Course Catalogue

This course is designed to help students learn to make systematic observations, derive scientific questions, form hypotheses, carry out research, analyze data, interpret results, and report findings. This course draws from foundational research skills first introduced in Quantitative Reasoning and Scientific Inquiry, and aims to further develop student competence in various research approaches (e.g., basic, […]

The Independent Research Seminar is an optional summer follow-up course to the spring course Fulbright History Lab. It gives students the opportunity to carry out the history research projects they designed in the spring. The Independent Research Seminar provides a well-structured, but self-implemented research experience for first- and second- year students interested in pursuing History […]

Is climate change real? If so, to what extent? What are the factors causing it? And what are we willing to give up to stop it? This introductory course offers students a first touch in economics as an economist, not a student. Rather than consider hypothetical situations related to climate change, we will actually compute […]

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 introductory course in acting trains the student actor in the beginning skills of the craft in order to give them practical understanding and ability that can be used effectively in the professional Vietnamese entertainment industry. The course demystifies the craft of acting by breaking it down into its basic, practicable components, including proper body/mind […]

Scientific Inquiry unlocks the door to discovery and explores how humans acquired our fundamental knowledge of the sciences. By engaging foundational texts and practices from across various scientific disciplines, students will understand the various processes involved in acquiring scientific knowledge and how these processes are applied to contemporary scientific questions. Students will critically analyze the […]

This course introduces students to the fundamental intuitions of causal inference and the associated econometrics toolkit. Students will develop their abilities to understand causal relationships and evaluate such relationships between economic variables using data and econometric software. Illustrative examples from policymaking, business, academic research, and daily life will inform and motivate theoretical questions in the […]

A big part of the world around us and our own bodies are made up of organic materials. Such amazing diversity is made possible by just a few chemical elements and governed by several chemical rules. Organic Chemistry provides a study of these fundamental rules and the main types of organic materials – how they […]

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 […]