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This course focuses on the Google search engine and its online advertising platform Google Ads. It offers a study of how search engines work-- page indexing and ordering of results-- and the composition of search engine results pages.

This course explores the most serious challenges facing democracies today including social inequalities, national security, climate change, and the rise of nationalism and populism and how each European Union member state might autonomously handle economic and institutional crises. It focuses on European Union countries and, in particular, Spain as a case-studies.

This course offers a study of the fundamentals of business management and organization for future engineers. It offers an introduction to private companies and their institutional, legal, and environmental framework. The course discusses the role of engineering and engineers in business management. Other topics include: financial management; strategic management; marketing and sales management; human resource management; role of engineering and engineers in business administration. 

This course is a study of industrial operations management. It begins with an introductory survey on supply chain management before continuing into a more in-depth look at various constituent factors. Topics of study include: procurement management and supplier relations, inventory management, production planning, enterprise resources, control of production, lean manufacturing, and current issues and trends in the field.

This course explores the historical evolution of the United States in its principal political, demographic, economic, social, and cultural manifestations, as well as in its international relations. 

The course analyzes culture as an ethical construction, and ethics as cultural production. Topics include: culture, identity, and processes of subjectivation; ideology; hegemony, culture, and common sense; cultural criticism and emancipation; cultural distinction and exclusion; normative potential of the awareness of injustice in subordinate groups; ethical and epistemic decolonization processes; the multiculturalist program and its failures; interculturality and intersectionality.

The course presents students with a study of twentieth and twenty-first century English-language literature. It focuses on the cultural and historical context of these works. Topics include: Gender at the turn of the 20th century; modernism, formal experimentation, and the horror of the Great War; protest literature; post-World War II literature; rediscovering the margins; the visibility of sexuality, ethnicity, and gender; the 21st century.

This course offers an introduction to the design of medical instrumentation. Topics include: signal amplification; signal filtering; electrical safety; electrocardiology; electroencephalography; other biopotential recordings-- EMG, ENG, ERG, EOG; biopotential amplifiers; electrodes and electrolytes; sensors-- biophysics, design, applications; introduction to signal digitalization; therapeutic and prosthetic devices; pressure and sound measurements; flow and volume measurements; introduction to optical measurement systems. 

Prerequisites: Introduction to Bioengineering, Electronic Technology in Biomedicine, Measuring Instrumentation, Signals and Systems, or Digital Signal Processing.

This course on the psychology of education is divided into three parts: challenges and objectives for the psychology of education in the 21st century; informal education--family education, new information and communication technologies; formal education including motivation, diversity, and school management.