Designing Solutions for a Better World (INTENSIVE)
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
This course will allow students to explore a contemporary issue of their choice and examine the beginning phases of solving the issue. Through this weeklong intensive course, students will follow various methodologies, mainly, Design Thinking, to help them problem solve. Students will work in groups to research the contemporary issue by understanding the target market and the macro environment. Students will narrow their research to clearly define the contemporary issue and come to a concrete problem statement. Students will then ideate a multitude of possible solutions and prototype these solutions. Students will end the week with testing which solution is most viable and appropriate to solve their contemporary issue.
365-BWP-DW
Paris fantasmé et Paris réel (INTENSIVE)
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
Dans ce cours, l’élève devra considérer une problématique contemporaine dans une perspective transdisciplinaire. L’objectif est de sensibiliser l’étudiant.e aux enjeux liés à l’histoire des résistances sociales, artistiques et culturelles en prenant comme exemple l’histoire de Paris, capitale française. L’élève sera amené à reconnaitre le rôle particulier des arts, de la littérature et de l’histoire, à démontrer la contribution de ces disciplines pour comprendre l’évolution d’une métropole telle que Paris, et à comprendre les manifestations de la résistance sociale au cœur de la ville. L’étudiant.e sera invité.e à visionner des films en classe, à visiter des expositions et à lire des articles ou extraits d’œuvres dans le but de les analyser et de les interpréter.
365-BWP-DW
Peace 365
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
Peace 365 is an innovative complementary course that seeks to contribute to peace in the world by exploring peace-building from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Locally and globally, conflicts divide people and communities, and undermine well-being and happiness. Students in this course will learn to identify and understand the fundamental conflicts of humanity. The specific roles of several disciplines in understanding peace will be recognized and explored in panels, lectures, and coursework. Students will acquire and practice strategies for creating peace in their relationships with self, community, and nature. Individually and collectively, we will develop the confidence to apply these strategies in the real world, with the aim of creating a more peaceful world for all.
365-BWP-DW
Racism
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
While few people openly declare themselves racist today, racism—both individual and systemic—continues to haunt communities across the world. It rears its ugly head when we discuss “black on black crime,” mass incarceration, poverty rates, and school funding. We see its deadly impact in George Floyd struggling to breathe, Michael Brown’s body lying on the street in Ferguson, and Sandra Bland languishing in her cell. We watch as citizens and politicians openly espouse values that cloak their racism behind the veneers of “economic anxiety” and “traditional values.” We feel its presence when we see advertising, films, and media which under-represent people of color in a world that is mostly non-white. In this Contemporary Issues course, we will be engaging in a cross-disciplinary approach, using historical sources, literature, films, and other materials to examine the rise of race as a “scientific” concept and racism as a historical and present-day reality.
The focus is on an urgent contemporary issue: why is violence so widely accepted in our world and how can we build resistance. The Humanities component questions some of our widely-held ideas about violence and explores how acceptance of violence is socially-constructed, while examining a world view that rejects violence on both ethical and practical grounds. The Cin-Com (contemporary issues) component provides students with the tools to deconstruct the visual language that makes violence possible, and engages them in the creation of a student-led media project that resists violence. This unique educational experience emphasizes close collaboration between students and faculty, and allows students to advance their work in both courses at the same time.
365-BXP-DW
Introduction to Research in Neuroscience
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
Research in neuroscience is developing at an immense speed and is crucial for understanding a large spectrum of phenomena ranging from our everyday behavior to specific health problems. In this course, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of research in neuroscience by designing, conducting and analyzing their own authentic neuroscience experiment using electroencephalography (EEG). In this context students will enter a quest combining natural sciences, social sciences and computer science. This unique experience emphasizes teamwork and close collaborations between students from a variety of programs with a central objective to develop the ability to participate productively in a multidisciplinary "research" team.
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Learning Perspectives 2
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
The aim of this course is for students to examine programs of education and career options in preparation for the next steps at college and beyond. Through individual and group assignments, hands-on projects, and workshops with professionals from a range of fields, students will explore areas of study and professions best suited for their aptitudes, interests and personality. Students will continue to hone skills in writing, organization and presentations and build strategies essential for jobs, education, community and personal goals including communications, networking, project management and interpersonal relations. By the end of the course, students will have created a tentative plan to achieve their professional goals.
365-BXP-DW
S.P.A.C.E.: Make Things That Matter
3 - 0 - 3
45
Description:
Make Things That Matter is part of an integrated learning community. It embraces the notion that all problems, even the seemingly intractable ones, can be solved through human ingenuity and a collective desire to improve the lives of all. The course explores problem solving, innovation, and the future through the application of design thinking, social impact tool sets and related methodologies. A sequence of design challenges and activities linked with innovation initiatives concretize the methods. Students generate, develop and realize their own breakthrough ideas by way of learning basic skills of brainstorming, research, prototyping, and public presentations. Collaborating in groups, they may pursue any problem that aligns with the yearly theme of the course, can be related to a contemporary issue and has the potential for a synthesis of disciplines. Final projects may be presented in a variety of public venues and linked with annual SPACE co-curricular undertakings.
