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Students will enroll in Spanish for Heritage Speakers, and will then take an additional 20 hours of modules including: Spanish Business (10 or 20 hours), Spanish and Latin American Literature (10 hours), Spanish Art History and History (10 hours).

Transitional justice is an emerging field of law and inter-disciplinary academic study.  Latin America has been at the forefront of the transitional justice movement since the early 1980s, and countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Peru continue to serve as models for other societies seeking a peaceful post-conflict transition.  This course will introduce students to the study and application of transitional justice by exploring and analyzing the way South American societies have transitioned from dictatorship and war to democracy and peace.  Case studies of transitiona

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Four quarter credits.An introduction to the cultural, social and political history of the Swahili Coast region of eastern Africa. Through a mixture of lectures, discussion, guest lectures and relevant field trips, this course will explore the unique identity of this region, long characterized by global mixing through centuries of contact with the larger Indian Ocean World.

12 quarter credits.Students are placed in Swahili courses according to their level of proficiency.Courses are taught by faculty members from the Institute of KiSwahili and Foreign Languages at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA). All instructors are native speakers with years of experience teaching Swahili to international students.

This course aims to refresh and update your understanding of management principles. It will help you develop your own skills as future managers and serve to identify features of excellent companies in which you may wish to work. The first part of the course is a review of fundamental concepts of management and management processes. It is centered on the main functions of management such as planning, organization, leadership and controlling. The second and main part of the course will be a business strategy game which applies the theoretical knowledge acquired in the first part of the course.

The objective of this course is to provide a good understanding of the numerous political and economic challenges the European Union faces today. Based on a good fundamental knowledge of geographic, economic and demographic realities of Europe, the course will be strongly focused on the current state of the Union, between attempts at institutional reform, the sovereign debt crisis, and the issues surrounding monetary union and the stability pact. It will also revise some major policies and have a critical assessment of current attitudes and strategies towards European integration.

In this course you will address contemporary economic and social issues through the lens of major thinkers in the intellectual tradition of political economy such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Hayek, and John Rawls. Its aim is to understand the problems that arise from the growth of international markets and globalization in connection with post-industrial societies.

 Ce cours est l'un de quatre cours (deux par semestre) réservés aux étudiants d'échange qui proposent une approche inter-disciplinaire (utilisant des apports et des sources provenant des sciences-politiques, de l'ethnologie, de la sociologie, de l'histoire…) permettant aux étudiants de mieux comprendre les fondements de la société française contemporaine et d'appréhender ses problèmes socio-culturels actuels de manière pertinente. Ce cours No. 1 tente de décrypter les formes de construction et les dynamiques identitaires qui sont à l'oeuvre dans la France d'aujourd'hui.

Ce cours est l'un de quatre cours (deux par semestre) réservés aux étudiants d'échange qui proposent une approche inter-disciplinaire (utilisant des apports et des sources provenant des sciences-politiques, de l'ethnologie, de la sociologie, de l'histoire…) permettant aux étudiants de mieux comprendre les fondements de la société française contemporaine et d'appréhender ses problèmes socio-culturels actuels de manière pertinente. Ce cours No.