Technology and Innovation

Practical Strategies for UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)1

Hortensia Sampedro

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

This is a two-semester seminar-style course suitable for intellectually curious Honors students from all disciplines interested in exploring practical strategies for sustainable development. We will discuss forward-looking frameworks to address the 21stcentury issues which hopefully will serve you for a lifetime.

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Digital Media in the 21st Century

Kiesha Moodie

Online (Yearlong)

This course will introduce students to digital Advertising through Adwords and Programmatic Ad Buying.

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SoftBank Startup Operator School

Daniela Cadena

Tues., 12:30P - 3:00P

This course teaches entrepreneurship and innovation focused on startups. During the duration of the course students will be exposed to entrepreneurship skills and mindsets that enhance the student’s ability to be effective in startups and the corporate world.

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Quantum Narratology and Other Curiosities: Intersections of Science and Storytelling

Rhona Trauvitch

Thurs., 11:00A -12:15P (Online Live)

This course considers how certain concepts in the fields of quantum mechanics, genetics, and taxonomy manifest in narrative structure and dovetail with notions in narrative theory.

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Player One

Maikel Alendy

Online (Summer A) and Hybrid (Fall)

Inspired by courses taught by Emily Wood and neuroscience research conducted by Stuart Brown, this course challenges students to think differently about play and its relevance to human social and biological development.

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Innovation Nation: The Global Influence of Israeli Technology and Entrepreneurship

Andi Wolfer

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

Israel has built a reputation as an entrepreneurial powerhouse that exports industry-disrupting technologies all over the world. Visitors to the “Start-Up Nation” marvel at the innovations that have emerged from a country that once made the desert bloom.

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Cybersecurity

Randy Pestana

Wed., 5:00P - 7:40P

This course is designed to introduce students to cybersecurity through policy and art.

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Nature, Design and Technology

Robert Hacker

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

This course explores the changing relationships between manmade and natural systems brought about by the four industrial revolutions since 1750.

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Digital Fairytale

Maikel Alendy

Online

Digital Fairytale: Once Upon A Time, is a course dedicated to evaluating the disruption of the “Smart-phone Era” and the Internet of Things have had on our holistic living experience.

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Technosociety: Emerging Technologies and their Ethical Implications

Gustavo Roque

Online (Summer A and Fall)

As a society, our reliance on technology has reached unprecedented heights. This reliance produces serious ethical dilemmas; however, we still want and need to use technology. What will our future look like as new technologies are introduced? This course will focus on emerging technologies and how those technologies affect the human condition.

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