University of Barcelona

This course examines the structure of the Russian language in phonetic and phonological aspects and focuses on the relationship between spelling, sound, and the other aspects of linguistic analysis. The course covers Russian vowel and consonant systems, the phonological system and morphology, the relationship between phonetics and spelling, phonetic transcription, the intonation system, and practical phonetics and orthoepy.

This course examines major events and cycles of Western culture. It identifies the various stages (synchronic perspective) that have constituted Western material culture and, broadly speaking, some historical epochs of Western civilization through its humanistic, religious, artistic, and scientific products. The course imparts the technical, symbolic, artistic, and religious keys (diachronic perspective) that determine the values of Western culture through the interpretation of certain cultural formations. It covers cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Renaissance to modernity, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This workshop focuses on the development of models, maquettes, and prototypes, and studies their relationship to a project. It covers types of maquettes, formal concept, and style in three-dimensional development; as well as materials, adhesives, tools, and machinery used in development. The course also explores creating digital files through three-dimensional scanning and materializing these creations using 3D printers.

This course addresses the relationship between the microbiological quality of water and its impact on consumers or users. It considers the various treatments necessary to ensure a microbiological quality of water that does not pose an unacceptable health risk to the population. 

This course offers 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 introduces theoretical and methodological debates of feminist anthropology. It addresses the (de)construction of the anthropological discipline from a feminist epistemological perspective and introduces the conceptual discussion around the gender category as a fundamental analytical tool for understanding social reality. The course also covers the research methods of feminist anthropology, encouraging the incorporation of this perspective into empirical research conducted by the students. 

This course covers the organization and structure of English lexicon. It describes basic lexical and morphological concepts and introduces the structure of lexicon and the processes of word formation in English. Topics include: the structure of lexicon--kinds of words, lexeme, syntactic and semantic features, and lexical models; inflectional morphology--word forms, morpheme, morphosyntactic features, and syntactic and semantic implications; lexical morphology--word formation and syntactic and semantic implications. 

This course explores the mechanisms of the audiovisual script, including the models of dramatic narration that are involved in the creation of scripts. It provides an opportunity to conceive and develop a dramatic narrative model based on observation, analysis, and tradition; as well as create a literary script of a short or medium-length fiction film (treatment or first draft of the script).

This course introduces the history of Spanish literature and the evolution of literary genres throughout Spanish literature. It discusses classical foundations of literature and the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition; as well as genre theory, its classical foundations, and its later contributions. Topics include culture and society in Baroque Spain; the picaresque novel; the short novel; trends, poetic theories, and genres in baroque poetry; love poetry, satirical prose, and emblematic literature.