Course Overview
Following the model established by two successful editions of collaborative public health field courses, this course will include 10 Harvard students and 10 exceptional Brazilian engineering and applied sciences students to have an international experience and to provide them opportunities to connect technology and society. Bringing together Harvard faculty and students with Brazilian professors and students will maximize the course’s long-term impact and enable a truly international experience. Local collaborators in Brazil will be responsible for the identification of and selection of exceptional Brazilian students from throughout the country. The course will help educate broad-minded "renaissance engineers" and
will be comprised of between five and seven lectures and a
corresponding number of site visits. All course lectures and formal interaction will take place in English and all participants in the course must be fluent in and comfortable engaging in discussion in English.
Engaging and memorable site visits will be interwoven with lectures to minimize the time between theoretical lectures on a given topic and hands-on experiences related to presentations and discussion. The pace of the field course will be brisk. A rich set of optional readings and supplementary material will be made available via the course website to encourage students to dig deeper in areas of particular interest.
The following Harvard students are encouraged to apply: students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs at SEAS, doctoral students in related disciplines in GSAS, and current graduate students from other Schools across the University (HKS, HBS, HLS, etc.) who hold undergraduate degrees in engineering. There is no foreign language requirement for this course, which is not credit-bearing. Preference will be given to students who have an interest in pursuing related research and/or coursework subsequent to the program’s conclusion. For undergraduates, preference will be given to students in their final two years of study and to those pursuing or planning to pursue senior thesis work that is related to the course’s content.