Carlos III University of Madrid

This course offers a study of databases. Topics include: information systems, databases, and database management systems; modeling methodologies; management of semi-structured and complex data, distributed and noSQL databases; relational databases; design of a database-- relational model; query languages-- SQL language; noSQL databases; comparison of relational databases to new noSQL stores; noSQL database types, installation, use, and deployment.

  This course discusses Spanish politics. Topics include: important moments of the Spanish political process; the party systems in Spain and their transformations; partisan actors in the Spanish political system; non-partisan actors in the Spanish political system.

This course provides research training for students through placement in a laboratory at Carlos III University of Madrid. Students carry out an original research project under the supervision and guidance of assigned faculty members. The specific topic studied depends on the faculty in charge of the laboratory in which each student is assigned. At the conclusion of the program, students submit their final work (paper, presentation, report, etc.) as instructed by their lab supervisors

This course is divided into two parts: the first covers the conceptual and methodological framework of historical sociology and research design in comparative sociology; the second part examines institutions and central topics in historical sociology such as types of social power and the evolution of empires, organization sources of the modern state, political institutions and social revolutions, etc.

This course offers an introduction to aerospace propulsion. Topics include: aircraft engine modeling-- the turbojet; component matching and off-design operation; turbofan engines; inlets and nozzles; principles of compressors and fans; compressor blading, design, and multi-staging; turbines, stage characteristics, and degree of reaction; turbine solidity, mass flow limits, and internal cooling; film cooling, thermal stresses, and impingement; combustion-- combustors and pollutants; engine noise and aeroacoustics; engine rotating structures; rotordynamics.

The class presents a historical analysis of economic events and changes. Students examine the evolution in the quality of life; Western industrialization; convergence in various historical periods; the evolution of international economics; and institutions and development. Other topics include: modern economic growth; institutions and markets; population and natural resources; contemporary business; globalization; technological change and growth. NOTE: course is the same as ECON/HIST 103, but taught in English.