Course Catalogue

From the Second World War to Vietnams withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989, a series of multifaceted and interconnected conflicts gripped the Indochina peninsula. During this timespan, the wars in Vietnam evolved from anti-colonial struggle to superpower confrontation and were central to the decades-long global encounter known as the Cold War. As the struggle for Vietnam […]

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 introduces students to the academic discipline of political science and seeks to introduces to them the most important (theoretical) concepts, constructs and debates in political science, as well units of analysis. Furthermore, it will highlight how politics plays a fundamental role in shaping of society.

Machine learning (ML) has enjoyed tremendous successes in a wide variety of applications. Most notable are computer vision and natural language processing. Those accomplishments are thanks to its solid foundations in statistics, computer science and mathematics. The next frontier for ML is business and/or finance where ML’s applications are in an early stage. Successful ML […]

This course introduces students to the study of philanthropy. This introductory course is divided into two parts. The first part of this course focuses on philanthropic giving while the second part focuses on philanthropic effectiveness. Key questions to be examined in part one include why and how people give (time, money, skills, etc.). Key questions […]

This course will allow students of history, economics and the social sciences to reflect on the histories of their own disciplines as they emerged out of the early modern university and attempted to grapple with the new forms of economic activity which have since the nineteenth century been generalized as “capitalism.” It will allow them […]

What is the math behind radioactive dating, where a radioactive substance can be used to estimate the ages of ancient objects? How long does it take to cool down a room by 5 degrees? Differential equations are the mathematical language to answer these questions. They are also the language to describe the laws of nature […]

This course examines a genealogy of social theory as it has engaged with ethnography in the study of culture and society in the discipline of anthropology. We consider how various philosophers and thinkers have reflected on what it means to be human, and read qualitative ethnographies that investigate how humans are shaped by and adapt […]

Rigorous economic analysis requires the use of statistical and mathematical methods. This course introduces basic concepts and methods of statistical analysis and fundamental rules of mathematics used in economic analysis. Students will be exposed to a wide range of economic problems and the methods to solve them. Topics to be covered will range from calculus, […]

History is everything because everything has a history. This experiential gateway course gives majors and non-majors the chance to explore the tools of historical research and learn what it means to do history. Students will study the roots of historical thinking in Europe and Asia, read and critique the fields foundational texts, challenge their assumptions […]

How can Google maps find the fastest path for a trip between two locations? How can an admission system match applicants to the best-suited university based on their preference and exam results? The answers to these questions arise from the study of Discrete Mathematics, which is a branch of Mathematics that deals with entities like […]