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This course will consider environmental economics and policies in the United Kingdom and compare these with other approaches around the globe.

This course is aimed at persons who work or intend to work in health care related fields. In addition to standard terminology, the class incorporates common dialect variants,  a as well as aspects of Latino culture that can impact the patient’s health and interaction with the medical system. Students are taught techniques and strategies for effective communication with Latino patients in a medical setting. The contents of the of course are based on research conducted in US and Spain medical settings.

The intermediate architectural design studio that engages the design of streets, plazas and other urban space from the human-scale for the betterment of health. The studio will be integrated with the seminar, media and advanced technology courses and provide an opportunity for students to use urban theory, data and media to inform data driven smart city design. The course will teach students to identify urban problems. They will be research, experience and observe these problem in-situ and remotely.

This course satisfies the Design Technology requirment for Architecture majors at the University of Oregon.  New data collection and computation techniques provide the opportunity for open, experiential and systematic understanding of site. The use of handheld mobile technology and new inexpensive microprocessors and sensors provides opportunity to bring the power of information to the lowest user level without the influence of larger economic and political forces.

This intensive course is part of a complementary three-class curriculum including Second Year Spanish Grammar and Conversation, which together fulfill the second year of Spanish studies. In this writing course students produce different types of texts, such as: descriptive, narrative, argumentative and expository in Spanish in situations of daily and academic use.