If you'd like to learn about some provocative, powerful, and promising ideas that will shape the future, take this course. We will view and discuss short (20m) curated presentations recorded at Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conferences held at global venues over the past 35 years. Today TED events cover almost all topics - from science to business to global issues. Three TEDtalks videos will be shown each week, followed by interactive classroom discussion. Themes for our weekly conversations are based on the following TED-curated video playlists: "How to pop our filter bubbles"; "Are you there, God?"; [World Wonders]; "Can you believe your eyes?"; "How to be a better you"; "What's the secret to living longer?".