University of Alicante

This course focuses on essential training in international project management methodologies, techniques, and tools. Emphasizing both traditional and agile approaches, it explores how organizations manage change through projects in complex global environments. 

The course uses a sociological lens to view the current consumer society, and how concepts such as social classes, politics, and social organizations impact the consumption-advertising system.  Through sociological theories, it analyzes the motivations for consumption in society and the influence of the environment on the consumer.

This course is designed to develop basic language skills for effective communication in everyday situations. Students learn to introduce themselves, talk about daily routines, and describe their immediate surroundings. Emphasis is placed on real-life communication, including expressing opinions and preferences, discussing current actions, and talking about future plans and projects. Through speaking and writing exercises, students gain confidence in using the language in practical, everyday contexts.

This course builds on introductory microeconomics to analyze consumer and producer behavior, market structures, and strategic decision-making. Topics include individual and market demand, production and costs, pricing strategies, imperfect competition, game theory, and asymmetric information. Students apply economic models to understand real-world market outcomes and develop analytical skills for economic decision-making.

This course provides essential mathematical tools for students of Biology, reinforcing key concepts and introducing methods for modeling biological systems. Topics include matrix algebra, systems of equations, real functions, calculus (limits, derivatives, and integrals), and an introduction to ordinary differential equations. Emphasis is placed on practical applications relevant to biological phenomena and experimental sciences.

The course examines the relationship between film and literature, focusing on narrative structure, genre, and adaptation. Using key films such as The Birth of a Nation, Citizen Kane, and works by Alfred Hitchcock, it explores concepts of film syntax and the role of the auteur. Literary and cinematic genres like melodrama and the Western are studied through texts such as The Ox-Bow Incident. The course also analyzes major adaptations, including The Turn of the Screw, Much Ado About Nothing, and Atonement, highlighting the dialogue between literary and cinematic storytelling.

This course focuses on the technologies, analysis, and expression of ideas in both print and digital media. It discusses how journalistic content is selected, written, and structured in both print and digital formats. Students study different styles of writing (news, opinion, analysis), and review how to think critically and communicate responsibly as a future journalist or media professional. 

This course offers a study of Anglo-American writer-critics from the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries. It focuses on the critical ideas of Matthew Arnold, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot, though attention is also be paid to New Criticism.

A survey of major 20th-century Latin American literary movements and authors, from the avant-garde to magical realism. Topics include: poetic innovation, social commitment, identity, and the evolution of narrative through writers like Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda, Borges, and Carpentier.

This course focuses on the identification and response to learning difficulties and developmental disorders with a specific emphasis on primary education. Topics include: difficulties in the development of language, in the learning of reading, writing, and math; problems of behavior and maladjustment to the school system; physical disabilities (visual, auditory, and motor)-- problems of development and learning; intellectual disability and giftedness; generalized developmental disorders; emotional disorders.