This course covers basic topics of management accounting and introduces a business-management approach to the development and use of accounting information. In today’s competitive marketplace, an excellent internal accounting system is essential for organizations to make better decisions. This course covers firms’ internal control systems and their use in decision making, planning and control. Major topics include cost classification, cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, capital investment decisions and budgets. SU Students may substitute this course for ACC 252. (BA 3713)
ACC280.1 Managerial Accounting
WGS416 British Masculinity On Screen: James Bond and Sherlock Holmes (Fall, Spring)
Sherlock Holmes and James Bond instantly evoke particular ideas about British masculinity: an uncannily intuitive intellectual not averse to bouts of cocaine use, and the suave, globe-trotting spy with a license to kill. 2015 marked the release of Spectre, the 24th iteration of the most successful film franchise in cinema history. Likewise, Conan Doyle’s creation is in rude health, having been the recent subject of a high-profile exhibition at the Museum of London, and the centre of two successful contemporary television adaptations, BBC’s Sherlock, and CBS’s Elementary. Just as Baker Street remains a perennial tourist attraction for Sherlockians, so too has London’s tourist industry embraced an army of fans eager to retrace the footsteps of the latest — and controversially blond — Bond, Daniel Craig. This course investigates what on-screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond have to say about the construction of British masculinity. Providing close readings of key examples of Sherlock and Bond adaptations, we will explore issues of gender and sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and nationhood in the construction of hegemonic and “other” British masculinity on screen. In tandem, we will explore the ever-changing places that Sherlock and Bond occupy in British film and television culture.
This course may also be registered as FIL/QSX 416, and counts towards the Film and Screen Studies track for SU English and Textual Studies majors.
WGS400.1 Sex, Gender and the City (Spring) CANCELLED Fall 2026
This course offers students a critical overview of the contested terms “sex,” “gender” and “sexuality” through the framework of the City. This course will explore some of the ways in which cities and the inhabitants have been historically sexed, gendered, and sexualized. Traversing “the private” and “the public,” the temporal and spatial, and the individual and the social, this course will explore the centrality of these themes in London and British history.
Meets with SOC/QSX 400.1.
Limited enrollment; Sociology majors may take more than one Sociology (SOC) course, all others limited to one SOC course (including SOC cross-listing) during the semester.
FMA316 Introduction to Visual Culture (Spring)
Visual culture studies recognize the predominance of visual forms of media, communication, and information in the postmodern world. Visual culture is best understood as a tactic for studying the functions of a world addressed through pictures, images, and visualizations, rather than through texts and words. We negotiate the world through visual culture, and the world itself is negotiated politically through visuality and visual images. This class is an introduction to the key issues of visual culture. It will examine the politics of images, the role that images play in producing cultural meaning, visuality and power relations, and how images are forms of visual communication. We will examine how images circulate through digital media, remakes, and viral networks, and the cross-fertilization of images between various social arenas, such as art, advertising, popular culture, news science, entertainment media, video games, and design.
Key questions and points of consideration are:
- Can we study visual culture as a system, but not as a pure state of visuality—that is, a system of visual meanings that are not purely imagistic—not formed only of images—but include texts and graphic design, design of functional objects, architecture, logos?
- Are social institutions systems of order that perpetuate, preserve, and legitimize complex forms of collective identity?
- What is the role of the visual arts in a mass-mediated visual world?
- Can visual culture studies be defined as an interdisciplinary field?
This course may also be registered as AIC 316 or CRS 316.
TRF560.2 Documenting Reality: Factual Formats in British Film and TV (Fall, Spring)
Revised by Prof. Nahra, 10 Dec 2018.
TRF560.1 The BBC: Reinventing Public Service Broadcasting (Spring)
Imagine that PBS in the United States had created American broadcasting… and that it was still the best funded national broadcaster and an institution whose values and standards continued to determine all other American broadcasters’ activities, whatever their funding model. The BBC laid the foundation for a tradition of Public Service Broadcasting in Britain with a mission ‘to inform, educate and entertain.’ Despite funding of nearly £3 billion per year from the government and licence fees, the BBC is facing the challenge of how to remain relevant in the face of satellite broadcasting and streaming.
This course will explore how the BBC…
- Operates as the world’s largest news organization
- Has pioneered entertainment programming from The Office to the soap opera EastEnders with a distinctive social agenda
- Acts as a testbed for new styles of programming—mockumentary, reality TV, food programmes, etc.
- Is the major sports broadcaster in the UK
- Reflects the UK back to its audience through coverage of major national events such as Royal Weddings (most recently between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) and the State Opening of Parliament
- Responds to the challenge of diversity in front of the camera—for example, the first woman cast as Dr. Who
Enrollment priority to Newhouse and other communication majors.
This course has an associated course fee. See the London Course Fees page for more information.
SPM300.1 Sport in the United Kingdom (Fall, Spring)
In this course, you will be introduced to the wide range of issues in the field of sports, particularly those relating to U.K. and European sport. Throughout the semester, you will explore where sport comes from and consider how people in different countries view and utilize sport. You will also examine sport from a political perspective, studying how the governing bodies of various sports in the U.K. interact with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. You will also learn how sport events such as the Olympics become an opportunity to generate business and interest in a country. In addition to time spent in the classroom, you will attend and reflect on a variety of sporting events and tour several stadiums, which will allow you to make comparisons and gain a better understanding of the sport.
This course has an associated course fee. See the London Course Fees page for more information. IMPORTANT: Entry tickets are purchased in advance based on enrollment numbers at the end of online registration in June/July for the fall semester and November/December for the spring semester. Once registered, students are responsible for all expended and committed costs, which could be as high as the full course fee, even if the course is dropped prior to the start of classes.
SOC412 Multicultural London (Fall, Spring)
London is an historic city, capital of the United Kingdom and the seat of the British government and monarchy. Yet it is increasingly recognised as a global city, the site of an unprecedented convergence of human communities from all parts of the world. Today London is home to communities of people from over 90 countries and its residents speak over 300 languages. Focusing particularly since the period of reconstruction after the Second World War, this course will look at patterns of urban development, inward migration and the struggle for political and civil rights in relation to the emergence of the wide range of ethnic and religious groupings that compose London’s population at the beginning of the 21st century. The course will cover a range of theoretical perspectives to help analyse cultural differentiation, cosmopolitism, and hybridisation. We will concentrate on how issues of identity, ethnicity, and religion in London are explored, contested, negotiated and shaped in relation to other markers of identity such as class, language, nationality, and gender. The course will take full advantage of London’s multi-cultural and multi-religious landscape by visiting various cultural and religious centres. There will also be the opportunity to engage with political offices engaged with such issues as diversity, equality rights, policing and interfaith relations in the city.
Limited enrollment; Sociology majors may take more than one Sociology (SOC) course, all others limited to one SOC course during the semester.
SOC400.1 Sex, Gender and the City (Spring) CANCELLED Fall 2026
This course offers students a critical overview of the contested terms “sex”, “gender” and “sexuality” through the framework of the City. This course will explore some of the ways in which cities and the inhabitants have been historically sexed, gendered, and sexualized. Traversing “the private” and “the public,” the temporal and spatial, and the individual and the social, this course will explore the centrality of these themes in London and British history. Meets with QSX/WGS 400.1.
Limited enrollment; Sociology majors may take more than one Sociology (SOC) course, all others limited to one SOC course during the semester.
BAN403 Entertainment Industry Practicum: The Global Workplace (Fall, Spring)
Open only to Bandier students who have committed to an internship by the published deadline. This course is designed to guide students’ professional development during experience in the London workforce. Participation in the course will equip students with the practical skills needed to thrive in a globalised world of work—as well as the theoretical background and critical thinking abilities necessary to reflect on their position in that interconnected system.
This course must be taken for a letter grade. Internship placements typically require a commitment of two days per week. Students initially registered for BPS400 and update their registration following the Add Deadline once abroad.