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| Transy's academic calendar includes a 14-week fall term, a 14-week winter term, and a four-week May term which gives students the opportunity for unique learning experiences and the chance to get off campus for stimulating trips. | |
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International destinations '07
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 The European Union and Harmonization of International AccountingLondon, Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam This course will explore the history and status of international accounting standards and efforts to harmonize such standards. Particular emphasis will be placed on financial reporting in the European Union and the role the EU plays in international accounting. Related visits will include the offices of the International Accounting Standards Board (London), the European Union (Brussels), international public accounting firms, and multi-national corporations. Travel Dates: May 3-17 |
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This course investigates the politics and culture of Ireland from the early 20th century until the present. Conflict (known as the Troubles) between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the subsequent Good Friday peace agreement of 2000 is a central theme in this course, given that the Troubles have shaped the trajectory of Irish history in important ways. Beyond political conflict, the course explores contemporary Irish culture. In the last ten years, the Republic of Ireland has become known as the "Celtic Tiger," in that the economy has become one of the strongest in Europe. We will spend some time exploring how these economic trends impact Irish culture and Irelands role in the emerging European Union. Travel Dates: TBA |
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Through literature, newspapers, art, and architecture, through films and conversations with contemporary Spanish authors and journalists, this interdisciplinary course will examine the oppositions that dominate contemporary Spanish cultural life and discourse. Students will have to look back into Spain’s religious, political, and social past and the conflicts then that laid the foundations for the present. In this light, for example, we will study the practice of devout Catholics in the medieval cathedral at Leon and look at the works of social protest art in Léon’s famous and controversial Museum of Contemporary Art; then, still in Léon, we will discuss current political and social issues with Pedro García Trapiello, one of Spain’s leading journalists. The travel portion of the course will begin in Madrid and Toledo, then continue through Castille, the Basque Country, and Catalonia stopping at Leon, Soria, Bilbao, and Barcelona where students will actually immerse themselves in today’s Spanish culture. Travel Dates: TBA |
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This course is designed to provide students with a real-world introduction to the theory and policy of international marketing so that they can better understand international business activities and the economic environment in which international businesses and consumers interact. Topics will include theories of international marketing, market segmentation by multinational enterprises, culture in business, regional economic integration, bi-lingual advertising, market penetration in the former Soviet Union, environmental concerns within business promotion, sustainable human development, and current issues in international business. The course format will include a combination of lectures, presentations, site visits, and guest speakers. The course will be conducted, in part, in Yerevan, Armenia. There will be several field study visits to commercial, governmental, and cultural sites within the country, which will include local and foreign owned manufacturing/service companies. Travel Dates: May 9-20 |
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Seeks to understand the words and worlds of Paul the apostle by visiting significant sites in both Turkey and Greece that relate Paul to the Roman imperial world that surrounded him, the Jewish covenantal religion that formed him, and the Christian faith that transformed him. Travel Dates: May 2-16 |
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This course will use games of chance and the gaming industry to introduce students to the history, theory and applications of the fields of probability and statistics. Students will study the laws of probability (sometimes known as the laws of chance), counting techniques, and several statistical tests for inference and decision-making. We will then spend a week in Las Vegas exploring how this background material is used in the gaming industry. After returning to campus we will continue our study of statistics as it relates to fields other than the gaming industry. Travel Dates:
May 11-17 |
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This course offers students an exploration of one of most famous and enduring artistic communities in the world, Greenwich Village. We will examine the Village’s first flowering as a literary enclave for Melville, Whitman, and Poe in the late 1850s, the second great period between 1890s until the end of World War I, through the Interwar period, and into its great peak as capital of political activism, counterculture, and the Beat and Folk movements in the 1940s-1960s. Through a combination of literature, history, essays, art, photography, audio recordings, and film, students will explore the ideas and contributions of poets Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Allen Ginsberg; playwrights Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell, and Tennessee Williams; writers Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Jack Kerouac; artists and benefactors including Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton Jackson Pollock, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg; the emergence of New York as a center for international modern art; and other major social and cultural figures including John Reed, Djuna Barnes, and Emma Goldman. Readings and in-class discussions will explore a wide variety of topics relevant to the history and culture of Greenwich Village, including Bohemianism, Communism and Anarchism, jazz, the sexual revolution, the Beat movement, Happenings and the gay rights movement. Travel Dates: May 13-19 |
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This class will explore the roots of Hip Hop beginning with the artistic energies that fueled the urban migratory patterns out of the south and into urban centers like Harlem, NY. Utilizing important films and the resources of the Schomburg Center as a base we will discuss and study the artistic and cultural history of Harlem and visit many of the iconic venues that include the Apollo Theatre, Morgan and Marvin Smith Photo Studios, The Savoy and the Cotton Club. We will interact with special guest artists and scholars currently contributing to the still vibrant artistic and cultural scene and visit contemporary venues to take in live performances at the Nuyorican Café, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem, African Burial Ground Museum, Puff Daddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment Studios, Oprah Winfrey’s production of The Color Purple as well as walking tours of Harlem (current offices of former president Bill Clinton), Brooklyn (the backdrop and headquarters of Spike Lee’s 40Acres & a Mule Productions), Greenwich Village (the home of many Harlem Renaissance era legends), and the Bronx (the mythological home of Hip Hop). Travel Dates: May 6-17 |
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Travel and Tourism Travel Dates:
May 20-23 |
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