University of Alicante

This course is an introduction to laboratory practices in analytical and either biochemistry or inorganic chemistry. Students develop laboratory skills, safe handling of substances, measurement, observation, and data analysis, using theory as conceptual support. 

This course examines the forced migration and trends within the European and Mediterranean regions due to territorial conflicts. Topics include the impact of the erosion of Western hegemony, the emergence of a multipolar world, and the growing dominance of the economic system over territory and society.

This course analyzes the symbiotic relationship between the two arts of literature and cinema. The objective is to distinguish the literary and artistic components of cinema within their complex interdependent relationship, to conduct a comparative analysis of films by identifying their literary elements, and to relate both discourses through connections considering 20th-century film theories. Additionally, the course introduces key bridging elements between the two, such as adaptation and screenwriting. This course strengthens comparative methodology by articulating discourses that range from linguistic to audiovisual and prepares students for the analysis of texts that lie at the intersection of both disciplines, while also offering insight into the historical audiovisual tradition rooted in literature.

This course introduces the basic principles of the sociological approach to the study of international reality: concepts of structure, interaction, subjectivity and social action. Topics include the main processes of international social transformation, especially globalization, information society, new forms of human mobility, international public opinion and transnational social movements.

In this advanced research course, students are placed in small research groups of 2 students and complete research in analytical, organic, inorganic, and biochemistry. Each group is part of an active research project led by University of Alicante faculty, providing hands-on lab experience and close faculty mentorship. 

This course focuses on English literature and its internalization from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and the critical analysis of literary discourses and specific texts from that period. Students engage with the historical and cultural foundations of British society between the 20th and 21st centuries and topics include the analysis, criticism, creation, editing, and publication of texts.

This course introduces the foundations of reasoning under uncertainty, its characteristics and the effect of these on inference processes. Topics include modeling, using and designing fuzzy expert systems, Bayesian networks, stochastic knowledge, decision theory, Markov decision processes, and Kalman filtering.

This course builds on introductory macroeconomics and analyzes the main economic problems at the aggregate level of an economy in the long term (economic growth) and in the short term (economic fluctuations) using simple models. Topics include the main determinants of income levels and the analysis of international discrepancies in per capita income and productive capacity in the long term. Students examine the problem of fluctuations in the main macroeconomic variables around their long-term levels and the dynamics of inflation, interest rates, unemployment, and the economic policy instruments that can be used to stabilize the economy.

In this course, students examine new aesthetic forms of expression that seek innovation, differentiation and novelty. Students analyze the expressive forms of each medium and propose suitable alternatives to each audience. Topics include the processes for preparing and analyzing advertising messages and their codes; understanding how creative departments work: writing, art direction and production; create, design and develop graphic elements, images, symbols and text; and learn the resources and skills needed to design commercial and non-commercial campaigns and promotional activities.

This course examines heuristic search, games, and algorithms. Topics include the importance of heuristics in search problems, search algorithms, evolutionary programming, evaluating heuristics, and game problems. Students examine NP-completeness theory, classifying problems, graph matching, and information theory.