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This course examines the mission and philosophy of psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation, and key implementation issues related to the psychiatric rehabilitation and treatment process.

This course examines food systems and environments around the world. Topics covered include global food production and trade, agribusiness, food culture and politics, genetic engineering and organic food, food security and sovereignty, healthy dietary habits, sustainable food policy, Hong Kong and Chinese food culture, and the future of food. 

This course introduces capital markets, namely Foreign Exchange Market, Bond Market, Equity Market, and Derivatives through case studies.  The class will monitor current events & main indexes (FX, Stock prices, and Interest Rates) to apply to the material under study. This is a prerequisite course to Corporate Finance and Valuation.

The course covers the following topics:

• The Money Markets and The Foreign Exchange Market
• Major Government Bond Markets, Bond price sensitivity, and The Yield curve
• Credit spread, Securitization, and Equity Markets & Equity Investment
• Equity Fundamental Analysis and Cash Flow Models in Equity Valuation
• Interest Rate Forwards & Futures and Bond Futures
• Interest Rate Swaps and Interest Rate Swap Valuation
• Equity Index Futures & Swaps and Fundamentals of Options
• Option Valuation Models

This course offers an introduction to robotics. Topics include: perception in robotics; actuation in robotics; navigation; processing elements; decision-making in robotics; human-robot interaction; novel applications.

This course provides a study of the main characteristics of the media system within a globalized framework and examines the effects on journalistic information of a media economy focused on large communication groups, as well as large internet and telecommunications companies. Topics covered include: cultural industries in Spain; the Spanish press and television markets; Spanish communication groups; the European media system; response to traditional content companies; the intersection of internet companies, telecommunication companies and content companies.

The course explores the purposes, substantive issues, and content of the primary social studies curriculum. It further examines innovative approaches to designing and implementing social studies curricula for primary schools.

In this course, students use design principles to develop their creative potential and practice design thinking using a people-centered approach to solve problems and create new possibilities. Through practical activities, students discover tools and mindsets that guide them in navigating ambiguity in a creative process, observing and learning from others in unfamiliar contexts, and generating and experimenting with ideas quickly. 

This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include planar and spatial kinematics, and motion planning; mechanism design for manipulators and mobile robots; multi-body dynamics; control design, actuators, and sensors; sensing and perception to enable intelligent behavior; and computer vision. Weekly laboratories provide experience with servo drives, real-time control, task modelling and embedded software. Students will build working robotic systems in a group-based term project.