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This course examines the vast world of visualizing the city and ways of representing the built environment, including how to both interpret and use visualizations to read the city.

This course examines the ways in which meanings are discursively constructed in the news. It will also critically reflect and debate on issues of power relations and ideologies of the news media: the influence they exert both on our governments and major institutions as well as their ability to shape our ideas, beliefs and behaviors through the news discourse that we immerse ourselves in. Adopting a linguistic/semiotic perspective, this course offers detailed insights into the language of the news by discussing the main characteristics of news discourse and exploring theoretical frameworks to research and analyze the use of text and image in the construction of news and the manifestations of power, control and ideology in the press. 

The course is divided in two parts. The first part of the course focuses on the concept of security applied to different sectors and case studies. Human security, food security, migration, health security, environmental security, and the protection of cultural heritage in conflict zones are analyzed through the prism of political theory and critical security studies, based on contemporary case studies. The main objective of this module is to enable students to develop analytical and critical skills in the field of security studies. The second part focuses on exploring key phenomena of cooperation and conflict among and within states and their determinants, such as inter and intra-state wars, terrorism, military alliances, and military coups, adopting a strictly quantitative perspective. 

This course covers the main concepts of data engineering, including data pipeline, data organization, efficient analysis of large data volumes, distributed data storage (depending on the system architecture, e.g., multi-core systems, multiprocessor systems, clusters), distributed and parallel data analysis, and map/reduce techniques and their generalization to distributed query processing. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course offers a study of digital business and the emergence of the digital economy. It explores the use of technology to generate new business, the impact of digital business models on existing market sectors, as well as the growth of new digital business sectors. NOTE: This course is the same as BUS 138 but taught in the UC3M International School.

This course helps students develop skills and experience with a range of etching techniques in a supportive and peer-oriented studio environment. Working with intaglio matrix techniques such as collagraph, drypoint, hard ground line (etching), aquatint, soft ground, sugar lift and spit bite, students will be encouraged to explore how printmaking connects with contemporary art contexts where distinctions between disciplines are increasingly fluid.

The course is designed to introduce students to human issues involved in engineering management. Topics include the nature of organization, organizational theory, participatory management, strategic planning of human resource, personnel selection, performance appraisal, working motives and incentives, power, credibility, research on leader traits, styles, and situations, and current models of leadership.

This course is about the philosophy of first contact - that is, philosophical problems generated by first encounters with alien phenomena, agents, and experiences. The course addresses special problems of categorization (e.g., How can we identify phenomena and experiences that do not fit standard frameworks?), translation and communication (e.g., How can we decipher the meaning of radically unfamiliar languages?), philosophical psychology (How should we emotionally respond to radically unfamiliar phenomena?), as well as ethics and politics (What do we owe to foreign agents in the context of first contact, and what special dangers do such situations pose?) raised by such encounters. The course begins by considering general questions of philosophical psychology, and then moves on to consider specific instances of first contact, and their significance. 

The course explores how this complex organization of hundreds of cells emerges during embryo development. The course focuses on the precise organization of tissues that arises during embryo development by the coordinated control of the differentiation, migration, proliferation, and death of cells. It provides a solid grounding for future specialized study of nervous system development, function, and repair.