University of Barcelona

This course provides an introduction to medical robotics and its applications. It covers recent developments in robotics for medical applications, position and orientation (POSE) of a robotic system, the kinematics of arm-type and vehicle-type robots, the trajectory of an arm-type robot end effector, and the different biomedical system controls.

The course provides a historical and critical analysis of 20th century Spanish literature. It examines tradition and originality in literary texts throughout history; the classical foundations of literature; the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition; and genre theory. Topics include the modernist revolution, the new art of the novel, the war novel and novelists of exile, the rehabilitation of realism, novel and memoir, literature and experimentation, novel and democracy, and thinking through novels.

This course provides an introduction to iconography and iconology and considers the power of the symbol. It covers the foundations of aesthetics and philosophy of the image, hermeneutic methods, and analysis of images and artistic languages. The course discusses the creation, revolution, and destruction of images between East and West; iconological schools; and literal iconoclasms. Finally, it examines the origins of medieval aesthetics to the invention of art in modernity, considering subliminal, ancient, and contemporary iconoclasms.

Topics in this introductory political science course include: politics; the state; democracy; elections; collective action; institutions and public policy.

This course presents a critical analysis of Spanish Romanticism literary texts, the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition, and genre theory. Topics include: history, ideology, and poetics; theater and historical drama; journalism and literature; narrative prose; poetry.

This course offers 40 hours of intermediate study of Spanish language for students at a B1.1 to B2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

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.