Spain

This course explores works of the Baroque period from the 17th century to the end of the 18th century including architecture, sculpture, and painting.

This course covers the main theoretical and empirical developments in strategic management. It examines competitive strategies, corporate strategies, international strategies, and strategic alliances, among others. 

This course covers materials, technique, resources, and strategies in sculptural production. It also considers issues of structure and artistic object in the creative process, as well as research processes and overall creativity in artistic production.

This course explores literature and thought in the Spanish enlightenment. Topics include: conditions and limits of the enlightenment as a form of critical regerationism in 18th century Spain; aesthetics of the enlightenment and the role of neoclassicism; enlightenment reformism in the Spain of Charles III and Charles IV; reformism theater; evolution of narrative forms throughout the 18th century.

This course is designed to develop the written and oral language skills for students at the B1.2 level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). The course has four specific objectives and employs a variety of assignments to meet them. The first objective is to develop the students' capacity to reflect on their language use, improving and personalizing the learning process. The second is to increase the ability to report on events in a clear and detailed manner while widening their knowledge of contemporary culture and geography. The third is to enhance the students' ability to extract information from news sources and to formulate hypotheses based on their reading. The fourth objective is to strengthen the students' ability to compose complex arguments of a political nature and to debate these items in open discussions.

The course presents a practical and theoretical study of radio production, broadcasting, and recording. It examines radio as a communication medium and the technical components to develop radio programming. Principal topics include the fundamentals of radio broadcasting; technical and operational components; reading and writing; the functions of a producer; scripts; radio genres (fact, fiction, and opinion); types of stations and programming; target audiences; commercials; and selling air-time.

This course explores key social science concepts like integration and cooperation of particular relevance for analyzing specific development problems in Latin America and Iberia such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, rural stagnation, and regional relations among different Latin American countries, integration politics, panamericanism, and globalization.