Section No. 28578: This award-winning course analyzes the Middle East through the lens of political ecology and politicizes the conflicts, conditions, and outcomes that pertain to environmental phenomena in the region. Students learn to question the place, representations, and socio-political functions of “nature,” its conservation, and its degradation in the Middle East. Situating the Middle East in the world of carbon/post-carbon politics, students will debate the potentials and limitations of environmental activism in the region. Students will develop sophisticated understandings of the various relationships of power embedded in environmental disasters, conflicts, and infrastructure projects. This course helps students establish cultural literacy and a critical outlook on multi-species experiences in the Middle East. The course is cross-listed with the Department of Political Science and the Department of History.

This course will explore the main ad festivals around the globe to help students better understand how advertising works globally. Seeing ads from different countries is a great way to understand different cultures and different insights. Discovering means to know how important the ad festival is, why ad festivals are important in the industry business, which are the agencies and who are the creatives around the globe that are changing the creativity for the brands, and which ads were selected as the best ones in those festivals. This course is about knowing who is who in the ad world and how & why an ad idea is a game changer. Attendants will have open conversations about advertising, will develop criteria will learn why being creative and getting awards is important.

*Section 05EG only

This course is designed to assist students in acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to develop and implement marketing plans and advertising strategies in global markets. Students learn about a range of issues, challenges, and opportunities that exist in international advertising as they study comparative cultural, economic, legal, political, and social conditions in various countries and regions around the world.  

This course operates as a professional development opportunity that is designed to assist undergraduates with the transition from student to professional in the criminology and criminal justice fields. Students are exposed to the various career paths and options available through experiential learning activities, guest speakers, readings, and assignments. Specifically, careers in federal, state, and local agencies, as well as graduate/law school processes are addressed. Emphasis is also placed on the development of job seeking skills and strategies such as: building experience during undergraduate education, application processes (for jobs and graduate/law schools), cover letter/resume writing, network building, interview preparation, and creating a professional online presence.

Internships provide you with opportunities to integrate the skills, knowledge and methods gained through your coursework with professional roles, responsibilities and activities in a real-life supervised setting.

Given the nature of our Spanish Studies program, which primarily teaches language and culture, you could carry out your internship in technically any location where there is interaction with the Hispanic communities. For this reason, this syllabus offers an open alternative for you to customize your professional interests.

Participating in an internship in Spanish, specifically, allows you to further develop and enhance your linguistic and cultural knowledge, as well as working with relevant members of the Latinx community.

Variable 1-3 credit, this course has been designed to complement your internship experience through guided reflection, critical analysis, synthesis and discussion. The amount of complementary homework will be determined according to the amount of credits you register.