Spain

This course discusses disorders or alterations that may appear throughout development-- from childhood to adolescence--, the instruments used to evaluate the symptomatology, and methods for designing disorder-specific interventions.

This course covers the fundamentals of journalistic communication and the techniques and journalistic expression in the audiovisual media. Other topics include: the historical origins of journalistic information; its social, economic and political causes; its evolution and its impact on contemporary societies; rhetoric and argument in informative speeches; theory and analysis of the information in the audiovisual media; and globalization and social change in 21st century journalism.

This course compares the political ecologies of Spain and California, two regions of the world with significantly different environmental histories, political systems, and socio-economic and political actors but strikingly similar Mediterranean type ecosystems. In particular, this course focuses on two crucial environmental issues for both these regions—water and land use—and how these have emerged as central items in the political agendas in both regions. The course explores the nature of the so-called “water wars” in California and Spain and how both regions have attempted to reconcile conflicting public and private interests over water use rights. It also looks at landscape planning and how urbanization has often ignored crucial ecological disturbance processes, such as landscape fires, with unforeseen and often catastrophic consequences. The class excursions include a visit to the public company that provides water to the Madrid region, the Canal de Isabel II, to learn about water policy in Madrid, and to the chestnut forest ecosystems of two different autonomous regional community governments in Avila and Madrid to witness the diverging impacts of different governance policies on the same natural system. A meeting with representatives of the Ministry of the Environment to learn about landscape planning is also scheduled.

This course offers a study of the Spanish language, including the historical and cultural contexts for language development and evolution, from Latin to medieval and classical Spanish, and finally to Contemporary Spanish.

This course discusses the Spanish economy, its current state and recent developments in different areas such as economic growth, productive structure, economic institutions, labor and capital markets, macroeconomic policies, and external sector.

The course studies the goals and tools of public policy in the economic sector. Topics covered include: economic policy theory; economic well-being; Keynesian economics; schools of economic policy; institutionalism; public choice theory; monetarism and new classic macroeconomics; price equilibrium and employment; growth, rent distribution, and quality of life; monetary policy; fiscal policy; and supply policy. Previous study of micro- and macroeconomics is recommended.

This course provides a study of continuous and discrete-time signals and LTI (linear and time-invariant) systems in the time and frequency domain. Topics covered include: signals; systems; Fourier series representation of continuous-time periodic signals and sequences; continuous-time Fourier transform; sampling; Laplace transform and z-transform. Students are expected to have completed coursework in calculus and linear algebra.

This course offers an introduction to the various forms of territorial organization in contemporary societies. Topics include: the Industrial Revolution and the new European map; colonization of Africa and Asia; world conflicts and totalitarianism; the Cold War; de-colonization and the third world; political transformations in Latin America; the European Union; the current geopolitical framework.