This course at the intersection of history and museum studies draws on Berlin’s rich cultural and historical landscape to provide students with experiential learning opportunities that foster critical thinking about a variety of Berlin museums and...
The purpose of this course is to explore HIV and nutrition within a South African context. South Africa is the country with the highest burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the world, as estimated by the Joint United Nations...
The course illustrates the basic techniques (i.e. lighting, exposure, composition, color, etc.) used to photograph archaeological sites, architectural monuments and landscapes, as well as works of art and archaeological finds, thereby putting...
The two main purposes of this course are:
1) To introduce you to the basic techniques that help you to master the fundamental rules of “making,” not just simply “taking,” photographs.
2) To offer a general idea of the conceptual issues concerning the...
The two main purposes of this course are:
This course is designed to provide an overview of the history of photography during the past two centuries in France. With its invention in 1839 by Niépce, the development of the daguerreotype, and the production of portraits, landscapes and...
The aim of this course is to deconstruct the role of the still image in media and society and compare the relative photographic vernacular of the USA and Europe. Photographs surround us, and inspire us, and become our memories and our present. We...
Photojournalism in Barcelona is an experiential learning-based course with the aim of integrating the IES Study Abroad student into the cultural, social and political life of Barcelona in particular, and Spain and Catalunya in general, through the...
The basic presupposition behind the course is that philosophy is an activity we “are unable to resist”: since we reflect on the events around us, on ourselves and on our actions, and since we are also able to reflect on that reflection, and so on, we...
The purpose of this course is to introduce one of the oldest and most exciting philosophical problems – the problem of free will and moral responsibility. The topic is complex: it is closely connected to metaphysical questions about causation...