MAR301 Essentials of Marketing (Fall, Spring)

Exploration of the principles of marketing as a major business function and social process. Students develop a full understanding of the marketing concept and learn how marketing interrelates with other business functions. You will learn how to identify the political, economic, and social factors that affect an organization’s marketing decisions; how elements of the marketing mix work together, and how to understand the various techniques of marketing.

Course restriction: Not open to students who have taken another intro to marketing course.

Prereq: Sophomore standing

PSC380.18 EU Integration: Theories & Practice

This course will help you to get hold of the main theories trying to explain the cause and evolution of the European integration process. At the end of the course you will have learned about the most significant scholars of the European integration process and certain events in the history of European integration given as case studies. (EUS 3342)

PSC380.10 Environmental Politics

State structures, the capitalist world economy, environmental organizations and social movements and their interaction in a global geography all affect the politics of the environment. These actors on the global scene have differing and often conflicting views on what the problem is and how to address pollution, conservation, ecosystem destruction, natural resource depletion and global warming. (POL 3353)

PSY380.5: Consumer Behavior and Advertising

This course aims to provide you with an insight into the psychology of consumers. At the end of the semester, you should have an understanding of the underlying processes of how and why consumers behave as they do, as well as how advertising affects our lives. You should also become more aware of the influence attempts of advertisers and be able to interpret advertisements as to their approaches to persuasion. (PSY 4024/PSY 4063)

PHI380.8 Islamic Philosophy

This course is designed to present a solid introduction to the major thinkers in classical Islamic philosophy, with emphasis placed on developing a properly philosophical understanding of the issues and arguments. Topics include: reason and revelation (can the human mind reach the truth without the aid of revelation?); the existence of God; creation, eternity, and infinity; causality and miracles; human nature and knowledge; the nature of ethical obligations; and the constitution of the ideal political state. SU students may not earn credit for both this course and PHI 308. (GEP 0804)

PHI380.38 Democratic Theory

This political theory course investigates various different conceptions of democracy to clarify several contested understandings and is designed to provide a critical introduction to the main theories of democracy. It examines: 1) the classical conception of democracy, investigating in detail the institutions, ideals, and critiques of Athenian democracy; 2) the liberal conception of democracy and its critiques; 3) deliberative democracy and its critiques.

PHI380.34 Political Philosophy of Social Sciences

This course is an introduction to the very large history and philosophy of social sciences. In the development of the “scientific way of thinking”, which is one of the most distinctive feature of modern western civilization, the role of social sciences is no less importrant than developments in natural sciences. In this course we will focus on theoretical ideas in the history of social science through the discussion of a limited number of thinkers and topics, in order to retrace the intellectual development of our civilization. (POLS 4723)

PHI380.33: Political Thought II

This course focuses on the emergence and characteristics of modern politics and the modern state. We shall explore the development and the various facets of the modern state through the writings of such major thinkers as Niccolo Macchiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Friederich Hegel and Karl Marx. (POLS 3316)

PHI380.32: Political Thought I

What is politics and how does relate to living together in a politically ordered society? This course explores the nature and meaning of politics, political community and political knowledge through the historical experience of Greek city-state, the republican and imperial traditions of Rome, and the relationship between religion and politics up until the birth of the modern state. (POLS 3315)

PHI380.2: Philosophy of Religion

The objectives of the course are to analyze and evaluate the theories and ideas of philosophers on God and the monotheistic religions and to develop an ability of critical thinking. The philosophers to be studied are: Sextus, Augustinus, Aquinas, Anselmus, Avicenna, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Pascal, Hume, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre. SU students cannot earn credit for both this course and PHI 341. (GEP 0808)