University of Barcelona

This course focuses on practicing, expanding, and improving Spanish language oral production in everyday contexts as well as improving pronunciation of Spanish through listening and articulation practice.

This courses focuses on strategies for interpreting and constructing written texts of different types and genres, with an emphasis on the processes of reading comprehension, planning, writing, and revision. It is designed for international students at the intermediate level. 

This course covers techniques of recording and stimulation in neuroscience and clinical psychophysiology, including structural and functional neuroimaging, invasive and non-invasive electrophysiology, and neuromodulation and neurofeedback. Additional topics include neuroendocrinology of acute and chronic stress and the implications for learning and memory; psychophysiology of pain; and brain connectivity and resting-state activity patterns. 

This course offers a study of contemporary societies from the perspective of social and cultural anthropology. It covers the main concepts and theoretical approaches of social and cultural anthropology that contribute to the understanding of geographical reality, and introduces the methodological approaches and research techniques that anthropologists use in investigations within contemporary societies. The course also discusses political anthropology, economic anthropology, and anthropology and space.

This course introduces fundamental concepts in the field of political sociology and examines how social policies work today. It explores how the dynamics between the State, the market, and society have undergone significant transformations which have reshaped the concept and operation of European welfare states. The course explains the structure and changes of the European welfare states as well as the evolution of the main social policies in Spain and Catalonia in the last three decades.

This course offers 40 hours of elementary study of Spanish language for students at an A1 to A2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course focuses on the basic concepts of phonetics and phonology and applies them to the phonological system of Spanish. Topics include: physical and physiological characteristics of sounds; articulatory and acoustic classification of Spanish vowels and consonants; variation in the pronunciation of Spanish, including geographical and social varieties of Spanish; the phonological system of Spanish: inventory of phonemes and their characterization by distinctive features; phonological oppositions; the Spanish syllable; prosodic units-- accent and intonation. 

This course introduces various types of linguistic mechanisms and ways of thinking that can be harmful or defective. It considers pejorative terms that are used to denigrate other people based on their social identity, such as race, ethnic group, nationality, religious group, and sexual orientation. The course also discusses issues related to conceptual ethics, which considers concepts that are not the most useful for describing reality and how to revise or modify them to achieve different theoretical or practical objectives. Finally, the course examines the mechanism of silencing, which consists of speech acts aimed at incapacitating the audience from performing certain types of speech acts, altering the meaning of their words or the type of actions they can perform with them. 

This course introduces the language, culture, and society of Catalonia and builds basic linguistic and cultural competence. It offers practical notions of the Catalan language, as well as general information about the culture and society: traditional festivals of Catalonia, customs, and distinctive characteristics of this autonomous community, which has its own language and culture.

This course focuses on the aesthetic theoretical foundations of image composition. It discusses the parameters for camera use that determine image capture and the principles of scene lighting to achieve a desired aesthetic and narrative result.