Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)

This course covers the overall product design process and context, addressing general concepts of design history and methodology and the fundamentals of user-centric design and sustainability. The class requires a basic design product as a final project. No prior knowledge of design is required. 

The course covers the following topics: 

• Products and their artificial environment: functional history of the industrial product; linking design project with small and medium-sized enterprises, crafts, artisanal communities, production lines, and their role in added value.
• Design Process: methods and their scope; User-Centered Design (UCD); sustainability
• The Language of Form: Form, function and manufacturing; form, function, and expression; 2D Idea Development
• Value Proposition and Validation
• Comprehensive Product Communication

This intermediate level Spanish course focuses on the particularities of the Spanish language. By the end of the course, participants are expected to participate in communicative interactions with Spanish speakers in social and academic settings. It requires prior knowledge of the enunciation system in Spanish: the syntax of simple and compound sentences; the form and function of the parts of speech; simple and compound tenses of the indicative; simple tenses of the subjunctive; the aspectual and modal verb periphrases, and the imperative. The student will be able to interact appropriately in everyday, academic, and work situations in Spanish, being aware of the cultural and social realities of the Hispanic world (CEFR A2). 

The course covers the following topics:

• Interact efficiently in conventional communicative contexts by introducing himself, finding lodging, using transportation, making narrations and getting involved in simple transactions;
• Ask and give information about oneself and other people, personal interests, everyday activities, likes and hobbies;
• Describe and characterize people, things, places, etc.;
• Make hypotheses and predictions about the future;
• Understand simple reading passages;
• Write simple texts, both formal and personal;
• Become aware of the linguistic and cultural diversity in the world and be able to interact in intercultural contexts, and
• Have conscious control over the psychological and affective factors that influence the learning process and use learning processes strategically.

This course provides opportunities to develop proposals for new products and services, using emerging technologies. The class formulates predictive scenarios for strategic decision making, based on the application of the appropriate statistical models. Students apply representation techniques to generate digital graphic reports that will facilitate decision making, using computer tools and visual techniques. The course also distinguishes financing sources, considering their cost, risk and impact on organizations’ financial structure while identifying market needs by obtaining and analyzing primary and secondary multiplatform information. 

This course explores international conflicts; their causes and consequences, as well as actors' interests, positions, and strategic decisions. It provides opportunities for students to analyze causes of conflicts; perform simulated international negotiations, and solve cases to develop their capacity for negotiation strategy design and international agreement implementation. 

The course requires prior knowledge of the evolution of the international system and international relations theories. 

This course explores the development of intercultural competencies and the formation of a global vision. The course analyzes the identity of a nation through its cultural assets; observes the importance of cultural and artistic heritage in the integration of multiculturalism; implements aesthetic analysis on a cultural asset; identifies the organizations dedicated to the protection and safeguarding of heritage, and discerns the contexts and situations of risk in which the possession of heritage generates intercultural conflicts.

This course requires previous knowledge of the enunciation system in Spanish syntax in simple, compound, and complex sentences; form and function of the parts of a sentence; simple and compound tenses of indicative and subjunctive; formal and informal imperative; aspectual and modal verbal periphrases; nonpersonal forms of the verb, and regulating elements and practical and stylistic resources of language. 

Learning outcomes:

• Interact in a variety of situations of social, school, and professional life
• Express opinions and agreement or opposition to ideas expressed by other people
• Make structured presentations, narrations, and descriptions
• Understand the main idea and details in structured speeches on various topics in different contexts
• Fully understand all types of texts
• Write descriptive, narrative, and argumentative texts on topics familiar to the student as biographies, work-related, and academic.

This is course provides a broad context of the history of Mexico from the Revolution to the present day, highlighting the conformation of Mexican national identity from these events.  The course analyzes and evaluates the social, economic, political, and cultural processes of Mexico since the Revolution, fostering an appreciation for the historical importance of modern and contemporary Mexico.

This intermediate international business course solves a challenge related to the internationalization of companies. As a learning outcome, the class develops skills to understand the processes required to conduct business in Mexico using various input methods while grasping the processes involved and, of course, understanding how cultural differences must be analyzed when doing business in an international context.

Course topics include:

• History of Mexico and the political environment
• Mexican economy
• Mexican infrastructure
• Trade agreements
• Cultural patterns and business protocol
• Management styles
• Work and labor conditions in Mexico

This course requires previous knowledge of the enunciation system in Spanish syntax in simple, compound, and complex sentences; form and function of the parts of the sentence; the simple and compound tenses of the indicative and the subjunctive; modal aspectual and verbal periphrases, and the imperative. The goal of the course is for students to interact efficiently and fluently with Spanish speakers in everyday academic and work contexts (CEFR B1.1 level). 

This course addresses concepts related to happiness as a purpose of life; sense of community, and human flourishing, covering topics such as the biopsychosocial self; mentral restructuring; virtue ethics; hedonist ethics; senstiviity; neuroscience and plasticity of the mind; empathy, sense of community; love and attachments, and spirituality. The course focuses on the transformation of the person and the person in society through exercises aligned to academic and scientific concepts.