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This course offers a study of the foundations and applications of the interdisciplinary field of consumer behavior. It explores the internal, cognitive, and emotional motivations that drive individual consumers. It also discusses how external and exogenous influences affect buyers, taking into consideration socioeconomic, generational, gender, and cultural idiosyncrasies.

This course uses economic models and data-analysis techniques to study the demand and supply of education. It analyzes the role of education in economic development, the effects and reasons for the role of the public sector in education, and answers to the key questions about current education policies. Other topics include: education policy, theoretical foundations and proper methodology for estimating demand and supply models, the main results and limitations of existing empirical research and evidence, the production and quality of education, and the financing of compulsory and higher education. Previous coursework in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and applied economics is required.

This course provides an analysis of communication and information in the contemporary world. It covers terminology, concepts and main theories, as well as practical implications in the field.

This course provides a study of requirements engineering, conceptual modeling with UML, and architectural modeling with UML. It discusses the process of analysis, design, and troubleshooting of applications and systems, ensuring their reliability, security, and quality in accordance with ethical principles and existing legislation and regulation. 

This course offers an introduction to databases. Topics include: the entity relationship model; the relational database model; relational algebra; structured query language (SQL); procedural languages for SQL; triggers; transactions and concurrency control.

This course analyzes, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the social, political, legal, and economic problems within International Studies. Students select a research question that seeks to respond to a real legal, economic, social, or political problem and then develop a research project to present at the end of the term.

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.