Course Catalogue

This course takes you on a voyage into the past. Like many of the explorers you will meet along the way, you will travel across time from when Chinggis Khan’s armies conquered Bejing and Baghdad in the 13th century and the Black Death scoured the Eurasian world to the global nomads and pandemics of our […]

We introduce the key and basic concepts for developing statistical thinking which is one of the fundamental skills to analyze data, to derive knowledge from data, and to make predictions and decisions. The course will cover the following key concepts and methods of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics: data collection, sampling design, summarizing and visualizing […]

This course offers an introduction to Champa and Cambodian history. As Vietnam, Cambodia and Champa histories are inextricably linked, this course seeks to give students an overview of the history, kingship, society of the two Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms of Champa and Cambodia. It will also highlights their major political, social and religious changes. This introduction to […]

This course exposes students to a wide array of issues encountered in modern Vietnam, ranging from socio-cultural, politico-economic aspects to questions of nationalism, international relations, and globalization when examining the country in its regional and global contexts. Throughout the course, students are introduced to basic concepts in social sciences and humanities that will allow them […]

We learn across the Fulbright Core how transformations have happened in human history “ transformations in thought, in social structures, and in individual lives. We also see how transformations happen in nature and how human intervention transforms the natural world. But what about transformation that humans create through intentional design? This might be a new […]

This course examines key moments in the global history of thought through the lens of textual analysis. Over the course of the semester, students will develop their written rhetorical, reading, and critical thinking skills. Summary In order to change the world, it is worthwhile to look at “change,” both as a historical fact and a […]

The course Algorithm aims to provide students with techniques to design an algorithm, prove its correctness, and analyze its efficiency. For algorithm design, three common techniques (divide-and-conquer, greedy, and dynamic programming) are introduced and illustrated by common problems in practice. For algorithm correctness proof, the students will learn how to use loop variants and mathematical […]

The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked the entry of the United States into a new era of global engagement, as it administered overseas territories, spread its liberal ideology and socio-economic vision, and reframed its conceptions of national and international security. Since then, it has become the leading global power, whose foreign policy not only disproportionately […]

Many business or financial processes are occurring randomly every moment, but business managers or investors need to monitor them constantly as well as predict their future short-term and long-term movements to propose appropriate action plans. For instance, stock investors always want to update their current stock values as well as the future stock price movement […]

An interdisciplinary field, Digital Humanities (hereafter DH) has world-widely shown its effectiveness and efficiency of the cooperation between the humanities (and social sciences) and computer science, opening new possibilities for innovate research based on big-data. In Vietnam, several intriguing projects founded on DH applications have been carried out by Vietnamese museums, cultural heritage preservation offices, […]

This course exposes students to a wide array of issues encountered in modern Vietnam, ranging from socio-cultural, politico-economic aspects to questions of nationalism, international relations, and globalization when examining the country in its regional and global contexts. Throughout the course, students are introduced to basic concepts in social sciences and humanities that will allow them […]

How do we develop software that solves problems efficiently and reliably? How do we write programs that work correctly and can be refactored and improved over time? This course continues and expands on content from Computer Science I, with a greater focus on theoretical concepts, abstraction, and larger programs. Topics include object-oriented programming, unit testing […]