Academy for Humanities & Engineering at The American School of Kuwait

Program Summary

The Humanities & Engineering Institute explores essential technological, philosophical, and cultural questions pertinent to life in the 21st century. Students participate as researchers, engineers, and ethical and creative contributors to an academic community. In the Computer Science strand, students gain expertise in coding, app development, and web design, applying their skills to real-world projects. In the Humanities strand, students analyze and create dynamic texts in a range of media.

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Further Details

Foundations-Level Course

 

Selfie: Representing the Self

The foundations-level course explores how we create our identities and represent ourselves in the social world. Course participants will critically and imaginatively investigate the choices we make as we capture our self-image, revise and reframe it, and make it public in social media, personal websites, and personal essays. Students will identify and solve problems through real-world applications of front-end programming (i.e., HTML, CSS, and Javascript), web development, and graphic design as they create websites that represent their interests, questions, and discoveries. Writing (and capturing photos and videos) for a range of audiences and purposes students will cultivate a personal voice. Throughout the course, students will analyze texts in a variety of media—verbal, visual, and digital—learning to become more attuned to their own noticings and to use their personal responses to make a contribution to a community of learners. A culminating project for the course will be the development, design, and coding of a personal website to be shared in our symposium with an audience of other students, parents, and faculty.

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