Course Catalogue

What makes life worth living? Which people are the happiest? Can money buy happiness and wellbeing? How can we maximize our wellbeing? This innovative course is designed to answer these questions and more by examining the fundamentals of happiness and wellbeing. You will also have an opportunity to develop a range of evidence-based practical skills […]

This course cross-lists with Vietnam Studies. It will allow students to replace Vietnam in the context of Southeast Asia, explore its relationship with its neighbors and new perspectives of its modern historical development. It will help Vietnam Studies students understand regional differences in culture, cultural values, social attitudes, and approaches to history and politics.This course […]

The title of the course suggests two important themes that will orient our discussions and readings: First, how does literature reflect and represent the super/natural world? Second, how do those representations differ across cultures and geographies? What does that tell us about human relationships to the world around us, as well as how heterogenous those […]

This course will brief the key processes of hydrology and meteorology, two intertwined Earth-science disciplines that focus on the terrestrial water cycle. The students will first be introduced to the fundamental sciences governing the climate and hydrological systems, represented by a wide range of variables such as precipitation, wind, air pressure, evaporation, (sub)surface water, and […]

With its expanding economy and ever-deeper international integration China is playing an increasingly significant role in the world affairs. Under such circumstances it is nearly impossible to foresee further international developments without understanding how China approaches the world and what shapes its behavior. How can we make sense of how China makes its foreign policy […]

This video and film production course will introduce students to the basic elements of recording and combining image and sound using various kinds of digital equipment. We will also explore important technical and theoretical concepts associated with the moving image, such as editing, dialectic, representation, and protest. We will cover basic narrative structure and script […]

The course provides basic knowledge about Electronics, from passive to active devices, from fundamental to intermediate level circuits. Simulation tools will be used in conjunction with theory, so that student can quickly adopt theory leant into circuit simulation. The simulation result then is applied to real circuit implementation in class projects for hands-on experience and […]

This course introduces students to the history and development of the American short story since the beginning of the 19th century. Students will learn about the literary movements, such as Romanticism/ Transcendentalism, Realism and Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, and how to contextualize the assigned readings within their specific historical, cultural, socio-economic, and political contexts. American […]

Cross Cultural Leadership and Management provides an understanding of organizational psychology in a global environment. It furnishes students with basic cross cultural awareness and skills to lead teams and organizations across borders in a changing global organizational environment. The course explores conceptual frameworks for systematically understanding the concept of culture, cultural differences, and the convergence […]

Applied Digital Humanities in Vietnam Studies Contexts is specifically designed for and offered to Fulbright students who successfully completed the first part of this course taught during the Fall Semester 2022. By nature, what to be offered during the upcoming semester is an applied course, in which students will have the chance to conduct their […]

Signals are everywhere. By definition, a signal is any observable change in quantity over space or time. It could help observers to obtain information about a phenomenon. In nature, signals can be actions done by organisms to alert other organisms or sounds or motions by animals to alert other animals of danger or food. Advances […]

This course examines the rise of the modern fashion system through key texts across the French, British, and American literary traditions from the 19th-century to present. Through texts, both fiction and non-fiction, we chart the emergence of the ˜modern fashion system and learn how fashion mediates our understanding of a literary text. By the 1860s, […]