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The semester and academic year curriculum offers courses and internships (professional, community service, etc.).
Courses are offered at the University of Burgos (UBU) and Escuela de Espanol (EDE).
Internships are organized at various companies, NGOs and hospitals.
Students can enroll in a maximum of 18 credits per semester.
Most courses are the equivalent of 3 semester credits; courses with a laboratory are equivalent to 4 semester credits.
Internships are 3 to 6 credits, depending on time commitment.
The Spanish Society & Culture and Spanish Language courses are required.
Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are taught in English.
The other courses are taught in Spanish with English support, which includes tutoring, and academic materials and exams in English.
These 'English-friendly' courses are a great way to improve Spanish proficiency while earning major-specific and general education credit.
Students with advanced proficiency may also enroll in courses (not listed on this page) taught in Spanish without English support.
Note that Fall semester courses may have final exams in January. Check with KEI before finalizing your Fall semester courses.)
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If a syllabus is not available, contact a KEI Program Manager to request a syllabus.
To describe the historical evolution of the concept of health and disease.
To analyze the current concept of health as a balance between humans and their environment.
To know the differences between Public Health and Community Health.
To identify international organizations, programs and initiatives associated with health.
To distinguish different preventive levels and to identify the role of preventive nursing in each one.
To describe the interrelationship between humans and their environment.
To analyze the key environmental factors and their influence on individual health.
To identify prevention and control of different environmental problems.
To explain the risks of health worker and actions for prevention and control.
To describe the most important biological aspects of microorganisms and parasites that cause disease in man.
To explain the genetic factors that influence individual health.
To analyze the influence of lifestyle on individual and collective health.
To distinguish the basic characteristics of the existing health system models and to explain their impact on the health of populations.
To reflect on interventions that nursing professionals can carry out to influence these determining factors of health.
To describe the epidemiology of chronic health problems and to define actions for their control and prevention.
To describe the epidemiology of communicable diseases and to define the actions for their control and prevention.
To explain the epidemiology, control measures and prevention of hospital infections.
To analyze and to evaluate the importance of epidemiological surveillance.
To describe the methodology for the analysis of the health status of a community: arguing its importance and usefulness as a preliminary step to undertake promotion and prevention.
Understand the basic concepts and principles of Physics, recognizing the limits of application of the theories that are employed
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Know and understand the basic terminology of Physics and use it with precision, both orally and in writing.
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Be able to extract relevant information from technical texts.
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Apply theoretical knowledge to resolve practical problems.
Show a capability for critical reasoning on practical problems.
Demonstrate a capability for team work.
Understand the inherent uncertainties in any measurement process.
Be able to measure simple physical magnitudes and express the measures with the quantification of their uncertainty.
Be able to systematize numerical information in tables and graphs.
Be able to extract relevant information from tables and graphs.
Adjust the conclusions on the analysis of a realistic situation to the information that is objectively available.
4 Credits; Semester I
Food Science
Course objectives:
Understand the general foundations of food analysis. Understand the parameters to be established when characterising food and assessing its suitability for sale and consumption.
Understand the basic aspects of the origin, identification, structure and composition of the animal-based foodstuffs.
Estimate the relationship between the characteristics described in the previous paragraph and the main food quality criteria and its nutritional and commercial value.
Understand the analytical procedures which determine the parameters of interest in the main animal-based foodstuffs.
Be able to apply and develop analytical approaches which improve upon existing methodology or which resolve new problems regarding the analysis of the main animal-based foodstuffs.
Know the basic aspects regarding the origin, identification, structure and composition of the principal foods.
Know how to estimate the relation that exists between the characteristics described in the earlier paragraph and the main criteria for bromatological quality: nutritional value and commercial value.
Understand natural toxic compounds, contaminants and impurities that may be present in various foodstuffs and which represent a potential risk to human health, as well as preventative methods and/or steps which eliminate the toxins from the food.
Gain awareness of the most appropriate testing to be undertaken to evaluate the acute and/or chronic toxicity of a given foodstuff or element.
Gain awareness of general analysis techniques and the legal framework with regard to potentially toxic elements in foodstuffs.
Develop a global understanding of the mechanisms that drive international commerce and the different strategies for that to happen in an efficient way.
Understand the relation between the environment and the organization and how to manage the resources of the firm for the continual adoption of organisations to new environmental circumstances.
Develop the capability to search for, store and process information for decision taking and independent learning.
Mature the entrepreneurial spirit of students with regard to their capability to seek solutions to problems and to generate new ideas and dynamize and lead groups.
Value financial assets using the models provided by market finances for that purpose.
Understand the relation that exists between financial decisions and corporate value.
Understand and propose solutions to (or resolve) the problems that firms confront of raising and allocating financial resources, using criteria for that purpose, to assess and to select investment projects as well as theories on the structure of capital and dividend policies that provide the firm with corporate financing.
Understand and identify latent governance problems within corporations and their interrelation with corporative value.
Search for financial information relating to a firm or market and analyse and discuss it on the basis of financial theories.
The student will know how to distinguish between the different accounting contexts that are represented in information systems, including legal, national and international, ethical, social, and environmental frameworks; the accounting profession; the firm; the capital market and the public sector.
The student will understand financial statements and balance sheets and will have a basic appreciation of the limits of practices and procedures for the disclosure of financial information arising from its preparation in accordance with accounting norms.
The student will have acquired sufficient theoretical and normative knowledge to make entries and to summarise transactions and other economic events; preparation of financial statements, control and analysis of business operations; financial analysis and projections.
Knowledge of the scope of statistics, its importance and applications in the different areas related to the firm.
Understanding of the interrelation between the statistical researcher and other agents from the business world.
Gain knowledge of applied statistics with the help of computing software R6 Identification of the model of probability applicable to an economic phenomenon.
Knowledge of the scope of inference to validate certain conjectures (hypotheses) in the business setting and to reach conclusions that allow decision-taking that minimizes risk.
Awareness of the importance of data collection on which basis studies will be conducted to expand and to improve knowledge of a specific reality and subsequent decision-making process.
Knowledge of the different methods of collecting information and the various methods of coding.
Knowledge of the variety of Data Analysis Techniques, their importance and applications to the firm and the administration.
Understanding of fundamental concepts related to Marketing.
Completion of practices, on the basis of exercises and presentations for the study and the analysis of the commercial decisions of the firm.
This course sets out an introduction to the concepts of Marketing, taking an in-depth look at the most relevant marketing questions today, such as the management of client relations and the concept of value, as well as the analysis of some business decisions.
Student will gain familiarity with the basic concepts and processes related to the commercial activity of the firm in the present-day context.
The curse is divided into four modules, in order to achieve these objectives.
In the first place, an introductory module, the objective of which is to conceptualize the boundaries and scope of marketing as an area of knowledge.
This first module, with the title “Marketing in the firm”, is for the student to have the opportunity to become familiar with the concept of marketing, in terms of its evolution, and for the student to gain a deeper idea of the integration of marketing in the overall organization and the very important role played by segmentation.
The second module focuses on the analysis of consumer and organizational behaviour and the usefulness of commercial research.
Accordingly, having proposed the different elements and agents that intervene in the commercial system, questions relating to the determining factors in the behaviour of the consumer and sources of information are introduced.
The third module analyses Marketing instruments for intervention in the commercial system, the Marketing-Mix variables.
Finally, the subject module is completed with a vision of new Marketing techniques and the impact of new technologies.
3 Credits; Semester II
Human Resource Management*
Course objectives:
Understand the fundamental principles of the Theory of the Firm and the concepts and tools needed for organizational management.
Understand the relation between the environment and the organization and the way in which resources are managed by the firm for the continual adaptation of organizations to new environmental circumstances.
Develop the capability to search for, store and process information for decision taking and independent learning.
3 Credits; Semester II
INT 411 Internships & community service
Internships (for-credit) and community service (not-for-credit) allow students to learn from practical experience not attainable in a classroom setting.
Internships require a minimum commitment of 120 hours (3 credits), but can be extended to 240 hours (6 credits).
Community service does not have a minimum time requirement.
Placement is based on professional interests.
Positions are available in business, medicine, health and public service.
Below is a list of possible placements.
Actual placement may be at a different company or organization.
I studied Spanish in the USA, Central America and Spain, and in my opinion Burgos is the best location for Spanish immersion.
Burgos was the capital of the Kingdom of Castile and the origin for Castilian Spanish.
The city is full of historic landmarks from the Roman Empire, Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Read more reviews...
