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There are many reasons for the global success of football. The game fulfils our longing for triumph and endorses our knowledge of failure. It produces heroes and losers, demonstrates that we have to fight to reach our aims, but also shows the importance of cooperating and interacting. Thus football acts as a theatre of existence, in which life can both mirror and transcend itself. The class will take a look behind the scenes and identify the mechanisms that make football so popular.

Social Media has changed the way that both journalists - and audiences - find and share the news. How are these changes affecting journalistic practice? And what are the social media skills that journalists need today? This class will explore the social media strategies of major news media outlets and journalists, exploring different social platforms and how to use them effectively. It will also teach you how to use social media to verify and manage content from different sources, as well as explore best practice in develop relationships with communities through online channels.

The aim of this course is to encourage students to learn about non-musical theatre and how it works. In the theatre we willingly agree to believe in a carefully constructed pretence, so the audience’s contribution to each performance is crucial. Once we have joined an audience we allow ourselves to be manipulated and the experience may help us to know when we are being manipulated against our wills. The theatre is a place of learning and there we learn most about ourselves, our desires, our fears, our prejudices.

This seminar facilitates the assimilation of some theoretical concepts and the ability to apply them in real business situations. A practical class is a valuable element in the teaching of economic and business disciplines because it provides the necessary bridge between theory and practice.

Students will be placed in internship/service learning assignments at various non-governmental organizations (NGOs), healthcare providers, research institutes, and other local agencies, referred to as ‘attachments’ in Ghana, that are designed to complement the global health and development emphasis of the program, as well as to meet the individual interest of each student.

In most sub-Sahara African cultures, music and dance is not merely entertainment and exist in isolation from society that produces them. Rather, it is interwoven into the historical, socio-cultural, and the political lives of the people. This aspect of a three-component study abroad course is designed to use research and performance methodologies to evaluate and analyze the context within which these are art forms are performed in Ghana and to some extent their global representations.

This survey course is designed to cover a wide variety of musical expression, including the traditional, neo-traditional, and contemporary mass mediated popular music known as Afro-Pop. The course will offer an ethnomusicological perspective on the social context of the music process, music and historical narrative, music and religious ritual, indigenous court music traditions, contemporary issues in Afro-Pop (from highlife to hiplife), and various aspects of performance practices in Ghana.

The unique landscape of the Greek islands and the multilayered city of Athens provide the setting for this intensive three-week studio art course. Through a series of lectures, fieldwork, daily excursions to archaeological sites and museums, contemporary galleries and engagement with land and sea, students will have the opportunity to weave their experience of place and consideration of history and art into the practice of making art.

This course will introduce you to important concepts of international relations by examining Britain’s dynamic relationship with the European Union. The course will begin with a brief review of the United Kingdom’s role in World War II. That war and its devastation provides the backdrop against which the European Union developed. The EU’s development illustrates how states seek to promote international cooperation to counter the tendency of the international system to produce international conflict and war.

This course examines three of the most pronounced - and to many observers, surprising - developments in British politics over the last few years:Brexit, the decision to leave the European Union: why was the referendum held; why did 'leave' win when opinion polls pointed to a 'remain' victory; how is withdrawal being negotiated and conducted; and how does this reshape British politics?The opposition Labour party's swing to the left: in Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party has the most left-wing leader in its history, who appeals particularly to the young.What's lies behind this left-wing neo-populis