Spanish

This course introduces computer engineering students to the business side of technology projects. Students learn how to assess not only the technical success of a project but also its economic, financial, and social impact. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, students explore how to make informed decisions about project viability, sustainability, and long-term value creation. This course discusses the importance of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they shape modern business and engineering practices. 

The course is designed to strengthen communication skills in Spanish through grammar, vocabulary, and cultural topics. Students learn to describe people and places, narrate past events, make comparisons, express opinions, and talk about future plans and possibilities.

This course is designed to develop basic language skills for effective communication in everyday situations. Students learn to introduce themselves, talk about daily routines, and describe their immediate surroundings. Emphasis is placed on real-life communication, including expressing opinions and preferences, discussing current actions, and talking about future plans and projects. Through speaking and writing exercises, students gain confidence in using the language in practical, everyday contexts.

A survey of major 20th-century Latin American literary movements and authors, from the avant-garde to magical realism. Topics include: poetic innovation, social commitment, identity, and the evolution of narrative through writers like Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda, Borges, and Carpentier.

This course reviews the world of graphic arts and printed communication—from magazines and brochures to billboards, packaging, and promotional items.  It covers the complete print production workflow, including pre-press, printing, and post-press processes. Students learn how to manage a print project from initial client need to final delivery, exploring the technical and creative aspects of production across various materials and formats.  Special attention is given to selecting the right printing techniques based on project requirements, cost, and intended impact. Students gain hands-on knowledge of how different substrates, formats, and finishes affect the visual and functional outcome of a print product.

Students are expected to have prior experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign). Completion of courses in Graphic Design Tools, Advertising Poster Design, and Art Direction is strongly recommended.

This course is designed to strengthen and refine all four core language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students expand their ability to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts, including discussing present and past events, expressing desires and wishes for the future, and reacting to others. The course also emphasizes the development of argumentative and persuasive language, enabling students to express opinions, agree or disagree, and structure discourse logically. Additional focus areas include describing people and objects, giving instructions and advice, expressing emotions, and preferences.

This course focuses on contemporary fiction that looks to our future as radically dystopian. It explores the reasons for dystopia and the way we construct, through film and literature, images of an uncertain future and the challenges we face as a society. This course also discusses speculative fiction, specifically the impact of scientific and technological development on our society as constructed and proposed through literature and film.   

Pre-requisites: Advanced knowledge of Spanish 

This course explores key elements in the formation of Western thought: the rationalization of Greek myths. It examines how rational thought emerged from mythological frameworks and how similar processes continue today, particularly in relation to information and communication technologies.

This course offers a study of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome from 3700 BCE to 476 CE. It focuses on the historical evolution of political institutions, the global influence of actors, institutions, and processes, the socio-political context of the economic systems in these societies, and how social movements changed social structures. This course also analyzes changes in cultural expressions (art, literature, religion) and their link to historical and political processes.

This course develops Spanish communication skills through integrated practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students refine grammatical accuracy and expand vocabulary to express opinions, compare ideas, describe experiences, and discuss abstract and cultural topics.