This four-week course will be covering social media and how to work it effectively, with emphasis on networking with your future employers, creating a bond with your customers, or making a connection with your audience. A bit of history will be included, but most of this course will be lecture and implementation.

Forms for a Future is a university level social science course on the economic, political, social, and psychological elements for dealing with the single most significant question of our time: How to live sustainably and peacefully on a crowded planet.

We have more than enough information from the natural and physical sciences about the environmental challenges we face. We now need to address the human constraints within which we must make the necessary decisions.

A two part class that will take a look into various ways you can use Twitter. While some folks like to use it as a news feed, there are opportunities to network, find jobs, and even discuss beer brewing tactics from people around the world. The courses will be placed on YouTube, so please ask questions prior and when I post the content. If there are enough questions after the second session, I may create a third one to answer them.

This course will focus on the biological and cognitive foundations of individual behavior, as well as the individual in the social context. Research on psychological phenomena will be reviewed to demonstrate the logic of the scientific method, to foster critical thinking, to identify potential shortcomings in interpretations of behavior (e.g., claims presented in the popular media), and to describe linkages to everyday experiences (e.g., aesthetic and perceptual judgments, improved studying, friendship and attraction, development of political attitudes). Students will learn how to use empirical data to draw sound conclusions about behavior

This class will examine the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ up until the hijra. The class will go beyond the traditional seerah narrative and examine the social, political, and economic underpinnings of the time period. Special attention will be paid to the spiritual and moral dimension of the seerah with an emphasis on tying together passages from the Qur'an with incidents in the seerah.

Game Theory 101 is a free introductory course to the basics of game theory. Over the course of a few dozen videos, we will learn about the basics of competitive interaction and strategic thought. We will also learn the core concepts of game theory, including strict dominance, iterated elimination of strictly dominated strategies, pure strategy Nash equilibrium, mixed strategy Nash equilibrium, the mixed strategy algorithm, weak dominance, backward induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, and comparative statics.

A look at international relations from a strategic perspective. Topics covered include:

-conflict versus cooperation

-rationalist explanations for war

-international trade

-the democratic peace theory

-principal-agent problems

-the United Nations Security Council

-public goods provision

-nuclear weapons

-terrorism and insurgency

This course we will about the wonders of Shamanism, you will read about The lifestyle of shamanism and the healing powers of Shamans. There are many different types of Shamans and how they differ, along with powers that they believe in. You will read about how Shamanism was practiced and thought of in the very beginning traditional practices all the way to the way Shamanism is practiced now.

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