Course Offerings by term

Course Offerings

Topics courses change every semester, offering advanced study in themes, theories and issues beyond the regular departmental course offerings. Taught by permanent or visiting faculty, recent Topics courses include: 'The French Elections', 'Refugee and Asylum Law', 'Turkey and the EU', or 'Law and Corruption'.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
15:20
16:40
C-505
Thursday
15:20
16:40
C-505

Topics courses change every semester, offering advanced study in themes, theories and issues beyond the regular departmental course offerings. Taught by permanent or visiting faculty, recent Topics courses include: 'The French Elections', 'Refugee and Asylum Law', 'Turkey and the EU', or 'Law and Corruption'.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
SD-5
Friday
12:10
13:30
SD-5

Topics courses change every semester, offering advanced study in themes, theories and issues beyond the regular departmental course offerings. Taught by permanent or visiting faculty, recent Topics courses include: 'The French Elections', 'Refugee and Asylum Law', 'Turkey and the EU', or 'Law and Corruption'.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
C-101
Friday
15:20
16:40
C-101

Students investigate contending views of the world system and consider the relative validity of competing theories to see how theory relates to practice. They do so by re-examining classic definitions of "realism" along with concepts of neo-realism (structural realism) and geopolitics, liberalism/international ethics, neo-liberalism, pluralism, the English school, Marxism, social constructivism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, neo-conservatism, feminism, green theory, among others.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
09:00
10:20
C-101
Thursday
09:00
10:20
C-101

Topics vary by semester


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
09:00
11:55
Q-609

Topics vary by semester


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
10:35
13:30
Q-604

As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics, and economics.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
18:30
19:50
Q-604
Monday
16:55
18:15
Q-604
Thursday
16:55
18:15
Q-604

This Politics Workshop fulfills the senior seminar capstone requirement for the International and Comparative Politics Major. This course is designed to be as individualized as possible, organized around the student's particular research interests with regular one-on-one sessions with the professor. This is also a course in the international and global politics in which students learn about the discipline and subdisciplines of political science.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
SD-6
Friday
15:20
16:40
SD-6

This course is a polyvalent simulation of a military intervention organized and operated by the French War College (École de Guerre), with civilian partners. After several months of preparation, AUP students join French War College officers for Exercise Coalition, a war games simulation where AUP students play the role of UN and NGO humanitarian workers on the ground in a conflict zone.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
09:00
10:20
Q-604

The module topics change each semester and are taught by working professionals in the fields of international affairs, conflict resolution and civil society development. Each semester four or more different modules are offered. May be taken twice for credit.


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