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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:Personality Psychology (NEW)
This course will introduce you to the major theories of personality, provide you with in-depth understanding of human nature, what are adaptive and nonadaptive behaviors, how they are shaped, and how they can be changed. You will learn how the key concepts of each theory were developed, and how they are used to explain behaviors. […]
Introduction to Psychological Disorders, Diagnosis & Treatment
This course provides an introduction to psychological distress, with an emphasis on current thinking, debates and research in the field. The course examines the core concepts in defining and classifying mental health difficulties, some of the major psychological disorders across the lifespan, empirically supported approaches to treating these disorders and supporting people towards recovery of […]
Organizational Psychology
Organizational Psychology provides an understanding of how people behave in the workplace and how to deal with some of the issues associated with wellbeing and performance. It covers a range of topics including personality, attitudes, motivation, teams, decision-making and leadership. Organizational Psychology contributes to our understanding by informing several workplace functions, chief among these include […]
Counseling Psychology
This course introduces students to the professional counselor’s career, provides an overview of who the counselor is, the ethics and principles of his work, his work parameters, the skills he needs to do counseling, and different scientific approaches he can choose to guide his work.
Fall 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 […]
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 […]
Research Methods & Statistics
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, […]
Ethnographic Research Methods
“Sitting around a smoking fire of Arctic heather and driftwood, a young boy, Paul, told me the story of his best friend’s death.1 He was racing his snowmobile when he hit a guide wire. It caught him at the neck. Paul had been to the hospital to visit his friend, and his friend had tried […]
Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (NEW)
Technological innovation and scientific progress have been our essential societal elements. Indeed, as Winner notes (1986, p.7), “society […] committed itself to forge ahead full bore with scientific and technological advance.” Yet, despite this societal commitment toward scientific progress and technological innovations, for a long-time, society was only limitedly engaged in a self-reflective process that […]
South Korea: Society and Culture
Since the end of World War II, South Korea has undergone rapid modernization and profound social transformations that have created both opportunities and challenges. Employing an interdisciplinary study of contemporary South Korea from a variety of socio-historical and cultural perspectives, this course examines major social and cultural events and issues in contemporary South Korea. Topics […]
Women and Politics
Asian women are underrepresented in politics and governance despite notable gains exemplified by the rise of prominent women leaders. A prevailing perception regards Asian women – especially those highly educated or from powerful families – as socio-politically as well or even better than their male counterparts. Yet there is little understanding of the history, nature, […]
Cultural and Intellectual Foundation of Vietnamese Literary Chinese I
Vietnamese Literary Chinese is an important part of the formation of Vietnamese culture and ideology. Vietnamese people were employing and localizing Chinese scripts and literary Chinese throughout more than 10 centuries (from the 10th to the beginning of the 20th centuries). As the official written language of the country for the composition of a wide […]
