AIFS Partnership Programs: Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs

Courses

Art 311: Foundations of Modern Art

This is the standard catalog description--History of painting and sculpture from the French Revolution to the end of the 19th century.

In the London program, we will visit a wide variety of museums and art collections across the city that hold spectacular collections of art, focusing on works from the 18th century to the end of the 19th century. In addition to painting and sculpture, we will also look at decorative arts and architecture.

Geography 373: Global Cuisines

This is the standard catalog description--International dimensions of food and wine traditions in the cultural landscape. Foods and drinks that are wild, tabooed, medicinal, gendered and erotic. Migrant cuisine from Mexico, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

In the London program, we will focus on past and present cuisines of London, including migrant cuisines and the relationships between food and empire. In particular we will examine the influx of new foods from Britain’s expanding colonial trade in the 17th to 19th centuries, and the rise of immigrant cuisines including Chinese, Indian, African and Afro-Caribbean. The rise and spread of tea consumption will also be explored. The class will include exploring food markets and sampling various London cuisines.

POSC 350: World Politics in the 21st Century (Adjunct: Valerio Lintner)
The goal of the course is to acquaint you some of the major issues in debates about contemporary international politics and help you begin to develop analytical tools to reach your own reasoned conclusions about them. We begin by overviewing conceptualization of the world order by major models of international relations and analyzing conflicting interpretations of the post-Cold War international system. We continue by focusing on debates about dynamics of unipolarity.  We will then consider some of the key factors affecting the future of world order such as managing the rise of great powers like China, relative decline of American power and influence in international politics, nuclear proliferation and growing disagreements about the rules/ norms of international order.

British Life and Cultures (AIFS: Adjunct Nicole D’Adamo)
British Life and Cultures course is taken by all students and aims to provide the opportunity for students to develop an understanding and appreciation of key aspects of contemporary British cultures and society, within an historical context. Students are encouraged to make informed, critical comparisons between what they observe and learn about British society and their home culture and society. As part of the course students are introduced to key cultural and historical sites in London and encouraged to visit additional sites independently and to view such in an informed and critical way.