Community Development: Fundamental Building Blocks
Community development is a very important process, as it is related to every aspect of our lives. In this lecture, we will discuss the elements and structure of community development and use structured analysis to understand aspects of sustainability and how it relates to our communities…
Bridges to the Future: Creating an Inclusive Society
The time of walls has passed! It's time to build bridges. Together we will explore how we can build inclusive civilization where every sentient being is not an other.
Pavel Ilin is a philosopher of culture, musician, baker, and software engineer. Mr. Ilin holds a Master’s Degree in…
In their own Voices: Iranian Women Bloggers
We will discuss writings by women in Iran, their common concerns and the importance of writing to project their interests by doing individual and group working. Participants will have a chance to get actively involved in the discussion and share their points of view. In this regard, the course…
Chinese Tea Ceremony
Let's experience the traditional Chinese tea culture, watch the beauty of the tea ceremony, and experience the peace and beauty that the tea ceremony brings us.
Julia Zhu is an educator at the Museum and the community organizations, Co-founder of SLIC Program and event activist, Survivor…
Storytelling, Creative Fantasy
This course helps students to build their stories from small objects using their memories and their imaginations. It will motivate students to use memory and imagination through games based on living experiences and new sensory and human situations.
This is an active theater…
Albania and Italy: A Cultural Intersection
Italy, a window through the west: The reasons that have always made Italy strongly interested in cultivating and maintaining political and economic relations with Albania, are certainly based on the historical-cultural ties between the two countries, facilitated by geographic contiguity and by a…
ISIS & Spatial Effect: Economic, Social, Urban Dimensions in Iraq
Although stereotypes focus on ISIS as a terror group, the reality of their existence is much more structurally nuanced. It is a product of many different spatial and cultural aspects: economic, social, urban, etc. In this class, we will review these aspects and how they have impacted and…
Beauty and Ugliness: French and Francophone Literature and the Arts
In this course, students will examine some laudatory and critical devices used in emblematic works to present the concept of beauty and ugliness as it relates to literature and the arts.
Nadia Bongo holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from Aix Marseille Université. She taught…
How Secure Is Your Electronic Device?
This course is designed to understand the electronic security threats we face in our daily lives. Students will learn about physical and cyber-attacks in addition to learning how to prevent, detect and recover from these attacks. This course is recommended for all curious learners who want to…
Enjoying Photography
Photography is everywhere! Every person sees the same event, the same person, the same place, the same excitement and the same time differently. You can touch to lifes and you can share your visual point of view. This course invites students to join in this process—the process of enjoying…
Early Childhood Development and Education
This course will develop participants' better understanding about children's milestones (according to the ages and stages) and learn skills on how to develop their language skills. Students will reflect back on their prior knowledge about content through relevant activities, learning…
Using Environmentally Friendly Products: A Closer Look at Bamboo Products
This course will briefly explore the modern uses of different bamboo species in the furniture, handicraft and construction industries, and highlight the importance of bamboo resources in the climate change era. It will also help participants evaluate the properties of bamboo and bamboo…
Biodiversity Conservation: Protecting the Present, Shaping the Future
In nature, everything is connected. Humans have a greater impact on the Earth than any other species. As we continue to put pressures on the planet, we are upsetting the balance of ecosystems and losing biodiversity. Due to our actions, three-quarters of land-based environment and 66% of marine…
Census 2020 and Non-documented Immigrants in the US
What effect will the Census in 2020 have on Americans? Why is the census necessary? The new census form has no question for legal status. What effect does this on undocumented citizens living in the US? What is the mystery behind 72 years of people's data kept secret by the…
Business Law in Morocco
This course will discuss the amendments and reforms that Morocco has made in commercial and business laws in order to encourage and attract foreign investors and investments. The focus will be on the role of foreign capital and its relationship to growth of job opportunities in Morocoo.…
In their own Voices: Iranian Women Bloggers
We will discuss writings by women in Iran, their common concerns and the importance of writing to project their interests by doing individual and group working. Participants will have a chance to get actively involved in the discussion and share their points of view. In this regard, the course…
Technical Drawing Exercises for Beginners
This course is for people who want to learn how to draw manually by using basic tools such as: pencils, eraser, compass, flat ruler, and brackets. You will also learn how and when to use different types of pencils through drawing and writing exercises. Finally you will increase your ability to…
Fun with Data Management
This course introduces the 4 aspects of data; Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD). Students will learn how to use SQL to create a database, populate with information, update and query the database. The course is recommended for all learners interested in acquiring basic data management…
Community Development: Co-creating our City
In this course, citizens and professionals will collaborate to discuss, discover and improve various aspects of their localities, with an aim to build robust and more resilient local communities.
Nazia Roushan loves creating and designing with people and is a strong advocate for the…
Albania and Italy: A Cultural Intersection
Italy, a window through the west: The reasons that have always made Italy strongly interested in cultivating and maintaining political and economic relations with Albania, are certainly based on the historical-cultural ties between the two countries, facilitated by geographic contiguity and by a…
Childhood Brain Development
Participants will develop awareness of children’s brain development, enhance understanding regarding what activities are appropriate to do with children according to their developmental stages, and share information regarding the spaces of how the brain transforms information and…
Secrets of Rejuvenation and Longevity
Everyone desires physical and mental well-being but everyone is busy searching for it outside! Why not search it within with help of some ancient Tibetan knowledge? We breathe every day without knowing its tremendous power. One of the key secrets called ‘Vase Breathing’ (also known as ‘One…
(PART ONE) Memory Re-Used: How to Build a Magazine with Reused Paper using Your Memories
In this workshop, you will learn how to build a magazine with reused materials (reuse paper and shoe boxes) where you will have the opportunity to include content from your memories of your life in your neighborhood (old pictures, postcards, letters, posters… etc)
Marcelo Arroyave is a…
Advanced Chinese Poetry from the Tang Dynasty
Let us explore the millennium civilization of the Chinese nation from Tang poetry, experience the prosperity and humanistic feelings of the Tang Dynasty.
Julia Zhu is an educator at the Museum and the community organizations, Co-founder of SLIC Program and event activist, Survivor…
The Atlantic and Poetics of Immigration: an African Francophone Women’s perspective
Using Fatou Diome’s The Belly of the Atlantic and Mati Diop’s Atlantics, we will examine how the artists craft a poetics of Atlantics to explore themes such as immigration and self discovery.
Nadia Bongo holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from Aix Marseille…
Basic Theory and Principles of Civil Infrastructures and Practical Applications
Civil engineering deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment such as buildings, bridges, roads, dams, airports, pipelines, sewage and drainage systems, railways, ports, etc. In this course, students will learn the basic tenants of civil engineering and how it…
(PART TWO) Memory Re-Used: How to Build a Magazine with Reused Paper using Your Memories
In this workshop, you will learn how to build a magazine with reused materials (reuse paper and shoe boxes) where you will have the opportunity to include content from your memories of your life in your neighborhood (old pictures, postcards, letters, posters… etc)
Marcelo Arroyave is a…