Course Offerings by term

Course Offerings

Designing Your Narrative (DYN)
Design thinking is about solving problems. It began as a tool used by engineers, but is now recognized as a useful method for tackling all sorts of problems. The “problem” addressed in this workshop is: How do I tell my story; and how can I craft a narrative to successfully pitch myself and my university experience to employers/graduate program admissions advisors/investors/…?
The Designing Your Narrative (DYN) workshop helps students examine how to connect the dots between their experiences at university and their post-graduation plans. We talk about what comes next (job/internship/graduate school/etc.), and walk through a series of exercises that help students reflect on everything they’ve done at AUP, both in the classroom and outside of it. Students will leave the workshop with the tools they need to be confident selling themselves to prospective employers, graduate school admissions decision-makers, investors, etc. - whoever will be your "audience" as you work towards your post-graduation goals.
Completion of this workshop is a requirement of the Global Professional Skills Program (GPS) and appears on the official co-curricular record (CCR).
This workshop is best for final-year students (seniors), but is also open to second semester juniors.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Saturday
10:00
18:00
Q-A101
Wednesday
15:20
21:25
Q-A101
Friday
15:20
21:25
Q-A101

Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Friday
15:20
16:40
Q-704
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
G-L22

Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:45
15:05
G-009
Thursday
13:45
15:05
G-009

The “Middle East” and the “West” (as two political/cultural entities) have been involved in a long history of conflicts, concurrence, hegemony, and fascination. The course will explore the different aspects of the contemporary Middle East/West relation, and will explain its origins and historical evolution.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
C-103
Friday
13:45
15:05
C-103

Discusses the growth of the United States as an urban, industrialized society and a global power. Themes include patterns and problems of immigration, the ending of the frontier, the emergence of labor and social movements, and cultural evolution. Examines how the rise of the US as a dominant world power in the 20th century has influenced social and political life there.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
10:35
11:55
PL-1
Friday
10:35
11:55
PL-1
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
15:20
16:40
G-002
Thursday
15:20
16:40
G-002

Introduction to philosophical thinking about the nature and functioning as well as the ethics and socio-politics of that fuzzy phenomenon we call “language.”Provides a comprehensive overview of main theories from the 19th to the 21st century,in both the analytic and the continental tradition. Relates the material to issues important to the students of the course in their everyday lives.
Combining and contrasting approaches from both the analytic and the continental tradition, this course provides an overview of the field from the 19th to the 21st century. Sharing forces and drawing on our own experiences, we will get a grip quite a number of complex ideas proposed by experts in the field. You will realize that even the driest and most outlandish theory can blow your mind once you connect it to things that matter to you in your own life.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
13:45
16:40
PL-3

Is it unjust that there are huge economic inequalities between people of different countries? If so, who is responsible for rectifying these injustices? Should individuals enjoy the liberty to move freely across countries? How fair is free trade? The course explores these and other questions of global justice from philosophical and social-scientific perspectives.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
12:10
13:30
Q-A101
Thursday
12:10
13:30
Q-A101