Spanish

This course offers a study of public management and administration. Topics include: political system and public administration; key factors in designing public administration structures; evolution of public management; strategies and instruments for the improvement of public management; conflict, interests, and power networks in public administrations; public values and organizational culture; public sector models and comparative public managements.

This course offers a study of the Spanish Golden Age. Topics include: the Modern Age and the history of Spain; novels of Captain Alatriste; Habsburg Spain and the Spanish monarchy; government and institutions; society and privilege; society and marginalization; women and their image in the Golden Age; Madrid, court of the Habsburgs; Culture and art-- from the Renaissance to the Baroque; culture and society-- education; written culture-- books, reading, and writing; culture and spectacle-- the theater in the Golden Age.

This course examines the interaction between geography and history through the concepts of geographic space, region, territory, and place that serve to analyze the geographic diversity of Latin America. Topics include: geographic analysis and geographic space with a human focus; society-nature metabolism and biogeographic diversity in pre-Columbian America; the role of the region in shaping the world system.