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This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural policy – what it is, what motivates it, how it is made, what consequences it produces, and most importantly why it matters for students as future artists, creatives, and citizens. While helping students learn about state policies in the broader cultural sector, the course actively uses international and comparative materials to help them to develop global problem-solving skills. The focus of the course is on key aims and values of cultural policy, such as national identity, nurturing creation, public value, public accessibility, and cultural diversity.

This courses offers a survey of the history, doctrines and practices of Buddhism, with particular focus on Indian, Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism. The course seeks to gain an understanding of what Buddhists believe and practice; how Buddhism has changed and adapted itself to different eras and cultural contexts, as well as the characteristics of the various schools of Buddhism and the differences among them. 

This course covers the process of engineering design, manufacturing methods, and the relationship between them. The course trains students in the methodology of all stages of engineering design: from the analysis of the client statement to the manufacturing of the design. It develops the practical, theoretical, and computational engineering skills relevant to the design process. It also develops an appreciation of sustainability in engineering design, and an understanding of how design decisions can affect the environmental and economic costs of the design and product.