Conventions of academic writing, content, organization, and style. Appropriate standards for acknowledging and citing scholarly sources. Skills are reinforced through different course themes which encourage critical reading, analysis, and the acquisition of informed opinion.

Building on skills developed in ACWR 101, ACWR 103 presents more advanced reading and writing tasks while introducing students to the types of writing, research, and analysis used in Business. Prerequisite: ACWR. 101

Interdisciplinary study of connections between art/design and politics, science, psychology, literature, music. Creative thinking activities. Innovative design studio. Role of images in propaganda, advertising. Impact of masterpieces in society. Visual perception, gestalt, color theory, drawing as a way of thinking, form and function, poetics of space, collaboration, artistic research. Fluxus, public art, information arts, kinetic sculpture, environmental art.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Foundations of user experience. User experience design principles and research methods. Connecting user experience research with user experience design through design guidelines. Introduction to user experience management; an investigation into bad and good user experience practices.

A slice of political history blended with cinema. Increase student's knowledge and awareness about world politics with an intentional emphasis on countries that do not usually draw attention, such as Congo, Uruguay and Cambodia. Important political incidents, mostly in the period of the Cold War, and their reflections in cinema in various countries.