German
Lehrbefähigungszeugnis, Academy of
Music and Dramatic Arts, Vienna
Licence, Maîtrise, DEA, Doctorat ès
Lettres, Université de Paris X
Maîtrise de Droit, DEA, Université de
Paris XIII
Diplôme de Droit Comparé, Université
de Paris II
Dr. iuris, University of Vienna
Pablo Seijas
Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
MA, Universidad de Buenos Aires
DEA, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
Nouvelle
Christy Shields
Adjunct Instructor of History
BA, Northwestern University
MA, Institute of French Studies,
New York University
MPhil, New York University
DEA, Doctorat en sociologie, Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris
Jorge Sosa
Collections and Access Services
Librarian
Acting University Librarian
BA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del
Ecuador
MA, College of Library and Information
Science, University of Kentucky
DEA, Conservatoire National des Arts
et Métiers
William Stewart
Instructor of Business Administration
BA, Rutgers University
MBA, Thunderbird, The Garvin School
of International Management
Georgi Stojanov
Associate Professor of Computer Science
BS, MS, PhD, University of Sts Cyril
and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
Alexandra Svoronou
Associate Professor of Mathematics
and Business Administration
BS, University of Athens
MA, PhD, University of Rochester
Edith Taïeb
Assistant Professor of French
Maîtrise de Droit, Université de Nice
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, DEA,
Diplôme de Méthodologie de
l'Enseignement du Français, Université
de Paris VIII
Doctorat ès Sciences du Langage,
Université de Paris VIII
Charles Talcott
Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature and English
BA, Seattle University
DEA, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
MA, PhD, State University of New York,
Binghamton
Roger Tellio
Adjunct Instructor of Mathematics
Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d'Electricité et de
Mécanique, Nancy
MS, State University of New York, Stony
Brook
Julie Thomas
Associate Professor of Communications
BA, Columbia University
MA, Harvard University
MLitt, Trinity College, Dublin
PhD, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London
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Pat Thompson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Communications
BS, University of Illinois, Urbana
MA, Loyola University
David Tresilian
Adjunct Instructor of English
BA, MPhil, Oxford University
MPhil, Columbia University
Andrea Trocha Van Nort
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
BA, University of Oklahoma
Maîtrise, DEA, Université Clermont-
Ferrand II
Lauréate du CAPES d'anglais
PhD, Université Clermont-Ferrand II
Mia Vieyra
Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Psychology
BA, Brown University
MA, PhD, University of Connecticut
George Wanklyn
Associate Professor of European and
Mediterranean Cultures and Art History
Chair, Department of European and
Mediterranean Cultures
BA, Princeton University
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
James Ward
Adjunct Instructor of International
Business Administration
BA, Boston University
MS, George Washington University
Myriam Wissa
Adjunct University Professor of History
BA, The American University in Cairo
Maîtrise d'Histoire et d'Archéologie,
Doctorat d'Etat, Université
de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Douglas Yates
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political
Science
BA, University of California, Santa
Barbara
MA, PhD, Boston University
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FACULTY EMERITI
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Michael Beausang
Professor Emeritus
BA, McGill University
MLitt, Trinity College, Dublin
Docteur ès Lettres, Université de Paris-
Sorbonne
Lloyd A. DeLamater
Founding President
BA, MA, Columbia University
Doctorat, Université de Paris
Clelia Hutt
Professor Emerita
Licence ès Lettres, Diplôme de l'Ecole
Supérieure de Préparation et
Perfectionnement des Professeurs de
Français à l'Etranger, Doctorat de
Troisième Cycle, Université de Paris-
Sorbonne
Charlotte Kessler
Assistant Dean Emerita
BA, Illinois Wesleyan University
MA, Catholic University of America
Carol Maddison Kidwell
Dean Emerita
BA, Queen's University, Kingston,
Canada
MA, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
Charlotte Lacaze
Schiff-Dupee Associate Professor
Emerita
BA, New York University
MA, PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
James Edward Latham, S.J.
Professor Emeritus
BA, PhL, Gonzaga University
STL, Chantilly Theologate
Doctorat, Institut Catholique de Paris
Maud Nicolas
Assistant Professor Emerita
BS, Central Connecticut State College
MA, Northwestern University
Diploma de Lengua Española,
Universidad de Madrid
Certificat de Phonétique, Université
de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
David Wingeate Pike
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
AIL, London
BA, McGill University
MA, Universidad Interamericana, Mexico
Doctorat, Université de Toulouse
PhD, Stanford University
W. Graham L. Randles
Professor Emeritus
BA, University of Cambridge
Doctorat de l'Université, Doctorat de
Troisième Cycle, Université de Paris-
Sorbonne
Richard F. Scott
Professor Emeritus
Doctor of Law, University of Chicago
Docteur en Droit de l'Université,
Université de Paris
Françoise Weinmann
Associate Professor Emerita
Licence, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie,
Université de Paris-Sorbonne
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
ADMINISTRATION
Gerardo della Paolera
President of the University
Professor of Economics
Licenciado en Economía, Pontificia
Universidad Católica Argentina
MA, PhD, University of Chicago
Ali Fatemi
Dean, Graduate School of Business
Professor of Business Administration
and Economics
BS, Fairleigh Dickinson University
MA, PhD, New School for Social
Research
Blanca Heredia
Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
BA, El Colegio de México
MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
Douglas Inman
Vice-President for Finance and
Administration
BA, San Diego State University
MBA, National University, San Diego
Marc Monthéard
Vice-President and Dean of Student
Services
Assistant Professor of French and
Drama
Licence, Maîtrise ès Lettres, DEA,
Doctorat ès Lettres, Université de Paris
IV-Sorbonne
Celeste Schenck
Vice-President for Academic Innovation
and Development
Professor of Comparative Literature
BA, Princeton University
MA, PhD, Brown University
Gail Hamilton
Associate Dean of Academic
Administration
Instructor of Business Administration
BS, Purdue University
BA, State University of New York, New
Paltz
MBA, INSEAD
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THE AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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Trustees Emeriti:
Mel Croner
Kentfield, CA / Paris
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing
Paris
Arthur Hartman
Washington, DC
The Late Joseph Iseman
New York, NY
John Mullins
South Hadley, MA
Willem Peppler
Paris
Didier Pineau-Valencienne
Paris
Hélène Ploix
Paris
Jacques Setton
Paris
Georges Thiel
Stockholm / Paris
Chairman:
Thomas Hardy
New York, NY
Treasurer:
Edward Frieman
La Jolla, CA / Paris
Secretary:
Herbert Fried
Cranston, RI / Paris
Ex-officio member:
Gerardo della Paolera
President, The American University
of Paris
Richard Atkinson
La Jolla, CA
Arthur Bratone
New York, NY
C. K. Chu
Westport, CT
Philippe Dennery
Paris
Gil Donaldson
Paris
Robert Elliott
New York, NY / Paris
Jean-Pierre Ergas
Chicago, IL
Ronald Freeman
London / Paris
Paal Johan Frisvold
Brussels
Gretchen Handwerger
Washington, DC
Lee Huebner
Evanston, IL / Paris
Bill Jacobi
New York, NY
David T. McGovern
Paris
Gail Messiqua
Paris
Malinda Mitchell
Atherton, CA
Pamela Newman
New York, NY
Judith Hermanson Ogilvie
Potomac, MD
Aaron Powers
Oslo, Norway
David Richter, Jr.
London
Rita Fredricks Salzman
New York, NY
Lizbeth Schiff
London
Leon M. Selig
New York, NY / Paris
John Sexton
New York, NY
Paul S. Slawson
San Francisco, CA
L'INSTITUT
DE COMMERCE
INTERNATIONAL
ET DES SCIENCES
DE L'INFORMATION
(ICISI)
Director
Gerardo della Paolera
Advisory Board
Kate Carpenter
James Clayson
Ali Fatemi
Gail Hamilton
Farhad Nomani
Ali Rahnema
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Catalog 2006-07
INDEX
A Academic Advising, 10
Academic Affairs, 10
Academic Honors, 17
Academic Integrity, 14
Academic Misconduct, 15
Academic Procedures and Policies, 11
Academic Standing, 13
Accreditation, 2
Administration, 98
Advanced Academic Standing, 5
Advising Fee, 7
Anthropology Courses, 60
Appeal Committee, 18
Application Fee, 7
Application Policies and Procedures, 4
Applied International Finance Major, 44
ARC, 3
ARC Seminars, 10
Art Courses, 60
Art History Courses, 61
Art History and Fine Arts Department, 24
Astronomy Courses, 63, 92
Attendance, 12
Auditor Status, 10
B Biology Courses, 63, 92
Board of Trustees, 99
Business Administration Courses, 63
C Career Counseling, 3
Center for Language Research
and Teaching, 49
Center for Language Research
and Teaching Courses, 78
Change of Grade Policy, 13
Cheating, 15
Collection Fees, 8
Communications Courses, 64
Comparative Literature Courses, 68
Comparative Literature and English
Department, 26
Computer Science Courses, 71
Computer Science, Mathematics
and Science Department, 30
Computer Services, 2
Conduct In The Community, 18
Confirmation Deposit, 7
Course Load, 12
Course Numbering System, 60
Course Substitution Policy, 12
Credit by Examination, 12
Credit Earned Outside the University, 12
Credit/No Credit Option, 13
Cultural Programs, 3
D Dean's List, 17
Departments and Programs, 23
Directed Study, 10
Dismissal, 14
Double Majors, 22
Drama Courses, 73
E Economics Courses, 73
Economics Department, 32
Emergency Cash Fund, 8
English Courses, 74
English Foundation Program, 28
English Language Proficiency, 4
English Placement Test, 4
F
English Requirements, 4, 20
Environmental Science Courses, 75, 92
European and Mediterranean Cultures
Courses, 75
European and Mediterranean Cultures
Department, 34
Facilities, see inside back cover
Faculty, 94
Faculty Emeriti, 98
Film Studies Courses, 79
Film Studies Department, 36
Financial Assistance, 6
Financial Responsibility, 8
Financial Standing, 8
FirstBridge, 20, 81
French Requirement, 4, 20
French Courses, 78, 81
French Language Proficiency, 20
French Studies Major, 51
FrenchBridge, 4, 21
Full-time Status, 10
G Gender Studies Courses, 82
General Education Requirements, 20
Geology Courses, 82, 92
German Courses, 82
Grade, Challenge of Final, 16
Grading and Credits, 13
Graduate Programs, 11
Graduation Honors, 17
Graduation Requirements, 20
H Health Insurance, 7
History Courses, 82
History and Social Sciences
Department, 38
Honor Societies, 17
Housing, 3
Housing Insurance, 7
I ICISI, 2, 99
Incomplete Grade, 13
Information Technology Courses, 84
Intensive English Courses, 74
Interest Charges, 8
International and Comparative Politics
Department, 40
International Business Administration
Department, 42
International Communications
Department, 46
Internships, 10
Italian Courses, 84
J Judicial Procedures, 18
L Language Proficiency Requirements, 4
Language Study at Another
Institution, 11
Library, 2, 7
Loans, 6, 8
Loans, Emergency, 8
M Majors, 21
Mathematics Courses, 84
Minors, 21, 56
Monthly Payment Plan, 8
Music Courses, 85
O Orientation, 3
Orientation Fee, 7
P Part-time Status, 10
Part-time Tuition Fee, 7
Payment Currency, 8
Payment Due Dates, 8
Payment Methods, 8
Payment Plan Options, 8
Payment Procedures and Policies, 8
Personal Counseling, 3
Philosophy Courses, 86
Philosophy Program, 53
Physics Courses, 87, 92
Placement Tests, 11
Plagiarism, 14
Planet Earth Courses, 87, 92
Political Science Courses, 87
Pre-registration, 12
Prerequisites, 60
Probation, 14
Procedures For Admitted Students, 5
Psychology Courses, 90
Psychology Program, 54
R Readmission, 5
Registration, 11
Repeat Courses, 13
Residence Permits, 5
S Scholarship Options, 6
Science Courses, 91
Second Diplomas, 22
Semester Payment Plan, 8
Sexual Harassment, 19
Social Science Courses, 92
Sociology Courses, 92
Spanish Courses, 93
Special Fees, 8
Sports, 3
Standards Of Conduct, 18
Student Activities, 3
Student Affairs, 3
Student Employment, 6
Student Identification Cards, 12
Student Information, Release of, 17
Student Status, 10
Study Abroad, 11
Summer Term, 3
T Transcripts, 14
Transfer of Academic Credit, 5
Tuition, 7
V Visas and Residence Permits, 5
Visiting Student Status, 10
W Waiver of Degree Requirements, 12
Withdrawal and Refunds, 9
Withdrawal from a Course, 9, 13
Withdrawal from the University, 9, 14
Working in France, 6
Writing Lab, 3
Y Yearly Payment Plan, 8
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The American University of Paris
International Admissions Office
6, rue du Colonel Combes
75007 Paris, France
tel (33/1) 40 62 07 20
fax (33/1) 47 05 34 32
e-mail: admissions@aup.edu
The American University of Paris
United States Office
950 South Cherry Street, Suite 210
Denver, Colorado 80246
tel (303) 757-6333
fax (303) 757-6444
e-mail: usoffice@aup.edu
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University Web site :
www.aup.edu
1
31, avenue Bosquet
Academic Advising, Academic Affairs, Classrooms,
Cultural Programs, Registrar, Student Affairs,
Student Café, Student Government Association,
Student Lounge
2
10 bis, rue Amélie
Bookstore, Classrooms
3
9, rue de Monttessuy
AUP Library
4
147, rue de Grenelle (behind Eglise St. Jean)
Academic Research Center (ARC), Classrooms,
Computer Services, Faculty Offices, Student
Lounge, Writing Lab
5
102, rue St. Dominique
(entrance 16, Passage Landrieu)
Bursar, Career Development, Finance and
Administration, Human Resources, Institutional
Research
6
6, rue du Colonel Combes
Admissions, Alumni Affairs, Classrooms,
Communications, Development, Faculty Offices,
President’s Office, Student Finance Center,
Summer Programs
7
11, rue Pierre Villey
Classrooms, Faculty Offices