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Business, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership

Workers Without Borders: Negotiating Family & Identity

Jeanette Smith

Thurs., 11:00P - 12:15P

In this course, we will examine the conditions that drive migrant workers to the United States as well as their experience in the country and how it informs their concepts of identity and self. The course is intentionally interdisciplinary and will incorporate debates from history, sociology, anthropology, public policy, and more. We will not be limiting our explorations to the United States as this class will incorporate a collaborative online international learning (COIL) component. Students will work directly with their peers at a university in another country on a project related to the class content.

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Practice Philanthropy: A Call to Action

Fang Shu

Tues., 2:00PM-4:30PM (Hybrid)

This course has been designed for students who intend to make an impact and make the world a better place using their own philanthropic resources.

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Innovation, Sustainability, and Startups

Barbara Cotto Jimenez

Tues., 10:00A - 12:30P

This course focuses on the practices and processes that innovators use to ideate, test, and implement innovation effectively.

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21st Century Media, the Metaverse and Web 3.0

Robert Hacker

Tues., 9:00A - 11:45A

In each form and in the totality, media is best understood in a 3-part context that integrates economics, technology and culture. According to the international consulting firm McKinsey, information doubles every eighteen months. Much of this information now comes to us through digital media—social media, video, art, music and advertising. This course provides the opportunity to develop the multidisciplinary skills required to succeed in the current century using media topics as a subject matter familiar to all of us. Each week this course explores a different form of media in order to understand the insights that shape the business model, technology platform and cultural changes brought about by the particular media.

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Creativity and Innovation via Design Thinking

Gustavo Roque

Online (Spring)

This course will introduce you to the Design Thinking methodology for creating and innovating. However, the only way to learn Design Thinking is by doing Design Thinking. Therefore, this course will be light on theory and heavy in practice.

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A Harvard Business Simulation Approach to Sustainable Development

Hortensia Sampedro

Wed., 2:00P-3:15P (Online Live)

This course is suitable for Honors students from all disciplines interested in applying interdisciplinary, practical solutions to global problems. We will study practical approaches to the second nine (9) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We will use Harvard Business Simulations to gain experiential learning.

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Lessons in Life and Leadership

Modesto Maidique

Wed., 2:00P - 4:45P

This course provides you with the tools to examine your own leadership profile and help build upon your innate talents.

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The Miami-Israel Impact Lab

Andi Wolfer and Aaron Kaplowitz

Mon., 1:00P-3:30P

The Impact Lab will volunteer at three leading non-profit organizations in Miami and analyze each one's operations. Students will gain real-world experience working together as "consultants" and devise actionable plans that bring value to the organizations and innovative solutions to the community.

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The Top of Your Game: Exploring Paths to Personal Excellence & Power Skills

Amber Webber

Online (Spring)

What separates the top professionals, athletes, musicians, innovators, creators, analysts, and thinkers from others in their disciplines? What are the habits that allow them to perform at the top of their games again and again? Explore cases from diverse fields and interdisciplinary research to build a personalized plan for performing at the top of your game and striving for personal excellence in your career.

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Sustainable Development: Framework, Goals and Implementation

Maria Ilcheva

Online

This course will examine the relationship between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), community problems and current sustainable and social solutions. The course will explore how various societal actors are responding to and implementing the SDGs.

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Digital Legacies

Maikel Alendy

Online (Spring)

Digital Legacies, is a course dedicated to evaluating the disruption the “Smart-phone Era” and the Internet of Things have had on our holistic living experience. Students will regularly look to the value of design and the art of digital manipulation. They will then construct a digital campaign of their own promoting either a Topic, Idea, Movement, Object, or Business of their choosing.

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