Students assess the power of suggestion, persuasion, and product placement. Using a range of case studies and creative examples across all media, they explore early salesmanship, modern advertising, branding, and the increasing use of new media. Balancing creative skills with business acumen, they engage in branding exercises, interactive sales games, and the design and development of their own advertising campaign.

Materials fee of $50 per session.

Aerospace Engineering is quite literally “rocket science!” Participants examine the disciplines most important to the industry, including aerodynamics, electronics, mechanics, operations systems, statistics, and thermodynamics. The course culminates with the replication of real design offices of aircraft and spacecraft companies. Students go through every stage in the creation of a new vehicle, including aerodynamic profiling, engine sizing, and structural design.

Cambridge’s beauty provides students with the perfect environment in which to find inspiration, appreciate architectural history and aesthetics, and improve their design and model-making skills. They develop a portfolio of sketches before turning ideas and designs into three-dimensional models to display in the program’s Arts Exhibition.

Materials fee of $75 per session.

Cambridge is the ideal observatory from which to explore fundamental questions about the universe. How did it all begin, and what is our place within the universe? What is time, and will it ever come to an end? This course takes students on a journey through space, from the infinitesimally small to the unimaginably large. It addresses topics including the Big Bang, galaxy formation, the history of our own solar system, orbital mechanics, and string theory.

Mixing economics with psychology and game theory, this course seeks to understand what drives individual economic decisions. What psychological and emotional factors induce people to buy a $5 cup of coffee? How can we explain consumers’ decisions when they depart from the expectations of standard economic models? How do risk and uncertainty impact people’s spending? Students investigate areas such as luxury goods, healthcare, insurance, and labor while considering how psychology affects economic decision-making.

How do business organizations start, grow, and thrive? What analytical, interpersonal, and technical skills are required to address the problems facing companies of all sizes? How can a company be successful and operate ethically? This course includes visits to local businesses and the Cambridge Business School, and covers a diverse range of topics that includes economics, finance management, information technology, marketing, law, and purchasing. It culminates in the creation of a business model.

Students compose fiction and poetry under the guidance of a published author, with Cambridge’s rich literary history as their inspiration. They explore their own potential by experimenting with new forms and styles of writing. Successful poets and writers give workshops in which students learn about the creative process and the practicalities of publication. Students develop a portfolio of their best writing and collaborate to design, edit, and publish a literary magazine.

Through workshops, debates, and visits to police stations and criminal courts, students explore individual and social theories of crime, philosophies of punishment, criminal profiling, incident analysis, and basic forensic science. They consider the causes of crime, the influence of the media upon crime, and issues of race and gender within the context of the British and American criminal justice systems.

To what extent do people subconsciously take on ideas from the society in which they were raised? Are we all unwitting products of forces we did not choose? This course combines philosophy with critical theory to examine why the world is the way it is. Students call on a range of thinkers to analyze the political and societal trends that define the 21st century. They learn to interrogate information, discuss controversial topics sensitively, and construct persuasive arguments.

Data Science is revolutionizing every aspect of our lives and is one of the most sought-after topics at university. In this course, students will discover how we can harness its potential to improve product development, grow businesses, improve healthcare, and build smarter cities. Students will leave this class equipped with the data scientist's toolkit of skills, from statistical techniques for predictive analysis to mapping data through APIs and web scraping.

Students are introduced to the history of Empires, from the Akkadian to the Mongol to the American. But they also interrogate the concept of Empire itself. Do all Empires share fundamental characteristics? How are they established, how do they control peoples and spaces, why do they collapse, and how do they continue to influence the way people live and understand themselves? Calling on examples from the contemporary to the ancient worlds, students cross disciplinary boundaries and blend subjects as diverse as anthropology, drama, literature, and the social sciences.

Students will examine both world-renowned and local examples and the findings are applied to a variety of case studies to solve mechanical, structural, and architectural problems. They complete the course by designing a model engineering project of their own.