Course Catalogue

This course explores the genre of ethnographic film—its historical emergence, methodological innovations, and theoretical contribution to both anthropology and art. The course charts the evolution of ethnographic films from their initial concerns with representing the “Other” to their shifted attention to reflexivity and the politics of knowledge production across cultural boundaries. Throughout the course, we […]

The purpose of Music Appreciation is to deepen the student’s awareness and understanding of the different ways human experience is reflected in the musical arts. This is an overview course that introduces students to the elements of music and the engagement of music in historical and global contexts. In this course, students will seek to […]

This course introduces students to the microeconomic analysis toolkit. Using a combination of graphs and mathematical models, students will develop their abilities to analyze and evaluate the outcomes in markets due to the decision making of individuals and organizations. Applications in business, policy, and everyday life will be used to bridge the gap between theory […]

Smart technologies are changing our life and our societies on many levels and continue to give rise to new developments, and new smart and smarter devices. To shape the future, we need creative and interdisciplinary minds with knowledge of science and technology to develop, implement smart technological solutions in our modern society. The most ubiquitous […]

This course provides students with practical programming and mathematical skills to solve popular problems in finance such as building a good personal finance plan, effectively managing investment portfolios, and pricing financial derivatives. Through the course, students will sense the amazing power of compounded interests in accumulating a small amount of money to a much bigger […]

This multidisciplinary course focuses on the role of technology and innovation in the development and conduct of military conflict. Starting with a historical narrative, the course aims to highlight how and in which role technology and innovation have influenced military conflict. This section aims to highlight how military conflict, throughout the ages, has changed in […]

This course introduces students to the basic knowledge on Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a research field that studies how to realize the intelligent human behaviors on a computer. The ultimate goal of AI is to make a computer that can learn, plan, and solve problems autonomously. In this course, student will learn the […]

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 […]