Communication and media have always been an interesting theme to be studied and also to be analyzed. Media are characterized by a sort of common way of behavior and a common goal; recently, in spite of “mass media”, “target media” is preferred to...
This course will facilitate student engagement with a genre of writing that merges the boundaries between literary art and research nonfiction. Creative nonfiction is the writing of the real. Practitioners explore both the world around them and the...
This course builds upon the skills introduced in the previous Emerging Competent Abroad level. Students who enter this course will have mastered the outcomes of the Independent Abroad level as defined by the IES Abroad MAP for Language and...
The course examines, from a comparative perspective, the practice of wall building as a political strategy to respond to security challenges through the reinforcement of external and internal borders. Although the common discourse on globalization...
By the end of the course, the successful student will develop a basic foundation in the five skills: intercultural communication, reading, writing, listening and speaking to accomplish a variety of basic everyday needs in the host culture as...
This course aids the student in understanding a limited set of introductory colloquial Arabic words as well as short phrases taught in the classroom. By the end of the course, the student will be able to understand some colloquial Arabic words...
MSA Emerging Independent Abroad is a course designed to help students develop skills in speaking, reading, listening comprehension, and writing in Arabic, and apply these skills in a real context with native speakers. Research has demonstrated that...
Students who enter this level are able to accomplish everyday needs required to live in a new culture. In this course, students will develop independence and autonomy so that, when communication does break down, they have enough tools at their...
Students who enter this course will have mastered most of the outcomes of the Independent Abroad level as defined by the IES Abroad MAP for Language and Intercultural Communication. Among other characteristics, these students are able to converse at...