Autonomous University of Barcelona

This course equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to foster socio-emotional development, enhance teamwork, and embrace digital competence in educational settings. Through a blend of theory, practical application, and collaborative exercises, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how these elements interplay to create an enriched learning experience. The course has three main topics. One is to help students to become an advocate of emotional education, understanding and regulating emotions, and providing emotional support and resilience within educational organizations. Students learn skills in emotional expression, understanding, and regulation. The second topic is the importance of teamwork and collaborative work, focusing on the dynamization of groups, group observation, and essential social skills in educational contexts. Through networking, communication, and the use of digital tools, students learn to work effectively within educational teams. Lastly, students develop the skills to master digital technologies in education, conceptualizing digital competence, and utilizing digital resources for teaching, learning, and professional development. The course explores digital resources for teaching and learning, digital content, evaluation and feedback, and professional development with digital technologies.

This course explores the fundamental economic concepts necessary to understand human societies as an open system and systems that require the constant flow of energy and materials, while also generating waste and about social metabolism. The course highlights the biophysical processes that underpin economies, and the critical role natural resources play in sustaining economic activity. Additionally, students analyze how institutional frameworks create or remove incentives for the consumption and conservation of energy and materials. Students also learn how various policy approaches tackle today’s pressing environmental issues, and learn the tools to critically assess sustainable practices and potential solutions for a more balanced relationship between the economy and the environment.

This course provides a general overview of practical applications of fertility control for ethical management of wildlife and other free-living animals. Lectures and practical sessions focus on case studies to illustrate the many aspects of wildlife fertility control applications. Students learn about products available, methods to deliver contraceptives and evaluate their impact on reproduction and welfare of individuals and populations of free-living animals. Through a mixture of lectures, informal discussion groups, laboratory and field practical sessions, students learn about the challenges and opportunities offered by fertility control and complete a proposal for a project on wildlife fertility control. The course addresses the rising demand for innovative conservation approaches and prepares students to balance ecological and economic needs with animal welfare. 

In this course, students explore storytelling and analyze and dissect fiction from various media. Students start with literature, understanding how a story works, its structure, devices and narratives, and move into creating their own stories.  Through projection and discussion of examples, students analyze how films and TV shows tell stories and make their narrative as effective and surprising as possible. Students also analyze videogames with critical thinking and understanding tricks used in game design and narrative. Additionally, using the projections and discussions, students create their own original ideas and plots, using different creative exercises to build up to working on first script drafts. Video games included in the course include games that excel in storytelling and narrative by breaking the conceptions of what society views as a videogame.

In this course, students learn how organizations meet customer needs through effective planning, production, and service delivery; and designing, improving, and overseeing processes that transform resources into valuable products and services. Students gain a solid foundation in the principles and practices of Operations Management, with a focus on key concepts such as process design, quality control, supply chain management, and lean operations. Students learn the strategies used by successful organizations to streamline operations, reduce costs, and maximize value. Topics include case studies, simulations, and practical problem-solving scenarios. 

This course offers a basic and applied overview of research methods, data collection and treatment of educational information, and its analysis and interpretation using specific IT tools to confront the challenges that future education professionals face. The course is focused on challenge-based learning, where students engage in real-world scenarios, to foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

This course offers an introduction to animal law. It discusses the historical and philosophical change from viewing animals as mere property to that of property and subject of protection simultaneously and how that has evolved and is regulated in domestic and international legal systems. This course also examines existing anti-cruelty legislation, responsible pet ownership, animals as family members, animal experimentation, animal breeding and slaughter for consumption, wildlife protection, and hunting and fishing regulation. 

This course explores the main international and European legal mechanisms in place to protect from different forms of discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation, disability, or race. It focuses on the principles of equality and non-discrimination,  and introduces the subject through the evolution of women’s rights and its international recognition. Activities include discussion of case studies and in-class debates.

This course offers a study of elementary Spanish equivalent to the A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students who successfully complete the course can understand and use familiar, everyday expressions and very basic phrases for highly specific objectives.