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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of international business with particular attention to Europe. Students will examine the major environmental forces that influence international business activity including financial, economic and socio-economic, physical, socio-cultural, political, legal, labor, competitive, and distributive forces. Special attention will be given to Europe and to the perception of multinational activities in Western and Eastern Europe. The overall objectives of this course are to foster an improved awareness of political, social, legal, and cultural differences that businesses encounter internationally; to provide the tools to analyze these differences; to employ different theories in economics and finance to problems in international business; to understand how global financial markets interact and influence international business activity; and to define and analyze international management issues and explore how management skills can address these issues. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth overview of the theoretical and current business practices of international marketers, with special emphasis on companies within the European Union. It examines the challenges and barriers of international marketing, as well as identifying and analyzing specific marketing techniques and modifications necessary to accommodate cultural differences, especially within the EU mix of nations. Two competing aspects will be emphasized: the struggles European companies have with marketing their products internationally and from the US perspective of American companies developing international strategies to compete in the EU. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: identify the challenges and barriers to international marketing; understand global systems and their effect on international marketing decisions; understand the differences and similarities in consumer tastes and preferences between regions of the world; understand market planning, market research, segmentation, targeting and positioning of a global brand; understand pricing decisions; understand different distribution channels; and develop, analyze and evaluate product and branding decisions for European markets. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute
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3.00 Credits
The writing for this course will be based directly on experiences students have in Italy; freshness of expression, skillful use of language, and personal engagement with subjects will be the goals. The readings for the course are good exemplars of what is meant by "creative nonfiction." This genre is: (1) not fiction: creative nonfiction is not created or made up by the writer; it is composed of the real experiences of the author; (2) not conventional journalism: creative nonfiction is not concerned with presenting the facts in an objective or empirical way, but rather is meant to be infused with the writer's personality and way of seeing; and (3) based on facts: none of the source material is made up, although it is often embellished and stylized. Class time will consist of discussion; writing exercises; creative-writing workshops (student papers will be given constructive group feedback); exercises in revision; and work on technical aspects of writing. Throughout the semester, the techniques of writing-syntax, grammar, diction, punctuation, and so on-will be discussed in relation to student work. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute)
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3.00 Credits
The course evaluates current debates about the nature, significance and trends toward 'globalization' in the light of its historical antecedents. Globalization figures prominently in modern debate about economic and social change, but the historical dimension of this debate is usually superficial. This course aims to deepen it by providing an historical survey of the processes of globalization since the nineteenth century and their roots in technical change (especially in transport and communication), business organization (especially the emergence of multinational corporations), state policy, both in implementing 'internationalist' economic policies such as free trade, and providing global governance. Among the major topics are: trade and global integration, the global economy and the firm, capital markets an the global economy including the impact of international financial crises, the emergence of regional blocs such as the European Union and NAFTA, the rise of the Asian and Chinese economy and the impact of globalization in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The arguments for and against globalization will be considered as well as the lessons of history about its costs and benefits. The course is intended to provide students with analytical and interdisciplinary skills bridging economic history, international economics and international politics, and a more complex, nuanced understanding of not only Italy's and Europe's, but also other advanced economies' place in the world economy. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute)
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3.00 Credits
This course begins by exploring how the culture of the Romantic age re-discovered the "myth" of the country ("patria") already present in the works of dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Alfieri. It then turns to examine the creation of a "new" art for a new nation. The readings, in addition to selected passages of the arthurs cited above, include works of Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni, Silvio Pellico, Carlo Collodi, Giovanni Verga and Tomasi di Lampedusa. Significant time will also be dedicated to the figurative arts (Hayez, the painting of history, and the Macchiaioli), the theatre of the great actor (Adelaide Ristori and Tommaso Salvini), and to mucie, with particular attention paid to the operas of Giuseppe Verdi. AUC Designation: Cl
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4.00 Credits
This course examines five principal texts of Italian Renaissance art theory dealing with the art of painting in relation to contemporary artistic practice. The aim of this course is twofold: first, to gain insight into the purpose of Renaissance art theory, its key subjects and developments in Italy between 1436 (the date of the first treatise) and 1587 (the date of the last treatise for this course). The second aim is to assess the nature of the relationship between the theoretical views on painting codified in these texts and the practice of a number of the most prominent Italian painters, such as Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Andread del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Belini, Titian, Lorenzo Lotto, Parmigianino, Correggio, Giorgio Vasari, Federico Barocci and Federico Zuccaro. Students will analyze each individual text in order to learn how these five authors approached painting and defined its nature, structure and aims. Special attention will be focused on establishing each author's views on the nature of imitation, the role of the artist's imagination, the development of style, the concept of beauty, expression, decorum, invention, and design. In addition, it will be examined what notions these authors propagated of the painter as an artist, his education, training and social and intellectual status (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute )
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3.00 Credits
Students studying abroad often have a heightened awareness of the conduct of their own nation in the region they are temporarily living and studying. Headline news and questions about that conduct from local citizens often become topics of conversation with those of the host country. This is a one semester course on the history of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present which is designed in a way to enable that conversation and to equip students studying abroad with the information and analytical tools to do so. Focus will be on US/European relations with a special emphasis on relations between the US and Italy. Its objective is to foster an understanding of the ways in which the US has protected its interests and promoted its values in its selective engagement with the rest of the world. By exploring three paradigms of engagement over time (Realist, Nationalist and Radical) students will have a better understanding of what may lay behind the range of behavior in America's dealing with the rest of the world. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute)
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3.00 Credits
What do we mean by the Middle Ages? And how does this epoch help us to understand key aspects of our own contemporary lives? This course is organized around these two important questions. It begins with a discussion and critique of the notion of a "Medieval era." Through readings and disussion students will explore the idea of a distinct period with its own essential features and the scholarly debates surrounding the definition and nature of this period, ranging from the idea of "The Dark Ages" to the notion of a tremendously creative period of a markedly "Western" civilization. The course is then divided into different sections in order to explore and analyze the different features of Medieval life; religious institutions and spiritual practices, the literature of Dante and courtly love, art, music, the role of women in the public and private sphere, artisan manufactures, and the emergence of urban socio-political classes with the development of representative government and a city-based economy. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
How did an average citizen of a town in the Roman Empire Live? What were his or her daily habits, duties and pleasures? Where did the typical male citizen work, how was family life organized, and, finally, what was the system of beliefs and values that guided daily life? In order to answer such questions we will follow the life of an ordinary roman citizen in Pompeii, an ordinary, small city on the shores of the Meditterranean in Roman Italy during the first century AD. By tracing the footsteps of our hero - the typical male citizen - as he moves through his daily routine, we will explore the streets, home, shops and piblic buildings of Pompeii and neighboring cities of Herculaneum and Stabiae. Through the things they left behind, we will learn about everyday life, and ultimately death, in the context of the anicent Roman world in general. Pompeii will serve as a microcosm for studying Roman society and culture. The overarching goal is to integrate archaeological, art historical, and primary literary material into a single, coherent intellectual narrative in order to gain a complex understanding of Roman Civilization at its height. In the end, the goal is to "look at the Romans through the eyes of the Romans." AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
Ancient Rome's history started already well before 753 BC, the traditional foundation date of the city of Rome, and did not stop with the last emperor's abdication in 476 AD. Following generally the chronological order, the course will focus on selected topics of interest: early Rome, Roman Republic, early Empire of Augustus, High Imperial time, and the decline of the Roman Empire, including Christianity. During the course, students will be introduced to the critical interpretation of ancient texts and the main sources for Roman history, and learn some methods of archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics. A weekend field trip to the ancient city center of Rome and to ancient Rome's harbor city of Ostia Antica will allow students to have a closer insight into ancient Roman civilization. The course is intended to provide students with: basic knowledge of history; understanding of Roman civilization; understanding of methods and approaches of ancient history and of the supporting sciences; skills in examining complex systems; and, an ability to compare critically separate historical situations, including contemporaneous events. (Perugia, Italy, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/itUmbraInstitute) AUC Designation: Cl
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