Course Catalogue

New digital technologies have fundamentally reshaped marketing theory and practice in the last decade alone. This course addresses how technology has changed the modes of communication through which firms engage with consumers. It provides a curated overview of very recent cases and theories related to Big Consumer Data, fine-grained behavioral analytics, new monitoring tools, precise […]

Educational policy is increasingly based on ideas, theories, and empirical research from economics. Accountability, school choice, charter schools, vouchers, privatization, merit pay for teachers, and school funding are just a few noteworthy examples. This course will explore how economists think about education in general as well as these specific policies and the underlying economic theories. […]

This course introduces students to the major theories of economic growth and development and their applications in the context of globalization. Students will learn the models that economists use to study economic growth, trade, migration, and cross-border investment and whether their predictions manifest themselves in practice. Students will develop both abstract theorizing and data analysis […]

The purpose of this course is to provide students Majoring in Psychology with a supervised, professional level service and work experience. Students undertake an intentional and structured experiential learning experience in a way that mutually benefits the student-intern and the agency or placement site. Students apply, from their academic knowledge in the classroom, foundational knowledge […]

The course covers principles and techniques for creative design of mechanical machines with engineering specifications and user requirements. From designing with a solid modeling computer aided design (CAD) package, students will then take into consideration different factors (actuators, mechanism, drivetrain, materials, manufacturing processes, and so on) that influence the machine lifetime. Students are expected to […]

The course provides basic knowledge about Electronics, from passive to active devices, from fundamental to intermediate level circuits. Simulation tools will be used in conjunction with theory, so that student can quickly adopt theory leant into circuit simulation. The simulation result then is applied to real circuit implementation in class projects for hands-on experience and […]

Signals are everywhere. By definition, a signal is any observable change in quantity over space or time. It could help observers to obtain information about a phenomenon. In nature, signals can be actions done by organisms to alert other organisms or sounds or motions by animals to alert other animals of danger or food. Advances […]

Computer vision is gaining its applications from facial recognition, human pose tracking, and interactive entertainment to medical imaging and autonomous vehicles. This course provides students with fundamental concepts in computer vision including image formation, camera modelling, feature extraction, motion estimation and tracking, and classification. It also introduces basic methods for applications such as camera calibration, […]

This course explores the beginnings of globalization and the coming together of all the worlds populated continents, but particularly Europe, Africa, and the Americas, the continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean, in the wake of the Columbian encounter of 1492. Special themes include legal changes, unfree and semi-free labor, religion and secularization, cultural hybridity, gender and […]

This course covers East Asian History from 1600 to the present with a focus is on the tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries, when China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam underwent rapid social and political transformations in response to unprecedented internal and external pressures. Our goal is to develop a deep understanding of key historical ˜moments, such […]

From the Second World War to Vietnams 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 […]

This course will allow students of history, economics and the social sciences to reflect on the histories of their own disciplines as they emerged out of the early modern university and attempted to grapple with the new forms of economic activity which have since the nineteenth century been generalized as “capitalism.” It will allow them […]