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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:Applied Social Psychology
Applied Social Psychology provides students with an understanding of how knowledge produced in the subdiscipline can be used to better understand aspects of everyday life and to address broader social problems and issues. These include intimate relationships, sexuality, leadership, work, teams, environmental problems, popular culture, body image, digital gaming, social media, addiction and the conflict […]
Cross Cultural Leadership & Management (NEW)
Cross Cultural Leadership and Management provides an understanding of organizational psychology in a global environment. It furnishes students with basic cross cultural awareness and skills to lead teams and organizations across borders in a changing global organizational environment. The course explores conceptual frameworks for systematically understanding the concept of culture, cultural differences, and the convergence […]
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (NEW)
This 300-level course provides students with an evidence-based theory to understand human nature. the roots, manifestations, and consequences of nonadaptive behaviors according to the theory of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Through multiple exercises of conceptualization using fictional and real-life cases, students will learn to make simple assessments, construct basic treatment plans with suitable intervention strategies and […]
Spring 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 a […]
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, […]
Introduction to Political Science (NEW)
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.
Theories of Culture (NEW)
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 […]
Ethics and Moral Philosophy
What is ethics? And why should we care about it? Simply defined, ethics can be understood as a system of moral principles. As stated by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, We are not concerned to know what goodness is but how to become good [people], since otherwise our inquiry would be useless. This course introduces […]
Ethnographic Film: History, Theory, and Practice
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 […]
Technology, Innovation and Military Conflict (NEW)
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 […]
The Anthropology of Sex (NEW)
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 […]
