Time Period I
8:00am - 9:20am |
Time Period II
9:30am - 10:50am |
Time Period III
11:00am - 12:20pm |
Students must take 2 courses (6 credits) in two different time periods.
Applicants can request to be placed on a waiting list for any classes that are full and may get a spot as other students make class changes. All class changes must be done before leaving for Innsbruck.
Time Period 1
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BA 3010 The Legal Environment of Business
The course covers ethical decision making, including the concepts of professionalism, the integrity-based management, compliance-based management, and corporate social responsibility. The course focuses on the litigation process, alternative dispute resolution, business torts, contracts, business crimes, labor and employment law, EDI, and property law.
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ENGL 2090 From Battlefront to Homefront: The Legacy of World War II in Literature
Prerequisites: Freshman Composition
World War II has been called “the defining moment of the Twentieth Century,” and this course examines its influences on everyday life today. We will focus on the many ways that WWII has been portrayed in different genres. Texts will include the Graphic novel Maus, portions of the short story collection Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, the 1972 film Cabaret, the satiric novel Catch-22, and The Science Fiction / War Novel mash-up Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Students will analyze literary themes such as the rise of Nazism and Nazi Extermination Camps, the absurdity of war, and the individual’s duty to society in wartime.
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ENGL 2238 Reading Fiction: European Horror Fiction
Prerequisites: Freshman Composition
In this class, we will read an assortment of gothic and horror fiction from Europe, beginning with the early gothic novel Frankenstein and ending with the 1975 Italian horror novel The Twenty Days of Turin, which was translated into English in 2016. Books have been chosen to cover a wide variety of horror themes, including monsters, ghosts, vampires, plague, and fascism. Throughout the class, we will discuss the ways the genre has evolved, and how horror in art has often been a response to anxieties over modernity.
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FA 1010 Art Appreciation - Class is Full
An introduction to art in which the visual elements and principles are examined through a study of the key monuments in the history of art from cave paintings to the present. Important styles of painting, sculpture, architecture, and twentieth-century media are explored with attention to the personalities of the artists and the cultures in which they lived.
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FIN 4306 International Finance - Class is Full
Prerequisites: ECON 1203 or ECON 2200. ACCT 2100 is recommended.
The international monetary system; speculation, hedging, and arbitrage in foreign exchange and financial markets; financial management of the multinational firm; international capital markets.
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FTA 2090 International Communication - Class is Full
This is an introductory course to the field of International Communication (hereafter, IC). IC developed as a subset of the field of Mass Communication (a field based on the premise that mass media -- which includes film, television, smartphones, social media, video games, etc.) are central to making sense of the nature of contemporary society. IC takes those assumptions and extends them to a global level, arguing that mass media connects societies, cultures, and states across regions and the world at large. Most critically, it mobilizes discourses of Identity within and across national borders. The following equation sums up the field: Globalization + Media + Identity = International Communication.
Students in any field, but especially Business, Management, Mass Communication/Journalism/Public Relations, etc. will benefit from exposure to the field of IC.
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HIST 2991.1 Nazi Germany and World War II - Class is Full
This course on Nazi Germany and the Second World War is designed to accommodate both beginner and intermediate students who have an interest in the most catastrophic war of human history. The focus is on the origins and outcomes of the conflict, wartime diplomacy, the strategic and operational aspects of the struggle, the impact of the war on the major civilian societies, the ideological dimensions of the conflict, the problem of moral judgment under the stress of war, and the Holocaust. While the focus of the course will be on the period 1939-1945, the course will also examine, in some depth, the diplomatic and military origins of the war in the interwar period. World War II had a decisive impact on the world order. The division of much of the world into two armed camps, one dominated by the United States and the other by the Soviet Union, was to a large extent the consequence of actions and decisions made during the decade 1937 to 1947.
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HUMS 2090 Contemporary Art and Popular Music in Austria
A study of the intersections, practices, techniques, and schools of contemporary art and popular music in Austria. Austria has historically had a rich tradition of radical artistic revolution. Today, it is one of the great epicenters of cutting-edge, experimental, and avant-garde music and art.
We will closely examine the rise in the 1970s of the seminal Austrian theater-rock band Drahdiwaberl, and the political/cabaret-inspired Die Schmetterlinge. We trace a path through New Wave and Funk, to underground bands of the 80s, Falco (of “Rock Me Amadeus” fame), Heavy Metal, Punk, and R’n’B, to the gender-defying pop sensation, Conchita Wurst, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, and recent electronic music by Der Schwimmer and Tosca. We will explore Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music and its critical reception in Austria.
Contemporary Austrian visual artists now work in a culturally diverse, globally influenced, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a layered combination of methods, materials, concepts, and subjects that challenge all boundaries. We will study the work of Günter Brus, Martin Arnold, and Brigitte Kowanz, among many others. Contemporary art and music are part of a dialogue that concerns larger frameworks such as individual and cultural identity, community, and nationality. Throughout the course, we learn how music and visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries have been continually influenced and shaped by turbulent European history and politics.
This course has a fieldwork component with several concerts and gallery exhibitions.
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MANG 3401.1 Introduction to Management & Organizational Behavior - Class is Full
Prerequisites: ACCT 2100 (Principles of Accounting) and ECON 1203 (Principles of Microeconomics)
The term “management” applies to virtually all efforts to direct and lead the work of people, processes and systems. It has particular scientific relevance when applied to guiding the efforts of other human beings in a formal workplace. Most importantly, it is the framework within which people who work for compensation earn promotions, pay raises, title changes and extra perquisites of the job. Organizations are the primary means by which people combine their professional efforts to achieve a set of desired outcomes. Therefore, “management” and “organizations” represent the fundamental platforms for the supervision of the efforts of others in their professional work and the attainment of agreed upon objectives—at all levels, for all types of work and in all places.
The purpose of this course is for each student to:
• Know the essential elements of twenty-first century management practices
• Understand the dynamics that affect management processes
• Be familiar with current management practice, issues and trends
• Be able to discuss specific relevant examples of real-world management situations
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MANG 4446 International Management
Prerequisites: MANG 3401.1 (Intro to Management & Organizational Behavior)
This course intends to reflect main insights into differences and cohesions of global environments, cultures, and regulations and develop internationally successful market strategies and collaborative leadership. Students are equipped to investigate different businesses and their specificities through literature review, discussion, case study analysis, and guest speakers from diverse international businesses/NPOs. Students will identify the importance of the specific resources and capabilities needed for international management; develop their reflective capabilities to assess the attractiveness of current and potential (e-)markets; assess the strategic (SMART) fit of differentiating competencies with attractive markets; learn how to implement adequate organizational structures and establish culturally sensitive and participative leadership.
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POLI 2993 Introduction to International Relations
This course introduces students to the main concepts, practices, organizations, and problems of international politics in a global context, i.e. all things related to “world politics”. The course pays attention to theoretical attempts to understand concepts and phenomena of international relations, the current international system, and its institutions and organizations. Moreover, the course addresses current and future global political trends and challenges. To do so, the course sets out the foundational historical context and theoretical approaches to international relations. After an introduction to International Relations theories, the course examines main concepts such as agency, structure, the state, power, security, war, and global governance. Seemingly domestic political issues and problems such as issues of identity and human dignity have long since begun to affect global politics. This is in particular the case for concepts of illiberal democracies or rightwing populism in Europe and the United States. The course, therefore, also addresses some of today’s most pressing global political problems such as the ones related to identity politics and human rights. Despite its general focus, the course relies on current events and examples, mainly drawn from the US, European, and international organizations contexts.
Time Period 2
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ANTH 1020 Fad, Fallacies, & Human Origins - Class is Full
A rational examination of numerous supposed ancient “mysteries” and unsolved phenomena relative to human origins using the data and methods of modern archaeology. Topics include areas in anthropology and archaeology popularized by sensationalist authors, such as lost continents, ancient astronauts, strange stone monuments, pyramids, the Yeti and other monsters, lost races, archeoastronomy, psychic anthropology, catastrophism, and others. Major foci will include the evidence for the actual causes of the phenomena and an examination of the methodology and style of pseudo-scientific sensationalist authors.
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ANTH 3340 People and Cultures of the World - Class is Full
A topical survey of tribes and cultures of the world past and present. This course is designed to acquaint the beginning student with anthropology and its various subfields. It will examine the background of several cultures at different levels of development which are now undergoing the difficult process of combining their traditional ways of life with the rapid changes imposed on them by the modern world.
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BA 3021 Business Law - Class is Full
Prerequisite: BA 3010 (The Legal Environment of Business); can also be taken concurrently with BA 3010
The course focuses on how business people form and perform contracts, as well as possible remedies for breach of a contract. Additionally, the course examines negotiable instruments and how they function in the banking system. It also focuses on creditor's rights, bankruptcy, business structures, agency, property law, insurance law and professional liability.
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ECON 2221 Money & Banking - Class is Full
Prerequisite: ECON 1203 (Principles of Microeconomics) or ECON 1204 (Principles of Macroeconomics)
The nature, function, and operations of our money and banking system. Modern monetary and banking theory, monetary policy, and their relationship to domestic and international economic and financial problems and issues; this course is generally a required course for economics and finance majors and is often used as an elective course for other business students.
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EES 2096 Alpine/Glacial Geology and Climate Change - Class is Full
The course will provide an understanding of the structure and evolution of the Alps. No prior knowledge of geology is required for this course. The first part of the course will provide the basic knowledge of geological concepts and processes necessary to understand the geologic evolution of the Alps (e.g., rock cycle, plate tectonics, glaciers, etc.). During the second we will discuss how the geomorphology and natural resources of the Alpine Mountain belt impacted societies of Central Europe through time. Finally, we will discuss climate change and we will draw extensively from the setting of the Alps. The first evidence for past ice ages was described in the European Alps, and for geologists, the Alpine region is an open book for understanding the driving factors for climate change. In this third part of the course, students will learn how to read this book and will learn how the understanding of past climates of the European Alps is critical for shaping the future of this region and beyond. This course will include field trips.
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ENGL 2091 Literature of the Holocaust - Class is Full
Prerequisite: Freshman Composition
In this class, we will read a selection of works by authors who lived through the Holocaust, and others who have written about it from the perspective of hindsight. Central questions in this course will concern power, totalitarianism, fascism, and the danger of forgetting and rewriting history. We will discuss these readings in a contemporary context, including discussions about the way antisemitism has become normalized again over time, particularly in far-right circles of US politics. We will also discuss the nature of colonialism at large, looking at work from theorists Franz Fanon, Umberto Eco, and Hannah Arendt to understand how it is that violent fascists come to power in democratic societies, and how they expand and maintain their power. This class will look at the Holocaust as written in multiple genres, including poetry, theory, memoir, and graphic novel. As we enter a world where the last generation of Holocaust survivors is passing away, it is more important than ever to reckon with the past and insist on the importance of memory.
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ENGL 2312 International Film as Literary Art - Class is Full
Prerequisite: Freshman Composition
This course is designed to introduce students to international film (focusing on Austrian film) as a form of narrative “text” that incorporates techniques of images, dialogue, and sound. We will consider the narrative possibilities of film by examining the language and techniques of films that shape our understanding of them as “texts.” We will be specifically examining Austrian films as “texts” that reflect the culture and history of our Austrian location. The class will view approximately seven films, including the Oscar-winning films The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky, and Amour by Michael Haneke, as well as Nordrand by Barbara Albert, and Revanche by Gotz Spielmann.
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FIN 3300 Financial Management - Class is Full
Prerequisites: ECON 1203 (Principles of Microeconomics) and ACCT 2100 (Principles of Accounting)
Introduction to investment, financing, and dividend decisions of business firms. Topics include valuation, capital budgeting, working capital management, capital structure and cost of capital, sources of financing, and dividend policy.
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HIST 2991.2 Holocaust and Genocide - Class is Full
The course is an introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This course, which will link global and regional history, follows the principles of the Educational Philosophy of Yad Vashem and is based on the “Ten Stages of Genocide” by Gregory H Stanton
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HIST 2991.3 Human Rights - Class is Full
This course surveys the global history of human rights in theory and practice from the United Nations Declaration of 1948 through the student and civil rights movements of the 1960s and finally to present-day questions surrounding migration and the movement for Black lives. We will also examine the denial of human rights in recent global history, from the Holocaust to the genocides of the 1990s and up to the present. After reviewing key concepts in human rights and a series of case studies, students will choose their topics for further research and share their findings with their classmates.
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MANG 4750 Business Intelligence and Analytics - Class is Full
This course is an introduction to the theories, methodologies, and technologies to develop, store, share, and apply actionable business information.
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PSYC 1000 General Psychology - Call is Full
This is an introductory survey course in psychology. We will examine and discuss groundbreaking studies from several subfields of psychology, including neuroscience, learning, developmental, personality, clinical, and social. This course is designed to promote a collaborative learning environment. This means that we will all learn from one another.
Time Period 3
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ANTH 3090 Anthropology of the Roma (Gypsy) People
This course critically examines and deconstructs the damaging cultural stereotype of “Gypsy.” It reconceptualizes the Roma people as the largest ethnic minority of Europe that is quintessentially European but has its language, social mores, and cultural norms. The course materials move students through and beyond the socio-economic marginalization of Roma in Europe to a “thick” ethnographic understanding of their history (their migration from India, subsequent enslavement in the Balkans, and the Roma Holocaust) and culture (purity beliefs, music), without romanticizing or essentializing them. The course also allows students to learn about the systemic discrimination faced by the Roma and the work of Roma activists.
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ANTH 4440 Religion Magic and Witchcraft - Class is Full
The comparative and cross-cultural examination of how religions function within the total cultural systems of which they form a part. Emphasis will be given both to beliefs and practices exotic to the large world religions and also to folk customs and informal interactions within Western and other complex societies.
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ECON 3000 Managerial Economics - Class is Full
Prerequisite: ECON 1203 (Principles of Microeconomics)
Particular concepts and corresponding analyses underlie managerial decisions and shape business strategies. This course deals with concepts rooted in economics and used in practical decisions made by business executives. In this way, the language and reasoning of executive decision-making are developed. Emphasis is placed on language, concepts, and analysis embedded in current methods and techniques of executive and managerial decision-making.
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EES 1006 Dinosaurs - Class is Full
This course introduces you to a broad spectrum of basic scientific concepts (geological, zoological, ecological, and climatological) by studying Dinosaurs and their close relatives. In particular, this course traces the evolutionary history of extinct animals with an emphasis on Mesozoic dinosaurs. This course will offer an introduction to how geoscientists use the fossil record and scientific techniques to trace the history of life on Earth and answer questions about the causes and consequences of major extinction as well as the radiations of different dinosaur groups through time. The course will introduce scientific concepts that can be used to evaluate hypotheses about catastrophic events such as impacts from space, volcanic eruptions, and climate change and their impact on global biodiversity and the trajectory of animal life on Earth.
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FA 1001 Core Studio I – Surfaces/Process/Practice - Class is Full
This is a studio course designed to introduce the student to various methods and materials traditionally used in drawing and early painting. Emphasis is placed on the learning of correct observation and on the translation of that observation accurately onto a flat surface using the non-verbal language of line and value (lightness and darkness). Because correct observation requires so much contact with actual objects, the course addresses a rich variety of actual objects and environments for utilization in drawings.
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GER 1001 Beginning German - Class is Full
Students should gain confidence in using German while they live in Innsbruck. They should be able to participate in simple conversations on everyday topics. Emphasis on reading and listening comprehension and speaking.
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JOUR 2790 Travel Writing - Class is Full
Prerequisites: Freshman Composition
This is an introductory course for students interested in travel writing and working in the media segment of the travel industry. Students will be exposed to the different genres of travel writing --blogs, photography, long-form writing (feature-length and books), and the travel writing media industry; understand the relationship between tourism as an industry and genres/conventions of travel writing.
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MANG 3401.2 Introduction to Management & Organizational Behavior - Class is Full
Prerequisites: ACCT 2100 (Principles of Accounting) and ECON 1203 (Principles of Microeconomics)
The term “management” applies to virtually all efforts to direct and lead the work of people, processes and systems. It has particular scientific relevance when applied to guiding the efforts of other human beings in a formal workplace. Most importantly, it is the framework within which people who work for compensation earn promotions, pay raises, title changes and extra perquisites of the job. Organizations are the primary means by which people combine their professional efforts to achieve a set of desired outcomes. Therefore, “management” and “organizations” represent the fundamental platforms for the supervision of the efforts of others in their professional work and the attainment of agreed upon objectives—at all levels, for all types of work and in all places.
The purpose of this course is for each student to:
• Know the essential elements of twenty-first century management practices
• Understand the dynamics that affect management processes
• Be familiar with current management practice, issues and trends
• Be able to discuss specific relevant examples of real-world management situations -
MATH 2785 Elementary Statistics for Business and Economics
Prerequisites: MATH 1115 or higher or six hours of MATH courses numbered at least 1000
After the completion of the course, students should be able to present data in tables and graphs, calculate descriptive measures including measures of location and dispersion, calculate the probability of discrete and continuous distributions, estimate parameters using point estimates and confidence intervals, and perform hypothesis tests.
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MUS 1000 Music Appreciation - Class is Full
An appreciation and analysis from the viewpoint of the listener of the representative work in Western art tradition, covering selected masterworks including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bartok, Mahler, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg. This survey class is for any student and no previous knowledge of or about music is required.
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PSYC 2091 Cultural Psychology - Class is Full
Prerequisites: PSYC 1000 or PSYC 2200
Culture plays an important role in the way we feel, think, and behave. Cultural psychology is the explicit, systematic comparison of psychological variables under different cultural conditions to specify the processes that mediate the emergence of behavioral differences.