Spain

This course offers a study of the structural, formal, and thematic characteristics of literary texts. Topics include: literature as a communicative language-- text and context; textual cohesion and textual pragmatics; the literary text-- nature, properties, and study methods; theory and praxis of text analysis and its typologies-- narrative, essayistic, lyrical, and dramatic.

This course offers an introduction to the general laws of mechanics, thermodynamics, fields, waves, electromagnetism, and their application to the resolution of engineering problems. Pre-requisites: calculus and linear algebra.

This course is a study of consumer behavior and the variables affecting the purchasing decision process. It reviews the characteristics of consumer behavior, including internal variables such as motivations of buying behavior and the perception of marketing stimuli, as well as external socio-cultural demographic variables.

This course analyzes the economics of different types of tourism companies. It focuses on ownership and management functions including strategic, tactical, and operative decisions of tourism companies. This course also discusses the main socio-cultural impacts of tourism.

This course offers a study of stochastic processes. Topics include: discrete time Markov chains; renewal theory and Poisson process; continuous time Markov chains; Brownian motion. Pre-requisite: Probability 

This course offers a study of film and tv in Spain including basic concepts, approaches, and methodologies of analysis. Topics include: historical periods and social, cultural, and aesthetic keys; film and tv canon-- authorship and popular cinema; issues, questions, and cases of film and tv in Spain. Prior academic-level knowledge of Spanish history from 1940-1992 is strongly recommended.

This course examines a wide range of quantitative methods for the empirical analysis of microeconomic decisions. Topics include: maximum likelihood estimator; qualitative binary decisions-- binary choice models; other qualitative dependent variable models-- ordered, multivariant, and counting models; decisions with corner solutions-- censored models; Monte Carlos simulation. Pre-requisites: An introductory course in Econometrics. Knowledge of the econometric software gretl is recommended.

This course explores the principles of civil, commercial, and labor law pertaining to economics. It discusses legal entities, the framework of the entrepreneur (including labor-management relations), free competition, copyright/intellectual property and patent/industrial rights, and consumer protection law or company insolvency.

This is the first semester of the year-long Spanish Pragmatics course. It analyzes both oral and written Spanish language structures through theoretical and contextual frameworks of language use.

This course offers an introduction to computers with topics including: representation of digital information; specification and implementation of combinational systems; basic combinational modules; specification and implementation of sequential systems; basic sequential modules; design practices of combinational and sequential circuits.