SummerSchool

June – August 2018

INTERNATIONAL UR SUMMER SCHOOL

The UR International Summer School offers an academic and

international experience to undergraduate and graduate

students with an interest in deepening their knowledge in

issues of global and regional trends, along with national

and international teachers of the highest level. From June to

August 2018, the Summer School will offer the option of

taking courses with certifiable credits and/or experiential

workshops designed by the 7 university faculties with a

duration of one to two weeks.

UR International Summer SchoolUniversidad del Rosariosummerschool@urosario.edu.coPBX. (+571) 2970200 Ext. 2133Calle 12C No. 6-25 Bogotá D. C. - Colombia

URosario@URosario ComunidadURosario

NAME DATES LANGUAGE

Workshop Big Data Co 2018

1st HPC Summer School 2018

Innovations in transportation, mobility and urban development

Active aging: a health approach for the elderly

Primary health care in Colombia: experiences from working in urban and rural areas

Urban economics

Dystopias: analysis from the lens of human sciences

Gender-based violence and sexual harassment in Colombia

Strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and innovation

Fundamental tools and strategies for trading in international markets

Venezuela: State in crisis

Concepts and tools for building a culture of peace

Power and Corruption

Learning machine learning 2018

School for peace studies: gender and the indigenous community in Post-Conflict

May 30 to June 1

June 5 to June 9

June 5 to June 22

June 12 to June 21

June 18 to June 27

July 9 to July 13

July 14 to July 24

July 16 to July 26

July 16 to July 27

July 16 to July 31

July 16 to August 3

July 16 to August 6

July 23 to July 27

July 23 to July 28

July 23 to July 28

Spanish - English

English

Spanish

Spanish

Spanish

English

Spanish

Spanish

English

Spanish

Spanish

Spanish

Spanish

English

Spanish

The Workshop Big Data-CO offers participants the opportunity to get a firsthand look at the advances and challenges of data science. The workshop has been designed to reach a broad audience and to foster connections between actors from public, private and academic sectors, as well as institutions and corpora-tions from a variety of economic sectors. The workshop offers seminars for participants to learn about the technology and tools of data science.

WORKSHOP BIG DATA-CO 2018Date: May 30 to June 1, 2018Language: Spanish – English

This is the first installment in a series of international schools aimed at training students, researchers and professionals from private and public sectors in optimal parallel programing for HPC environments with heterogeneous infrastructure, thus stimulating the use of these technologies in Latin America and the world. The school uses a hands-on approach, in which the participants learn by developing parallel applications, presenting them with the opportunity for constructive cooperation with programmers from abroad as well as other fields of interest, under the guidance of world-recognized experts in the field.

1ST HPC SUMMER SCHOOL 2018Date: June 5 to June 9, 2018 Language: English

This course offers an introduction to the relationship between investing in transportation and mobility, and urban development. It focuses on innovation in public transportation, such as bus rapid transit (BRT) systems and aerial trams, as well as on the advances in the design and promotion of non-motorized transport in Latin America. The course also addresses the technological advancements that improve shared mobility and automated transport systems. Participants receive theoretical and practical classes on transportation and mobility planning and management with a focus on their impacts on urban development. Training on data processing and analysis is also provided in order to understand the influence of transportation and mobility on urban geography. Upon completion of the course, participants will have the abilities to analyze information that can be used as a tool for developing and assessing public policy on mobility and urban development.

INNOVATIONS IN TRANSPORTATION, MOBILITY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENTDate: June 5 to June 22, 2018 Language: Spanish

The purpose of this course is to develop procedural skills to evaluate physical functioning and fragility in the elderly in order to design and implement multi-component intervention programs (on physical activity and healthy eating) among this population.

ACTIVE AGING: A HEALTH APPROACH FOR THE ELDERLYDate: June 12 to June 21, 2018Language: Spanish

This course will help students understand the approaches and strategies of primary health care (PHC) in Colombia. Theories that are central to PHC, its methodologies and the location-specific application of PHC will be explored to address important issues such as intersectoral coordination, social participation, environment, community organizing and participation, family and community outreach and the challenges to human talent, among other issues. The course allows students to engage in dialogue with experts and permits them to gain first-hand work experience from healthcare programs in urban and rural settings.

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN COLOMBIA: EXPERIENCES FROM WORKING IN URBAN AND RURAL AREASDate: June 18 to June 27, 2018Language: Spanish

The course is an introduction to the theory and empirics of urban economics. Topics include the benefits and cost of cities, conceptualized as agglomeration economies and congestion costs, the role of amenities, and the role of policies that aim to affect the cities’ land use, transportation and housing. The course highlights the application of these topics to developing countries, including Colombia.”

URBAN ECONOMICSDate: July 9 to July 13, 2018 Language: English

This course analyzes the concept of “dystopia,” and the similarities and differences it shares with concepts such as “utopia,” “counter-utopia,” and “heterotopia,” among others. We explore some of the most prominent dystopian notions found in literature and film, detailing the issues specific to each notion: government control, identity, free will, morality and the relationship of humans with technology, among others.

DYSTOPIAS: ANALYSIS FROM THE LENS OF HUMAN SCIENCESDate: July 14 to July 24, 2018 Language: Spanish

The Gender Affairs Observatory from the School of Human Sciences at Universidad del Rosario is the lead entity responsible for developing this course, which explores the situation of gender-based violence (GBV) in Colombia. This course is led by experts on critical topics such as gender-based violence in the context of post-conflict in Colombia.

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN COLOMBIADate: July 16 to July 26, 2018Language: Spanish

What if we could start one step ahead of our competitors? Through the Course ‘Strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and innovation’, we invite students around the world to think outside the box, to start new challenges according to the social and economic context of the business world. During the Summer School, students will be able to partake in experiential activities like “3 Day Startup”, company visits (Alpina, 3M & Unilever) and a leadership boot camp to expand their minds.

STRATEGIC THINKING, ENTREPRE-NEURSHIP AND INNOVATIONDate: July 16 to July 27, 2018 Language: English

This course provides those who are interested in taking an active role in capital markets, either as investors or advisors, with the tools to do so. Students learn about how these markets operate and about the main indicators that are followed by the investment community. The course is offered in collaboration with the firm Global Securities S.A.

FUNDAMENTAL TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR TRADING IN INTERNATIONAL MARKETSDate: July 16 to July 31, 2018Language: Spanish

This course explores the situation in Venezuela from a multidisciplinary perspective of the crisis and such issues as the State, politics, economy, society and security in the context of the Venezuelan territory and geography. It seeks to provide an explanation for the most critical political phenomenon of Latin America in the 21st century. Through multi-dimensional analysis, the course will delve deeper into several interrelated issues that can offer a better understanding of the current crisis in Venezuela, its democratic recession and the consequences of this crisis on a regional and bilateral level.

VENEZUELA: STATE IN CRISISDate: July 16 to August 3, 2018Language: Spanish

The framework of the Peace Accords between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is aimed at establishing “stable and lasting” peace. The challenges and issues to implementing this process are great, however; especially in regard to the daily implementation of it by citizens. This course seeks to provide students with the educational tools for developing the skills that can be used to build a culture of peace in specific contexts (local, regional, professional, etc.). It offers these tools under the guiding lens of the ideas and discussions surrounding the following topics: armed conflict, transitional justice, historical memory, and regional peace, among other issues.

CONCEPTS AND TOOLS FOR BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACEDate: July 16 to August 6, 2018Language: Spanish

Considered to be the action of abusing a privileged position for a private interest in exchange for compensation or benefits to both parties, corrup-tion is a problem that is not only endemic to Latin American countries, it also affects developed countries. There are two different manifestations of it that are important to distinguish: the abuse of power and abuse of authority. The impact of corruption is equated with poverty (due to its negative impact on economic development), it is an impediment to the provision of social services and it affects the areas of infrastructure and public services.

POWER AND CORRUPTIONDate: July 23 to July 27, 2018Language: Spanish

Learning Machine Learning 2018 (LML18) is a 6-day summer school organized by Universidad del Rosario with the support of Universidad de Los Andes and the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) of Harvard University. LML18 is an event that will bring together beginners and experts in Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science (DS) in a multilevel school that covers basic concepts in these areas, but will also provide multidisciplinary spaces for participants to develop projects based on real datasets from academia, industry, or the public sector. During the first four days, basic courses and intermediate workshops are offered on modern methodologies of ML, such as supervised and unsupervised classification, regression, and the basics of artificial neural networks. The last two days will be hack days in which participants have the chance to apply these methods to solve real problems provided by companies, research groups, or the participants themselves.

LEARNING MACHINE LEARNING 2018Date: July 23 to July 28, 2018Language: English

This summer course is led by the Universidad del Rosario Interdisciplinary Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Post-Conflict (JANUS). It offers the experience to work collectively with the Arhuaco indigenous people in an educational opportunity titled, “Summer Course on Peace-Building.” It gives special focus to the JANUS group’s field of interest, “Non-violent Action, Resistance and Social Movements,” and is offered in collaboration with the university’s Intercultural School for Indigenous Diplomacy (EIDI). This course seeks to explore how the processes of ethnic communities can be one of the mechanisms for achieving non-violent action in the current context of supporting and implementing the Peace Accords.

SCHOOL FOR PEACE STUDIES: GENDER AND THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IN A POST-CONFLICT CONTEXTDate: July 23 to July 28, 2018Language: Spanish

UR International Summer SchoolUniversidad del Rosariosummerschool@urosario.edu.co

PBX. (+571) 2970200 Ext. 2133Calle 12C No. 6-25 Bogotá D. C. - Colombia

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INTERNATIONAL UR SUMMER SCHOOL

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