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This course provides a broad introduction to the history of Western classical music by representative composers, examining the styles and structures of this music and its relationships within historical contexts.  

Students will learn about the lives of and listen to major works by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and others to be announced.  

This course is an introduction to the field of health economics, a rapidly growing field of applied economics. Economic concepts such as scarcity, incentives, marginal analysis, profit maximization, and cost-minimization will be used throughout this course. Students will analyze this important sector using economic analysis methods.  

Topics include the production of health capital; demand-and-supply analysis of health and medical care; the production of health; asymmetric information in insurance markets; the role of government in the provision of health care; economics of mental health and happiness; and health policy debates in developing countries. 

This course traces the main historical contexts in which democracy has emerged as an idea, practice, and set of institution. Main thinkers on democracy are read and discussed on the basis of primary sources. Their ideas are interpreted in the historical context of transforming practices and institutional change. Historical explanations and philosophical interpretations of democratization and de-democratization are analyzed in their interaction.

The cooperation of people from different disciplinary backgrounds is becoming increasingly important in developing knowledge and solutions in a complex world. This course explores how knowledge is created in and across disciplines, specifically by examining intersection between Computer Science and the disciplines of the Humanities commonly known as the Digital Humanities. It illustrates the potential benefits of and challenges to these interactions, by examining both emerging digital technologies and the traditional roots of cultural production such as language, historical records and institutions, and the arts. 

The course is intended to be a (non-exhaustive) survey of regression techniques from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Time permitting, the methods students study include: exploratory data analysis, simple linear regression; multiple linear regression; regression with categorical variables; regression with interaction terms; polynomial regression; model selection for multiple linear models; and regression diagnostics.

The course examines specific hurdles of entrepreneurs and tech startups, including limited budgets, market uncertainties, and the need for rapid adaptation. Students will learn how to define and size their market opportunity, identify their target audience, and effectively communicate with their audience to maximize impact with minimal resources, a crucial skill in the fast-paced world of tech entrepreneurship. 

The course familiarizes students with core concepts and techniques used in farm financial management. It teaches students concepts that assist with appraisal of farm financial management performance and enable informed business decision making. Students study techniques and principles of farm business financial analysis, planning, and strategic decision-making. Topics include operational and strategic principles of farm business management; preparation and analysis of basic farm management accounts; application of farm planning techniques: enterprise, partial and whole farm budgets; farm financial control and cash flow budgeting; and assessment and management of risk in farm decision-making.

In this course, students identify the main historical phases in the development of Spanish, from its Latin roots to the modern language it is today.  Students learn to appreciate the influence of the different language varieties which shared, or share with Spanish the geographical space of the Iberian Peninsula, on its linguistic structures. This course helps students recognize the role of the Castilian dialect as the basis of Modern Spanish, and defines the process of its standardization. Students will discuss the role of Spanish as the primary medium of Spanish colonization.

This course covers the topic of food to explore the history of Mexico and its diaspora from the time of the Conquest, with a particular focus on food as national and cultural identity as reflected in cinema and literature. It will also explore how food provides a multifaceted lens through which to examine issues such as food and poverty, food as a transnational site of both community and exclusion, and ecological issues, such as control of natural resources essential to food production and security. Students will examine the topic of food as both a political issue and a source of creative inspiration through our analysis of texts, art, films and television series.