Explore expressive forms and the history of printmaking while learning various printmaking techniques, including relief, intaglio, and monotype processes. Examine interrelationships of these media with other art disciplines. Work on individual and group projects.
Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program.
This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.
Differing perspectives on changing global economy and nature of modern state. Key ideas regarding development through experiences of developing countries in Asia and Africa.
Prereq: ECN 101 or ECN 203 or equivalent background in microeconomics
The study and performance of scenes, duets, trios, and ensembles from the Musical Theatre repertoire, with an emphasis on inclusive work from diverse artists.
Unique to the London-based iteration of this scene study course, the class will involve theatre and concert attendance as well as talkbacks with performers. The course will be team-taught by world-class practitioners with professional experiences with and ties to the West End. A particular focus will be paid to repertoire not readily available or widely performed in the United States.
Limited enrollment – Open only to students admitted to the Acting at Shakespeare’s Globe special program as an optional course. Please note that space is limited. Enrollment in DRA362 will be at the Drama Department’s discretion based on availability and academic need. DRA362 is not open to students who take DRA529 in London.
This course is taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course studies the philosophy of Rene Descartes from his very first works. The class will emphasize his philosophy of mind, and his ideas of epistemology and moral philosophy. We will analyze in what sense the philosophy of Descartes is opposed to the scholastic philosophy and marks a post-Aristotelian cognitive turn. We will discuss why the metaphysics of Descartes is considered rationalist, and his postulates about physics and physiology, both empiricist and mechanistic. In addition, we will address the topic of the ideal of rationality among thinkers and intellectuals of the 17th century.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to
Matriculated Syracuse students: You may not earn credit for both this course and PHI 311. Counts as elective for Philosophy minors; elective or history requirement for Philosophy majors.
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This course takes London as its classroom. Starting from a series of guided walks and individual wanderings centred on the Thames, it offers walking as a method for investigating this many-layered city: its different pasts, varied textures, and constant juxtapositions of scale. There are libraries of words about London—and no shortage of images. The challenge in studying the city is to find your way through the mass of material, to wander without getting (too) lost. This course gives students the skills in reading and selecting from the endless flow of information to make the most of their explorations. To make sense of and profit from the chaos of the London around them, students will set their perceptions against those who have inhabited, contemplated, and transformed the city before them—enriching and crystallizing their own Londons by analyzing and curating others’ representations of it in fiction, verse, visual art, film, and architecture. First-hand investigation and collective reflection will have the class working confidently between the observation, history, and imagination of one of the world’s great metropolises.
“Walking London” is exciting, innovative, and rewarding (and the best possible introduction to London as a city in a single course), in part because it expects a steady commitment, including significant reading, week on week. Operating as a seminar, the course uses the studio as a model of collaborative practice and research. Students of different academic backgrounds working together is one of its strengths. To this end, all are welcome, and students from Architecture, Design, and Studio Arts are especially encouraged to join. The only prerequisite is curiosity.
As the course is popular, admission will be by permission—the process starting with an expression of interest in the course preference stage.
This course has an associated course fee. See the London Course Fees page for more information.
Enrollment priority to nutrition/food studies majors who may request two of the following: FST 300-Vine to Table, FST 304, FST 402, NSD 452; non-majors may register for only one.
Increase your understanding of the history, culture, cultivation, production, business, and aesthetics of wine, from ancient to contemporary times, and from the vineyard to the winery to the table. Analyze the components of wines, the importance and influences attributed to terroir, and how to distinguish the qualities of Italian wines.
This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.
From Mozart to Molière and Shakespeare, Europeans have long been both fascinated and frightened by the “Turks.” We explore Europe’s engagement with the religion, culture, politics, and language of the “Turkish world” – both modern-day Turkey and its predecessor, the Ottoman Empire, and Central Asia. Using a historical, political, and cultural perspective, we examine the European-Turkish encounter over time while also focusing on more recent developments, including the European Union’s complex relationship with Turkey. We also study Turkish-speaking or Turkish-influenced areas such as the Balkans, the Caucuses, and Central Asia. Drawing on the rich and historic Turkish community in Strasbourg, we engage with local stakeholders and diplomatic representatives.
Cross-listed with PSC 300.5
Open only to students in the Florence Architecture Program.
Mediascapes of Architecture investigates the relationship between architecture and media through the lens of Italian Radical Architecture, ecological imaginaries, and countercultural practices. Mobilizing Florence as a speculative site of inquiry, the course examines how architecture operates not only through buildings, but also through images, performances, publications, environments, pedagogies, and communication systems capable of shaping political, social, and ecological realities.
Structured as a colloquium-based and design-oriented series of workshops, the seminar combines readings, conversations, archival investigations, field visits, and media analysis. Students will critically engage with selected case-study buildings and environments across Florence, producing analytical and representational projects in different formats — including videos, booklets, photographs, axonometrics, scripts, sections, texts,— reflecting on the entanglement between architecture, ecology, and media cultures.
This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.
Taught in English at Universidad Diego Portales. This course is primarily designed for undergraduate students with basic knowledge of micro and macroeconomics, but no previous exposition to empirical or theoretical approaches to Latin American countries, economic growth models, or the economics of emerging and less developed economies. The course starts with some historical and current facts about growth and development in Latin America, setting the stage for asking relevant theoretical and policy questions. After that, an interplay between mainstream, universalist growth theories on one hand and locally-focused structuralist models on the other, will shed light on how to productively approach those questions. Texts from David Weil, Ocampo and Ros, and Cimoli and Porcile serve as the basis for this course, supplemented by other readings.
Course restriction: Matriculated Syracuse students may not earn credit for both this course and ECN 310, Latin America Economic Development.
This course is taught in English at Universidad Diego Portales. The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the creation of Hispano-American texts from a panoramic perspective by examining a selection of representative texts from different periods of history. Throughout the four units, we will analyze texts considered foundational to the Latin American imaginary, such as the Cartas de Relación by written by Hernan Cortés to Emperor Charles V and the chronicles of the 16th and 17th centuries, the narratives typical of the independence period (essays and fiction), Spanish-American literature of the 20th century, focusing on the so-called Boom, and finishing by studying current Chilean literature.
Upon completing this course, you will
