ANT300.5 Food and Emotions in Italian History (Fall, Spring)

The course investigates how emotions and sensibilities related to food are historically and culturally situated phenomena. It is grounded in the Western perspective, particularly the Italian experience, consistently placing it critically and in relation to global history. The theoretical basis stems from the Food History, the Cultural History of the Body, and the History of Emotions. It provides students with historical and conceptual tools that will enable them to think critically about the complexities of our time and past, encouraging them to build their personal experiences and food-related emotions positively.

Meets with with HST 300.5.

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

PSC300.4 Climate Change & Human Rights: Italian and Global Perspectives (Fall, Spring)

Heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods and catastrophic storms. Like many countries around the globe, Italy faces multiple threats from climate change.

This course investigates the causes, effects and subsequent actions to address climate change from the international to the individual level. Through example-based learning, students will become active participants in the ongoing climate change discourse. Starting from the Italian perspective, this course provides participants with essential knowledge on climate science, international climate diplomacy, and human rights. It explores the connections between these major challenges, and explains how Italy fits in the larger context of global efforts to address climate change.

Cross-listed with GEO 300.4.

MTC246 Chromatic Harmony II (Spring)

Not offered Spring 2024

Chromatic harmony continued. Late 19th century chromaticism, 20th century methods. Analysis of repertoire from 19th and 20th centuries.

Syracuse University Shared Competency:

Critical and Creative Thinking

Prereq: MTC 245

SPM245 Race, Gender, and Diversity in Sport Organizations (Fall, Spring) Cancelled Fall 2026

Application of concepts and theories from the field of organizational studies to workforce diversity, inclusion, and equity in sport organizations. Issues of race/ethnicity and gender are emphasized.

Satisfies IDEA Course Requirement.

Satisfies Syracuse University Shared Competencies:

Critical and Creative Thinking
Ethics, Integrity, and Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

GEO300.2 Green Britain? Science, Devolution, and Climate Controversies in the UK (Fall, Spring)

This field studies course invites you to use Great Britain as a case study for the interplay between environmental geology, political ecology, and devolution policy.

During two full weekends of travel during the semester, you will encounter controversies over environmental resources, climate policies, and decision-making power. A fundamental reality in environmental science is that all life and Earth processes are interconnected across vast distances and over long periods of time. Yet human systems of governance work at much smaller scales, both spatially and temporally. This is perhaps especially true in the contemporary United Kingdom, where ongoing processes of regional devolution –- and particularly Brexit –- signal growing interest in localization.

You will simultaneously study the geological history that formed distinct landscapes in the devolved areas of Great Britain and the current sociopolitical forces that create interest in the resulting environmental resources.

Ultimately, “Green Britain” will help you better understand geology, politics, and science communication –- and how these forces impact both their daily lives and human history.

May also be registered as PSC 300.2

Not included in limited registration of PSC courses.

This course has an associated course fee. See the London Course Fees page for more information.

CHE275 Organic Chemistry I (Fall)

Open only to students accepted to the Health and Sciences special program. Taught at the Madrid Campus of St. Louis University. Chemistry of carbon compounds, their nomenclature, structure, stereochemistry, and properties. Introduction to organic reactions and mechanisms.

Modern organic chemistry of aliphatic compounds. Study of the structure and properties of organic molecules, and transition states, kinetics of reactions and reaction mechanisms: free radical substitution reactions of alkanes, stereochemistry, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution, and reactions of alkenes, alcohols and alkyl halides, electrophilic free radical stereoselective and stereospecific reactions.

Satisfies Syracuse University Shared Competency in Critical and Creative Thinking.

Pre-req: CHE 116 or CHE 119 or minimum AP Chemistry exam score of 5

ECN300.1 The Economics of Inequality (Fall, Spring)

This course will examine the economics of inequality at both theoretical and empirical levels. Special attention will be directed to national and international forms of economic inequality alongside the major debates regarding their key drivers and appropriate policy solutions.

The issue of economic inequality has been thrust into the media and academic spotlight over the past decade. In many of the most high-profile and urgent issues and trends we are currently witnessing, the underlying issue of economic inequality is easily identifiable and indeed inescapable. At the national level, the issue of inequality has manifested itself powerfully through the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK while globally the impact of, and policy responses to, both the climate challenge and the Covid-19 crisis continue to expose and exacerbate political fissures between advanced and developing economies.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the economics of inequality in order to better understand these and other pressing issues in the contemporary political and economic landscape.

Part One provides an introduction to the definitions, measurements and debates on the economics of inequality at both national and international levels.
Part Two examines in greater detail the economics of inequality at the national level through the prism of economic, political and socio-cultural systems and evaluates the policies devised and implemented under different systems to address inequalities.
Part Three examines the economics of inequality at the international level paying particular attention to the role of world trade, aid, migration and multinational investment.
The course concludes by outlining several future scenarios for global economic inequality.

This course is particularly relevant for students pursuing careers in government, international organizations and NGOs but also to any persons interested in engaging in public debates on inequality in an informed manner with access to relevant facts, figures and concepts.

Prereq: ECN 101 or ECN 102 or ECN 203 or equivalent background in microeconomics

DES304 Collaborative Design (Spring)

Open only to students accepted to the Florence Design Program (required).

Collaborative Design focuses on inquiry-based learning that involves groups of designers from diverse backgrounds and interests to work together to design innovative and transformative spaces, services, and products in project based environment.

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

DES304 Collaborative Design (Spring)

This project-oriented design studio is open only to and required of students admitted to the London Design Program. The course focuses on inquiry-based learning that involves groups of designers from diverse backgrounds and interests to work together to design innovative and transformative spaces, services, and products in a project-based environment.

Collaboration is an act of collected discovery. As a group of people within the network contributes, we can successfully create emergent environment with innovative results. This focus of this course is for students to learn to work together creatively in a hands-on environment to design innovative and transformative spaces, services, and products. The design tasks in the course aim to teach collaborative design as an approach to consider issues and resolve problems with broader parameters. Students will use design thinking to research sustainable solutions, new technologies, and cultural and social trends in the world.
This course is structured to provide our students with a combination of topical lectures, discussions on researched topics, idea-generation exercises, guest lecturers, in-class team exercises, review on the projects’ developments, and presentation to the class.

On successful completion of DES304, you will be able to:

Demonstrate a wider interpretation of the creative process and grasp of the nature and value of integrated design practices
Understand the dynamics of team collaboration and the distribution and structure of team responsibilities
Apply the value of divergent thinking while demonstrating the to ability effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions
Demonstrate multidisciplinary creative approaches using technologically-based collaboration methods
Demonstrate design concepts that transform a space or product design without trying to fit the axioms, but using the terminology and language necessary to communicate effectively with members of allied disciplines.

Coreqs: IND 481 OR CMD 450

GEO380.22 Urban-Territorial Problematization and Intervention

This course will formulate an urban-territorial project using adequate arguments for undergraduate students regarding the habitable territory applying contemporary concepts of sustainability and socioecological resilience, legal tools, and methodological techniques to pursue the understanding of the importance of this knowledge in Urbanism, conceiving the city and the city development plan as social and individual rights, and the understanding of urban planning difficulties in a radicalized neoliberal development model as is the Chilean case.
The course problem study will be formulated from a critical view of the territorial reality, with consciousness of its complexity (dynamic and multisystemic reality), and with reference to contemporary concepts in an adequate level for undergraduate students. Students will formulate a creative, integrative, and sustainable synthesis, that will be socioecologically resilient and feasible from the urban-territorial problem perspective, that will be expressed through legal, pertinent, and understandable urban-architectural media.

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

Study contemporary concepts for problematization and resolutory intervention work.
Formulate a complex urban-territorial problem, identifying its relevant variables using interdisciplinary methods, to develop probable scenarios with their positive and negative aspects, and concluding intervention strategies.
Evaluate the impact and implications of the intervention, to understand the scopes of the proposed changes in short, medium, and long term, in the framework of climate change and its effects.