HST380.14 Late Prehistory (at UAM)

HST380.14 Late Prehistory (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. 

Block I

  • Metallurgy: materials and techniques. Birth and development of complex societies. Socioeconomic and ideological transformations in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
  • The birth of complex societies in the Near East, Egypt, China, Indian Valley, and America.
  • Europe in the III Millennium BCE. Agricultural intensification and the advances of metallurgy: cultural variety with reference to the Iberian Peninsula

Block II

  • Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages in the Aegean. Cycladic, Minoan and Helladic-Mycenaean archaeology.
  • The Early and Middle Bronze Ages in Europe: regional groups. Principal traits and groups in the Iberian Peninsula.
  • Late Bronze Age in Europe. Technological innovations. Intensification of interchanges. Diversification of funeral rituals. Atlantic Bronze/Continental Bronze Ages and their incidence on the Iberian Peninsula.

Block III

  • The 1st Millennium BCE: Periods. Materials and techniques. The metallurgy of iron.
  • Iron I in Europe. Regional diversity. Hallstatt as culturally complex. The Eastern impact on the peninsula.
  • Iron II in Europe. La Tène as culturally complex. General panorama of the Iberian Peninsula in the pre-Roman period.

(16885, Prehistoria Reciente)

SPA380.6 Modern History II: 1848–1914 (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. 

PART I: World Modern History (1848–1914)

  1. The Revolutionary Cycle: Characteristics, development and balance of the revolutions in 1848. The movement of the nationalities: Italian and German unification.
  2. The Industrialization and Industrializations: The crisis of 1873 and the first Great Depression. The transformations of the capitalist economic system: case study.
  3. Organization and social movements: Social structure and change from 1848 until 1914.The interventionist state: social legislation and reform. The ideology and practice of social movements.
  4. The democratic transformation of liberalism: The transition towards a liberal democratic state. France: From the 2nd Empire to the 3rd Republic. The interior politics in the 2nd German Reich.
  5. The evolution of nationalisms: The ideological transformation of European nationalisms during the end of the century. The multinational empires: The dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the issue of the Balkans.
  6. Imperialism and International Relations:
    I. Theories and factors that explain imperialism. The sharing of the colonial world.
    II. The Bismarckian systems. The blocks of alliance and “armed peace.”

PART II: Modern Spanish History (1848–1914)

  1. The Spanish Era of Isabel II and the 6 democratic years: The moderate political regime, the creation of a centralized state and the liberal alternatives. The democratic years: The Monarchy of Amadeo I and the First Republic.
  2. The Restoration: The Canovas political system of 1876. Two party system and “caciquismo.” The crisis of ’98 and Regenerationism.
  3. Economy and Society in liberal Spain: The persistence of the agrarian economy. The delay of industrial development in Spain. General traits of the political economy. Social structure and social movements.

Meets with HST 380.6.

(16884, Historia Contemporánea II)

HST380.4 Genesis of Medieval Iberia (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. 

I. The Transition from the Ancient to the Medieval

  • Visigoth Hispania.

II. Muslim Spain (eighth through twelfth centuries)

  • Evolution and political organization of al-Andalus.
  • Society and economy in al-Andalus.
  • Thought and culture in al-Andalus.

III. Formation and Evolution of the Christian Kingdoms (eighth through twelfth centuries)

  • Genesis and evolution of peninsular monarchies.
  • Society and border dynamics.
  • The economic structure.
  • Church, religiosity, and culture.

Meets with SPA 380.4.

(19015, Génesis de la Edad Media Peninsular)

SPA380.4 Genesis of Medieval Iberia (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish.

I. The Transition from the Ancient to the Medieval

  • Visigoth Hispania.

II. Muslim Spain (eighth through twelfth centuries)

  • Evolution and political organization of al-Andalus.
  • Society and economy in al-Andalus.
  • Beliefs and culture in al-Andalus.

III. Formation and Evolution of the Christian Kingdoms (eighth through twelfth centuries)

  • Genesis and evolution of peninsular monarchies.
  • Society and border dynamics.
  • The economic structure.
  • Church, religion and culture.

Meets with HST 380.4.

(19015, Génesis de la Edad Media Peninsular)

HST380.10 History of Imperial Rome (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish.

  1. Introduction
  2. The Augustan Principate
  3. Julio-Claudian and Flavian Dynasties
  4. The Antonine Empire
  5. Severan Dynasty and the Military Anarchy
  6. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
  7. Constantine and Valentinian Dynasties
  8. Theodosius and the partitio imperii
  9. Barbarian migrations
  10. Roman-Germanic kingdoms and the renovatio imperii

(16923, Historia de la Roma Imperial)

HST380.11 History of European Expansion (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

  • The Iberian Empires. Portuguese maritime expansion. The Castilian monarchy’s colonization of the African Coast and Canary Islands. The conquest of America and its impact on indigenous populations.
  • The rise of the Northern European Empires. The institutional framework supporting the trade of the Dutch Empire. Its competition and disputes with the Iberian Empires.
  • The British and French Empires in the New World. Religious and political change. Colonization and Franco-British conflicts.
  • The Colonial World in the Eighteenth Century. The First and Second British Empires in the East and West. The influence of the Enlightenment and the crisis of independence movements. The British loss of the Thirteen Colonies.

(16946, Historia de la Expansión Europea)

CIS477 Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms (Fall)

Mathematical modeling of computational problems; searching and sorting algorithms; search trees, heaps, and hash tables; divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy choice design techniques; graph algorithms; NP-completeness; and selected topics.

Prereq: CIS 375 and CIS 351

CIS473 Automata and Computability (Fall)

Countable and uncountable sets; diagonalization proofs; finite state automata; regular, context-free, context-sensitive, recursive, and r. e. languages; Turing machines; relationships between classes of languages and machines; the halting problem; proof methods for decidability and undecidabilty.

Prereq: CIS 375 or MAT 375 (or equivalent abstract or discrete mathematics course)

MAE280.1 Thermodynamics

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester.

Learn how to use the first and second laws of themodynamics to calculate the work, heat, and efficiency of various systems of engineering: internal combustion engines, refrigerators, and power plants. Syracuse Students: While this course is equivalent to MAE 251 on the main campus, it carries only 3 credits. Discuss with your ECS Study Abroad Advisor how to make up the 1-credit deficiency. (IIQ 1003)

Pre-req: Calculus 3

GEO304 Sustainability on Trial: Environmental Justice in Northern Europe (Signature Seminar; Fall, Spring)

Limited enrollment. Syracuse Signature Seminars are travelling courses that frame a semester abroad in the light of shared concerns for people and planet. This seminar examines diverse and contested approaches to ‘being green’. The first part of the course explores eco-innovations being piloted in the Nordic countries, home to some of the world’s greatest progress toward sustainable development and carbon-neutral living. In the second portion of the class, students travel into the Arctic Circle to question whether sustainability is living up to its promise for all stakeholders. Who has been benefitted or harmed by environmental policies? Ultimately, the Seminar helps students to understand their impact on the world, and how they can take action to make that impact a more positive one.

During the fall semester, students will explore Copenhagen as an eco-city through cycling tours; kayak a Swedish archipelago and consider urban design in Stockholm; and spend time with huskies and reindeer alongside Europe’s only recognized indigenous people, the Sami—in nearly 24 hours of daylight thanks to the high latitude.

Spring semester field activities include witnessing climate change firsthand in Bergen and snowshoeing up a glacier in the Norwegian fjords; touring sustainable urban technologies in Stockholm; and mushing huskies in the snowy Arctic Circle after a dark night searching for the Northern lights.

Both semesters explore questions of human-nature interactions, animal ethics, and connections between global climate patterns and local politics.

Satisfies IDEA Course Requirement.

The three credits earned for this pre-semester seminar will be included in the maximum 19 credits that you can earn for your semester abroad. In order to meet U.K. immigration requirements, you must enroll in a minimum of 16 credits—including this seminar—for the semester.