This course is an overview of the Catalan Culture including the most important and influential aspects: history, territorial organization, language, festivities and traditions, gastronomy, and artistic expressions. Through this course, students will be able to discover a rich, unique, and interesting culture that will widen your perception and knowledge of Peninsular cultures.

This course is an introduction to Catalan for students with no prior knowledge of the language. Through a task-based, communicative approach, this course seeks to initiate students into the elements of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Catalan.

This seminar series is a 1-credit class, open to graduate students in the BME program. Students enrolled in the seminar are expected to attend the BME Seminar Series and/or present at and attend the BME Graduate seminar series. Seminar speakers are chosen each semester by the BME faculty for their relevance to topics in biomedical engineering.

This course covers basic concepts in electromagnetism and light-matter interactions of biomedical significance. Topics covered include: optical properties of biological cells, tissues and biomaterials; visible and near-infrared light absorption, scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy; advanced microscopy techniques, optical coherence tomography, vibrational spectroscopy, photoacoustic imaging, photodynamic therapy and their relevance to human disease diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

This course is offered to junior or senior undergraduate students and graduate students to introduce them to the field of engineered gene therapy. It covers how gene therapy works, the type of vectors used, and why/when certain vectors are employed. The course also includes how to make viral vectors and introduces some non-viral tools for gene therapy.

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to bioimaging and its applications to medical fields. In this course, the fundamental physical principles behind the four primary medical imaging modalities (X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, and nuclear imaging) will be introduced. In addition, the underlying image reconstruction algorithms will be described. Introduction of each imaging modality will also include the clinical interpretation of images it produces.

This course provides an overview of the clinical diagnosis and contemporary treatment of major musculoskeletal disorders. The pathophysiology, epidemiology, and anatomy of the affected biological systems are covered. Students will develop an understanding of the challenges faced by clinicians, research scientists, and medical device manufacturing engineers. We will explore novel therapeutic approaches that integrate engineering and medicine to restore or improve function. Topics will include orthopedic trauma, sports injury, osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis.