Students choose two courses from the following list, one as a Major course and one as a Minor. Major courses meet six mornings a week and, depending on the nature of the course, include in-class time for fieldwork, labs, workshops, writing, guest speakers, group discussion, and one-to-one instruction. Major courses include homework and require some project and preparation time in the afternoon or evening whereas Minor courses meet three afternoons a week, with all the work contained within the class session.
Social Sciences and Science: Major Course
Criminology
In this course, students are introduced to the exciting disciplines of criminology and criminal justice. Through workshops, debates, and visits to police stations and criminal courts, students explore individual and social theories of crime, philosophies of punishment, restorative justice and conflict resolution, criminal profiling, incident analysis, and some basic forensic science. They also consider the causes of crime, the influence of the media upon crime, and the sociology of race and gender within the famous criminal justice systems.
Global Marketing
This interdisciplinary course examines the politics of globalization, business economics, marketing theory, and advertising strategy in order to address the process of designing, producing, and selling in a global marketplace. From market surveys and segmentation to product design and delivery, pricing, promotion, distribution, and brand management, students learn the methods and theories involved in marketing and business. Through case studies, individual assignments, and team-based projects, marketing's many aspects are presented as real-time, hands-on experiences as students are exposed to carefully designed business scenarios.
International Relations and Current Affairs
This course introduces students to International Relations through the analysis of current affairs and the relationships between nations, cultures, and ideologies. Students begin most classes by reading newspaper articles whose contents launch the discussion for the day. Once the theoretical and historical aspects of International Relations have been established, students apply them to the world today, learning how and why policy decisions are made, how they are enforced, and how their repercussions affect us.
Medical Science
This hands-on course introduces students to important aspects of medical knowledge, expertise, and practice. Combining practical experiments with specialist lectures, class discussions and role-plays, students are introduced to human anatomy (framework) and physiology, as well as the treatment of diseases and select medical conditions. Students discuss the role of medicine in everyday life, clinical methodology and the modern healthcare system as well as the medical advances made in the last few hundred years and the scientific knowledge that lay behind them.
Internet Studies
The Internet has revolutionized life and human experience. Guided by experts drawn from a variety of fields, working through seminars and visits, students consider the ways in which the Internet is transforming the economy, education, and entertainment, and the legal, technical, ethical and security challenges that are arising as a result of these transformations. Likewise they consider the ways in which the Internet affects the dissemination of information, how this affects politics and policy decisions, for example Internet surveys, the 2008 American presidential election, and how to reconcile the power of the Internet with proper governance and democracy. Students will also consider how Facebook and Twitter are changing the very nature of relations between human beings and the effect this is likely to have on society. Individualized final projects focus on a particular e-innovation of the students' choosing and its potential ramifications.
Production and Workshop: Major Course
Architecture
Few cities in the world are better suited to architectural studies in the world. Over its long history the greatest craftsmen and architects have competed to leave their monumental imprint within its walls. These form the basis of the course. Through visits, on-site seminars, and workshops, students are able to develop a practical sense of the evolution of architectural techniques and fashions over the past two millennia, and, at the same time, to witness how these interacted with, and indeed continue to interact with, the shifting urban ensemble; Guided by professionals, students try their hand at designing and modeling.
Creative Writing
Amidst the inspirational surroundings that have nurtured so many great writers, participants compose poetry and prose under the guidance of a published author. Students develop the ability to compose a variety of poetic forms, such as sonnets, odes, limericks, and nonsense poems, and different types of prose, such as personal essay, nonfiction narrative, stream-of-consciousness meditation, and the short story. Discussion of well-known examples, often led by famous English writers, creates an inspiring harmony between studies and setting. Students publish a class journal at the end of the month and take home a portfolio of their writing.