University of Barcelona

This course offers a study of the foundations and applications of the interdisciplinary field of consumer behavior. It explores the internal, cognitive, and emotional motivations that drive individual consumers. It also discusses how external and exogenous influences affect buyers, taking into consideration socioeconomic, generational, gender, and cultural idiosyncrasies.

The course presents students with a study of twentieth and twenty-first century English-language literature. It focuses on the cultural and historical context of these works. Topics include: Gender at the turn of the 20th century; modernism, formal experimentation, and the horror of the Great War; protest literature; post-World War II literature; rediscovering the margins; the visibility of sexuality, ethnicity, and gender; the 21st century.

This course offers a study of film and literature. Topics include: film and its relationship with other art forms; film writing; adaptation; construction of the film narrative; film in debates of the artistic avant-garde; theories and poetics of realism; the crisis of reality and its fictions; the film essay.

This course offers a study of eye movements including the various types of eye movements and their main characteristics, as well as use of eye movements as a tool to explore and understand different cognitive processes. Other topics include: relationship between eye movements and visual cognition; oculomotor coordination in real and virtual environments; applications of research in eye movements.

This course provides a study of the sociolinguistics of the Spanish language. Topics include: sociolinguistics and dialectology; sociolinguistic variation applied to Spanish language study; analysis of phenomena derived from the contact of Spanish with other languages; Spanish in contact with other peninsular languages.

This course offers an introduction to various international business disciplines including international management, international finance, international marketing, international accounting, international business operations, and international business law. It examines the vision and tools required to effectively manage the challenges that globalization, changing world markets, and cultural differences demand.

This course explores the main concepts and effective methods of international operations management in order to solve problems related to production management and make decisions to manage the production system.