Courses

Course Description

First course in a four-semester sequence that teaches Romanian as a foreign language at ASU. Provides the development of basic speaking, listening, writing, reading and cultural awareness skills. Interactive classroom activities focus on practicing everyday Romanian and ultimately enable students to successfully handle a variety of simple tasks in straightforward social situations.

Enrollment Requirements

Students may not enroll in ROM 101 if credit with C or better earned in ROM 102, ROM 201, ROM 202, ROM 313, ROM 314, ROM 411, ROM 412 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Dr. Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Advances the development of basic speaking, writing, reading and cultural awareness skills. Interactive classroom activities focus on practicing everyday Romanian and ultimately enable students to successfully handle a variety of tasks in straightforward social situations.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ROM 101 with C or better OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Dr. Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Third course in a four-semester sequence that teaches Romanian as a second language at ASU. This module is the first part of an intermediate-level course, emphasizing both oral and written communication through the development of speaking, writing, reading and cultural awareness skills.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ROM 102 with C or better OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Second part of an intermediate-level course placing emphasis on both oral and written communication through the development of speaking, writing, reading and cultural awareness skills.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ROM 201 with C or better OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Dr. Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Represents a fusion of basic theoretical concepts such as globalization, migration, transnationalism and identity with personal narratives in the digital space. Structured in four sections in which students (a) learn a basic theoretical framework of migration studies; (b) listen to and reflect on narratives of migration and identity; (c) learn about digital storytelling; and (d) produce their own digital autobiographical account or interview a migrant. Students engage in a dialogue throughout the course, both in the classroom and in the virtual space (in online discussion forums). In this oral history course, students are at the center of the production of digital stories. At the end of the course students also have the opportunity to provide peer feedback and critically engage in the stories produced in class.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ENG 101, 105, or 108 with C or better; Credit is allowed for only ROM 310 or SLC 310 or SLC 394 (Migration and Identity-Digital Storytelling) OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Develops skills in written Romanian and correct oral expression. Must be taken in sequence with ROM 314.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ROM 201 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Madalina Meirosu

Course Description

Continuation of ROM 313. Develops skills in written Romanian and correct oral expression. Must be taken in sequence.

Enrollment Requirements

Pre-requisite: ROM 313

Instructor(s)

Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Uses video documentaries and movies to explore the way in which cultural values, economic background and human interaction impact and transform societies. Societal changes in Central and Eastern Europe make a good case study for contrasting and comparing with other societies and understanding global trends and issues in today's world.

Enrollment Requirements

Prereq(s): ENG 101, 105, or 107 with C or better; Credit for only ASB 345 or ASB 394 (Cult & Soc Transform) or JUS 343 or JUS 394(Cult & Soc Transform) or ROM 343 or SLC 343 or SLC 394 (Cult & Soc Transform) or SOS 344 or SOS 394 (Cult & Soc Transform)

Instructor(s)

Oana Almasan

Course Description

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Madalina Meirosu

Course Description

Improvement of spoken and composition skills.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ROM 101 with C or better; ROM 201 with C or better; ROM 313 with C or better; ROM 314 with C or better OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Madalina Meirosu

Course Description

Improvement of spoken and composition skills.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s) with C or better: ROM 101; ROM 201; ROM 313; ROM 314; ROM 411

Instructor(s)

Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Vampire stories are not only local phenomena placed in Transylvania, as the common stereotype is incessantly spread. Legends about Dracula and the Count himself may be 'untrue,' but events that took place during the life and reign of the Wallachian Voevode Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad the Impaler, are nonfictional. He ruled during the time of the Ottoman Empire extension to Europe and his fight against the Turks give us thought on the altered understanding of Vlad as a vampire figure. Occurring and recurring in continuously changed environments, Count Dracula affects everyone to the same degree, but still remains as secret and elusive as before, pitted against a vision of mysterious spaces that evoke the faraway castles from Whitby, UK (the origin of Stoker's Dracula), from Bran and Poenari Castles in Transylvania as well as the visions of Jules Verne's Castle of the Carpathians.

Enrollment Requirements

Prereq(s): ENG 101, 105 or 107 w/C or better; Credit for only ROM 442 or SLC 442 or SLC 494 (Drac&Vamp Belief in the Wrld) or SLC 494 (Drac&Vamp Castles) or SLC 494 (Drac&Vamp Lore) or SLC 494 (Drac:Between Myth&Hist) OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Madalina Meirosu

Julieta Paulesc

Oana Almasan

Margaret Parker-Anderies

Course Description

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Madalina Meirosu

Course Description

For more information on this and other study abroad opportunities, visit the Global Education Office website at https://studyabroad.asu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11490

Stepping back in history, you will also learn about the country's ties with the former Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires as well as the USSR that still cast a long shadow over the nations of Central and Eastern Europe. Students will also participate in academic visits to Ceausescu's People's Palace, Dracula's Castle in the Carpathians, Transylvanian Castles, and more!

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

The lines of difference marking the diverse and fascinating discourses of European cultures before and after the end of Soviet hegemony animate and legitimize the Other Europe. It is no longer possible today to speak of Czechoslovak or Serbo-Croatian literature, or of countries previously known as Yugoslavia. Political changes of the past decade, specifically the memorable events of 1988-1991, have revealed not only the unresolved variations and contradictions within a region once viewed as monolithic; they have also generated the emerging field of Post-Totalitarian Cultural Studies.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s) with C or better: ENG 101, 105, 107; ENG 200; one ENG 200- or 300-level literature course OR ENG 101, 105, 107; min 45 hours; Credit is allowed for only CEL 429 or ENG 429 or REL 429 or SLC 429 or THE 429 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

Our purpose in this course is to look at Europe, past and present, and the interdependency of history, religion, politics and political statesmanship, societies and culture through incomplete but indefinitely expandable groupings selected for their transmission dimensions¿a transmission that includes historically effective patterns of cultural power projection and appropriation beyond the national focus. Our goal is to critically evaluate the demographic, cultural, historical, and geopolitical aspects that have gone into the making of Europe. Historical events and movements, as well as philosophical systems, religious structures, and literary/written texts of local contexts take on a new life as they move into the world at large. To understand this new life, we need to look closely at the ways in which history, religion, politics, societies and culture become reframed in the new cultural contexts, offering a window on the past and helping us to examine the present.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s) with C or better: ENG 101, 105, 107; ENG 200; one ENG 200- or 300-level literature course OR ENG 101, 105, 107; min 45 hours; Credit is allowed for only CEL 429 or ENG 429 or REL 429 or SLC 429 or THE 429 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

Today's Russia calls for an understanding of its brutal cultural history and politics, a focus on Lenin, Stalinism and multi-faceted communism, and an examination of the events succeeding the Fall of the Berlin Union, the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc and collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ENG 102, 105, or 108 with C or better; minimum 30 hours OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

We will discuss issues relating to the three empires spread across Central and Eastern Europe, the fault line of the Western, Islam and Orthodox civilizations, the Soviet and Communist Gulag, Stalinist tactics, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, the dramatic execution of the Ceausescus in Romania two centuries to the year after the French guillotined Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and stormed into the Bastille (1789), and the new, emerging democracies of a fragmented Central and Eastern Europe. Finally, we will examine the crisis triggered by BREXIT, the rising of Islam and ascending secularization of Western Europe, the ongoing war in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea (2014), NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe (missile shields in Poland and Romania) and the current war refugees from Ukraine to Europe's central and western countries through the porous borders of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

Represents a fusion of basic theoretical concepts such as globalization, migration, transnationalism and identity with personal narratives in the digital space. Structured in four sections in which students (a) learn a basic theoretical framework of migration studies; (b) listen to and reflect on narratives of migration and identity; (c) learn about digital storytelling; and (d) produce their own digital autobiographical account or interview a migrant. Students engage in a dialogue throughout the course, both in the classroom and in the virtual space (in online discussion forums). In this oral history course, students are at the center of the production of digital stories. At the end of the course students also have the opportunity to provide peer feedback and critically engage in the stories produced in class.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): ENG 101, 105, or 108 with C or better; Credit is allowed for only ROM 310 or SLC 310 or SLC 394 (Migration and Identity-Digital Storytelling) OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Julieta Paulesc

Course Description

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Madalina Meirosu

Course Description

The lines of difference marking the diverse and fascinating discourses of European cultures before and after the end of Soviet hegemony animate and legitimize the Other Europe. It is no longer possible today to speak of Czechoslovak or Serbo-Croatian literature, or of countries previously known as Yugoslavia. Political changes of the past decade, specifically the memorable events of 1988-1991, have revealed not only the unresolved variations and contradictions within a region once viewed as monolithic; they have also generated the emerging field of Post-Totalitarian Cultural Studies.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s) with C or better: ENG 101, 105, 107; ENG 200; one ENG 200- or 300-level literature course OR ENG 101, 105, 107; min 45 hours; Credit is allowed for only CEL 429 or ENG 429 or REL 429 or SLC 429 or THE 429 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

Our purpose in this course is to look at Europe, past and present, and the interdependency of history, religion, politics and political statesmanship, societies and culture through incomplete but indefinitely expandable groupings selected for their transmission dimensions¿a transmission that includes historically effective patterns of cultural power projection and appropriation beyond the national focus. Our goal is to critically evaluate the demographic, cultural, historical, and geopolitical aspects that have gone into the making of Europe. Historical events and movements, as well as philosophical systems, religious structures, and literary/written texts of local contexts take on a new life as they move into the world at large. To understand this new life, we need to look closely at the ways in which history, religion, politics, societies and culture become reframed in the new cultural contexts, offering a window on the past and helping us to examine the present.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s) with C or better: ENG 101, 105, 107; ENG 200; one ENG 200- or 300-level literature course OR ENG 101, 105, 107; min 45 hours; Credit is allowed for only CEL 429 or ENG 429 or REL 429 or SLC 429 or THE 429 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

Our purpose in this course is to look at Europe, past and present, and the interdependency of history, religion, politics and political statesmanship, societies and culture through incomplete but indefinitely expandable groupings selected for their transmission dimensions¿a transmission that includes historically effective patterns of cultural power projection and appropriation beyond the national focus. Our goal is to critically evaluate the demographic, cultural, historical, and geopolitical aspects that have gone into the making of Europe. Historical events and movements, as well as philosophical systems, religious structures, and literary/written texts of local contexts take on a new life as they move into the world at large. To understand this new life, we need to look closely at the ways in which history, religion, politics, societies and culture become reframed in the new cultural contexts, offering a window on the past and helping us to examine the present.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s) with C or better: ENG 101, 105, 107; ENG 200; one ENG 200- or 300-level literature course OR ENG 101, 105, 107; min 45 hours; Credit is allowed for only CEL 429 or ENG 429 or REL 429 or SLC 429 or THE 429 OR Visiting University Student

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

We will discuss issues relating to the three empires spread across Central and Eastern Europe, the fault line of the Western, Islam and Orthodox civilizations, the Soviet and Communist Gulag, Stalinist tactics, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, the dramatic execution of the Ceausescus in Romania two centuries to the year after the French guillotined Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and stormed into the Bastille (1789), and the new, emerging democracies of a fragmented Central and Eastern Europe. Finally, we will examine the crisis triggered by BREXIT, the rising of Islam and ascending secularization of Western Europe, the ongoing war in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea (2014), NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe (missile shields in Poland and Romania) and the current war refugees from Ukraine to Europe's central and western countries through the porous borders of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich

Course Description

We will discuss issues relating to the three empires spread across Central and Eastern Europe, the fault line of the Western, Islam and Orthodox civilizations, the Soviet and Communist Gulag, Stalinist tactics, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, the dramatic execution of the Ceausescus in Romania two centuries to the year after the French guillotined Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and stormed into the Bastille (1789), and the new, emerging democracies of a fragmented Central and Eastern Europe. Finally, we will examine the crisis triggered by BREXIT, the rising of Islam and ascending secularization of Western Europe, the ongoing war in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea (2014), NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe (missile shields in Poland and Romania) and the current war refugees from Ukraine to Europe¿s central and western countries through the porous borders of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

Enrollment Requirements

None

Instructor(s)

Ileana Orlich