ENG330.1 Walking London: A Course in Curiosity (Fall, Spring)

ENG330.1 Walking London: A Course in Curiosity (Fall, Spring)

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.

 

 

 

 

MGT248 Managing and Leading People in Organizations (Spring)

This is a research-driven, application-focused course in which you’ll examine how to manage themselves and others effectively in a business world that is dynamic, digital, diverse, and disperse and takes advantage of the London location to relate the course content to the local context and current UK business events. The course introduces you to the management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Topics include teamwork, ethics, motivation, and others with an emphasis on the application of conceptual tools to analyze and address managerial issues.

Please note that some London Center: Whitman Core off-site visits cannot be scheduled during regular class meeting times. These visits are integral to the class and mandatory. Specific dates will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Course restrictions: Open only to Syracuse School of Management majors as part of the London Center: Whitman Core program and taken concurrently with MGT 247 and SOM 354. Sophomore standing required.

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

SOM354 Managing in a Global Setting (Spring)

This survey course will introduce you to the field of international business with special emphasis on the UK and Europe. First, we focus on the historical evolution of the global economy and identify variations in political economies and cultural contexts across different countries. Then, we examine the historical evolution of global trading, the underlying trade theories that account for global trading, as well as the institutional facets of the current global trading system. Next, we focus on how foreign exchange markets work and the evolving role of the global monetary system in enabling trade in goods and services. Finally, we will delve into some strategic issues that characterize the management of organizations in the global marketplace.

Course restrictions: Sophomore standing required. Open only to:

  • Syracuse School of Management majors as part of the London Center: Whitman Core program, taken concurrently with MGT 247 and MGT248, and
  • Non-Syracuse students majoring in business (limited enrollment).

MGT247 Introduction to Strategic Management (Spring)

In this course, we will study the strategic management process – the set of decisions, commitments, and actions guided by a firm’s top managers, taken to help the firm achieve competitiveness.  The aim of the course is to introduce you to concepts and tools to help you understand how strategies are developed and managed, and how competitive advantage may be created and sustained. We will take the perspective of a general manager to examine complex, multifunctional, enterprise-wide problems and situations that rarely have clear or straightforward solutions. Because you are studying in London, we will draw heavily on cases and business events that involve UK and European companies. At the end of the course, you should be able to look at any organization — small or large, public or private, for profit or not-for-profit, domestic or multinational, single business or multi-business, new or old — and analyze why it is successful or not so successful to identify value-creating decisions and actions that might be taken to develop competitive advantage.

Please note that some London Center: Whitman Core off-site visits cannot be scheduled during regular class meeting times. These visits are integral to the class and mandatory. Specific dates will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Course restrictions: Open only to Syracuse School of Management majors as part of the London Center: Whitman Core program and taken concurrently with MGT 248 and SOM 354. Sophomore standing required.

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

MGT300.2 Essentials of Organizational Management and Leadership (Spring)

Not open to Syracuse students. This is a research-driven, application-focused course in which students examine how to manage themselves and others effectively in a business world that is dynamic, digital, diverse, and disperse and takes advantage of the London location to relate the course content to the local context and current UK business events. The course introduces students to the management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Topics include teamwork, ethics, motivation, and others with an emphasis on the application of conceptual tools to analyze and address managerial issues.

Please note that some  off-site visits cannot be scheduled during regular class meeting times. These visits are integral to the class and mandatory. Specific dates will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Meets with MGT 248.

Course restrictions: Not open to Syracuse students. Open only to non-Syracuse students majoring in business; enrollment very limited. Sophomore standing required.

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

 

 

MGT300.1 Essentials of Strategic Management (Spring)

Not open to Syracuse students. In this course, we will study the strategic management process — the set of decisions, commitments, and actions guided by a firm’s top managers, taken to help the firm achieve competitiveness.  The aim of the course is to introduce you to concepts and tools to help you understand how strategies are developed and managed, and how competitive advantage may be created and sustained. We will take the perspective of a general manager to examine complex, multifunctional, enterprise-wide problems and situations that rarely have clear or straightforward solutions. Because you are studying in London, we will draw heavily on cases and business events that involve UK and European companies. At the end of the course, you should be able to look at any organization – small or large, public or private, for profit or not-for-profit, domestic or multinational, single business or multi-business, new or old – and analyze why it is successful or not so successful to identify value-creating decisions and actions that might be taken to develop competitive advantage.

Please note that some  off-site visits cannot be scheduled during regular class meeting times. These visits are integral to the class and mandatory. Specific dates will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Meets with MGT 247.

Course restrictions: Not open to Syracuse students. Open only to non-Syracuse students majoring in business; enrollment very limited. Sophomore standing required.

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

 

BUA474 Project-Based Learning in Business (Spring)

Prior instructor permission required. Deadline for permission requests is September 15.

This experiential seminar-style course will immerse you in the exciting London business environment and help you get the most out of your time abroad. It will offer the opportunity to better understand business in London and the UK through engaging with current business news and events, interacting with class visitors, and participating in off-site visits. Each student will complete a project in which they will apply knowledge and skills from both this course and their prior coursework, to investigate and analyze a local London or UK business issue or event that relates to their major area of study.

Please note that Tuesday a.m. may be scheduled for required off-site visits that cannot be scheduled during the regular class meeting time. Specific dates will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Restrictions:  Open only to Syracuse School of Management majors admitted to the London Center program. Not open to students in the London Center: Whitman Core program. Junior standing required. Counts toward any Syracuse School of Management major field specialization except Accounting. Prior instructor permission required. Deadline for permission requests is September 15.

Prerequisites: MAR 255 AND FIN 256 AND SCM 265

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

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.

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.