Spain

This course offers 40 hours of elementary study of Spanish language for students at an A1 to A2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course discusses the theory of market design, its most advanced tools, and their current applications. Topics include: auction theory and matching theory; study of real markets from an allocative and strategic perspective; application of market design tools to the redesign of specific markets.

Topics in this statistics for psychology course include: basic concepts of measurement and types of variables; data summarization and visualization; measures of central tendency, variability, and skewness; measures of association; probability theory; probability distributions of some continuous and discrete random variables; sampling.

This course focuses on the basic concepts of phonetics and phonology and applies them to the phonological system of Spanish. Topics include: physical and physiological characteristics of sounds; articulatory and acoustic classification of Spanish vowels and consonants; variation in the pronunciation of Spanish, including geographical and social varieties of Spanish; the phonological system of Spanish: inventory of phonemes and their characterization by distinctive features; phonological oppositions; the Spanish syllable; prosodic units-- accent and intonation. 

This course covers the basics of radio language and the several expressive and narrative possibilities provided by this medium. It focuses on the most commonly used radio genres: news, reports, interviews, vox pops, and features. At the end of the semester, students produce a 20 minute radio program.  

This course studies the principles of language variation in society with an emphasis on sociolinguistic variation in Spanish. Topics covered include: origins and evolution of sociolinguistics; language, dialects, sociolects; linguistic and social variables; multilingualism, code change, pidgin and creole languages; sociolinguistic research methodology.

This course explores the origin of quantum physics within the philosophical, historical, scientific, and socio-political framework of the 20th century. It discusses the interpretative problems of quantum mechanics, the possible solutions within its philosophical framework, and the consequences of the quantum revolution for the logic of the living and our conception of the world.

Topics in this Educational Research Methods course include: introduction to statistics; types of variables and data characteristics; descriptive analysis for the study of social and educational phenomena; aspects of the logic of statistical interference applied to educational research.

This course provides a study of English literature from its origins to the mid-eighteenth century. It analyzes some of the classic poetry and prose works written in England in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment.

This course offers a study of the physics and psycho-acoustics of music. Topics include: the physics of sound; generation of sound-- instruments; rhythm; pitch and intervals; musical scales; chord progressions; audio illusions and effects; room acoustics; neuromusicology.