University of Barcelona

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.

 

This course provides a comparative analysis of ideas in classical and contemporary social theory. It explores the work of classical writers Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Adam Smith, and Sigmund Freud. The course also examines contemporary social thought with a focus on objectivist, subjectivist, and dualistic theories.

This is a beginning intermediate course on the French language. It continues basic grammar (morphology and syntax) as well as phonetics (relationship between spelling and sound). It covers goes over nouns and determiners, verb forms and tenses, simple sentences and current vocabulary.

This course on thinking and problem solving examines the basic psychological concepts and theories of human thinking, focusing on the acquisition (inductive reasoning) and application (deductive reasoning) of knowledge in order to devise strategies for problem solving. Topics covered include: the psychology of thinking; relationship between thought and other psychological processes; implicit and explicit thought processes; categorization and conceptual change; deductive reasoning; argumentation; causal reasoning and moral reasoning; inductive reasoning, judgment, and decision making; creativity and thought; teaching thinking skills.