Social, economic, and cultural history of London since 1666. How London developed from the modest-sized capital of England to the capital of the British Empire and the world’s largest city, then to the modern multicultural city of today’s globalising world.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Research and Information Literacy
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

Learn how to research and interrogate primary and secondary sources while attending small seminars and personalised, specialist meetings with your instructor. You will research and write a 5,000 word British history paper on a topic of your own choosing.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Writing Intensive
  • Critical Thinking

This course is designed as an introduction to the arts in Britain. The course should serve to widen specialists’ knowledge, and to provide non-specialists with an overview. The course should cover core elements on such subjects as funding, institutions, accessibility, and value of British Arts.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Social Inquiry I

The course provides an overview of ‘British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites’ through a critical, aesthetic and historical exploration of selected art works and the institutions that house them in London’s permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Historical Consciousness

This course provides an analytical framework for understanding the structural characteristics of the countries in the MENA region in the context of their human and natural resource availability and historical development.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Social Inquiry II

Provides learning and skills at the interface between international business, international relations, and other disciplines, through studying the system of EU “Competences” that provides comprehensive rules of conduct for firms. Includes Briefings by officials from EU Institutions, designed to build/test research/teamwork skills.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Social Inquiry II
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Teamwork/Collaboration

This course examines global and European financial markets. Students learn about the foreign exchange market, Eurocurrency, Eurobond and derivative markets. In addition, students study a range of financial instruments, such as bills and bonds, forwards, futures and options.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Quantitative Reasoning I

Recommended elective for all tracks.

Crossing TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, both figuratively and literally, we make an intensive study of significant works of major poets and writers who both helped to create and were created by the Modern Age, and of those they influenced.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration

This course blends two complementary areas of study: the critical analysis of post-2000 literature (comprising mainly but not exclusively British literature) alongside the opportunity to conduct in-depth, wide-ranging interviews with a group of contemporary novelists, poets, dramatists, and non-fiction writers.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Creativity/Innovation

Students on this course will analyse London women’s social history in this time period through primary source materials in archives and specialist libraries, museums and galleries, and guided walks through relevant public sites.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Research and Information Literacy

How is generational identity created and maintained? Through the prism of youth movements in the United Kingdom, you will investigate how underground cults become mainstream culture in the context of changing attitudes to nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Social Inquiry I
  • Aesthetic Exploration

This course explores shifts in power over a 500-year period, and considers the cultural effects of these changes. The impact of empire is also assessed. An understanding of the ‘invented’ and contested nature of British identity is the outcome.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

Basic concepts of estimation and tests of hypotheses, ideas from probability; one-, two-, and multiple-sample problems. Applications in social sciences. Primarily for students in the social sciences who require a one-semester introduction to statistics; others should consider CAS MA 115 or MA 213. Please note that students cannot get credit for both CAS MA 113 and CAS MA 115. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Quantitative Reasoning II
  • Critical Thinking

Examines the changing social, cultural, political, and economic structures of Britain at the end of the twentieth century. Introduction to current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in its relationship with Europe.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

Enrollment limited

Provides students with access to contemporary British theatre and the critical tools to understand and enjoy theatre from the perspectives of the playbooks and the productions themselves. This course surveys and offers explanation of the major developments that have taken place in British theatre since 1956. Coursework focuses on students’ theatre visits, which occur once every week and include both mainstream and fringe theatre productions. The plays are discussed prior to attendance, and students are expected to provide a critique of the works they have seen.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s Meanings

Recommended elective for Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations.

Focuses on London’s stellar reputation for creative and production excellence in advertising; examines how the advertising is shaped by the anti-sell, irony-modulated consumer culture, and emphasizes the way that deifying research risks diluting creative.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s Meanings

This course develops both conceptual knowledge and practical skills to identify the most appropriate and cost-effective global promotional strategies and develop and implement successfully such a strategy in an increasingly competitive and volatile global environment.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Social Inquiry II
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Critical Thinking

Examines the content and form of British television programs, contrasting it with American programming. Special emphasis is placed on the study of genres and conventions. Genres will focus on drama, news, comedy, consumer affairs, children’s television, sports, and others, and these are explored in the light of Britain’s cultural and political identity.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Aesthetic Exploration

Prerequisite: FE 323 Financial Management

Covers the financial manager’s role in obtaining and allocating funds. Includes topics such as cash budgeting, working capital analysis, dividend policy, capital investment analysis, and debt policy as well as their associated risks. Valuation of companies, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy are covered. The course requires using financial models and spreadsheets. Applications are made to current events and everyday business finance

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Aesthetic Exploration

Recommended elective for Arts & Arts Administration Track

This course introduces the history and development of London and its buildings. It is aimed at a wide audience, not architectural specialists. Different styles of architecture and their origins will be explored through a combination of lectures and walking tours

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Aesthetic Exploration

Offers a broad critical study of the major developments in British drama over the past 50 years. Through the eyes of a leading theater reviewer, the work of specific playwrights is analyzed in detail, and students are expected to produce written and oral critical analyses of plays read and observed during the course. Sierz.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Critical Thinking
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Ethical Reasoning

This course aims to provide the student with an appreciation of the nature of Shakespeare’s achievement through the study of four plays in class sessions and the option of reading one other play that the student may choose for his or her directed study. The sessions will naturally involve some discussion of the general background of Shakespeare and his works, with time being devoted to the various thematic, structural, and historical issues that arise from a study of his plays. For the greater part of the course, however, time in class will be devoted to a close critical reading of various sections of the plays in order to give the student the opportunity to gain an intimate understanding of the verbal and dramatic qualities of Shakespeare’s genius, and of the myriad ways in which meanings are expressed through the language, imagery, structure, and dramatic possibilities of the works themselves.

• Units: 4

An introduction to the psyche, culture, history, and writers of 21st century British literature, confronting aspects of the human condition. Students will enter the historical consciousness of contemporary British writers who look to the past to understand the present.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Aesthetic Exploration

This course provides an overview of Britain’s relations with Europe between 1945 and 1992 in the context of ongoing debates concerning national sovereignty and national modernization, losing an empire and maintaining a world role, and the “special relationship” with the United States.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Social Inquiry I
  • Research and Information Literacy

Prerequisite: completion of one university-level History course.

Traces the historical development of popular culture in London from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Concerned with texts (visual, aural, written) and sites. Organized chronologically and thematically, engages with theoretical perspectives. Engages with wider history of Britain.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Critical Thinking

This course examines the historical origins of and diverse philosophical positions on various contentious political and ethical issues today. Through reading, writing, exhibition or theatre visits and discussion, students will be encouraged and guided to foster a critical stance.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s Meanings
  • Critical Thinking

Prerequisite: COM CM 217 or COM CM 317

Focus is on the strategic creative process in advertising including concept development, copywriting, visualization, and design. Assignments require conceiving solutions to client marketing challenges across a range of media. Teaches foundations for development of effective advertising: problem definition, strategic development, and conceptual idea generation through tangible executions.

• Units: 4

This course examines the economics and cultural politics of contemporary European cinema and what they reveal about national identity, culture, language, and values. The course considers the globalization process from film festival to global marketplace, and includes visits to local festivals and guest lectures.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Aesthetic Exploration