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The course examines the key economic challenges facing developing countries understand why some nations remain poor while others achieve sustained growth. Blending macro and micro perspectives, the course covers a wide range of topics including inequality, poverty, health, education, nutrition, labor markets, migration, gender dynamics, agriculture, and institutions.

This course offers a critical study of the conditions of cultural production, its formalization as a changing ideological foundation, and the mechanisms of selection, transmission, and reception throughout various historical periods. It explores how classical ideas were preserved and transformed in medieval and Renaissance Europe. This course also discusses the role of gender, education, and politics in shaping culture, from cathedral schools and early universities to humanist learning. It examines how culture was produced and shared and how intellectuals connected knowledge, power, and creativity across the centuries. 

Pre-requisites: Culture in Its Historical Dimension 

Within the framework of statistical logic and while utilizing R programming skills, this course engages in data analysis, computer simulation, and quantitative analysis. It equips learners with fundamental R programming skills applicable to statistical learning and practical applications.

This course offers a study of Spain’s history during the Modern Age, from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. It explores political, social, and cultural transformations that shaped Spain’s rise and decline as an empire. This course focuses on the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs and the Habsburgs, Golden Age culture, and Bourbon reformism. It also discusses Spain’s global legacy and its lasting impact on today’s society. 

This course examines the historical evolution of communication technologies and their impact on society. It explores topics such as the internet, mobile communication, digital inequality, privacy, and artificial intelligence. This course focuses on developing critical and ethical perspectives toward the use of digital media and understanding the social, economic, and educational effects of digitalization. 

This course offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of economic thought from its early foundations to contemporary developments. It examines how economic thinking has responded to changing historical, political, and social contexts, and how major economists—such as Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Keynes, and others—have shaped our understanding of economic behavior and policy. 

This course explores how media impacts how one sees oneself and how they interact with others. The course includes activities that navigate the changing tides and positions others bring to mediated communications, confrontation, friendship-making, and collegiality. 

This course covers the way in which phonological theories provide understanding of phonological alternations in human language. It introduces a variety of recent phonological theories, including but not limited to, constraint-based theory; agreement-by-correspondence theory, and theory of phonology-syntax interface. 

This course offers a study of the key concepts and methods of Statistical Learning by focusing on regression and classification in high-dimensional settings. Students model and analyze complex data, apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, and use computational tools for data analysis. This course puts special emphasis on problem formulation, variable selection, and practical implementation using modern software. 

Pre-requisites: Basics of Statistics 

This course focuses on essential training in international project management methodologies, techniques, and tools. Emphasizing both traditional and agile approaches, it explores how organizations manage change through projects in complex global environments.