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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:Cross Cultural Leadership & Management (NEW)
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 for Vietnam Studies (collaborated with VinUni)
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, Systems and Control (NEW)
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 […]
Transatlantic Fashions (NEW)
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, […]
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (NEW)
This 300-level course provides students with an evidence-based theory to understand human nature. the roots, manifestations, and consequences of nonadaptive behaviors according to the theory of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Through multiple exercises of conceptualization using fictional and real-life cases, students will learn to make simple assessments, construct basic treatment plans with suitable intervention strategies and […]
How to Share Your Stories on the Silver Screen: Film Production in Contemporary Vietnam
This course offers both practical knowledge and screenwriting training. In the practical knowledge section, we will be examining the current state of film production in Vietnam (from the beginning of the 21st century until the present day) by analyzing several popular production models: state funded films, films partially subsidized and commissioned by the government, privately […]
Computer Vision (NEW)
Computer vision is gaining its applications from facial recognition, human pose tracking, and interactive entertainment to medical imaging and autonomous vehicles. This course provides students with fundamental concepts in computer vision including image formation, camera modelling, feature extraction, motion estimation and tracking, and classification. It also introduces basic methods for applications such as camera calibration, […]
American Drama since 1900 (NEW)
This course introduces students to the modern and contemporary American stage since 1900. Students will read/watch canonical plays by Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, and Arthur Miller, etc., and learn to appreciate theatrical and literary devices and American dramaturgy of the 20th and the early 21st centuries. Besides the selected canonical plays, students will […]
Spring Seminar
The Student Research Workshops aims to develop students independent research skills to prepare for the Capstone, write a proposal for their Capstone project as well as future research projects. There will be 12 weekly meetings, 90 minutes each. There will be four sections running in parallel by each faculty listed above. Students can participate in […]
The Legacy of the War in Retrospect II (in collaboration with University of Utah)
In this second semester segment of our course, students will have the opportunity to develop and disseminate novel research projects which examine several legacies of the American/Vietnam War. Building upon Fall semester’s “deep dive” into key historical events of the American/Vietnam War, as well as existing scholarly and creative interdisciplinary works examining war legacies from […]
Atlantic World (NEW)
This course explores the beginnings of globalization and the coming together of all the worlds populated continents, but particularly Europe, Africa, and the Americas, the continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean, in the wake of the Columbian encounter of 1492. Special themes include legal changes, unfree and semi-free labor, religion and secularization, cultural hybridity, gender and […]
Consumption, Modernity and Global Queer Identities (NEW)
Since its first episode aired in 2009, RuPauls Drag Race has become a global phenomenon. Not without criticism, the show has been at the center of many debates surrounding the conversation about queerness, authenticity, and the commodification of queer identity. In an age where queerness, like the show, is as ubiquitous McDonalds corporatized branding of […]
