SPA380.13 Spanish Semantics

SPA380.13 Spanish Semantics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica; may not be offered every semester.  In this course, students reflect on the scientific nature of semantics. Students will become proficient at distinguishing lexical, sentence, textual, and discursive meanings as objects of study. In this way, students will become familiar with formal models of the classes of semantic meaning.

Students who successfully complete the course will be able to

  • Demonstrate a reflective and objective attitude towards the science of language.
  • Identify and analyze the different levels of linguistic meaning.
  • Apply the acquired concepts to phenomenon analysis of meaning.
  • Correctly apply the metalanguage implied by semantic theories.

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IST300.1 Robot Ethics: Machines, Automation, and Values (Fall, Spring)

This course deals with the new and challenging questions surrounding robot ethics, AI, and automation, linked to philosophy of technology. As technology continues to develop at high speed, questions such as machine autonomy, ethical rules, and job losses will become increasingly central to any future that we will build. Our future will be significantly shaped by how we design and use our machines.

Robot ethics is a new and dynamic field, with implications for a wide range of disciplines and practices. Thinking clearly about the ethical implications of the machines of our own creation is both a fascinating exercise in its own right, and a requirement for attempting to strike a balance between various technological and social forces, such as innovation, social ethics, and our general conception of technology. In a world in which, according to many estimates, at least half of our current jobs will be partially or fully automated, we had best consider the full ethical and philosophical implications of the world that we have already entered. Will robots be our controlling masters, or will they help us to build a brave new world of leisure and self-development?

This course may also be registered under PHI 300.1.

INB342 Cross-Cultural Management: Communicating in the Global Workplace (Fall, Spring) NOT OFFERED FALL 2026

Observe and analyze how to cope and adjust in a new culture with the goal of developing a set of competencies to use in future working environments characterized by multicultural teams.

How do we learn to work in a world where colleagues often operate in different countries and time zones and come from very diverse cultural backgrounds? What is cultural appropriation or cultural diffusion? How is the culture of a global company created and disseminated around the world? How does a company market a product in a country where cultural norms and habits are different from those of the country where the company is based? The class will address the above questions by creating an intellectual platform on which to discuss case studies, anecdotes, observational assignments, and site visit reflections.

Cross-listed with CRS 342.

Counts as an IDEA course requirement for Syracuse students. 

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

ARC439 Architecture and Fascism in Italy (Fall, Spring)

Open only to students in the Florence Architecture Program. This course delves into the complex historical discourse linking form, materials, aesthetics, and spatial compositions with the colonial reality of the Italian Peninsula. Engaging with the Italian landscape from the Risorgimento era to the post-Second World War years, the course examines major architects, including Terragni, Piacentini, Mazzoni, and others, alongside European anti-fascist intellectuals of the period, such as Antonio Gramsci and Rosa Luxemburg.

We will explore the relationship between architecture and empire through policies of internal and external colonization that constituted the backbone of Italian Modernism, focusing on how these policies regarding class, race, and gender shaped the lives of both colonial subjects and Italians alike.

Counts as an IDEA course requirement for Syracuse students.

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

Pre-req: ARC 134.

AAS300.5 Black London (Fall, Spring) Not offered Fall 2026

This history course covers some of the core issues that have both propelled people of African origin into Britain and determined their experiences once in London.  The course examines the history of the African Diaspora in London over approximately the last 300 years, paying particular attention to changes in the demographic background to this Diaspora and the ensuing debates around the various notions of Blackness.

The context to the course is the growth of London as the hub of an imperial system underscored by notions of race, and the subsequent changes to the metropolis in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. A theoretical underpinning of the course is that London is one of the centres of a Black Atlantic, as understood through the works of Paul Gilroy. The course will open up social relations at the heart of Black London’s history, including class, gender, and sexuality. London has a long history of ideological movements driven by the conditions of the Black Atlantic, such as Abolitionism, anti-colonialism, Pan Africanism, and anti-racist struggles within Britain. All of these will be within the parameters of the course.

Finally, the cultural impact of the Black Atlantic on London will be looked at in all its diversity, including literature, religion, music, fashion, language, and cuisine.

This course may also be registered as HST 300.5.

PHI300.1 Robot Ethics: Machines, Automation, and Values (Fall, Spring)

This course deals with the new and challenging questions surrounding robot ethics, AI, and automation, linked to philosophy of technology. As technology continues to develop at high speed, questions such as machine autonomy, ethical rules, and job losses will become increasingly central to any future that we will build. Our future will be significantly shaped by how we design and use our machines.

Robot ethics is a new and dynamic field, with implications for a wide range of disciplines and practices. Thinking clearly about the ethical implications of the machines of our own creation is both a fascinating exercise in its own right, and a requirement for attempting to strike a balance between various technological and social forces, such as innovation, social ethics, and our general conception of technology. In a world in which, according to many estimates, at least half of our current jobs will be partially or fully automated, we had best consider the full ethical and philosophical implications of the world that we have already entered. Will robots be our controlling masters, or will they help us to build a brave new world of leisure and self-development?

This course may also be registered under IST 300.1.

HST300.5 Black London (Fall, Spring) Not offered Fall 2026

This history course covers some of the core issues that have both propelled people of African origin into Britain and determined their experiences once in London.  The course examines the history of the African Diaspora in London over approximately the last 300 years, paying particular attention to changes in the demographic background to this Diaspora and the ensuing debates around the various notions of Blackness.

The context to the course is the growth of London as the hub of an imperial system underscored by notions of race, and the subsequent changes to the metropolis in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. A theoretical underpinning of the course is that London is one of the centres of a Black Atlantic, as understood through the works of Paul Gilroy. The course will open up social relations at the heart of Black London’s history, including class, gender, and sexuality. London has a long history of ideological movements driven by the conditions of the Black Atlantic, such as Abolitionism, anti-colonialism, Pan Africanism, and anti-racist struggles within Britain. All of these will be within the parameters of the course.

Finally, the cultural impact of the Black Atlantic on London will be looked at in all its diversity, including literature, religion, music, fashion, language, and cuisine.

This course may also be registered as AAS 300.5.

Matriculated Syracuse History majors/minors: This course may count toward the European or Modern concentrations.

COM350 Media, Diversity and Inclusion: Smashing Stereotypes in Spanish Advertising (Fall, Spring)

This course is focused on advertising and communication. You will create new advertising pieces free of stereotypical and racist ideas. This course guides students as they explore the research, observation, and evaluation of Spanish advertising to recognize racist perspectives, stereotypical concepts, and non-inclusive ideas in regard to current and historical Spain’s relevant advertising campaigns. We will review communication and advertising creation best practices from global brands with the intention of generating strategies to solve brand crises. These sorts of crises are rarely handled well in the Spanish social context.

At the end of the course, you will be able to assemble and develop creative advertising ideas based on inclusive and antiracist communication.  

Syracuse students: Satisfies IDEA course requirement. You may not receive credit for more than one of the following: COM 346, 348, 350.

Syracuse Newhouse students: This course fulfills your Newhouse diversity requirement within your major. Prerequisite of COM107 required of all Newhouse students (waived for non-Newhouse students abroad).

HST400.1 Before Rome: Etruscans, Greeks and Others (Fall)

Explore the life and culture, customs and habits, art and archaeology of the different peoples who dwelled in the Italian peninsula from the end of the Bronze Age until Rome’s conquest of it, with particular attention to the Etruscans and the Greeks. Analyze the contribution of each ethnic group to the eventual formation of Roman identity, which was always already and, from the beginning, multicultural.  Examine the cultural residue—art, artefacts, texts, material culture, religious worldviews, etc. —of these different groups. Meets with ANT 300.1.

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