University of Alicante

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 introduces the major social changes occurring in global society and their impact on individual and collective identities. Students examine the role of identity, the value of coexistence with people of different ethnicities, races, ideologies, and religions, as well as the importance of dialogue in times of conflict, ideological polarization, and war. Texts and images within art, literature, philosophy, religion and economics are studied. Emphasis is placed on cultural theories, concepts, and methodologies and to understand society through a cultural lens.

This course expands upon Urban Planning I and II. Students learn how to design sustainable urban environments with an emphasis on urban sustainability indicator systems, efficient mobility models, collective transport, and pedestrian environments over road spaces. 

In this course, students analyze and understand the connections between tourism and society and the demand of tourism and its impact on society. Topics include concepts of Tourism Sociology, interpreting social reality form a sociological perspective, and how to contextualize and explain social phenomena caused by tourism. 

Through this course, students identify the elements of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, as representations of identity; understand the value that each society places on its own culture; examine the appeal that this type of heritage holds for tourists; and develop the ability to promote it within the tourism sector. Additionally, conserving and exhibiting heritage objects in museums, as well as in current exhibition methods, whether on-site or in museum spaces is discussed. 

In this course, students learn to implement imagen processing algorithms, inside a realistic audio-visual engineering working environment, design real production configurations, and determine the quality of systems and signals by means of specific measurement equipment. This course requires background knowledge in the fundamentals of engineering optics, digital signal processing, television, and digital imagen processing.

This course introduces approximation techniques in numerical analysis and scientific computing. It examines numerical methods for solving nonlinear equations, systems of linear and nonlinear equations, and related problems. Techniques for interpolation, approximation, and numerical differentiation and integration are studied.

This course examines the main cultural manifestations of the United Kingdom and the United States, focusing on the principal geographical and social features, as well as the events and processes that have shaped the social and cultural development of both these English-speaking countries since 1945.

This course introduces the analysis and regional understanding of the new territorial reality existing in Spain, based on the changes in the valuation of physical and productive resources, the new organization of the State, and the socioeconomic repercussions of the internationalization of the economy and integration into the European Economic Community. Emphasis is placed on the necessary skills to analyze, explain, and synthesize the geographical factors that give Spanish regions their unique character and diversity during the last decades, paying attention to city typologies and urbanization models.

This course focuses on the politics of the contemporary Arab world in its three regional dimensions: the Maghreb, the Mashreq, and the Persian Gulf. Emphasis is placed on describing the main political and ideological trends and the power dynamics in inter-Arab relations.