COM350 Media, Diversity and Inclusion: Diversity in European Films (Spring)

Introduction to fundamental issues related to diversity and inclusion in the media industries as approached through the lens of particular topics, industries, and/or media products. Examine how films function as a lens through which to better understand European culture and how media generally function to shape or challenge the national, ethnic, and gender identities of movie-goers.

Satisfies IDEA Course Requirement.

Syracuse students: 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.

FIL300.1 Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Fall, Spring)

Taught in Spanish. This course surveys Spanish cinema since 1950 through classic directors Buñuel, Saura and Erice, and contemporary auteurs Almodóvar and Amenábar. Special attention is also given to female directors and recent horror classics.

May also be registered under SPA 459.

Prereq: SPA 202 or [SPA 300 or above]

SPA459 Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Fall, Spring)

May also be registered under FIL 300.1.

Prereq: SPA 202 or higher, at least four semesters of college-level Spanish or the equivalent, or permission of instructor.

PSC405 Politics of the European Union (Fall, Spring)

Politics of European integration from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, historical, institutional, and policy-making. Fundamental post- war political process in modern-day Europe.

Syracuse Students note: You cannot get credit for both PSC 396 and PSC 405.

HST353 History of Ancient Rome (Spring)

Ancient Roman political, economic, social, and cultural history based on interpretation of primary sources, both literary and archaeological, from the foundation of the city to the dissolution of the Empire in the west.

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

CRS325 Presentational Speaking (Fall, Spring) NOT OFFERED FALL 2026

Conceptual and practical dimensions of formal presentations in organizational settings. Analysis, adaptation, strategic arrangement and development of ideas, verbal and nonverbal presentational skills.

Speaking and presenting comfortably and effectively in public is a life skill. In both personal and professional situations, these abilities can make the difference between success and failure. This course teaches the value of public speaking and trains students in the practical skills of speech writing for different types of speeches and the presentational skills needed to be an effective communicator and participant in public discourse, as well as in the professional world. Public speaking skills are key to professional development, but practice is often intimidating and infrequent and for students it mostly takes place in a non-professional context. This class is specifically designed to strengthen your public speaking and presentation skills and to build your confidence. You will learn how to research and write speeches, how to deliver them with confidence and you’ll learn to establish rapport with an audience, all while practicing and delivering different types of presentations in a safe environment with personalized professional feedback.

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.

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.