Innovative Courses
The Schiller Institute regularly expands our course offerings to respond to pressing societal challenges. Our courses cover a wide range of topics and specializations—bringing together the sciences, humanties and the arts to discover new knowledge to serve the common good.
The Schiller Institute co-sponors the Global Public Health and the Common Good Major and Minor. Visit the CSON site for details.
This one-credit professional development course features entrepreneurs, leaders, and facilitators of entrepreneurial eco-sytems related to the Schiller Institute's three core areas: energy, environment, and health.
This course provides opportunities for students in any Boston College major to develop communication, business, and networking skills while having unique opportunities to connect with start-up leaders and innovators working on the cutting-edge of these fields.
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’s 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 co-faculty leads for the COP29 delegation with guest faculty.
Fridays, 12-1:30pm in 245 Beacon Street, room 230
The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society is offering our community engaged course sequence again in the spring and summer 2024 semesters.
Throughout the course, students develop skills in:
- Community-engaged collaboration
- Project management
- Teamwork and leadership
- Intercultural competency
The course is team-based with a small interdisciplinary group of students who were selected for the spring/summer course through an application process. The summer three week immersive includes projects in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Spring: Fridays, 2:30-4:00 PM
Summer: May 24, 2024 to June 16, 2024