Course Offerings by term

Course Offerings

This course is designed to introduce students to the historical foundations of legal thought and to cultivate literacy in legal reasoning. The course provides an essential resource for our future global citizens by exploring key legal texts, histories and cases and familiarizing students with the historical origins of key contemporary legal issues.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
C-102
Friday
13:45
15:05
C-102

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty. Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
16:55
18:15
Q-604
Thursday
16:55
18:15
Q-604

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty. Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
C-505
Thursday
10:35
11:55
C-505

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty. Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
16:55
18:15
C-101
Thursday
16:55
18:15
C-101

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty. Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
C-103
Friday
15:20
16:40
C-103

Studies the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire. Readings will include: Seneca, star prose writer and poet of tragedies that impressed Shakespeare; Lucanus’ anti-Aeneid; Petronius’ Satyrica, the first Latin novel; Tacitus, the dark historian; witty epigrams and biting satire; a speech On Magic; the Stoics Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, one an ex-slave, the other an emperor; and Plutarch’s account of Antony's love for Cleopatra


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
09:00
11:55
G-L22

In this two-credit capstone course, seniors draw upon previous coursework in History, Law, and Society. They cultivate new skills to present key questions and dilemmas. Students can choose from several forms of public exhibit, including a sequence of podcasts, visual exhibit, website, collection of nonfiction pieces, or video. Students are encouraged to do interviews or oral histories to strengthen their final project. This course is structured as a workshop that allows students to receive feedback and polish their work. Students will present their project at the end of the semester to the broader AUP community. Prerequisites: Senior standing, HI/LW 2030, HI/LW 2020.


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

The Senior Seminar is designed to offer students an opportunity to discuss a series of topics or issues around a table in an intimate setting between students and a faculty director. Each student is expected to undertake a research project and to make an oral presentation in class. A final paper will be required. The Senior Seminar may be taken either junior or senior year, but only after completion of the Workshop.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:45
15:05
SD-1
Thursday
13:45
15:05
SD-1

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
Monday
16:55
18:15
C-104
Thursday
16:55
18:15
C-104

A bilingual survey of linguistics conducted in French and English. Combines theory and practice to introduce students to the basic concepts in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Focuses on the study of the human language as a system, the forms and functions of words and sentence elements, the creativity inherent in language systems, and language varieties. Prepares students to further investigate areas such as Historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language pathologies and first/second language acquisition.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Friday
13:45
15:05
G-207
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
SD-1