Academic Courses: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Course number: 82031

Teaching method: Lesson and workshop

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Understanding, reading and writing English at a good level

This course will bring together students from different faculties, introduce them to the field of entrepreneurship, examine how to create and turn an idea into entrepreneurship, how to build a multidisciplinary team and approach the construction of a project based on such a team.

Course number: 83004

Teaching method: Workshop

Weekly hours: 5 hours for 5 days

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: Submission of a proposal for a final project and assessment of suitability by the lecturers

The "Application of Innovation and Creativity in My Final Project" workshop is a focused interdisciplinary acceleration course, designed for students from all faculties at the institute, who are in the initial formulation stage of their final project.  

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Course number: 84093

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

The aim of the course is to provide students with the ability to academically analyze the characteristics of communication, in light of the current reality. The course examines the role of communication in society and focuses on approaches that examine the complexities of the social influences of communication.

During the lectures there will be a discussion on the impact of the media, on topics such as: how an agenda is set, how to create a media reality, what are the factors influencing media activity and what is their impact on political, social, cultural and economic decision-making processes; How to create communication policy and what is media manipulation, and how can the behavior of the media audiences and the manner in which commercial, public and political bodies address these audiences be characterized as they are expressed in Israeli society today.

Course number: 82032

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: English exemption or English course
Advanced 2 - Level A.

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Students will become familiar with the language of academic and technological research and improve their written and oral English communication skills, learn to navigate academic literature, summarize and synthesize research papers, present research through writing and speaking, so that they can compete in academia and industry.

The course will train students in advanced reading, writing and presentation of skills and strategies.  Language skills will be learned as a means of improving reading and writing. Improving writing, presentation and speaking skills will assist students in presenting their final projects as well as coping with professional or academic situations. 

Course number: 84092

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

We live in a global village, where advanced means of communication have turned the planet into one environment, and all its inhabitants are able to communicate and exchange information with each other in real time.

The course examines the interrelationship between the development of technology and the development of human society. Tracking these interactions can teach us a great deal about our lives today, the possibilities that open up before us, and the problems we face. This understanding will help us make responsible and considered decisions that relate to the essence of our present and future lives. The course will focus on the social changes that arise as a result of the transition to the post-industrial information society and will include a discussion in which students will analyze ways to deal with the current and future challenges of the information society.

Course number: 84078

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2 hours

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

This course provides students with basic tools for understanding and analyzing the concept of sustainability as a social, moral and environmental conception that next balances the needs of human beings in the current generation for the conservation of natural and environmental resources for the needs of future generations.

The course will encourage "sustainable thinking" and decision-making characterized by a broad view of the reality that balances technological development and modernization with the efficient management of natural resources and social needs.

Course number: 84098

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: Minimum Level A in English

The course is taught in English

Social networks have become an active factor in information society politics, and the technology revolution has made communication more accessible than ever.

The public does not watch media as passively as in the past and can directly influence the media and public debate. In this course, we will examine how the Internet and new media have influenced the ways in which the public needs news and how it changes public attitudes in the political process. We will further assess whether the public is getting more information today or whether the internet has become a factor that conveys targeted information to target audiences.

Course number: 88058

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

This course provides tools for understanding the processes of globalization with an emphasis on historical, social, economic and technological aspects. Some believe that we live today in a "global village" where everything is close, accessible and available, and some believe that this process has devastating consequences, such as the expansion of the cycle of poverty or the erosion of national identities.

We will address the historical roots of globalization and its implications for the modern society in which we live. We will get to know the development of the "Global Village" in its various stages, from the development of global trade following the discovery of America, through the Industrial Revolution to the digital age of today. We will also examine the changes that Israel is undergoing as part of global processes in the last generation.

Course number: 84119

Teaching method: Lesson and practice

Weekly hours: 4 hours

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: None

In this course, students will learn how to implement a marketing strategy for the success of a social organization, and will meet with social organizations and special populations and help promote them. Students will meet with an existing organization, accompany it throughout the course, analyze and characterize the existing situation and adapt for it a relevant and feasible marketing plan for future growth.  
 

The course will deal with the main steps for effective market analysis: characterization of business and marketing, marketing and social goals, analysis of the organization's internal and external environment, understanding business activities, identifying customer needs and the nature of competition, and will be accompanied by industry experts.

Course number: 84060

Teaching method: Workshop

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 4

Requirements: None

The course provides participants with practical tools for initiating, organizing and managing social projects. Participants will develop their ability to harness people to projects and overcome difficulties during project implementation. This is the basis for an initiated social-community project, in which the tools learned in the course are applied and practiced. The project is carried out by the course students in a social-community setting outside the institute.

Course number: 84084

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

The aim of the course is to provide conceptual, methodological and practical tools for a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of human creativity, which will be channeled to foster creativity while customizing in a variety of areas of practice, including design and technology. As a means of realizing these tools, the course will expose students to theoretical insights from a variety of disciplines relating to different aspects of creativity, its practical practice, and will accompany and guide them in independent research and development processes of personal ideas for cultivation.   

Course number: 82033

Teaching method: Workshop

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: None

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The aim of the course is to provide an in-depth understanding of the world of digital medicine in the field of information systems, services and the use of technologies for the purpose of providing treatment, communication with the patient and between the various therapists.

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Course number: 84099

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: English Level B and above

The course is taught in English
 

Where does entrepreneurship and innovation come from - two critical characteristics for business development, economic growth and progress. This course examines the history of entrepreneurship and innovation - how new ideas grow and what enabled them to flourish and bring prosperity.

Course number: 82026

Teaching method: lesson + project facilitation

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: None

Facial expressions reflect emotions and intentions better than words. Automatic identification of credible and false emotions and messages is extremely important, among other things, for the purpose of identifying intentions for terrorist acts of terrorists. Streams of immigrants flooding European and other countries around the world have led researchers and security officials to seek an innovative solution to identifying malicious intent among immigrants.

Course number: 82020

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

The development of anonymous networks and the expansion of their use have created a re-conceptualization of the basic concepts related to searching for information on the Internet and modes of Internet activity, and have created an Internet "underworld" whose impact is growing, changes that will be discussed and learned in the course.

Course number: 82028

Teaching method: Lecture (frontal and recorded)

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

The course will provide students with an understanding of the macro level of the various programming languages and the breadth of the various paradigms in the field. Students will learn how to characterize software systems in visual programming languages. Ways to create behavior, such as demonstration programming, will also be taught. Students will become familiar with innovative interfaces such as language, voting and more, and will experience describing accurate behavior in formal visual languages.

Course number: 82016

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

Our lives have changed beyond recognition over the last few decades with the advancement of technology, and especially with the development of cyberspace, which is blurring familiar boundaries between countries. The daily lives of citizens, the economies of the countries of the world and the activity of the various infrastructures increasingly depend on their ability to operate in this space.

Course number: 82013

Teaching method: Teaching, practical project

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Intended for students from all undergraduate faculties starting in the third year.

The course reviews the world of wearable computing with an emphasis on designing and developing solutions and products that combine design emphases on the one hand, and engineering and computational technology on the other.

Course number: 82024

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2

Credits:  2

Prerequisites: None

Biological clocks have been known for many years as process pacemakers in the animal and plant world. The functioning of the clock as well as the activity and interaction between the various clocks in the body have effects on the functioning of the physiological, cognitive and mental systems and therefore implications on all walks of life: functioning in daily life, sleep, learning ability, cognitive abilities and mental states in health and patients.

Course number: 82025

Teaching method: Lesson + project

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites for the course - personal interview

The course will deal with various aspects of designing and developing a social robot system. This complex issue is technological and design in nature but is greatly influenced by social aspects and their impact on the choice of technological solutions while respecting human engineering issues as well as understanding the scope of operation and use of these robotic systems.

Course number: 82012

Teaching method: Workshop

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: None

Biomimicry is a multidisciplinary discipline that learns about the relationship between the structure and function of systems in nature, and utilizes this knowledge to inspire the design and development of new technologies and products. In this course students will expose and learn through PBL (learning through projects) about important biological systems, analyze them and examine what principles can be learned from them, and how these principles can be used in solving problems and challenges facing humanity today. Because biomimicry is essentially a multidisciplinary subject, students from different faculties will study and work on this course together. Graduates of the course will have practical tools for developing innovative products in biomimicry approaches.

Course number: 82017

Teaching method: Lesson

Weekly hours: 2 hours

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

The course provides knowledge on topics related to design, art and mathematics, and especially geometry and symmetry. In this course we will explain what the existing symmetries are, how to tile a plane, what is the difference between a mathematical look at symmetry and its patterns and an artistic approach. We will try to determine when an oriental floor pattern is equivalent to another oriental pattern. Next we will characterize surfaces and determine how a shape can be folded according to its axes of symmetry. Finally we will define what fractals are and how they are expressed in nature and art. 

Course number: 82035

Teaching method: Lesson + project facilitation

Weekly hours: 4

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: None

This course places the human connection at the center of the medical encounter, and harnesses the technology in favor of improving this interaction. The topics that are emphasized are: the challenges of communication in contemporary public medicine with an emphasis on time constraints, multicultural medicine and defensive medicine, increasing empathy in a therapist-patient encounter, dealing with situations of lack of communication as a result of the patient's condition. Students will work on projects on these topics that will be examined from different disciplinary perspectives: technological, biological, psychological, and sociological.