This course explores the dynamic relationship between food culture, dietary practices, and population health through immersive learning. Students examine how Costa Rican culinary traditions, agricultural systems, and public health efforts shape nutrition and health outcomes across communities. Through participating in activities like visiting local food markets to farm tours, students will examine how culture, environment,…
This interdisciplinary course uses three Costa Rica economic activities designed to generate foreign income: sugar, coffee, and banana production, as local agricultural activities, and as elements of ecotourism to examine how internal and external historical and social factors have shaped Costa Rican society. As we explore Costa Rica from a science, food, and culture perspective,…
This course surveys the business operations of the insurance industry and compares current practice in the U.S., Spain, and Germany. We start with classic risk theories and have students prepared with critical thinking tools for examining demand (insured) and supply-side (insurers) observations. The course reviews the demand side and major insurance products, then focuses on…
The course starts with introduction of U.S. healthcare delivery system and stakeholders’ financial relationships. Armed with this understanding, we will examine healthcare systems of Spain and Germany. Our focuses are business operations of healthcare providers and financial interrelationships among stakeholders of the healthcare systems, respectively.
This course explores the relationship between gender and communication across global contexts, with a focus on how gender identities are constructed, performed, and negotiated through interpersonal, cultural, and mediated communication. Using Berlin and Barcelona as living classrooms, students will examine how gender intersects with culture, power, history, and space, and how communication reinforces and challenges…
Using Berlin and Barcelona as living classrooms, this course explores intercultural communication from a critical, experiential perspective. Students will examine how communication is shaped by culture, identity, power, language, and global contexts. Through field observations, cultural interactions, and engagement with public spaces such as museums and monuments, students will analyze differences within and across cultures.
Financial decision-making processes of multinational corporations; flow of funds; exchange rate determination and forecasting; currency futures and options; international arbitrage; measurement and management of exchange rate exposure; multinational capital budgeting; analysis of country risk.
This course examines how development across the lifespan is shaped not only by the cultural context but also the historical context in which we live. In addition to broader conversations about developmental psychology as a field, you will explore how trauma and major economic and political upheavals, such as the Great Depression and World War…
The Holocaust was one of the great tragedies of the modern era. One question that is still asked today is: “How could people commit such atrocities?” This class seeks to answer that very question and explore how normal people can do terrible things. We will talk about the effect of authority and the forces that…
This course will explore prominent attempts in literature and film to grapple with the Holocaust. We will work with a variety of genres, such as poetry, memoir, fiction, drama and documentary. We will also explore an array of perspectives, such as those of survivors, their descendants, and the descendants of perpetrators. Guiding questions include: How…
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