ARI231 Drawing I: Observation (Fall, Spring)

ARI231 Drawing I: Observation (Fall, Spring)

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program. The focus of this course is to learn to see and allow the experience to develop into drawing. Students are introduced to the fundamental principles and elements of drawing as well as major techniques and media. These include: gesture, measurement and proportion, perspective, tone, contour, composition mark-making and texture, with media being pencil, charcoal, and ink.

Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum

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

ARI400.1 Advanced Painting (Fall, Spring)

For centuries artists, writers and intellectuals have been coming to Florence to learn from its rich artistic heritage as well as explore the city’s evolving and stimulating present. Studying in Florence today links you with this great tradition, raising questions and issues about art and creativity that can be both inspiring and challenging. This course asks the student to reflect upon this experience while learning to work through these questions as part of an artistic practice. We will look at the canon of painting and the process of representation from critical, formal and technical points of view, working with various traditional and experimental approaches as integral elements of the painting process. After a series of structured technical and conceptual exercises, students will develop a long term project that may take the form of painting or mixed media. Creative thinking and decision making will be stressed as well as an awareness of the contemporary dialogue in painting.

Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program.

Prereq: ARI 361 (Painting Studio II) or equivalent

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

ARI361 Painting Studio II (Fall, Spring)

For centuries artists, writers and intellectuals have been coming to Florence to learn from its rich artistic heritage as well as explore the city’s evolving and stimulating present. Studying in Florence today links you with this great tradition, raising questions and issues about art and creativity that can be both inspiring and challenging. This course asks the student to reflect upon this experience while learning to work through these questions as part of an artistic practice. We will look at the canon of painting and the process of representation from critical, formal and technical points of view, working with various traditional and experimental approaches as integral elements of the painting process. After a series of structured technical and conceptual exercises, students will develop a long term project that may take the form of painting or mixed media. Creative thinking and decision making will be stressed as well as an awareness of the contemporary dialogue in painting.

Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum

Limited enrollment, with preference given to students admitted to Studio Art Program.

Prereq: ARI 261 (Painting Studio I) or equivalent

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

EAR104 Earth Sciences Laboratory (Fall, Spring)

Through practical exercises over seven lab sessions and four field trips, students will gain direct, hands-on experience in relation to the material taught in EAR105. Students will learn:

  • How plates move and shape continents and ocean basins,
  • To identify rocks and minerals,
  • To read topogaphic maps,
  • How ocean currents move water throughout the oceans, and
  • How species become extinct.

Students will analyze the impact of overuse of resources such as minerals, how mountains are built, how species evolve, and the main problems the Earth is facing at present. 

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate how to theoretically date minerals and rocks.
  2. Explain how mountains are built and what forces are involved.
  3. Calculate the speed of ocean currents and which direction they take.
  4. Understand the influence of their surroundings on how species evolve.
  5. Analyze the major trends and events in the evolution of life, including mass extinctions, and other global issues such as climate change. 

Matriculated Syracuse students:  Together with EAR105, this course meets the natural science laboratory requirement. You may not receive credit for both EAR 104 and EAR 110.

Corequisite: EAR105 (3 credits)

EAR105 Earth Science (Fall, Spring)

In this course, you’ll learn about the the systems the Earth contains, from deep in the interior of the Earth to the living organisms that inhabit the surface. We will dive deep to explore the processes that shape Earth, understand why the oceans and the continents are where they are, and we will analyze what organisms can live where.

Throughout the semester we will also analyze and discuss how humans have shaped the Earth’s systems, how our acts are reaching (and in some cases, going beyond) the planetary boundaries, and how with our actions we can regenerate what has been degraded.

Your goal in this course is to gain a basic appreciation of the structure and composition of our planet, the physical and chemical processes that have shaped and continue to shape Earth’s surface over its long history, and the ways that humans interact with the Earth’s systems—for better or worse. The course focuses on how these dynamic interactions result in global-scale changes in Earth’s climate and biogeochemical cycles at different time scales, ranging from tectonic (millions of years) to human (years to centuries). Topics covered in the course include, but aren’t limited to:

  • The role of internal earth geodynamics in shaping the planet and creating a habitat for life’s emergence,
  • The role of life in transforming the Earth’s surface environment,
  • The role of the Oceans and the atmosphere as regulators of the Earth’s climate, and
  • The role of the cryosphere in modulating this climate through dynamic feedback.

Students will investigate the formation of the universe during a field trip to the Madrid Planetarium. At Spain’s National Museum of Natural Sciences, you’ll discuss the threat of species extinction and the importance of biodiversity with one of the museum curators.

In EAR104, the accompanying lab course, a field trip to the geologically and biologically unique Sierra de Guadarrama National Park gives you the chance to hike the mountain range of Guadarrama and explore its most important geological structures, including Peñalara, the highest peak in the range.

Matriculated Syracuse students: EAR105 meets a natural science divisional requirement. If taken with EAR104, this course meets the natural science laboratory requirement. You may not receive credit for both EAR105 and EAR110.

Corequisite: To fulfill a laboratory science requirement, matriculated Syracuse students must also register for EAR104 (1 credit).

PSC408 Politics of Immigration in Europe (Fall, Spring)

Analyze immigration policy in the European Union and its individual member states with attention to its residual socioeconomic and political implications. Special focus on gender, ethnic, and religious identities as they relate to immigration policy. In a globalized world, immigration transforms the fabric of our societies and poses new challenges to democratic politics. All over Europe, the migratory phenomenon has triggered new forms of identity conflict, which are shaping the political life of every country. In 2015, at least one million people sought refuge on European shores. The refugee crisis throws new light on European politics, revamping the urgency of a series of deep-set problems: conceptions and practices of citizenship, identity, multiculturalism, and secularization. Xenophobia is now a major component of public discourses in many European countries. These issues not only dominate domestic political debates in many countries but also seem to jeopardize the very future of the European Union, as clearly indicated by the recent history of Brexit. For this reason, the course will focus on Europe: however, it will adopt a comparative perspective, taking into consideration the U.S. situation as well as other relevant examples.

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

GEO300.1 Urban Geography of Hong Kong (Fall, Spring – MAY NOT BE OFFERED FALL 2020)

An introduction to key concepts in urban studies and historical geography through the urban environment, social life, history and geography of Hong Kong. This class combines field study to historic and diversified sites in Hong Kong with lectures, case studies, group discussions and presentations. You will explore and discuss key concepts in urban studies and historical geography; Hong Kong’s history with human and social geography and the urban environment; and areas and topics of special interests and importance including immigrants, squatters and public housing, the vertical city and urban sprawl, and urban division and segregation.

HFS493 Youth and Family Practicum: The Global Workplace (Fall, Spring)

Open only to Human Development and Family Science majors and minors 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.

Course Restriction: Open only to Human Development and Family Science majors and minors who have committed to an internship by the published deadline.

ECN336 Healthcare in Europe: A Comparative Approach (Fall, Spring)

A fierce academic, social, political, and economic debate is raging about how healthcare systems should be organized. Policy experts want to learn from international best practices and apply ideas at home that have worked effectively elsewhere. This course will give you a firsthand understanding of how healthcare systems function throughout the world. We will study systems in the European countries, comparing and contrasting them with the US model. examining each from economic, financial, and national and local public policy perspectives.

We will link our findings with theories and empirical evidence to assess the quality of the healthcare systems from the point of view of efficiency and equity. Economic principles will be used to demonstrate why healthcare reforms may reach or fall short of the governments’ stated goals. We’ll analyze in depth the concept of universality, short- and long-term challenges, successful and unsuccessful health policies, and why many systems are unsustainable—and then develop possible solutions.

Prereq: ECN 101 or ECN 203, or equivalent background in microeconomics