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This course will explore the newly emerging realm of socio-tech innovation and how technological innovation can be harnessed to create positive social impact. Students will also learn to critically assess the impact of technology innovation on various stakeholder groups including negative externalities of technological innovation. What You Will...

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of social innovation, i.e. developing and implementing novel solutions to thorny and wicked social and environmental problems such as climate change, global health, poverty, inequality, etc. that require institutional change and generatively challenging the fundamental assumptions of how these...

We are at war. Regardless of which side you are on, you have been wounded by racism. The lines have been drawn. Race has and is front and center in the world. Watch the media headlines from the first Black president in the United States to wealth discrepancies to the social determinants of health to violence against Black people--we cannot escape...

Dark Beginnings: The Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mark Who, really, was the historical Jesus, and what did he teach? The two earliest accounts of his life and instruction appear in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas and the later canonical Gospel of Mark. Written perhaps some 30-40 years after his death, these offer complementary views of Jesus:...