Spanish

This course focuses on common and useful Spanish vocabulary to follow the development of classes at Complutense. It discusses uncertainties students have about Spanish with an emphasis on achieving a better degree of fluency in the spoken language and the ability to produce texts written in Spanish.

This course provides a study of twentieth-century Latin American literature. Topics include: modernism and post-modernism (José Martí, Rubén Darío, Delmira Agustini y Leopoldo Lugones); avant-garde literature (Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Oliverio Girondo, Alejandra Pizarnik); thought, creation, and criticism (Jorge Luis Borges); Simon Bolivar in literature; novels of the Mexican Revolution; the Latin American Boom; post-modern fiction (Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Juan José Saer, Fernando Vallejo).

This course discusses parametric estimation and the different techniques of parametric estimation. The course is divided into two units. The first unit covers point estimation including: properties of estimators; estimation of the mean, variance, and proportion of a population; procedures for the construction of estimators. The second unit covers interval estimation including: confidence intervals; pivotal quantity method.

This class expands on the sociological and social psychology studies of emotion and thought at an international level. It discusses linguistic expression, differences in forms of communication, ethic compromising, critical thinking, and general analysis of the principal concepts of society.

This course has been designed to help English-speaking students apply the knowledge acquired in the Pre-Professional Healthcare Issues course through community service focused on primary care. Students will make an Analysis of Health Status (ASIS) followed by a project with the purpose of improving those health problems identified in the community. The course is based on the practical application of priority healthcare programs, addressed to rural and urban areas, and it will be performed under the Primary Health Care strategy, emphasizing
health promotion. These programs include prenatal care, health care to children and adolescents, extended vaccination program, chronic diseases, prevention of uterine-cervical and breast cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, prevention and treatment of tuberculosis and endemic diseases (Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya, Cholera, among others). The course offers training on the appropriate educational techniques that allow students to get involved in community health care promotion and prevention. Moreover, the course will engage students in the application of the most useful health care tools, such as family records, diagrams, and identification badges for pregnant women, chronic patients´ records, and children´s identification card, among others. In order to comply with the course requirements, students will be visiting First Level Health Care Centers in their communities during the first five (5) weeks. Visits during this period will be held three (3) days a week for three (3) hours (45 field hours). The last three (3) weeks will comprise a rural stay (45 field hours), an urban stay (15 field hours), and final research and presentations (30 research hours).

This class offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of distributed systems. Topics include: synchronization; distributed algorithms; distributed architecture; distributed file systems; end-to-end systems (P2P); distributed transactions.