This course is designed to provide an overview of the history of photography during the past two centuries in France. With its invention in 1839 by Niépce, the development of the daguerreotype, and the production of portraits, landscapes and...
The aim of this course is to deconstruct the role of the still image in media and society and compare the relative photographic vernacular of the USA and Europe. Photographs surround us, and inspire us, and become our memories and our present. We...
A conception of human nature underlies our understanding of social behaviour in an array of disciplines from psychology to philosophy, political science to history. This course takes a philosophical approach in reflecting on different conceptions of...
The basic presupposition behind the course is that philosophy is an activity we “are unable to resist”: since we reflect on the events around us, on ourselves and on our actions, and since we are also able to reflect on that reflection, and so on, we...
The purpose of this course is to introduce one of the oldest and most exciting philosophical problems – the problem of free will and moral responsibility. The topic is complex: it is closely connected to metaphysical questions about causation...
The idea behind this 400 course, an upper-level seminar is that those IES Abroad students who already have a relatively solid background in philosophy might find a forum where they are able to study philosophy on a more advanced level than the one...
An introduction to the various traditions of philosophical thinking in Germany which trace the history of ideas as well as the political and social situation in Germany. The most important philosophers (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Dilthey...
An examination of the changing Italian political climate and the incomplete transition from the 1st to the 2nd Republic. Special emphasis on the potential but unpredictable outcomes of this transition process in view of the intermingling of new...
After the recent enlargements of the EU, Austria and her capital, Vienna, are a central vantage point from which the political geography of Europe and its variations of national political cultures can be profitably studied (and visited): The course...
The Integrative Seminar is mandatory for all European Union Program students. It provides students with an understanding of the origin, development and workings of the European Union, and how these are related to political developments at both the...