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At AUP, we have drawn upon the metaphor of cartography, of mapmaking, to designate another area of skills and knowledge acquisition for future global citizens. Maps depend upon the subject position of the mapmaker and represent powerfully our differing perspectives on social organization. Under this rubric, students are required to take courses that help them understand how human experience has been organized in time and across time, in space and across space, and how various forms of social experience emerged in human history. This requirement consists of six credits (two courses) chosen from an approved annual list. In choosing a total of 12 credits from this and the "Comparing Worlds Past and Present" rubrique, students must select courses in at least two different disciplines and those disciplines must be different from the student's major discipline(s).

Approved courses 2004-2007 (courses identified with a "–M" on the Academic Schedule):

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AN101	Social Anthropology
AN102	Cultural Anthropology
AN203	Political Anthropology

AR110

Introduction to Drawing

BA101	Window Dressing: Retailing through the Ages
BA114	The Making of Managerial Myth

CA401	Viewing and Re-Viewing Islam (Senior Capstone Fall 2005)
CA402A	Islam in the City: Paris and Tunis (Senior Capstone Spring 2006)
CA402C	Resistance and Revolution (Senior Capstone Spring 2006)

GS_CL206

Contemporary Feminist Theory

CM100	Say What? Language, Communication, and Power
CM161	Intercultural Communication
CM205	Communication and Society
CM206	Media Globalisation
CM_GS304	Communicating Fashion
CM_ES370	Cultural Dimensions of the European Idea: Selves and Others

ES103	Truth, Ideology, and the Documentary
ES_PL215	Philosophy and the City
ES_PL328	Reflections on Technology
CM_ES370	Cultural Dimensions of the European Idea - Selves and Others

FM275	Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I: From Méliès through the Hollywood Studio Era and World War II
FM276	Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II: From 1945 to the Present
FM294	Film Genres and Topics: The Documentary

PO_GS205	The Political Economy of Developing Countries
GS_CL206	Contemporary Feminist Theory
GS_PY210	Psychology and Gender
GS_PY245	Social Psychology
CM_GS304	Communicating Fashion

HI101	History of Western Civilization up to 1500
HI102	History of Western Civilization from 1500
HI103	The Contemporary World
HI105	World History to 1500
HI241	American Civilization: Origins to 1877
HI242	American Civilization: 1865 to Present

IT130

Applied Computing

LI100

Language Acquisition and Social Policy

PL122	Critical Thinking: Logic and Everyday Reasoning
PO_PL203	Introduction to Political Philosophy
PO_PL204	Introduction to Political Philosophy II
ES_PL215	Philosophy and the City
PL271	The Critique of Political Economy: from Adam Smith to Karl Marx
PL_PO321	Thinking the World: Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics
ES_PL328	Reflections on Technology
PL349	Luck, Theory, and Choice

PO101	Civil Society and the Politics of International Activism
PO105	Contemporary Global Issues
PO212	Introduction to Political Geography and Geopolitics
PO_PL203	Introduction to Political Philosophy
PO_PL204	Introduction to Political Philosophy II
PO_GS205	The Political Economy of Developing Countries
PL_PO321	Thinking the World: Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics

PY100	Introduction to Psychology
PY221	Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality
GS_PY210	Psychology and Gender
GS_PY245	Social Psychology
PY246	Cross-Cultural Psychology

SO100	Introduction to the Social Sciences
SO105	Introduction to Sociology

Courses identified with a ‘–Q’ on the Academic Schedule fulfill either the Historical and Cross-Cultural Requirement or the Social Experience and Organization Requirement.

There are two possibilities for transfer students wishing to use previously earned general education credits to fulfill the thematic rubric outlined above.

OPTION I: -Establishing an equivalency for an AUP course that carries General Education classification. This is done by completing a substitution paperwork that requires the course’s catalog description, your advisor’s signature, the AUP course’s Department Chair’s signature. Completed paperwork should be submitted to the Advising Center which verifies the completeness of the paperwork and transmits the request to the Associate Dean of Academic Administration.

OPTION II: -Some courses that are not direct equivalents could still be suitable for General Education equivalence. Students who would like courses considered should submit full course syllabi for our General Education Committee to review. These can be submitted directly to the Advising Center which will take care of all communication between students and the Committee.