University of Barcelona

This course explores the concepts of, and connection between, society, health, and wellbeing from a sociological, psychological, psychosocial and psycho-cultural perspective. Topics include: implications for wellbeing in a globalized world; sustainability; demography and migration; work, equality, and gender; strategies to support health and prevent disease; lifestyle, quality of life, and community.

This course offers a study of topology. Topics include: metric spaces; topological spaces; continuous application; separation properties; compactness; locally compact spaces and compactifications; connection and paths.

This course is a study of the role, action, and organizational structure of international organizations. It begins with discussion of the various classifications of international organizations and their role in contemporary international society. Topics include: relationship models in international society; current challenges in relationship models; international organizations as subjects of international law; participation in international organizations; the organic structure; acts of international organizations; international responsibility of international organizations.

The course examines the concepts of perception and attention in mental processing of information. It presents course material in three thematic blocks: visual perception, attention, and auditory and speech perception.

This course studies the colonial history of Latin America during the 16th through 18th centuries. Topics include: America-- the fourth part; population and society; models of political organization; colonial spaces; colonial economy; work and slavery; resistance to the colonial world; religiosity and identities.