Journalism Essentials/Business - 1 credit
The Business of Journalism will help you to understand the challenges and vicissitudes of this period of historic flux in the journalism industry — not just for your own career development, but because we want you to be partners and innovators in determining new ways to secure the future of journalism.
Journalism Essentials/Ethics - 1 credit
Journalism Ethics explores the ethical issues that often arise in the practice of journalism, including verification of information, the relationship between personal values and journalistic decisions, issues driven by competition, and the impact of relentless deadline pressure.
Journalism Essentials/History - 1 credit
Journalism Essentials: This 7-week module explores the historical development of the values, practices and social roles that cluster around the institution of journalism. In this class, you'll also consider how the press has itself been a significant actor (for better or worse) in politics, war, reform, social movements and other events.
Journalism Essentials/Law - 1 credit
Journalism Law is designed to acquaint you with the basic protections and restrictions of the law as they apply to the practice of journalism in this global era. You’ll also explore significant court cases and fundamental legal rules in the context of political and historical realities, and journalistic standards and practices, both in the United States and internationally.
Journalism Essentials/Business - 1 credit
The Business of Journalism will help you to understand the challenges and vicissitudes of this period of historic flux in the journalism industry — not just for your own career development, but because we want you to be partners and innovators in determining new ways to secure the future of journalism.
Journalism Essentials/Ethics - 1 credit
Journalism Ethics explores the ethical issues that often arise in the practice of journalism, including verification of information, the relationship between personal values and journalistic decisions, issues driven by competition, and the impact of relentless deadline pressure.
Journalism Essentials/History - 1 credit
Journalism Essentials: This 7-week module explores the historical development of the values, practices and social roles that cluster around the institution of journalism. In this class, you'll also consider how the press has itself been a significant actor (for better or worse) in politics, war, reform, social movements and other events.
Journalism Essentials/Law - 1 credit
Journalism Law is designed to acquaint you with the basic protections and restrictions of the law as they apply to the practice of journalism in this global era. You’ll also explore significant court cases and fundamental legal rules in the context of political and historical realities, and journalistic standards and practices, both in the United States and internationally.
Journalism Essentials/Business - 1 credit
The Business of Journalism will help you to understand the challenges and vicissitudes of this period of historic flux in the journalism industry — not just for your own career development, but because we want you to be partners and innovators in determining new ways to secure the future of journalism.
Journalism Essentials/Ethics - 1 credit
Journalism Ethics explores the ethical issues that often arise in the practice of journalism, including verification of information, the relationship between personal values and journalistic decisions, issues driven by competition, and the impact of relentless deadline pressure.
Journalism Essentials/History - 1 credit
Journalism Essentials: This 7-week module explores the historical development of the values, practices and social roles that cluster around the institution of journalism. In this class, you'll also consider how the press has itself been a significant actor (for better or worse) in politics, war, reform, social movements and other events.
Journalism Essentials/Law - 1 credit
Journalism Law is designed to acquaint you with the basic protections and restrictions of the law as they apply to the practice of journalism in this global era. You’ll also explore significant court cases and fundamental legal rules in the context of political and historical realities, and journalistic standards and practices, both in the United States and internationally.
Journalism Essentials/Business - 1 credit
The Business of Journalism will help you to understand the challenges and vicissitudes of this period of historic flux in the journalism industry — not just for your own career development, but because we want you to be partners and innovators in determining new ways to secure the future of journalism.
Journalism Essentials/Ethics - 1 credit
Journalism Ethics explores the ethical issues that often arise in the practice of journalism, including verification of information, the relationship between personal values and journalistic decisions, issues driven by competition, and the impact of relentless deadline pressure.
Journalism Essentials/History - 1 credit
Journalism Essentials: This 7-week module explores the historical development of the values, practices and social roles that cluster around the institution of journalism. In this class, you'll also consider how the press has itself been a significant actor (for better or worse) in politics, war, reform, social movements and other events.
Journalism Essentials/Law - 1 credit
Journalism Law is designed to acquaint you with the basic protections and restrictions of the law as they apply to the practice of journalism in this global era. You’ll also explore significant court cases and fundamental legal rules in the context of political and historical realities, and journalistic standards and practices, both in the United States and internationally.
An exploration of the basis of trade, the gains from trade, and the impact of trade on growth, employment, and income through in-depth analysis and case studies, simulations and policy debates. Topics discussed include the theory of comparative advantage, new trade theory, the terms of trade, protectionism in theory and practice, customs unions, the impact of the internationalization of produc�tion on trade, and contemporary debates, such as the role of environmental and labor standards in trade agreements and the effect of trade on poverty.
When you take on a leadership role you face the challenge of leading into the unknown. There is an uncertain new situation to manage, people to lead, and your own doubts and perceived limits to overcome. Where do you begin? How do you create a path for others, when you are outside your own comfort zone? What does it mean to lead successfully? In this practical and social science-informed course, you will learn how to lead in big moments of change by developing your skills in three areas: developing self awareness (“You”), communicating a path forward (“It”), and building great teamwork (“We”).
Course Description
Students curate, organize and attend a series of lectures open to all members of the French department, including graduate students, faculty and undergraduate majors/concentrators. Working with a faculty member, they invite two speakers each semester, collaborate on the scheduling and organization of talks, introduce guests and lead the discussion. The lecture series exposes graduate students to new work in the field, including new methodologies and emerging areas of research and teaching. By giving students the opportunity to select speakers, it actively engages them in the cultural and intellectual life of the department. Students benefit from observing the different possible formats and styles of academic talks. By organizing and scheduling events, preparing speaker introductions and moderating questions and discussion, they also develop important professional skills.
This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as womens rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.
The seminar on Colonialism examines questions of political economy and
politics through the study of colonial regimes of power and knowledge. It has
a particular focus on the genealogy of the business corporation, a colonial
form of power that became central to the modern world but often escapes the
attention of critical political theory. The readings cover the Middle East,
South Asia, and Africa, across the period from the seventeenth to the early
twentieth century. The seminar is intended primarily for Ph.D. students
interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of politics,
political economy, and colonial history. For course requirements and other
information, see CourseWorks.
This seminar is for graduate students who are working as Teaching Assistants and provides training, resources and a discussion forum to assist them in becoming better teachers. Each class has an organizing theme, but there will be time to discuss other issues that come up in day-to-day teaching. We will draw on readings and the expertise of experienced Teaching Assistants, faculty and campus staff.
Speculation is an extremely ambivalent concept. A term that derives from the Latin word speculum (mirror), speculation means both to reflect an empirical fact and to conjecture about a reality hidden behind experience without any evidence. For instance, speculative fiction engages in the literary invention of a world beyond our everyday experience in an alternate future. In Latin America, speculative fiction appears to be an umbrella term that commits to the creation of fictions that imagine alternate realities, blurring the distance between fictionalization and philosophical speculation in hybrid genres such as fantastic literature, climate-fiction, cyberpunk, horror, steampunk, and science fiction. The literature we will read in this course dwells extensively on emotions such as creeping dread and inevitable doom provoked by the intrusion of outside forces. Incidentally, financial speculation is an activity associated with a process of valorization and crediting of commodities that is simultaneously a politics, that is, a way of governing by debt, to borrow Lazaratto's expression. Marx uses the term "fictitious capital" to describe forms of abstract value such as credit, shares, debts, and even currency, that are separate from material use-value. Financial speculation is the dominant form of contemporary capitalist deterritorialization, the M-C-M' process (money-commodity-money) where the money is invested in commodities in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss. In sum, fiction is crucial not only for the political reproduction of capitalist ideology but, more importantly, to produce surplus-value itself. Across the spectrum of the opposite sides of contemporary critique such as the world-ecology (Jason Moore, Christian Parentti) and accelerationism (Nick Land, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams), financial speculation appears to be conceptualized as a process of abstraction that drives technology understood as the metabolic exchange between human and non-human actants. There are both points of convergence and points of divergence between speculative fiction and financial speculation. Both speculative fiction and speculative finance converge on the reliance of images and abstractions separated from material realities. While speculative fiction attempts to dismantle the dualisms of nature and culture (which, according to the proponents of the world-ecology project are the cause of capitalism and the ecological crisis), it also serves as allegories of a vampiric capital: the
Thing
Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.
This course is designed for students interested in establishing, working in or leading non-profits or creating social value through partnerships between non-profits, business and government. The course will deepen students’ understanding of: (1) the non-profit sector in general, and (2) partnerships between non-profits, business and government. Students will learn through cases involving a variety of non-profits, businesses, and governments. The cases include a range of industries (e.g. housing, sports, education, conservation, transportation and drugs); non-profits (e.g. Habitat for Humanity International, BRAC, the Red Cross and Homeless World Cup); companies (e.g. Nike, Walmart and GlaxoSmithKline); and countries (e.g. France, Brazil, India and the US).
Directing is the art of articulating and sharing vision. This course will explore how directors locate the deep “why” behind their work, both their oeuvre and their individual projects, and how that “why” translates into every element of production: design, casting, direction of the actors, and producing choices. We will study the articulation of vision through both the macro and micro lens: how directors develop the big vision behind a project and also how directors communicate vision in the moment to moment work of a rehearsal process. The first part of every class will be devoted to the macro: articulation of vision. We will study master directors and the way they translate intention into aesthetic choices and process. We will learn a process of excavating the deepest intentions of the author (be that the playwright, an auteur director, or a collective) and integrating those intentions thoughtfully into all other production choices. And we will practice articulating the vision behind a dream project. The second part of each class will be a practicum exploring the communication directors use when working with actors to craft scenes. Students will apply fundamental directing skills through a progression from silent scenes to neutral scenes and finally scenes of their own choosing.
This course provides an introduction to computer-based models for decision-making. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, accounting, operations, and marketing. Applications will include advertising planning, revenue management, asset-liability management, environmental policy modeling, portfolio optimization, and corporate risk management, among others. The aim of the course is to help students become intelligent consumers of these methods. To this end, the course will cover the basic elements of modeling -- how to formulate a model and how to use and interpret the information a model produces. The course will attempt to instill a critical viewpoint towards decision models, recognizing that they are powerful but limited tools. The applicability and usage of computer-based models have increased dramatically in recent years, due to the extraordinary improvements in computer, information and communication technologies, including not just hardware but also model-solution techniques and user interfaces. Thirty years ago working with a model meant using an expensive mainframe computer, learning a complex programming language, and struggling to compile data by hand; the entire process was clearly marked "experts only." The rise of personal computers, friendly interfaces (such as spreadsheets), and large databases has made modeling far more accessible to managers. Information has come to be recognized as a critical resource, and models play a key role in deploying this resource, in organizing and structuring information so that it can be used productively.