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This course offers a study of commercial law and the legal structure of business organizations including the different types of legal entities, how companies are formed, how they operate, and how they are managed. It discusses partnerships, stock companies, and shareholders' rights, as well as analyzing corporate bodies, financial statements, and major corporate changes such as mergers, spin-offs, and liquidations. 

Pre-requisites: Business Law and Financial Accounting 

This course focuses on communication theory and practice in cross-cultural settings, with an emphasis on Spanish and international academic contexts, including modules on working in pluricultural/intercultural labs, universities, and companies. 

This course provides an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary principles that underly disease symptoms, emergence, and outbreak. Though a series of lectures, supplemented with practical lessons the course explores how natural selection acts on hosts and their pathogens, what factors facilitate disease outbreaks, and how we might prevent pathogens from escaping our control. Using examples in human medicine, animals, and plants the course explores: why people get sick; how diseases emerge; super spreaders, individuals who generate many infections; how global warming can alter the interaction between diseases and their hosts; the evolution of antibiotic resistance and the evolution virulence; evolution proofing drugs; and many other concepts in evolutionary medicine, ecology, and evolution.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of human development, covering periods from infancy through childhood to adolescence. A fundamental assumption in developmental psychology is that human development occurs within a specific environment and sociocultural context, profoundly influencing the individual child's developmental trajectory. The course provides an overview of the biological, cognitive, emotional, and social changes occurring during this period; introduces key theories and methods in developmental psychology; and presents quantitative and qualitative empirical research reflecting current international research within the field. A central theme explored throughout the course concerns how development is shaped by multiple levels of context – including genotype and neurobiology; social interactions with caregivers and peers; family, daycare and school environments, norms and culture, broader ecological conditions; and our species evolutionary history.

This course covers the basic principles of Pharmacology. Topics include: Receptors & cell signaling; Neurotransmitters; Pharmacodynamics (drug action, specificity, agonism & antagonism); Pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and pharmacokinetic modelling; Dose response. Autonomic pharmacology, neuropharmacology; Application of pharmacological principles in management of metabolic and cardiovascular disease.

This course enables critical analysis and interpretation of ecological data from diverse sources to clearly explain the complex interactions between anthropogenic, climatic, and geologic drivers of change and their impacts on ecosystems and human populations across multiple spatial and temporal scales. In addition, the course fosters ethical and responsible behaviors by emphasizing safety and the minimization of ecological impact during environmental learning activities.

This course conveys the idea that there are other ways of approaching the study of brain structure and function beyond the conventional focus of parsing cognitive, affective and others functions using standard tools, such as brain imaging. There is a very large amount of important and interesting research work being conducted at the intersection of the brain, other disciplines and society at large. These topics vary dramatically and can include the impact of the brain sciences on the courtroom to understanding the nature of the brain’s response during aesthetic experience, or neurobiology of poverty and adversity on development. The course explores topics of contemporary relevance and interest to the individual and society at large on the implications of discoveries about brain and cognitive function through the prism generated by the brain and cognitive sciences. The course is broad and deep, moving from the immediacy of the impact of the local familial environment, to the effects of poverty and adversity on brain development, structure and function, to considering the nature of the neuro-aesthetic response, to questions of ethics and law, and finally to extreme brain states (e.g. torture), and a consideration of principles-based counterfactual neuroscience analysis (‘impossible’ brains, such as the zombie brain).

This course covers the basic theory and principles of signal and systems, which play important roles in various communications and information systems analysis and control. Topics include linear time-invariant system theory, Fourier analysis, continuous and discrete Fourier transform, time and frequency characterization, sampling theory, Laplace transform, and the Z-transform. After completing this course, the students are expected to be familiar with system models, signal analysis, and filtering techniques that are essential for more advanced communications and information systems. 

This course provides an overview of what characterizes the field of the sociology of consumption, both in terms of the different main theoretical perspectives (e.g. consumer culture theory and practice theories), in terms of the multiplicity of themes (e.g. political consumption and media-consumption), and in terms of current discussions (e.g. representation of materiality). Students make a theoretical and empirically based analysis of a current consumption phenomenon of their choice.

This course provides a theoretical and practical foundation in mathematical concepts related to natural numbers and their operations, with attention to how these topics are taught in primary education. It examines theories from mathematics education to analyze how children learn concepts such a numeration systems, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and how these ideas appear in the primary school curriculum. The course also develops skills for future teachers to design and evaluate effective instruction sequences, classroom situations, and teaching materials that support meaningful learning in mathematics.