Courses

This lab course is a hands-on introduction to the prototyping and fabrication of tangible, interactive technologies, with a special focus on learning and education. (No prior prototyping experience required.) It focuses on the design and prototyping of low-cost technologies that support learning in all contexts for a variety of diverse ...

This course is a practicum in the design of technology-enabled curricula and hands-on learning environments. It focuses on the theories, concepts, and practices necessary to design effective, low-cost educational technologies that support learning in all contexts for a variety of diverse learners. We will explore theories and design frameworks from ...

This course is a practicum in the design of technology-enabled curricula and hands-on learning environments. It focuses on the theories, concepts, and practices necessary to design effective, low-cost educational technologies that support learning in all contexts for a variety of diverse learners. We will explore theories and design frameworks from ...

Why do large, successful companies often have such difficulty in disrupting themselves (e.g., Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders)? How do you maintain an entrepreneurial edge within an existing enterprise? How do you sustain core businesses while simultaneously adapting to disruptive threats? In this course, students will build the skills to spot threats ...

Health care is facing significant cross-industry challenges and opportunities created by a number of factors, including the increasing need for improved access to affordable, high-quality care; growing demand from consumers for greater control of their health and health data; the shift in focus from sick care to prevention and health ...

In this two-quarter course, multidisciplinary teams identify real unmet healthcare needs, invent health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into patient care. In second quarter, teams select a lead solution to advance through technical prototyping, strategies to address healthcare-specific requirements (IP, regulation, reimbursement), and business planning. Class ...

In this two-quarter course, multidisciplinary teams identify real unmet healthcare needs, invent health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into patient care. In second quarter, teams select a lead solution to advance through technical prototyping, strategies to address healthcare-specific requirements (IP, regulation, reimbursement), and business planning. Class ...

In this two-quarter course, multidisciplinary teams identify real unmet healthcare needs, invent health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into patient care. In second quarter, teams select a lead solution to advance through technical prototyping, strategies to address healthcare-specific requirements (IP, regulation, reimbursement), and business planning. Class ...

In this two-quarter course, multidisciplinary teams identify real unmet healthcare needs, invent health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into patient care. During the first quarter, students research an important unmet healthcare problem, validate it through primary interviews and secondary research, and then brainstorm technology-based solutions. Class ...

In this two-quarter course, multidisciplinary teams identify real unmet healthcare needs, invent health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into patient care. During the first quarter, students research an important unmet healthcare problem, validate it through primary interviews and secondary research, and then brainstorm technology-based solutions. Class ...

Focus on building a range of English communication skills through improvisation activities. Participants explore theatrical techniques that teach collaboration, spontaneity, team building, storytelling, and confident public speaking with connections to academic, professional, and personal situations. No previous improvisation or theater experience necessary.

There is no denying that we are in the AI-era: around 90% of tech executives today embrace AI and want to expand its use. Firms will be newly created to focus on AI products, or large firms will find new capabilities in AI products or processes. How will AI be ...

Complex interactions among governments, businesses, and other institutions such as media, non-governmental, and international organizations, shape our world and our lives. In this course we will explore the workings of these interactions and the challenges they present for societies around the globe. As specific examples, we will discuss the 21st ...

This interdisciplinary course integrates the legal, scientific, and policy dimensions of how we characterize and manage resource use and allocation along the California coast. We will use this geographic setting as the vehicle for exploring more generally how agencies, legislatures, and courts resolve resource-use conflicts and the role that scientific ...

The course will cover multiple skills required to succeed in graduate school and beyond, including fund raising, publishing, selecting career options, job application and negotiation, and teaching, through lectures, group discussions, and practical excercises.

The careers of individuals are shaped by their movement within and between organizations, whether those be established employers or entrepreneurial ventures. Conversely, organizations of all sizes are shaped by the flows of individuals through them as individuals construct careers by pursuing different opportunities. This course will examine sociological and economic ...

The careers of individuals are shaped by their movement within and between organizations, whether those be established employers or entrepreneurial ventures. Conversely, organizations of all sizes are shaped by the flows of individuals through them as individuals construct careers by pursuing different opportunities. This course will examine sociological and economic ...

(Graduate students enroll in COMM 258. COMM 158 is offered for 5 units, COMM 258 is offered for 4 units.) While the internet and other digital technologies have amplified the voice of ordinary citizens, the power of governments and other large organizations to control and to manipulate information is increasingly ...

Change behaviors using evidence-based techniques. Addresses the roles of habit cycles, procrastination mitigation, productivity enhancement, motivational factors, self-compassion, and addiction and addictive processes (both substances and non-substance related) in changing behaviors from maladaptive to adaptive patterns. Drawing from current findings in the neuroscience and psychology of behavior change and habit ...

Through movie depictions of the vaccine discoveries leading to the first Nobel prizes in medicine, the infamous Tuskegee Study, the first heart surgery for Tetralogy of Fallot, the encephalitis lethargica pandemic, and modern oncology trials, the course will explore interdisciplinary work in biomedical sciences, research rigor, consent, stigma and discrimination ...