标题: 动态｜2017 杜克TIP中国暑期项目将开设这些学术课程！2017 Duke TIP China Program Courses [打印本页] 作者: shlinpin 时间: 2017-2-22 15:07 标题: 动态｜2017 杜克TIP中国暑期项目将开设这些学术课程！2017 Duke TIP China Program Courses 决策心理学：行为经济学
Psychology of Decision-Making: Behavioral Economics
Integrate insights from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics to understand why people make the choices they make. Examine how the cognitive processes that help people make sense of complex information can also logically lead them astray in decision making. Investigate how emotion, motivation, and information-processing shortcuts interact with careful, rational weighing of information. As you study the surprising ways individuals actually make decisions, you will gain insights about decision making in fields such as healthcare, finance, education, and government.
To be a successful engineer, you need to combine insights from math and science and develop a wide variety of skills and tools to find innovative solutions to challenges in a dynamic, rapidly changing world. You need to understand complex problems and propose creative solutions, and this requires the analytical, emotional, and social intelligence to work with others, take risks, and learn from failure. In this course, students will collaborate in the use of multiple strategies to brainstorm, design, and construct projects; practice modeling and estimation techniques; test and evaluate project performance; and practice persuasion skills in friendly competitions. The course will provide an opportunity to dream big, think differently, and problem solve.
Writing is a complex process drawing on a number of skills from analysis and invention to revision and style. To write clearly, persuasively, and powerfully is a vital skill—in university and beyond. In this course, students will consider texts and current events, engaging in issues related to their own values and perspectives on the larger world. They will learn to e ectively use library resources to conduct research and analyze writing models to express ideas with clarity, awareness, and engagement. Through this course, students will learn to read critically, gather information, hone arguments, and practice the rigorous level of writing necessary to succeed in a university environment.
历史流行病学：病原体、瘟疫及第一感染源
Historical Epidemiology: Pathogens, Plagues, and Patient Zero
From the Black Death to smallpox to HIV/AIDS to the Ebola virus, disease continues to profoundly impact human history and the progress of societies. Study modern epidemiological techniques for tracking and analyzing disease impact on human society and apply those techniques to historical epidemics to better understand them. Evaluate diseases throughout the ages and their impact on society. Use the lessons of the past to develop modeling techniques for fighting modern disease. Grasp the responsibilities of organizations like the World Health Organization and Center for Disease Control and the role of consumer, technology, and social media in the quest to fight current and future epidemics.
The history of cryptology—the art of enciphering and deciphering—is one of the most exciting stories of applied mathematics. It is a story of conspiracies and intrigue, secret societies and intelligence services, war and peace, power and money. Governments and big corporations have been paralyzed by code breakers, and outcomes of wars have been in uenced by cryptologists. The ongoing race between encrypters and attackers has led to ingenious and elaborate coding algorithms that make heavy use of classical results from number theory. Students will explore the elementary theoretical aspects of number theory, abstract algebra, and cryptology, and study monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic substitution ciphers, modular arithmetic and mathematical induction, basic probability theory, and elementary matrix theory.
Identify the keys to entrepreneurial success, including effective leadership, critical thinking skills, and the power of persuasion. Learn to move from ideas to marketable concepts to a viable business. Students will explore the workplace of the future, understanding entrepreneurial successes and failures, learning to identify and adapt to changing external factors, and exploring the leadership challenges of start-up organizations. Topics will include strategy, finance, marketing, the influence of changing demographics on consumer models, ethics,communication, the power of a persuasive presentation, and the role of social entrepreneurs. As a final project, students will develop a feasible business plan for their entrepreneurial ideas.
As a Duke TIP student, you will focus on one course for three weeks. Courses are fast-paced and intense, often equivalent to one year of an American high school course or one semester of a college course. Duke TIP offers an ever-evolving curriculum that is driven by the expertise of our instructional sta , creating a setting in which you can explore cutting-edge research and ideas. The courses are designed to provide a challenge, not to help students struggling in a particular subject. Duke TIP programs are conducted in English, and thus require a high level of English proficiency to master the course concepts, participate in the required classroom discussions and presentations, and fully engage in the program. Duke TIP does not assign final grades, either letter or numeric.
The nongraded approach encourages students to take intellectual riskes that they might aviod in a stressful grade-driven enviroment. All students who complete the three-week term will receive a Certificate of Completion.