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 […]

This course covers the theories of economic growth and business cycles and the conduct of public policies such as monetary and fiscal policies. The course will particularly focus on theoretical underpinnings of the models. In the first part, theories of exogenous and endogenous growth will be presented. In particular, the first part will cover the […]

Climate change and environmental pollution have caused devastating damages to human lives and ecological systems. Thus, sustainable development has become the focus of policies and economies and increasingly more important to many citizens. We all know the usual sources of pollution such as oil and gas industry and transportation; however, we may not be aware […]

What is a real number? Why are there “more” real numbers than rational numbers when both sets of numbers are infinite? If a sequence does not blow up to infinity, does this mean that it must eventually converge? Is there a function that is continuous everywhere but nowhere differentiable? What is the relationship between continuity […]

What is sex? Why do we have sex? Moreover, how can we study sex anthropologically and ethically? Both in terms of male/female bodily sexes and in terms of sexual play and desire, sex has been a central concern to anthropologists since the very founding of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. This course analyzes […]

The course Advanced Deep Learning aims at providing students with a good understanding of advanced architectures of deep neural networks and algorithms, along with deriving practical AI solutions in various domains such as economics, fintech, computer vision, natural language processing. The course demonstrates mathematical concepts and hands-on skills required for the algorithms that are typically […]

New digital technologies have fundamentally reshaped marketing theory and practice in the last decade alone. This course addresses how technology has changed the modes of communication through which firms engage with consumers. It provides a curated overview of very recent cases and theories related to Big Consumer Data, fine-grained behavioral analytics, new monitoring tools, precise […]