Schedule of Visits

Location: Computational Research Building (A2), Room 006
Camilla Boisen, Senior Lecturer of Writing
Registration and Course Description

This is a student-centered seminar whereby students are practicing close texts readings, group discussions, and students chairing and leading discussions.

Location: Campus Center (C2), Room W007
Nancy Gleason, Professor of Practice, Political Science
Registration and Course Description

This class employs Critical Pedagogy as articulated by bell hooks, where students collaboratively construct knowledge and actively engage in listening. We utilize small-group discussions and structured group work on a mind-map to discuss the concept of curiosity and how education systems can foster or diminish this crucial habit of mind.

Location: Social Science Building (A5), Room 005
Mohamed Moustafa, Visiting Associate Professor in Civil and Urban Engineering
Registration and Course Description

This class uses case-based teaching to elevate the lecture with real-life engineering examples to explore concepts and fundamentals of solid mechanics. We will also incorporate selected textbook examples to contextualize theory and demonstrate problem-solving techniques in civil and mechanical engineering contexts.

Location: The Arts Center (C3), Room 112
Goffredo Puccetti, Associate Professor of Practice of Visual Arts
Registration and Course Description

This class encourages active and experiential learning and emphasizes critical thinking skills through a combination of an engaging lecture, follow-up exercises, and a class critique.

Location: Campus Center (C2), Room E050
João Fernandes, Visiting Associate Professor
Registration and Course Description

This class emphasizes experiential learning and incorporates an engaging lecture with hands-on, interactive exercises to promote student engagement and an active learning process.

Location: Social Science Building (A5), Roon 006
Matthew Silverstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Registration and Course Description

This class employs collaborative learning techniques through a combination of interactive lecture, small-group discussions, and a class-wide dialogue to analyze two central questions from the reading and see what we make of those questions.

Location: Computational Research Building (A2), Room 006
Ilya Spitkovsky, Professor of Mathematics
Registration and Course Description

Complex analysis, also known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis devoted to complex valued functions of complex variables. It is further used in other branches of mathematics, including algebraic geometry and number theory, and also has diverse applications in science and engineering: fluid dynamics, elasticity, nuclear, and electrical engineering, to name just a few examples. The geometrical content of analysis in the complex plane is especially appealing.

Topics covered include: complex numbers and complex functions; differentiation and the Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy's theorem, and the Cauchy integral formula; singularities, residues, Taylor and Laurent series; fractional linear transformations and conformal mappings.

Location: The Arts Center (C3), Room 144
Chinasa Ezugha, Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice
Registration and Course Description

This course employs the flipped classroom design where students engage with assigned readings and stimulating prompts before class. Classes are designed to function as an inquiry-based learning platform for students to explore important concepts and theories through in-class discussions.

Location: Social Science Building (A5), Room 017
Milan Bogosavljevic, Lecturer of Physics
Registration and Course Description

This course blends lecture with interactive activities and the use of various media to connect students to the realm of Astronomy and Cosmology.

Location: Social Science Building (A5), Room 019
Francesco Paparella, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Registration and Course Description

The class will demonstrate how some mathematical results can be leveraged to develop efficient numerical methods, which will then be illustrated through brief computer demonstrations.

Location: Campus Center (C2), Room E051
Najwa Belkziz, Lecturer of Writing
Registration and Course Description

This class adopts an active learning model, structured as a workshop that includes brief class discussions, facilitated debates, and a writing activity to enhance student engagement and promote critical thinking skills.

Location: Computational Research Building (A2), Room 017
Karam Fayad, Lecturer of Mathematics
Registration and Course Description

This class incorporates the active learning model where students are encouraged to discuss how to manage the complexities of an infinite hotel and learn about the existence of new (infinite) numbers.

Location: East Administration Building (A4), Room 002
Giovanni Federico, Professor of Economic History
Registration and Course Description

Why did some countries industrialize before others? How can we explain the great divergence in per capita income across countries? What are the social and political impacts of economic growth? What is the role of political institutions in underpinning economic progress? This course addresses these and other similar questions using simple tools from across the social sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the role of economic incentives and political institutions in underpinning economic and social development.

Location: Computational Research Building (A2), Room 002
Mostafa Sabri, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Registration and Course Description

This class combines lecture with real-time problem-solving exercises to introduce students to the concepts of dimension and matrix rank through hands-on, interactive experiences.

Location: West Administration Building (A3), Room 005
Kartik Sreenivasan, Associate Professor of Psychology with an Affiliation in Biology
Registration and Course Description

This class incorporates lecture elements along with collaborative learning through interactive group exercises designed to engage students in the scientific writing process.

Location: Computational Research Building (A2), Room 006
Camilla Boisen, Senior Lecturer of Writing
Registration and Course Description

This is a student-centered seminar whereby students are practicing close texts readings, group discussions, and students chairing and leading discussions.

Location: Social Science Building (A5), Room 111
Ernesto Reuben, Professor of Economics and Business, Organizations and Society
Registration and Course Description

This graduate-level class demonstrates an engaging lecture combined with a hands-on classroom experiment and an ensuing discussion.

Location: Campus Center (C2), Room E048
Khaled Shahin, Clinical Associate Professor, Structural Engineering
Registration and Course Description

This class emphasizes collaborative learning by incorporating small-group discussions to encourage student engagement in class.

Location: Social Science Building (A5), Room 017
Camilla Quental, Visiting Associate Professor of Business, Organizations and Society
Registration and Course Description

This is a student-centered seminar whereby students are practicing close-text readings, group discussions, and chairing and leading discussions.

Location: Campus Center (C2), Room E052
Hervé Crès, Professor of Economics
Registration and Course Description

The market is the main institution for the allocation of economic resources. It operates through a price mechanism that disseminates information to decision-makers — firms, consumers, and regulators — and coordinates their behavior. When it works well, it promotes an efficient allocation of resources. But markets can suffer from several imperfections: some markets can be missing, as for most externalities; they can be incomplete, for example in the financial sector; agents can be price-makers or hide information, and therefore prevent competition from promoting efficiency. The course will review in depth most of the sources of market failures and their consequences.

Location: West Administration Building (A3), Room 004
Wisam Alshaibi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Registration and Course Description

This is a class that examines the self as a problem. We will explore the historically specific conditions under which the modern notion of selfhood came to be and how ideas about self-knowledge, self-definition, and fulfillment exposed individuals to persistent existential questions such as: who am I? what am I? who do I want to be? how do I know? The point of this class is to interrogate deeply held, taken-for-granted ideas about ourselves and try to make sense of where they came from, how we use them, and where it all might be going. The aims of the class are threefold: (1) historicize, disaggregate, and sociologically explain different dimensions of selfhood (self-definition, self-knowledge, self-fulfillment, relationship of individual and society; (2) learn how we use concepts to make sense of and narrate human experience; (3) make visible the taken for granted assumptions we have about identity and meaning.

Location: Campus Center (C2), Room E048
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Visiting Associate Professor in Psychology
Registration and Course Description

This class promotes student-centered learning and direct engagement with research by incorporating two in-class activities centered around ‘The Self’ and a discussion of the professor’s research on the topic.

Location: West Administration Building (A3), Room 002
Andrew Tillotson, Lecturer of Physics
Registration and Course Description

This class encourages hands-on learning and problem-solving skills by incorporating in-class polling via Learning Catalytics and live demonstrations as supplements to some problems we will solve in class.