Innovative Courses
The Schiller Institute regularly expands our听course offerings to respond to pressing societal challenges. Our courses cover a wide range of topics and specializations鈥攂ringing together the sciences, humanties and the arts to discover new knowledge to serve the common good.听
The Schiller Institute co-sponors the Global Public Health and the Common Good Major and Minor. Visit the CSON site for details.听
This course is a one-credit professional development course featuring meetings with leaders engaged in both for-profit and 蝉辞肠颈补濒听entrepreneurship, and whose organizations are aligned with the Schiller Institute's mission to serve the common good, focusing on our three core areas: energy, environment, and health.
This course offers opportunities for students in any md传媒国产剧 College major to develop an understanding of entrepreneurship, and skills in communication, business, and networking while having unique opportunities to connect with leaders and innovators working on the cutting-edge of these fields.听
Thursdays, 3:00-4:30pm in 245 Beacon Street, room 215
As part of the Schiller Institute's leadership of the BC@UNCOP programming, delegation selection, and administration, we offer a one-credit fall semester course that provides an academic overview of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) from a historical, political, and social perspective.
The course is required for student members of BC鈥檚 official delegation traveling to the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, and open to other interested students through departmental permission.
The fall 2024 version of this course will be facilitated by the two faculty co-leads for the COP29 delegation along with guest faculty.
Fridays, 12-1:30pm in 245 Beacon Street, room 230
The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society will be offering our community engaged course sequence again in 2025.听
Throughout the course, students develop skills in:
- Community-engaged collaboration
- Project management
- Teamwork and leadership
- Intercultural competency
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The course is team-based with a small interdisciplinary group of students who are selected for the spring/summer course through an application process. In summer 2024, students went on a three week immersive trip to Zanzibar, Tanzania where they worked with community partners and conducted ethnographic research.听
We will be updating this page with additional information soon. Stay tuned or reach out to Kaley McCarty for more information.
Spring: Fridays, 2:30-4:00 PM
Summer: May 24, 2024 to June 16, 2024