Textbooks for Forum-Nexus Courses

Students are responsible for buying (or renting) the required books and having them on the first day of classes. To find the required texts for your class, please reference the course syllabus found on the course catalog page.

We recommend renting or buying the e-textbook version of each book through Amazon (where available) to carry less weight.


Understanding Europe and the European Union

  • John Hirst, The Shortest History of Europe (kindle Amazon)
  • Simon Usherwood & John Pinder, The European Union: A Very Short Introduction (kindle Amazon)

Introduction to European Art and Architecture

  • Dana Arnold, Art History: A Very Short Introduction (kindle Amazon)
  • Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world (kindle Amazon)

Cross-Cultural Communication and Cultural Intelligence

  • Cultural Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village by David Thomas and Kerr Inkson Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 3rd Edition, February 2017 (kindle Amazon)
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, Kindle Edition by Erin Meyer (kindle Amazon)

International Business

  • International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace, 13th ed. by Charles Hill Kindle edition McGraw Hill, 2020 (kindle Amazon)

International Marketing

  • International Marketing, 5th edition by Pervez Ghauri and Philip Cateora Kindle edition McGraw-Hill, 2021 (kindle Amazon)
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