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CULT'L DIMENSIONS OF THE EURO. IDEA (CM3070)

Explores the ways in which Europeans have used notions of culture to articulate ideas of European selfhood and non-European 'Others', the cultural dimensions of European integration and enlargement and the efforts of the Council of Europe, the European Union, private foundations and NGO networks to elaborate cultural policy in and for Europe.

MEDIA AESTHETICS (CM3075)

What we consider to be pleasing, appropriate and/or beautiful is conditioned by culture and 'habitus'. This course examines how global media relates to varying aesthetic standards: the role of media in defining contemporary aesthetic values as well as in responding to them.

ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY (CM3080)

This course looks at how culture promotes connections between humans, their landscapes and ecosystems. We will be discussing the different ways humans use, interact, engage and manipulate the natural world that surrounds them. Central to an understanding of this relationship is the meaning people give to the concept of nature. This course will explore the leaning attributed to nature across different cultural contexts and religious traditions.

CIVIC MEDIA, TACTICAL MEDIA (CM3082)

This course addresses the use of communication technologies for mediating public discourse, organizing democratic protests or denouncing state violence. Through a practice and research-based approach to digital media productions, we interrogate the media’s capacity to produce “civic media”, in other words design a space of possibility, “a way of imagining a future of technology that [is] pro-social and for public benefit.”

TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS (CM3091)

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.
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INTERNSHIP (CM3098)

Students may undertake an internship in an advertising agency, film company, or television company. Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits. The internship must be registered for 4-CR if the student decides to do an internship instead of the senior seminar. Students have taken internships at CNN, Harpers, Societe Francaise de Production, Le Courrier International, Sixty Minutes, European Broadcasting Union, amongst many others.

EDITORSHIP (CM3850)

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.

INTERNSHIP (CM3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

INTERNSHIP (CM3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.