The American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt
http://www.aucegypt.edu/

Cell Biology

This course is an evolutionary survey of cell specialization of microbes, fungi, plants, and animals. It includes the correlation of microanatomical structures with cellular function and differentiation, teratology, and histology. Laboratories include the identification of basic cell structures and inclusions, tissues and organs, and microscopic preparations. ...
 

Principles of classification, identification, nomenclature, cladistics, and descriptions of protista, plants, and animals. The taxa of higher levels of selected organisms. Laboratory involves the comparative approach using both specimens and field observations of selected species of plants and animals....
 

Explores the public and personal health infrastructure with a focus on Egypt. The course has an optional service-learning component in which students become aware of their role in community health issues. Information will be present in the form of classroom discussions, debates, field trips, and videos....
 

Based on the diversity of life: viruses, bacteria, protistans, fungi, plants and animals are studied. The course concentrates on development, structure, and function of plants and animals, population genetics, ecology and the environment, and animal behavior. Laboratories introduce students to systematics, evolution, population dynamics, and modeling of populations of organisms and ecosystems. ......
 

Introduction to principles of biology, organic and inorganic molecules, membranes and internal structures of cells, photosynthesis, respiration, DNA structure and function, genetic engineering, and the different tissues and organ systems. Laboratories introduce the student to basic principles of plant and animal structure and function and builds on the principles of inheritance to the structure......
 

It covers the general aspects of biology including life manifestations and needs, the cell as a unit of life, its structure and function, dynamics of energy utilization and assembly into tissues and organs, physiological processes, and ecological relations....
 

This course examines basic biology principles as they relate to environmental problems and their solutions. Ecological problems and their underlying current environmental dilemmas will be considered. Depletion and pollution of natural resources and their biological consequences are also studied. ...
 

A survey of the development of style and content in twentieth-century painting and sculpture. The formal, conceptual, and expressive concerns of artists will be studied within their historical contexts. Formal and textual analysis will be practiced through written exercises....
 

An introduction to basic photography combining the technical aspects of processing and developing film with an understanding of lighting and composition, and informed by the history of photography. ...
 

An introduction to the historical development of the visual arts in the western and selected non-western traditions from prehistoric beginnings until the late medieval periods. Concepts such as formal analysis and cultural context will be explored through written exercises. ...
 

An introduction to the fundamental elements of making and understanding sculpture, within historical and contemporary contexts. Concepts such as three-dimensional form, mass, volume, and drawing are explored through a hands-on, project-based approach...
 

An introduction to the technical, aesthetic, and historical aspects of painting in a variety of mediums. Formal concepts of composition, pictorial space and color interaction are applied to subjects such as still-life landscape and the figure. ...
 

An introduction to the technical and observational skills of drawing in a variety of mediums. Concepts of line, value, and composition will be explored in objective, non-objective, still-life, and landscape drawing exercises. ...
 

An introduction to fundamental principles of two-dimensional design, including composition, visual language, and colore theory. Students will explore visual communication tools, creative processes, and visual theory. The course involves lectures, discussions, and class exercises. ...
 

A survey of the origins of Jurisprudence in Islam and its development up to the founding of the four schools. The course covers the main sources of fiqh, Qur’an and Sunna, together with ijma�and qiyas, and the study of the growth of the Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi’i and Hanbali schools....
 

Contribution of anthropology to the comparative study of politics. Politics in hunting-and-gathering and horticultural societies. Non-Western (“primitive� states. Peasant-state relations. The politics of social change in developing areas. Emphasis on theoretical perspectives....
 

Examination of how anthropology has approached the study of economic practices, ideas and institutions in different cultural contexts. By following the main theoretical paradigms in economic anthropology, the course will address the cultural assumptions and power dynamics in defining what an economy is and how people go about producing, consuming and exchanging goods, commodities, gifts, servi......
 

Contemporary theories of development as they apply to and illuminate the problems of development in underdeveloped countries. The approach will be interdisciplinary....
 

Comparative study of religion in culture and society. The course will explore a variety of theories and controversies in the anthropological understanding of religion. Emphasis is on how religion may restrict but also empower believers, inform their social identities, and intersect with political and economic practices and institutions in a globalizing world....
 

Logic and philosophy of qualitative methodology in anthropology and other social sciences. The process of research design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results and final write-up is elaborated with specific reference to research conducted in Egypt, the wider Arab and Middle Eastern worlds and elsewhere. Discussion of the politics and ethics of fieldwork, including protection ......
 

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