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This course offers a study of the risks arising from climatic, hydrological, and internal and external geodynamic and biological processes. It discusses the social repercussions of extreme events, the approach to preventative and mitigation measures, and the response of land use planning. This course analyzes extreme episodes of natural and associated risks including the extent to which they are influenced by direct anthropic intervention in the biophysical environmental and by the variability of natural factors.
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This course offers an introduction to statistical modeling. Topics include: introduction to statistical inference; confidence intervals for a single sample; test of hypotheses for a single sample; statistical inference for two samples; analysis of variance; goodness of fit tests.
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This course offers a study of the use of computational tools to solve specific and simple problems in different fields of physics. Topics include: operating systems and programming languages; interpolation and roots of functions; numerical integration; random numbers and Monte Carlo integration; ordinary differential equations; partial differential equations.
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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.
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This course examines the main contributions of contemporary sociological theory, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. It discusses contemporary sociology theory and its practical applications. The course is divided into three units: objectivist theories; subjectivitist theories; dual-process theorys-- systems and subjects.
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This course offers a study of the theory of social movements including features of social movements and key components for the emergence and development of social movements. It examines the history of social movements in three periods: 19th and 20th centuries (up to the 1960s); 1960s-1980s; 1990 to present. Finally, this course discusses specific social movements such as labor, racial and cultural rights, nationalism, feminism, environmentalism, LGBT, etc.
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This course offers a practical introduction to critical skills for managers including critical thinking, negotiation, flexibility, people management, and more. It explores why these management capabilities are important to success in managerial roles. This course also delves into sustainable business management including global sustainable models, trade, industry, consumption, trends, strategies, key sectors, policy, and more.
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This course examines historical changes and the role of health and disease in the contemporary world. Topics include: health and disease in the Middle Ages and Renaissance-- modern medicine in context; scientific knowledge of disease; from public hygiene to social medicine; official medicine and folk medicine; prevention of disease; institutions; other medicines; current challenges.
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