Spain

This course focuses on concepts that enable the integrated application of management, control, and development processes in the software development life cycle. Topics include: modern software development methodologies; software or service initial offer; software configuration management; quality management; feasibility analysis; software projects estimation, planning, analysis, and design techniques; tools to support management, control, and development processes.

This course offers an introduction to entrepreneurship. Topics include: innovation and blue ocean strategy; idea generation; lean start-up, minimum viable product (MVP), and prototyping; project management; communication, pitch, and negotiation; legal aspects of a start-up, start-up funding.

This course offers a study of programming technology. Topics include: object oriented design and patterns; generics and creation of collections; graphical user interface; model view controller threats; programming with threads. 

The course provides students with a study of the history and culture of the British Isles necessary to contextualize coursework in British and Irish literature. Major themes include the physical and human geography of the region as well as the political, social, and religious organization of the area.

The course analyzes the Spanish novel with an emphasis on realism and naturalism. Topics include theory, criticism, and the novels; the origin of realism and the tendentious novel; the work of Benito Pérez Galdós and other contemporary Spanish novels; the work of Leopoldo Alas; and Emilia Pardo Bazán and short stories.

This course explores the use of different methods of production and drawing techniques and technologies. Topics include: human morphology, canon, and proportions; osteology; myology; comparative anatomy.

This course focuses on the structure and functioning of audiovisual texts. It offers a detailed study of the different elements of film grammar (mise-en-scène, framing, editing, sound) and analyzes a wide range of content from different historical periods. This course discusses topics such as space, time, verisimilitude, and gaze. It also explores narrative models, film genre, and feminist criticism applied to film analysis.

This course explores the mechanisms of developmental biology. Topics include: early development and developmental stages; developmental genetics and developmental molecular and cell biology; morphogenesis and organogenesis; regeneration, stem cells, aging, and biomedical implications of developmental biology.

This course provides students with the opportunity to read some of the best known short stories from Spain and Latin America. It presents literary terminology to better analyze the literary works and learn the fundamental techniques of short story writing in order to write their own short story. The course presents a brief historical and chronological review of the Spanish and Latin American roots of the genre to focus on the principal examples of the short story since the Middle Ages. Emphasis is placed on the developments of the modern short story during the 20th century. Students explore the different manifestations of the genre according to the literary, social and aesthetic movements and trends (modernism, vanguard, expressionism, surrealism, and magical realism). The course examines the skills of short story writing, including form, plot, characterization, dialogue, style, imagery, and narrative voice.