Technology and Innovation

Strategies for Social Impact: A Harvard Business School Case and Simulations Approach

Hortensia Sampedro

Wednesday 2:00PM - 4:45PM (Online)

Social problems are approaching critical levels not seen in the history of humanity.

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Innovation Nation: The Global Influence of Israeli Technology and Entrepreneurship

Andi Wolfer and Aaron Kaplowitz

Thursday, 11:00AM - 1:45PM

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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Ideating Technologies for Emerging Markets

Barbara Cotto Jimenez

Wednesday, 1:00PM-3:30PM

This course focuses on the need for innovation in technologies and access to information in emerging markets. The practice and groundbreaking processes used to design, test, and experiment with innovation effectively are key to understand the need of access to technologies on this market.

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Cities, Data and Inclusive Design

Daniela Cadena

TBD

This course will expose students to the trends, opportunities and challenges mega-cities are facing as the urban sprawl phenomenon continues, putting a strain on resources such as water, land use, public housing and waste-management.

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Cybersecurity

Randy Pestana

Wednesday 5:00PM - 7:40PM (Yearlong)

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

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Digital Fairytale: Once Upon a Time

Maikel Alendy

Online (Summer A) and (Fall)

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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Digital Media in the 21st Century

Kiesha Moodie

Online

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

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Player One

Maikel Alendy

Summer 2021: Online Fall 2021: Tuesday, 11:00PM-12:15PM (Hybrid)

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, Sustainability, and Startups

Daniela Cadena

Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:15 AM (Hybrid)

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

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Nature, Design and Technology: The Multi-Disciplinary 21st Century

Robert Hacker

Tuesday, 9:00AM - 11:45AM

The course examines the 21st century and the Fourth Industrial Revolution through an exploration of fundamental questions surrounding two frameworks: 1. Nature, design, and technology. 2. Humanity, learning, and networking.

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Could We, Should We?

Gabriela Alvarez

Online (Summer A); Hybrid - Thursdays 12:30 - 1:45 pm (Fall 2021)

In our race to innovate, the implications of new technologies are often ill-conceived and can have dire ramifications. This course will use the British television science-fiction anthology Black Mirror to explore these ethical dilemmas centered around surveillance technologies and our right to privacy. Furthermore, students will be challenged to consider if and how to mitigate these modern-day crises.

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Quantum Narratology and Other Curiosities: Intersections of Science and Storytelling

Rhona Trauvitch

Thursday, 11:00am-12:15pm (Online)

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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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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