Students will discover how the gambling industry operates, analyze many of the popular games and explore the phenomenon and impact of commercial gaming on the economy. Students must be 18 years of age or older. This is designed to bring together the disciplines of international business and e-commerce. We will discuss current trends, issues that hinder or facilitate trade across countries and strategies that work in different environments. The course will consist of visits to local and multinational companies in Paris.
Students are responsible for making airfare arrangements.
This course will examine the interplay of time, space and knowledge, and the manner in which these factors impact daily life. Based on the work of Tibetan lama and philosopher Tarthang Tulku, TKK is a secular, non-ideological approach to experience that emphasizes the sustained questioning of personal and cultural assumptions about the nature of self and world. The course will consist of individual and group engagement, individual readings and group discussion sessions in which participants share and explore their perspectives on the reading and exercises. Classes are held at the institute. Students will stay and have their meals at the Nyingma Institute, as well as participate in the daily community activities, lectures and discussions.