Course Code: CTV3400, Units: 3, A multicultural, gender sensitive course designed for students who wish to learn strategies and techniques in thought and behavior transformations for conflict resolution. The course focuses on techniques to bring about positive focused changes through continuous experiences in community building and self-improvement. The course is based on the Alternatives to Violence Project; a program started in NY State in the seventies. CEPPA Foundation, Center for Peace Studies, has implemented this program in Costa Rica, Switzerland and other Latin American countries since 1990. Using a participatory and interactive methodology, emphasis is made on the following themes: Self-esteem and self-care, communication skills, cooperation, community building and conflict resolution, including mediation, bias awareness and cultural diversity. Mandatory fieldwork sessions will be conducted at a school, a communal group or a penal institution. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Film Studies, Media Studies, Radio/Television/Film, Theater, Visual Arts.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Semestral introduction to the principles of architecture and design. In the course we will resume the history of architecture and architectural styles in bohemian countries from the beginning to the modern and contemporary styles. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Spanish Language & Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, The course gives a general overview of the Fine Arts development in Europe with a special focus on Central Europe and monuments of Prague. The teacher presents a few particular pieces of art that represent well the époque or style. We analyze the details, historical context, iconography and formal qualities that represent the individual style. By detailed information on particular piece the student gets a good insight to the History of Fine Arts as an academic discipline. The facts on important artists and movements are selective. They illustrate typical features of a certain time period. The first half of the lecture is usually held in the classroom. Students get information on a certain problem or époque. The second half of the lecture is usually spent on the field trip, or in some of the numerous collections of Fine Arts in Prague. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Architecture, Art, Art History, European Studies, History.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, This course will focus on the history of the Czech / Czechoslovak film. It shall cover its whole path from the invention of cinema through the twentieth century until the current period; a special attention will be paid to the singular time of the Czech film - the New Wave of the 60s – and also to the latest era. The trends of the Czech film will be put into context not only with the period´s social and cultural milieu but also with the world film production.. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: European Studies, Film Studies, History, International Studies

Course Code: HIS250/350, Units 1 to 3, This course provides an overview of the history, art, and culture of Ecuador, along with the relationship between various factors. The course includes guest speakers from local organizations and visits to community groups, along with lectures and readings. The one unit seminar is required for all students. Completing the course for three units is elective. Subject Areas: Art, History, Intercultural Studies, Liberal Arts

Course Code: ART300, Units: 3, Learn the value of art through experience! Engage with the ancient ruins of Rome, sacred spaces of worship, the cityscape of Florence, and some of the greatest sculptures and paintings of Western civilization. This course provides an interactive approach to understanding and appreciating art. Choose from three tracks: Drawing and Sketching, Watercolor Painting, or general ArtAppreciation. Each track involves subject and style studies, specific art and architectural assignments, exercises in creative and expressive thinking, exploration of the elements and principles of design, and skill development in a biblical worldview of art analysis and critique. Learn on location with daily site-specific encounters using exercises and projects of Ancient Art through Baroque art. A short supply list of necessary art materials will be provided and will then be the responsibility of the student to obtain before the start of the course. Subject Areas: Art, History.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, The main objective of this course is to give a basic knowledge of French fashion history from 18th to early 21st Century. Throughout the semester the student will learn: - To be familiar with the main lines of fashion history (styles, personalities, designers...) - To be familiar with the history of Paris as a fashion industry -To explain the origins of the French luxury traditions. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Fashion, French Culture.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, The objective of this course is to give students grounding in intercultural adaptation. Living abroad, unlike visiting as a tourist, implies a cultural adaptation process. Social sciences will help us understand where we come from – this is even more relevant in a multicultural classroom. We will take time to introspect our values, socialization and cultural codes. This self-cultural-awareness will be the first step to ease cultural adaptation. It is Socrate’s “know yourself and you will know the universe and its gods.” We will then examine one’s adaptation to French daily life: the surprises, the expected, the challenges. We will wonder how it fits or not our own culture, what compromises are we going to make to adapt, and how it is enriching our own choices and views. It will take us to a deeper understanding of French society, culture, values as a whole. Finally, these skills will be applied to international management and international business negotiations. This class will therefore use the student’s close daily environment in order to test theoretical multi-disciplinary approaches such as history, sociology, ethnology or psychology in order to understand intercultural adaptation processes applied to one’s own case in personal, academic and professional settings. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: French Culture, Intercultural Development, Intercultural Management.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, The objective of this course is to give students grounding in the sociology and ethnology of French Cuisine. Understanding the ancestral development of one French socio-cultural specificity: French cuisine and French eating. We will be understanding French sociability, education, etiquette, taste through its cuisine and the way the French eat. We will analyze the transmission of French Cuisine through generation as well as the incorporation of new taste and techniques into the French diet today showing the inercultural development of French diversity. Through culinary lenses, students will grasp the development of French identity at home and abroad. This class will therefore use the student's close daily environment and Paris as a classroom in order to have a multi-disciplinary and multi-sensorial approach to French gastronomy. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Anthropology, History, Sociology.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Digital technology has made the photographic image ubiquitous in modern society. A huge array of camera models, smart phones and portable devices with high quality digital cameras, as well as the Internet and social networks, have made the taking and sharing of photographs an integral part of our daily lives. Facebook alone holds 4% of all photos ever taken. In a sense, we have all become photo-reporters documenting our own lives. This growing passion for observing, photographing and sharing images, as well as viewing and commenting on a bewildering stream of pictures from the world at large, makes visual literacy, an understanding of the history of photography and technical aptitude essential assets in contemporary society. France is the birthplace of photography and Paris has played a fundamental role in the development of photography over the past 180 years. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Photography.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, We will study art history's defining movements and innovations within social-historic context, with particular focus on the spectacular affaire de Coeur between Paris, France, and art and architecture. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art History, Architecture.

Course Code: N/A, Units 3, The objective of this course is to give students grounding in French geography, history, sociology, ethnography and economics as it is related to its gastronomy. Such topics as agriculture, food luxury industry, agro-business will also be touched on. Through culinary lenses students will understand the development of French identity at home and abroad. This class will therefore use the student’s close daily environment and Paris as a classroom in order to have a multi-disciplinary and multi-sensorial approach to French gastronomy. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: French Culture.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Course description not yet available. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art, Art History, French Culture.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Through artistic and literary figures who have marked their generation from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, this series of lectures focuses on literature and art and their relationship to history. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: French, French Culture, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Course description not yet available. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art History, French Culture, Theater.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Course description not yet available. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: French Culture, History.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 3, Course description not yet available. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art, Art History, French Culture.

Course Code ARTS250, Units: 3, This art appreciation course is designed for students with no or little background in Art who would like to try a Humanities subject for their general culture and to better appreciate museums and esthetics while in Paris. It can also serve for Art Minors who would like to learn more about specifically 19th century French Art. A quick survey of late 19th century French art and civilization provides the background for Europe and America’s renowned movements over the next century. All class lectures and discussions are illustrated with slides of works of art. Four museum visits give direct access to great works allowing students to develop a critical eye and get the most out of the experience. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art History, French Culture.

Course Code: FASH225, Units: 3, Creativity can be defined as exploring and inventing, whereas innovation involves transformation and implementation. The course will offer to students an understanding of the role of innovation and creativity in the development of fashion and luxury goods, and how technical and design innovation and creativity impact the two sectors. The course will also examine how technological innovations allow creativity concepts to be produced and disseminated. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Fashion.

Course Code: MKTG215, Units: 3, Caveman couture started over 25 000 years ago. The first time a hunter returned with animal skins for protection and warmth marked the beginning of the Fashion era. Much much later in 19th century France, Napoleon III summoned Charles Frederick Worth to imagine a magnificent wardrobe for his wife Empress Eugenie. This established the foundation for Haute-Couture in Paris and kicked-off an ongoing and ever-changing narrative tale of clothing as an expression of social interaction, status recognition and identity. Today the global retail apparel industry is estimated at US$1.1 trillion and is one of the largest businesses on the planet, connecting and consolidating a multiplying effect of industry sectors. The scope of the fashion industry extends beyond fibers and fabrics to shoes and accessories, magazines, boutiques, trend forecasting agencies; it also provides fruitful employment to farmers, blue-collar workers, high-end executives and creative artists. This course will examine the spectacular evolution of fashion from a tiny dressmaker's workshop serving the elite to an explosion into mainstream global consumption in which marketing revolutionized the business of fashion forever. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Apparel and Merchandising, Business, Fashion, History.

Course Code: SPA350S, Units: 3, This course will analyse contemporary Spanish Cinema as a cultural and artistic expression and will help to understand better the complex reality of Spain. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Film Studies, Spanish Culture.

Course Code: ART/CUL330E, Units: 3, Within a historical-cultural framework, this course introduces students to Andalusia and its people, and explores both artistic expression within Andalusia and Andalusia as a source of artistic inspiration. Contributions of early civilizations to the formation of Andalusian culture will be explored in relation to the evolution of creative expression. Students shall study various architectural masterpieces of Andalusia (the Alhambra of Granada, the Mezquita of Córdoba, and the Giralda and Real Alcázar of Seville), selections of literary works that reflect Andalusia and its cultural richness (poetry of Al-Andalus, Tales of the Alhambra, poetry of Antonio Machado, Bécquer and García Lorca, Don Juan Tenorio) and flamenco music and dance. Visual arts as reflections of Andalusia’s past and present shall also be considered (sculptural fragments from Itálica, paintings of García Ramos, Bilbao Martínez, Bacarisas, etc.). To complement the coursework students shall visit related sites within Seville. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art History.

Course Code: CUL360E, Units: 3, Flamenco today encompasses such a broad spectrum of sounds and influences that it’s difficult for someone approaching it for the first time to tell what is old or new, or, what flamenco is in the first place. Meanwhile, musicians, dancers and singers from around the world are embracing this art form as a means of expression. This course aims to inspire interest in all aspects of this art form: singing, dancing and guitar! For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Spanish Culture.

Course Code: ART240E, Units: 3, This course consists of theory and practice outside the classroom: taking photos not only of architecture all over Seville but also of distinctive features of the city from a social and anthropological perspective. The course will also include an introduction to the history of photography and to the history of architectural photography in particular. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Photography, Visual Arts.

Course Code: CUL355EUnits: 3, A survey course, this class provides students with an understanding of the evolution of art and architecture within Spain (the Peninsula) throughout the centuries, in relation to both the development of Western Art overall, and the particular socio-cultural and historical realities in which the studied creative manifestations are created. The artistic contributions of early civilizations to Spanish art and architecture shall be considered, along with that of internationally reputed artists and architects such as Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Dalí, Gaudí, and Calatrava. Site visits throughout Seville will allow students to further explore the relationship between art/architecture and Sevillian history and culture. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Architecture, Art History.

Course Code: COMM/ART350E, Units: 3, This course on European Cinema has a broad geographic scope. It offers students an understanding of European culture, society, politics and history through the medium of cinematographic expressions. The aim of this course is to understand European identity and the composition of Europe in the 21st century through its cinema. The course will make the students aware that the diversity of Europe is based on a cultural, social, political and historical heterogeneity. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: European Studies, Film Studies.