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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023: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 […]
Social Inquiry and the Social Sciences
What is society, and why do we have it? Humans are unique among living beings in the scale and complexity of our social formations. Through society, we make the worlds we live in – we cultivate identities, families, language, morality, governments, wealth, religions, and so forth. Society makes these things and makes them meaningful; society can turn a […]
Money and Banking
The course engages with various questions and topics related to financial markets, banking system and monetary economics. In the first part of the course, students will learn the meaning, the behaviors, and the term structure of interest rates. They also explore the fundamental theories that underlie the valuation of stocks by examining the theory of […]
Modern East Asia
This course covers East Asian History from 1600 to the present with a focus is on the tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries, when China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam underwent rapid social and political transformations in response to unprecedented internal and external pressures. Our goal is to develop a deep understanding of key historical ˜moments, such […]
