What is globalization? Why study the media? What is the relationship between the media and globalization? What are the consequences of media globalization on our lives and identities? This course critically explores these questions and challenging issues that confront us today. Globalization can be understood as a multi-dimensional, complex process of profound transformations in all spheres – technological, economic, political, social, cultural, intimate and personal. Yet much of the current debates of globalization tend to be concerned with “out there” macro-processes, rather than what is happening “in here,” in the micro-processes of our lives. This course explores both the macro and the micro. It encourages students to develop an enlarged way of thinking – challenging existing paradigms and providing comparative perspectives.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | G-002 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | G-002 |
The skills learned in this course will prepare students for upper-division communication courses, and provide students with basic research methods in the field of communication. Students will become familiar with a range of research methods (survey, interview, ethnography, discourse, and political economy.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | Q-A101 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | Q-A101 |
In this course, students will be introduced to graphic design history and graphic design principles. They will learn to apply these principles through hands-on exercises and projects, using both analog means and digital tools (Adobe Photoshop). No prerequisites.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 16:55 | 19:50 | Q-704 |
This course considers the construction of the visual world and our participation in it. Through a transcultural survey of materials, contexts and theories, students will learn how visual practices relate to other cultural activities, how they shape identity and environmental basic ways, and how vision functions in correspondence with other senses.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-505 |
Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-505 |
Explores what happens when dress and grooming become the basis for the modern phenomena of fashion. Studies the historical development of fashion: how fashion relates to the emergence of artistic, social, and economic forms and the ways fashion communicates ideas about status, gender, or culture. Investigates the role of media, advertising and marketing in the global fashion industry.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
In the Age of the Enlightenment, the classification and organization of facts and objects gave birth to the concept of the modern 'museum'. This course investigates the construction and communication of national, cultural, and community identities through the medium of the contemporary museum, where material culture is exhibited to express narratives that evoke particular definitions and interpretations of history and values. Please note that an additional fee will be charged for this course.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-101 |
Wednesday | 15:20 | 18:15 | C-505 |
Studies rhetoric as a historical phenomenon and as a practical reality. Considers how words and images are used to convince and persuade individuals of positions, arguments or actions to undertake, with particular attention to advertising, politics and culture. Studies the use of reason, emotion, and commonplaces, and compares visual and verbal techniques of persuasion.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | C-101 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | C-101 |
This course examines the intersection of food and the senses from an anthropological perspective. We will explore the intersection between food and culture; the impact of social, political and economic contexts on our foods and foodways; French food culture; and taste, cuisine and commensality as forms of inter-cultural communication. Students apply class readings and practice ethnographic methodologies in a few short study trips.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-103 |
Thursday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-103 |
Topics vary. Using analytic skills learned in core courses, students work with an AUP faculty member, visiting scholar or professional in an area of current interest in the field to be determined by the instructor and the faculty of the Global Communications department.
“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-501 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-501 |
This course is designed for students working in the journalism workshops – magazine, online news, video production. The student will work in one of the journalism workshops under the guidance of a faculty member. The student will be actively engaged in the newsroom activities for the workshop selected. The faculty member will mentor, monitor and evaluate participation and work produced.