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Four quarter credits. This Material and Detail course satisfies the UO Department of Architecture Advanced Technical elective requirement or the Art and Architecture History or ARCH 4/523 Advanced Media or subject area elective. This course will examine materials, details and systems of construction across the span of Italian architectural history. Through sequential and comparative studies of the spatial structure and technical means of buildings, you will be asked to articulate concepts of time and place in architecture.

This is a design and project-based method course to teach students methods to measure urban characteristics and create responsive and informed filtering system for human comfort. Methods are applied to short exercises, a significant design problem-based project and final group activity. Smart and or responsive construction systems with inform performative ground planes, facades and urban shelter skins as filters.

Three credits.This is a design and project-based method course that looks at methods to measure urban characteristics. Methods are applied to short exercises and to a significant design problem-based project and final group activity. The course consists: fundamental urban design diagramming, mapping exercises, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) computation Design.

This course is intended to explore the essentials of effective sports business strategies.  It includes readings in advance of the travel program as well as an essay upon return.Syllabus coming soon.

German Language Courses:Beginner A1Beginner A2 Intermediate B1Intermediate Advanced B2Advanced C1Course information can be found here:FUBiS Term I/ GEO J-Term 2019 Course InformationNot all courses listed are offered every term. Course offerings are subject to change depending on enrollment and availability. Please note, FUBiS term names do not match GEO term names. Refer to your GEO application for more information.

This Service-Learning seminar provides students with the opportunity to reflect and discuss their Service-Learning placements on a weekly basis and through written journals. The course will be taught in Spanish while in Segovia and in English while in Fes. The American Association of Community Colleges defines Service-Learning as a combination of “community service with academic instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and civic responsibility.

This course begins with the premise that the plays of Shakespeare are too often taught in the classroom as difficult and rather obscure sacred texts. The aim of this course is to remind you that Shakespeare was not only a great poet, but also a great dramatist, and to show that his plays are still exciting and dynamic as theatre. Consequently, this course is structured around the Shakespeare plays which are currently in production in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, so that Shakespeare can be seen and heard as well as read.

This class will explore the complex and intertwined history of soccer in Spain and Spanish America from the late nineteenth century to present times, using nationalism as the core thematic focus. We will study the origins of soccer in both Spain and Spanish America, the ways in which it intersected with political and ideological projects of nation-state formation, and its centrality as a powerful symbol of national and regional identities.

Social entrepreneurship is an attempt to use business techniques to develop innovative solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. England has a vibrant community of social entrepreneurs that will allow our students to explore innovative solutions to some of the world’s seemingly intractable problems.