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Four credits - Graded or Pass/No Pass.In this seminar, you will explore the world of architecture-in-motion. Apart from windows, doors and vertical conveyances, most buildings have few moving parts and are conceived of and built as static artifacts. Driven by issues of sustainability and the desire for adaptive control of building environments, kinetic architecture has emerged as an exciting sub-discipline in design and construction communities. Course work will include in-class presentations, site visits and field trips, and case studies.

El aprendizaje de un idioma consiste, no solamente en la adquisición de reglas gramaticales y ortográficas, gran parte de la lengua se concentra en aspectos semánticos y pragmáticos que superan la barrera de lo estructural. En Lengua y Sociedad (B1), los estudiantes explorarán distintas áreas relacionadas con la sociedad mexicana: cómo viven y piensan los mexicanos, cuáles son sus hábitos y costumbres, etc.

Este curso busca acercar al alumno, mediante textos literarios, a la historia y cultura hispanoamericanas, sobre todo del siglo XX.

This course explores a wide variety of British murder mystery novels and TV crime dramas from feminist and critical race perspectives. The selected novels and TV shows are set across an array of historical times and places in England, further affording us opportunity to explore British history and culture, the changing roles of gender, race, and class in the UK throughout the years, and British social institutions and issues such as the legal and penal system, violence, gender and racial equality, employment, and education.

This course is ideal if you have an interest in social sciences—in particular, history, sociology or political science—or in law. It is designed as an undergraduate class, but the variety of students taking this course typically ranges from first-year students to post-graduate students. This experiential diversity provides unique opportunities for you to learn from your classmates.

British Cinema is one of the most vital national cinemas in the world.

This acting course includes study in voice, movement, improvisation, devising, Shakespeare and clowning. Additional workshops are scheduled as available.

This course is an independent study of art and architectural period styles in London, requiring independent visits to sites, galleries, and museums. If you are interested in design and London history, you may enroll in this course and create your own itinerary and assignment tasks towards building an online or paper-copy journal/memory book following a set chronology of major periods in London’s history.

This course is designed to prepare you for college by helping you develop educational goals, think about personal strengths and weaknesses, familiarize yourself with college resources and services and make connections with other incoming freshman.

This course traces the growth and development of the city of London from its founding by the Romans to the end of the twentieth-century, and encompasses nearly 2000 years of history.