University of Barcelona

This course offers a study of the main decision-making processes and evaluation techniques in corporate finance. Topics include: analysis and evaluation of investment projects; business valuation; processes of buying and selling companies.

This course offers a study of the basic concepts of discrete mathematics: graphs, vertex and adjacency relations; trees; existence of Euler and Hamiltonian paths; graph coloring; pairings. It explores ways to perform software modeling and resolution of routing optimization, interconnection, and assignment problems.

This course provides a study of the principal characteristics of present-day international society and the effects of its structure and inner tensions in the creation and application of public international law. It critically examines the foundations of the international legal system, as well as the interactions between the international and national regulatory spheres and the legal consequences of including public international law in the Spanish legal system.

This course examines the concept of the social structure of an advanced society, its institutions and key organizations, and social dynamics. It looks at main theories (authors, works and sources of basic information) that explain the functioning of societies of advanced capitalism and representative democracies. Topics covered include: structure and elements of the advanced capitalist society; forms of social inequality in welfare conditions; structures and activity of advanced capitalism.

This course provides a study of the principal aspects of language acquisition, particularly as it relates to the case of second languages, examining the main theories of language acquisition while focusing particularly on English as a first and second language. Topics covered include characteristics of English as a first language, linguistic development, input and interaction, child-directed speech; acquisition of English as a second language, contrastive analysis, sequences of development, pragmatics in second language; influence between languages, the concept of "language transfer," code switching, multilingual speakers.