In addition to your internship, you have the option of taking a 3-credit course. Taking a course is not required, but will give you the opportunity to earn more credit toward your degree this summer as well as learn from some of the best professors that IAU has to offer! Classes will run from July 1st - August 12th.
You can earn 3 units of transfer credit for the following IAU courses:
Art & Art History & Architecture
ARC 320 Architectural History of Spain: This course will look at the history of architecture and urban design in Spain. Beginning with a brief introduction of the ancient styles (from the first civilization of the Iberian Peninsula), it will focus on developments in architecture and urban planning in Spain from the first century A.D. until the contemporary period. Special attention will be paid to the 19th and 20th centuries in Barcelona. (UArizona Equivalent Course: ARC Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
ART 320 Picasso, Matisse, Dali and the Mediterranean: Understanding early 20th century art through an investigation of its sources in the Mediterranean myth and reality. (UArizona Equivalent Course: ART Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
ART 311/311A Art Criticism & Aesthetics Seminar: Intensive critical and comparative analysis of works from different periods and cultures, with an emphasis on the relationship between content and form. (UArizona Equivalent Course: ART Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
Business
BUS 303 Intercultural Management: This course is designed to introduce students to concepts and fundamentals of international management. The course will consider aspects of management within an international and culturally complex environment, while considering the business influences within the global workplace. (UArizona Equivalent Course: MGMT 435)
BUS 305 Global Marketing: Exploration of basic knowledge of global marketing focusing on the impact of environment on the strategies used by firms and understanding of consumer behavior management as it relates to the development and implementation of global marketing strategies. (UArizona Equivalent Course: MKTG 456)
Communication
COM 316 Media and Conflict: This course examines the role media play in the progression and public perceptions of conflict. Relevant topics will include media and military intervention, portrayals of protest movements, and news and entertainment coverage of crime, rumors, domestic politics, violence, and ethnicity. (COMM Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
COM 317 Communication and Gender: This course aims to reflect on the importance of the media in the production, reproduction and perpetuation (or change) of gender roles. Students will investigate how socially constructed gender categories inform their daily lives as citizens, consumers and creators of public discourse. The course will also explore the dynamic relationship between gender and other identity categories (race, religion, class, sexuality, nationality, etc.) as well as analyze the contents of the press, radio, television, TV series, movies, and internet from a gender perspective. (UArizona Equivalent Course: COMM 413)
COM 318 Intercultural Communication: The main differences the course focuses on are nationality, race, class, gender and religion. Students will study and observe how different identities under those categories affect people’s perceptions of themselves as individuals, themselves within their groups, themselves within other groups, and how those perceptions affect the way they communicate and interpret messages. In response to the changes in the way we communicate due to communication, the course will also focus on the impact of technology on intercultural communication as well as the ways that different cultures utilize the various forms of social media platforms. (UArizona Equivalent Course: COMM 117)
Food Studies
CCS 306 Cross-Cultural Studies in Food and Culture: Both the Mediterranean diet and French Gastronomy have been declared by UNESCO as world heritage. This course will explore the language and the culinary customs of French cuisine, examining differences in food patterns between the US and France, the fundamentals of French and regional food and eating, including the history, and use of ingredients, as well as political and economic factors affecting rural French food systems. (UArizona Equivalent Course: FOOD Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
Economics
ECO 301 International Economics and the European Union: The effects of greater freedom and liquidity in world trade will be critically analyzed and explained, especially in the light of recent controversy concerning ’globalization'. We shall assess the performance of European Union, as a project of regional economic integration intended to redress many of the alleged defects of the liberalized trade model, and ask whether and how it might offer a viable solution to the need to preserve economic and social cohesion and meet institutional pre-requisites of economic development. (UArizona Equivalent Course: ECON Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
Global Studies
GEO 303 ANALYZING AND EXPLORING THE GLOBAL CITY: BARCELONA AND AIX-EN-PROVENCE: Multi-disciplinary course that analyzes the cultural history of Barcelona as a reflection of the political and cultural history of contemporary Spain. Field study excursions and dynamic interaction with city environment are part of the course, which incorporates Urban Studies, Hispanic Studies, Cultural Studies, and Anthropology. (GLS Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
History
HIS 304 Muslim Presence in Europe: This course is an overview of the long-term interaction between the Muslim world and the West, not as two separate entities, but with emphasis on their historic commonality, and their dialectic relation. The course focuses on the debates regarding the Muslim population in Europe, covering concepts of religion and secularism, the history of Muslim populations in Europe, legal issues, human rights, feminism, and modernity. Field study will take us to specific sites in Marseille, historically linked with the Muslim community. (UArizona Equivalent Course: HIST Departmental Elective, Upper Division.)
HIS 321 French Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa: This class will examine the region’s contemporary political foundations, with a focus on how the recent colonial past has helped shape the political institutions that were recently toppled. (UArizona Equivalent Course: HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
Political Science/International Relations
POL 305: Contemporary US Diplomacy in an Age of Change: From 9/11 to COVID-19: The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined that modern diplomacy is conducted in a world of rapidly evolving and interconnected global challenges: the spreading dangers of weapons of mass destruction; new and more malignant forms of terrorism; regional and sectarian conflicts; failed and failing states; global economic dislocation; and transnational health, energy and environmental concerns. This social impact practicum will explore contemporary U.S. foreign policy and the challenges that face its practitioners. It will also examine how U.S. diplomats organize their work in a world where longstanding assumptions about U.S. leadership are questioned from all sides of the domestic political spectrum. Students will explore the context of US diplomacy today through direct discussions with U.S. diplomats (past and present) and analysts located around the world. They will hone essential written and oral communication skills by presenting to U.S. diplomats practical proposals for confronting a current U.S. foreign policy challenge. Offered as Social Impact Practicum course. (UArizona Equivalent Course: POL Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
POL 309 Global Environmental Politics: Exploration of the main environmental problems facing the international community today with an analysis of the roles of states, international organizations, multinational corporations, and civil societies in the causation and solution process. (UArizona Equivalent Course: POL Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
POL 357 Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: This course studies the relationship between states and nations in both a theoretical and comparative perspective with a particular focus on the Catalan, Basque and Spanish experiences. It analyzes state- building processes and the development of nationalism, as well as the social, economic and technological conditions behind its emergence, transformation and contrasting discourse. The course aims at providing a solid theoretical background on the subject of nationalism as well as introducing the students into the social and political reality that permeates in Spain’s daily life and shapes Spaniard’s political mind-frames and identities. (UArizona Equivalent Course: POL Departmental Elective, Upper Division.)
Religious Studies
REL 311 Early Christianity in Europe: History of the first centuries of the Christian Church. Split between Judaism and Christianity, the influential theologians and leaders, heretical movements and their orthodox responses, waves of persecution and martyrdom, and cultural (role of women in the Early Church), artistic (oldest Christian monuments and artworks) and ecclesiastical topics (monasticism, liturgy…). Will conclude with a perspective of Modern World and focus on the Great Schism between East and West Christianity, the Avignon Papacy, the rise of protestant movements. (UArizona Equivalent Course: RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
REL 312 The Children of Abraham: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam: This course is a comparative study of the three Abrahamic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It examines the shared aspects as well as the distinct elements of these religions, and shows that sometimes these traditions work together and sometimes they are at odds with each other. The course first introduces the three Abrahamic religions emphasizing their common source. Then it compares them along thematic lines, and finally it examines the way these three major traditions impact the modern West and the Middle East specifically. Among the themes to be discussed are: Abraham, scripture and tradition, law, the creation, God, worship, mysticism, the house of God, the tradition of head covering, homosexuality, Jerusalem, and the end of times. (UArizona Equivalent Course: RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.)
Sociology
SOC 304 Muslim Presence in Europe: This course is an overview of the long-term interaction between the Muslim world and the West, not as two separate entities, but with emphasis on their historic commonality, and their dialectic relation. The course focuses on the debates regarding the Muslim population in Europe, covering concepts of religion and secularism, the history of Muslim populations in Europe, legal issues, human rights, feminism, and modernity. Field study will take us to specific sites in Marseille, historically linked with the Muslim community. (UArizona Equivalent Course: SOC Departmental Elective, Upper Division)
SOC 357 Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: This course studies the relationship between states and nations in both a theoretical and comparative perspective with a particular focus on the Catalan, Basque and Spanish experiences. It analyzes state- building processes and the development of nationalism, as well as the social, economic and technological conditions behind its emergence, transformation and contrasting discourse. The course aims at providing a solid theoretical background on the subject of nationalism as well as introducing the students into the social and political reality that permeates in Spain’s daily life and shapes Spaniard’s political mind-frames and identities. (UArizona Equivalent Course: SOC Departmental Elective, Upper Division.)
Public and Applied Humanities
The following course is available for PAH students only. Students who choose this course will earn 3 units of UA direct credit. This class will run from July 13 - August 12.
PAH 372 Intercultural Competence: Culture, Identity, Adaptation, and Intercultural Relations: This course provides students with an in depth discussion of the key concepts and factors that have led to the development of the field of intercultural competence and provides students with extensive background and reading so as to take a critical perspective on intercultural competence and its future for them in a globalized world.
