Mexico

This course offers an introduction to mobile computing and the development of mobile applications. Students test the environment and components of mobile computing systems and build applications for smart clients.

The course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to translation and translation studies. It discusses seminal theorists on the topic of translation including Jakobson, Benjamin, Schleiermacher, and Tymoczko. This course examines key translation concepts such as fidelity, loyalty, equivalence, and types of translation. 

This course offers an overview of Spanish-language literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, including peninsular and Latin American literature. Topics include: post-Renaissance and Baroque literature; Spanish Golden Age theater; Conceptism and Gongorism; the essay genre; the epistolary genre and social criticism; the fabulist genre in the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism; the dramatic genre.

This course examines characteristics of Mexican literature in the first half of the 19th century, between the beginning of Independence to the Restored Republic, relating literary discourse and trends with political events and the cultural panorama. Topics covered include: "encyclopedist thinking" and neoclassical rhetoric; the neoclassicists and romanticists (origins, characteristics of nationalistic poetry, the Academy of Letran); life in Mexico; prose. Authors covered may include: J. J. Fernández de Lizardi, Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza, Ignacio Rodríguez Galván and Fernando Calderón; Guillermo Prieto; Vicente Riva Palacio; Luis G. Inclán; Manuel Payno; Ignacio Manuel Altamirano; José Joaquín Pesado; José Justo Gómez.

This course offers an introduction to the design, construction, and efficient use of databases, with a focus on relational databases. Topics include: data models; database modeling using the entity/relationship model; relational model; database design; SQL query language; views; integrity; transaction processing.

This course offers an introduction to the processes that shaped the Old World, the way the first civilizations came into being and their cultures established. Topics include: the origins of agriculture; ceramics and writing, particularly in the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; the emergence of states, cities, and complex societies; the urban revolution; geographic characteristics, architecture, religion, and social and political structures in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

This five-week intensive summer course is intended for advanced heritage language learners -- students who have native or near-native language skills in Spanish -- who have had some formal instruction in the language. It concentrates on improving students' ability to write academic Spanish. It requires heavy assignments of written work and the review and correction of assignments based on extensive, detailed comments by the instructor.