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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:The Anthropology of Law (NEW)
What is Law? Why do we have it? How can we study it? While the concept of law exists across societies, its form and meaning change “ law can be found in courtrooms, classrooms, border crossings, or the magical spells cast by witch doctors. This course looks at law from an anthropological perspective, investigating: (1) […]
How to become a writer: lessons from Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese writers
Currently, creative writing is widely applied in many fields. Additionally, creative writing is also an essential subject for those who want to become professional writers. This course accumulates many skills, including reading and analyzing literary works, observations, research, along with in-depth interviews. The core of the course is to help students develop their creative writing […]
Introduction to Comparative Politics: Bringing in Vietnam
This course aims to form the foundation for a broad theoretical and empirical knowledge of the concerns of the field of comparative politics. We will investigate the central themes, theories, concepts, and questions of the contemporary study of comparative politics and explore the main theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches to the study of Vietnamese politics. […]
Analysis of Vietnamese identities through contemporary Vietnam cinema
Identity is not merely taken for granted as gender, race or nationality as in most of the textbooks having been written on this issue. It could as well be deeply latent inside the personal consciousness or at the hidden corner of the social collective mind. How will those quasi-transparent and subterranean features look like when […]
Theory & Method in Vietnam Studies (previously: Intro to Vietnam Studies)
This course introduces students to several crucial aspects of Vietnam Studies as an inter-/trans-disciplinary field and a part of regional studies. Students will first learn what “transdisciplinarity” and “area/regional studies” are, what regional studies we are talking about when talking about Vietnam, and why they are playing important roles in our understanding of the country […]
Applied Digital Humanities for Vietnam Studies (collaborated with VinUni)
Applied Digital Humanities in Vietnam Studies Contexts is specifically designed for and offered to Fulbright students who successfully completed the first part of this course taught during the Fall Semester 2022. By nature, what to be offered during the upcoming semester is an applied course, in which students will have the chance to conduct their […]
How to Share Your Stories on the Silver Screen: Film Production in Contemporary Vietnam
This course offers both practical knowledge and screenwriting training. In the practical knowledge section, we will be examining the current state of film production in Vietnam (from the beginning of the 21st century until the present day) by analyzing several popular production models: state funded films, films partially subsidized and commissioned by the government, privately […]
The Legacy of the War in Retrospect II (in collaboration with University of Utah)
In this second semester segment of our course, students will have the opportunity to develop and disseminate novel research projects which examine several legacies of the American/Vietnam War. Building upon Fall semester’s “deep dive” into key historical events of the American/Vietnam War, as well as existing scholarly and creative interdisciplinary works examining war legacies from […]
Money and Banking
The course engages with various questions and topics related to financial markets, banking system and monetary economics. In the first part of the course, students will learn the meaning, the behaviors, and the term structure of interest rates. They also explore the fundamental theories that underlie the valuation of stocks by examining the theory of […]
Independent Research Seminar
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 […]
Statistical Learning
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 […]
Economic Methods
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, […]
