University of Barcelona

This course offers an overview of Iberian Art from its beginnings to the present day. It explores architecture, painting, and sculpture from various styles and eras including: Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Golden Age, and Baroque. 

This course examines the history of European cultures, with a special focus on Spain, from pre-history to the present day. The second half of the course focuses on the Mediterranean world after Islamic expansion in North Africa, the conquest of Spain, and the domination of much of the Mediterranean.

This course provides a study of sociology of the family. Topics covered include: introduction to theory and research in the field of sociology of the family; family, childhood, and life cycle; transformations in family models from a non-androcentric perspective; family diversity and sole parenthood; families, technologies, and assisted human reproduction; family policies in the context of welfare regimes; families, inequalities, and exclusion; gender-based violence and families. Focus is placed on data gathered relating to Spanish and European family units.

This course continues to cover methods of teaching English as a second language, theory and methods for foreign language instruction, and language instruction approaches and techniques. It focuses on advanced task design for instruction, integration of information and communication technologies to task design; and integration of individual skills to instruction.

This course provides a survey of the various 20th century Spanish and Latin American literary movements and schools of thought, using select authors as examples. It begins with an overview of the history of Spanish literature and language, before reviewing the evolution of literary genres within Spanish literature.

This course offers a study of Latin rhetoric and stylistics. Topics include: rhetoric in Rome; genres or types of discourse; construction of discourse; parts of speech; stylistics.