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This course focuses on different parts of European economics. It also features a module on lobbying in the European Union. Through these aspects of European economics, you will gain an understanding of the workings of the Common Internal Market, its impact on the Member States and its positioning in our globalized world.

European History and Politics will provide you with an historical understanding of European integration and insight into the political development of key member-states of the European Union. The course deals with the two existing and interlinked realities of national and non-national government and politics in important European states such as France, Germany and Britain. We will cover the political history of these states, their institutional arrangements and some important social dynamics within the states.

This course will introduce the basics of the European Union and describe and explain the processes of widening and deepening of this unique political entity. This will cover an overview of European Union history, its evolution in economic and political terms as well as of its institutional structure up to today. The focus of this course will be internally on the state of EU integration and the need for reform, as well as externally on the international role of the EU in general in the relations between the EU and the US, Russia and the Ukraine in particular.

In this course you will cover the history, the political economy and the economics of European sustainability policies from the 1970s to the present. The introduction will define the key concepts of sustainability and the European business environment. The second part will make the link between energy policies, energy saving and eventually environmental protection at the beginning of the development of an environmental conscience. It will consider the major elements of environmental policies and the key documents in the respective sectors.

Three to four quarter credits.This course will mix classroom learning and hands-on participation in a local organization. Service learning placements will be tailored to the interests and strengths of students. All placements have been vetted and will be coordinated by Professor Babacar Fall, the Senegalese Program Director. Past placements have included AFIA FM Community Radio Station, ENDA Tiers Monde Energy and Health Teams, and SOS Children's Villages.

Three quarter credits.This course will train you in basic fieldwork recordation and analysis techniques, resulting in documentation such as architectural plans, textual descriptions, photographs, and interpretative drawings. Preparing for a proposed publication project will afford you the opportunity to explore a wide range of construction techniques and form/plan types through a series of case studies. In addition, you will collect ethnographic data and descriptions of certain objects and their uses, such as kitchen utensils or historic farming and milling equipment.

Two quarter credits.This course is offered to inspire, advise, and assist you in maintaining a comprehensive journal recording your experiences in the Vicenza Program. The required format is a compact journal that is maintained on a daily basis with drawings, notes and narratives that summarize all aspects of the term: visits to towns and buildings, tours offered by architects and historians, and presentations by classmates in the course of our travels.

Five quarter credits.The course meets four days per week, two hours per day in seminar format. It will be organized and led by the faculty director, Amadou Fofana, and will include weekly guest lectures from Senegalese scholars and public figures. While the language of instruction for this course is English, guest lectures may be conducted in French.

This course will explore the process of corporate financial planning, selection among alternative investment opportunities, analysis of risk, funds acquisition, and long-term financing. This class presents the basic principles of financial management and applies those principles to some of the major decisions facing a corporation. Valuation is a central theme in finance, so students will spend much of the course learning to value uncertain future cash flows.

This is an introductory finance course covering the general principles of a large number of subfields (financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, investment criteria). It includes an introduction to several financial products: bonds, stocks, derivative products, portfolio management, dividend and investment policy, capital structure.