University of Barcelona

The course explores the history and culture of France through a multidisciplinary analysis of literary, historical, and audiovisual texts. By examining key works by historians and writers from different periods, students will gain insight into the socio-historical contexts that shape literary creation and historical discourse. The course develops students’ ability to critically analyze texts, conduct independent research, and communicate effectively in French, while fostering a reflective and critical approach to works of art and cultural production.

The course explores the nature of culture and its role in society, with a focus on intercultural communication, representation of otherness, and cultural diversity. Students examine cultural dynamics from traditional to postmodern contexts, including the impact of digital and cybercultural transformations, and learn strategies for effective cultural communication across formats, genres, and media.

This course offers a study of corporate law including the legal principles governing corporations and other business entities. Case studies are used to explore fundamental and specialized concepts of this area of law.

This course explores basic concepts of cognitive linguistics and their application to the analysis of the English language. It examines the structure of English through the study of linguistic conceptualization and basic results of cognitive science.

This course examines the philosophical worldview of nature and analyzes the philosophical foundations of scientific worldviews. It discusses the works of various philosophical thinkers including Aristotle, Kant, and Schrodinger.

This course examines the human being as a philosophical problem. It analyzes the most important anthropological models of Western thought in the 19th and 20th centuries, from the distinction between philosophy and science. This course explores the debate on the present and future of the human creature in the thinking and trends of the 21st century.

This course offers a study of modern philosophy including the main authors and philosophical movements, the fundamental works, and the concepts and problems of the era.

This course explores the macroscopic effect of human activity on the environment and known systems to reduce adverse effects of that activity. It focuses on tools for problem-solving basic environmental engineering problems.

This course explores relations in lexical and phrasal semantics. It discusses basic semantic concepts and different types of word and sentence meanings. This course focuses on semantic and pragmatic processes using the most important theoretical models in semantics. It offers a contrastive analysis of English and other languages.