Mapping the World

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 four credits (one course) chosen from an approved annual list. Students then take an additional four credits (one course) from either the Comparing Worlds or Mapping the World rubric. In choosing a total of 12 credits from these two rubriques, students must select courses in at least two different disciplines and those disciplines must be different from the student's major discipline(s).

AN 1001 Social Anthropology
AN 1002 Cultural Anthropology
AN 2003 Political Anthropology
AN/ES 3061 Anthropology of Cities
 

AR 1010 Introduction to Drawing
 

BA 1001 Window Dressing: Retailing Through the Ages
BA 1006 Cross-Sectional Leadership (EnglishBridge)
BA 1014 The Making of Managerial Myth
 

CA 4001 Viewing and Re-Viewing Islam (Senior Capstone Fall 2005)
CA 4001 The Venture of Islam (Senior Capstone Spring 2009)
CA 4002A Islam in the City: Paris and Tunis (Senior Capstone Spring 2006)
CA 4002C Resistance and Revolution (Senior Capstone Spring 2006)
 

CL 1025 The World, the Text, and the Critic I
CL/GS 2006 Contemporary Feminist Theory
CL 2019 Socio Political Space in Classical Antiquity
 

CM 1000 Say What? Language, Communication, Power
CM 1061 Intercultural Communication
CM 2005 Communication and Society
CM 2006 Media Globalization
CM/GS 3004 Communicating Fashion
CM/ES 3070 Cultural Dimensions of the European Idea – Selves and Others
 

CS 1040 Introduction to Computer Programming I
CS 2020 Computer Games Design
CS 2021 Social Robotics
CS/IT 3068 Database Applications
 

EC 2010 Principles of Microeconomics
EC 2020 Principles of Macroeconomics
 

ES 1003 Truth, Ideology, and the Documentary
ES/PL 2015 Philosophy and the City (formerly PL 210)
ES/GS 2046 Land of Hope and Glory: Culture in Edwardian and Victorian Britain
ES/HI 3000 Topics in Mediterranean Cultures and History: Islamic History, 600-750 AD
ES/PL 3028 Reflections on Technology
ES/AN 3061 Anthropology of Cities
ES/CM 3070 Cultural Dimensions of the European Idea – Selves and Others
 

FM 2075 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I
FM 2076 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II: From 1945 to the Present
FM 2094 Film Genres and Topics: The Documentary
 

GS/PO 2005 The Political Economy of Developing Countries
GS/CL 2006 Contemporary Feminist Theory
GS/PY 2010 Psychology and Gender
GS/PY 2045 Social Psychology
GS/ES 2046 Land of Hope and Glory: Culture in Edwardian and Victorian Britain
GS/CM 3004 Communicating Fashion
 

HI 1001 History of Western Civilization up to 1500
HI 1002 History of Western Civilization from 1500
HI 1003 The Contemporary World
HI 1005 World History to 1500
HI 1006 World History from 1500
HI 2041 American Civilization: Origins to 1877
HI 2042 American Civilization: 1865 to Present
ES/HI 3000 Topics in Mediterranean Cultures and History: Islamic History, 600-750 AD
 

IT 1030 Applied Computing
IT/CS 3068 Database Applications
 

LI 1000 Language Acquisition and Social Policy
 

PL 1022 Critical Thinking: Logic and Everyday Reasoning
PL/PO 2003 Introduction to Political Philosophy I
PL/PO 2004 Introduction to Political Philosophy II
PL/ES 2015 Philosophy and the City (formerly PL 210)
PL 2071 Critique of Political Economy
PL/ES 3028 Reflections on Technology
PL 3049 Luck, Theory, and Choice
PL/PO 3021 Thinking The World: Cosmopolitanism and its Critics
 

PO 1001 Civil Society and the Politics of International Activism
PO 1005 Contemporary Global Issues
PO 1006 Various FirstBridge Topics
PO 1011 Foundations of Modern Politics
PO 2012 Introduction to Political Geography and Geopolitics
PO/PL 2003 Introduction to Political Philosophy I
PO/PL 2004 Introduction to Political Philosophy II
PO/GS 2005 The Political Economy of Developing Countries
PO/PL 3021 Thinking The World: Cosmopolitanism and its Critics
 

PY 1000 Introduction to Psychology
PY 1010 Introduction to Psychology with Lab
PY 2021 Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality
PY 2022 Personality and Individual Differences
PY/GS 2010 Psychology and Gender
PY/GS 2045 Social Psychology
PY 2046 Cross-Cultural Psychology
 

SO 1000 Introduction to the Social Sciences
SO 1005 Introduction to Sociology

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 our 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 Office of Academic Affairs.

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 Office of Academic Affairs which will take care of all communication between students and the Committee.