2020 Seminar Topics

Connie Chang-Chien
(Johns Hopkins University)

Behind the Scenes: Exploring the Epidemiology 

of a Pandemic

Miriam Alvarez Rosenbloom
(Columbia University)

American Food as Immigrant History

 

Yuewei Wang
(University of British Columbia)

Capitalism and China

 

Cameroon Sheehy
(Vanderbilt University)

Introduction to Educational Linguistics

Xiran Tan
(Wesleyan University)

Buddhist Art from India to East Asia

Miwa Johnstone
(Middlebury College)

Child Psychology

Jill Mankoff
(Wellesley College)

Green Chemistry

Andrea Lam
(University of Manchester)

Reality: Not as Simple as it Seems 

Rey Takahashi
(Willamette University)

Western Literature: Poetry

Xun Zheng
(Columbia University)

Children, Childhood, and Narratives

2019 Seminar Topics

• Introduction to Translation Studies: Issues around Language and Communication
• Computers in Our World: Programming with Python
• Connecting Through Food: From Sushi to Spaghetti
• Struggles of Asians in America
• Hidden Christian and Fumi-e in Tokugawa Japan
• Social Psychology Learning and Identity and Self
• Reading Cinema
• Don't be Nervous!
• Exploring Concepts in Physics
• Photography in Everyday Life
• Introduction to Philosophy: Plato
• Understanding American Humor

2018 Seminar Topics

• Modern Japanese History Through Horror
• Kung Fu
• Communication Through Dance
• Creative Writing: Poetry and Prose
• The Spectrum of Identity and the Single-Story
• Introduction to Refugee Studies
• Cross-Cultural Sociolinguistics: Reflection on Language, Culture and Society
• Cultural Appropriation: the Exploitation of Culture
• Searching for the Theory of Everything
• Exploring General Chemistry: Structure & Reactions
• Scientific Understandings of the Nuclear: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Chernobyl and Fukushima
• Bit by Bit: Computers & Our World

2017 Seminar Topics

• Eastern Values, Western Science: Application of Eastern Philosophy in a Westernizing East Asia
• Truth and Provability
• Considering Computers: Introduction to Technology and Programming
• Virology
• How to Sing Pop
• Searching for the Tower of Babel: Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics
• Environmental Sustainability
• History of Northern Renaissance Art
• Hero, or "hero"?
• Women in Politics: A Comparative Approach Between the US and Japan
• Introduction to International Relations
• What Makes You, You?

2016 Seminar Topics

• Everyday Psychology
• Identity and Ethics in Pop
• Facing Uncertainty and Travelling in Time
• Introduction to Film Making
• Human as Social Beings
• Humor: Comparing the Japanese and American
• The History of Northern Renaissance Art
• Introduction to Forensic Science
• Journalism and Its Impact on the World
• Programming in Python: An Introductory Course
• The Question of Identity: Asians in America
• Cross-Cultural Sociolinguistics: Untranslatability Between English and Japanese

2015 Seminar Topics

• Hip Hop Culture: Community, Identity and Globalisation
• Communism in the Modern World
• History of Alchemy and Magic
• Life and Absurdity
• English as a Global Language
• Scientific Literacy
• Fundamentals of Immunology
• Reading, Recollection and Reality
• Narratives of Japanese Diaspora
• Music the Transcendent Language
• Foundations of Mathematics: Truth, Meaning, Completeness and Consistency
• Culture of the World: Food and Mythology

2014 Seminar Topics

• Introduction to Experimental Film
• Introduction to Metaphysics
• Good, Evil, and the Modern Hero
• Me Versus the World: Holden Caulfield's Rebellion Against "Phoniness"
• Morals & Money: Ethics in Financial Markets
• Music and Madness
• Spotlight on Senkaku
• The Art of Public Speaking
• The Hero's Journey: The Fundamentals of Creative Writing
• Women as Change-Maker in Chinese Literature: From Tradition to Modernity