What do you want to learn today?
Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:Introduction to Data Analysis
How do we know which Covid-19 vaccine is better? Which combination of policies could help promoting start-up companies? These questions could be answered with the help of Data analysis. Social scientists need to process survey results. Natural scientists want to analyze experiment’s outcomes. Modern statistical methods and state of the art computing software can help […]
Music Appreciation
The purpose of Music Appreciation is to deepen the student’s awareness and understanding of the different ways human experience is reflected in the musical arts. This is an overview course that introduces students to the elements of music and the engagement of music in historical and global contexts. In this course, students will seek to […]
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
This course introduces students to the basic knowledge on Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a research field that studies how to realize the intelligent human behaviors on a computer. The ultimate goal of AI is to make a computer that can learn, plan, and solve problems autonomously. In this course, student will learn the […]
Advanced Deep Learning
The course Advanced Deep Learning aims at providing students with a good understanding of advanced architectures of deep neural networks and algorithms, along with deriving practical AI solutions in various domains such as economics, fintech, computer vision, natural language processing. The course demonstrates mathematical concepts and hands-on skills required for the algorithms that are typically […]
Disability and Culture
This course is an interdisciplinary study of social understandings of disability, particularly its relationship to categories of sex/sexuality, gender, and identity. Using examples drawn from various points in history, various countries around the world, and various disability categories (psychiatric/psychosocial, intellectual, physical, etc.), students read a variety of texts, including ethnographies, autobiographies, and case studies, in […]
Software Engineering
Large scale systems, including web-based applications, are fundamentally different and more complex than short programs. Software engineering is the study of how to develop large-scale software systems. In this course, students will learn about and practice a variety of interrelated activities and processes, including requirements analysis, system design, documentation, implementation, and testing. Students will also […]
The Anthropology of Social Movements
This course explores what it means to research “social movements” in the discipline of anthropology. We first discuss the history of ideas in anthropological theory surrounding ideas of power and social change: early functionalist approaches presumed static traditions, whereas Marxist, feminist and postcolonial intellectual movements invited anthropologists to theorize structure and agency, power and contradiction, […]
Introduction to Visual Studies
Images function as both a practical artistic medium (in advertisements for example) but also as something to be aesthetically enjoyed. They can also serve as a medium for social change as images can spread awareness about important issues and, in the digital age, reach huge numbers of people regardless of the language they speak. To […]
Introduction to Visual Studies
Images function as both a practical artistic medium (in advertisements for example) but also as something to be aesthetically enjoyed. They can also serve as a medium for social change as images can spread awareness about important issues and, in the digital age, reach huge numbers of people regardless of the language they speak. To […]
Introduction to Art History &Theory
This course introduces students to the tools of the art historian. We will investigate how the discipline of art history began to take shape as early as the 17th century, and focus on the key theoretical investigations and methods of interpretation that have informed the study of art through the present. Such approaches include connoisseurship, […]
Video and Film Production
This video and film production course will introduce students to the basic elements of recording and combining image and sound using various kinds of digital equipment. We will also explore important technical and theoretical concepts associated with the moving image, such as editing, dialectic, representation, and protest. We will cover basic narrative structure and script […]
2D/3D Foundations
2D/3D Foundations is a practice-based studio course introducing the fundamentals of visual language including basic drawing, color theory, and basic modeling with the options to experiment with new digital fabrication technologies in the Maker Space. Students will be introduced to a variety of art media including charcoal, water-based paint, modeling clay and 3D printers with a […]
