University of Alicante

This course introduces the principles and design of distributed systems, emphasizing communication, middleware, and web technologies. Students learn to develop secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed applications and services using modern frameworks and protocols.

The course builds on foundational biology and ecology knowledge to explore the structure, dynamics, and interactions of populations and communities. It provides essential skills in ecological data analysis, experimental design, and fieldwork. Students apply ecological theory to conservation, ecosystem management, and biodiversity assessment.

The course is designed to strengthen communication skills in Spanish through grammar, vocabulary, and cultural topics. Students learn to describe people and places, narrate past events, make comparisons, express opinions, and talk about future plans and possibilities.

This course introduces the fundamentals of urban design and planning through the analysis of contemporary urban structures and morphologies. Emphasis is placed on understanding the elements of urban form, historical growth processes, and the tools and terminology used in the field. 

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.