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In this course, students examine the concept of health, discuss health promotion and disease prevention, and delve into the world of understanding and changing lifestyle behaviors. Students analyze how psychological factors, environments, policies, culture and even corporations shape human behaviors. These insights allow students to design powerful lifestyle interventions. Students gain foundational knowledge and skills necessary for understanding and improving the lifestyle behaviors of populations.

Finance is the study of mechanisms on asset transactions, risk management, and investment decisions. After reviewing the basics about financial markets, such as who trades what instruments and how they trade the instruments, this course covers the major finance theories, such as mean-variance portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model (CAPM), arbitrage pricing theory, multi-factor models of risk and return, and efficient market hypothesis. The course also investigates several empirical studies for understanding whether the existing theories can explain the reality of the markets.

This course provides an in-depth exploration of Jordan’s culinary traditions and their connections to culture, history, and identity. The course combines a historical/anthropological approach with an overview of contemporary practices around food in Jordan to understand evolving notions of cuisine within its national culture (lifestyles, techniques, media, and representations). While Jordan’s cuisine once aggregated local and imported traditions as national in nature, it has seemingly undergone a reverse process since the start of the twenty-first century, diversifying into multiple contexts (and recipes) under the pressure of factors such as affordability, politics, and social media. This course fosters a comparative approach around the preparation of food and related rituals, offering direct experiences of Jordan cuisine as it is thought about, prepared, served, and received.

This second-year course introduces students to the fundamental principles of interactivity for them to be applied to designing interactive art, media, or design projects. Students learn an overview of modes of interaction, the core elements of interactivity, input, processing and output, and their relationship with each other. The course explores examples of interactive projects and analyzes the concepts behind them as well as their semiotics and aesthetics. Students gain practical experience in applying this knowledge in developing their own interactive project. This course provides a foundation for more advanced studies in interactive design projects. 

This course offers a study of the theoretical foundations and calculus rules of Probability Theory. Topics include: probability and random phenomena; random variables; common distribution models; jointly distributed random variables; properties of expectation; limit theorems.

This project-based learning (PBL) course examines how the literary works of Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel laureate, are transformed and reimagined through digital media. Focusing on her distinctive narrative techniques, the course explores Han’s treatment of violence, trauma, and feminist resistance, with particular attention to the Gwangju Uprising and the embodied experience of her characters. Students analyze, remix, and remediate Han’s texts using digital storytelling tools and practices enriched by meta-information such as hashtags, rankings, and user comments, while critically examining the institutions and platforms that shape these technologies to engage diverse audiences. Through close reading, creative adaptation, and critical discussion, participants gain a deeper understanding of Han Kang’s poetic and experimental style, the socio-political contexts behind her writing, and the complexities of translating her work for a global readership. The course culminates in individual and collaborative digital projects highlighting the evolving relationship between contemporary Korean literature and digital culture.

This course has two main goals. The first goal is to introduce major trends in contemporary housing and the second is to envision future living spaces. The living spaces in this course include residential, recreational, commercial, working, educational, and healthcare spaces. Students attain a global perspective in contemporary living spaces; explore current living space trends and case studies; and examine major keywords for future living spaces. The final project consists of a short research study in which students envision future living spaces for various demographics, including but not limited to the elderly, young generation, dual-income families, office workers, K-12 students, patients and healthcare providers, and people with disabilities. 

No prerequisite required, but it is recommended to take undergraduate "Creating and Understanding Spaces (HID 1101)" for any introductory interior design courses. 

This foundational course provides knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyze and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. Topics include the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behavior, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. 

In this course, students examine Rome and the grandeur and diversity of its empire. Students explore Rome’s cosmopolitan, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic mega-city and how this showcased Roman might, organizational efficiency, and cultural wealth through public works, monumental architecture, and consumer culture. By studying these topics, students learn the genealogy of Western urbanism and statecraft and how this empire became paradigmatic in Western Eurasia.

This course covers the principles of the computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD and CAM) used in the modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background of CAD and CAM, this course provides the basics for understanding their techniques and industrial applications. Topics include CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); and Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The course requires a prerequisite.