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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:Engineering Exploration: Sink or Swim (NEW)
The project-based course guides students to perform engineering analysis through real-world examples. Describing physical systems with mathematical models can speed up the engineering design process as well as enhance the overall quality of the final products. Throughout 3 major projects (pop-pop engine boat, mouse trap car, and ninja robot), students will apply quantitative engineering analysis […]
Product Development (NEW)
The course is designed to develop students’ product mindset and deeper understanding of what it takes to bring a product from idea, to launch, to future iteration. The students will begin by defining the problem a product will solve as they map the customer’s journey and articulate user personas. They will have the opportunity to […]
Intelligent Robot Studio: From Theory to Practice (NEW)
Robots have been a part of our daily life for decades with numerous applications ranging from home automation and medical assistance to smart factory and space exploration. The aim of this course is to develop an understanding of the basic concepts of robotics, focusing on the construction and programming of autonomous mobile robots. The course […]
Sensors, Measurement and Analysis
This course cultivates the process of experimental investigation in the context of engineering systems. Students will work both individually and in team to investigate the measurement of fundamental properties of the physical world like temperature, pressure, and sound intensity to design and fabricate simple electronic sensors that allow them to measure these properties in an […]
Global History Lab
This course takes you on a voyage into the past. Like many of the explorers you will meet along the way, you will travel across time from when Chinggis Khan’s armies conquered Bejing and Baghdad in the 13th century and the Black Death scoured the Eurasian world to the global nomads and pandemics of our […]
US in the World
The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked the entry of the United States into a new era of global engagement, as it administered overseas territories, spread its liberal ideology and socio-economic vision, and reframed its conceptions of national and international security. Since then, it has become the leading global power, whose foreign policy not only disproportionately […]
The Global Vietnam War I
From the Second World War to Vietnam’s 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 […]
History of International Communism
From the utopian communities of 19th century America to the eighteen different Communist Parties contesting democratic elections in Nepal today; from the brave women warriors of the Filipino and Malayan Communist Parties to the fiercely independent Global South leaders who charted unique courses for their Communist Parties and countries, this course invites students to take […]
Asian Borderlands
We tend to think of the world in terms of nations, kingdoms, and empires. What does the world look like from the margins between states? The field of borderland studies puts those margins at the center of inquiry. In this course, we will learn how historically “fuzzy” borderlands in the Asia Pacific region became precisely […]
Race and Empire
This advanced course begins by exploring the early racialization of unfree labor in the Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic world in the years leading up to the Columbian encounter, including precedents such as fifteenth-century Portuguese activity off the coast of Africa, the Spanish invasion of the Canary Islands, and the late Iberian Reconquest in general. It […]
Introductory Biology
Biology as a field is advancing very rapidly and this course attempts to tackle some of the questions that are relevant to the current day and age by providing the knowledge and skills necessary. This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and principles common to all living organisms and their interaction with the environment. […]
Environmental Sciences (new)
This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of the science behind the real world environmental issues and the basis of creating and maintaining sustainable ecosystems. In this course, students will study the fascinating feedback loop between the environments and living organisms, including human, through a variety of aspects in cluding geology, oceanography, biology, chemistry, physics, and […]
