Carlos III University of Madrid

The first half of this course focuses on digital systematic knowledge organization systems including main systems such a Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), digital structures, and their characteristics. The second half of the course examines representations of knowledge. Topics include: folksonomies-- digital collaborative classification and tagging; thesauri; formal structures for knowledge representation-- graphs; automatic classification.

This course offers a study of Spanish history from the start of the War of Independence in 1808 to the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939.

This course offers an overview of the air transport industry and the infrastructures needed to ensure aircraft fulfill safe and efficient operations. The course is divided into three parts: Air transportation, air navigation, and airports. 

This course offers a study of Spanish territory and society from a geographical perspective. Topics include: diversity of the physical environment; population in Spain; settlement and the urban system; economic activities; transport and its role in structuring the territory; environmental problems; Spain in an international context.

This course examines the developments of feminist theories and feminist activism over the last 200 years. Topics include: types of feminism, genealogies of exclusion; private vs public and equality vs difference; conceptions of sex and genders; queer status and a deconstruction of binaries; intersectionality and decentered feminism in the context of post-colonial or de-colonial views.

This urban studies course is divided into three parts. Part one addresses the formation and evolution of the city from a historical and geographical perspective. Part two analyzes the spatial evolution of cities in today's world, focusing on dynamics such as tertiarization and gentrification in developed countries and rapid urban growth and hypertrophy in developing countries. Part three focuses on public spaces, their history, and the policies and actions for their requalification and improvement.  

This course examines the history of aeronautics, the commercial and scientific use of space, the operation of specifically aerospace technologies, and the exploration and exploitation of space.

This course considers the philosophy and politics within gender studies. It briefly examines the works of Plato and Aristotle before exploring modern texts on feminism, gender, and sexual identity. Topics of study include: natural and cultural constructions of sex and gender; equality and difference; sex, gender, and sexual identity; intersectionality.

This course analyzes the main demographic phenomena and theories regarding the relationship between different demographic variables and economic, social, and environmental factors. It examines the ethical implications of demographic policies carried out in the last century.

This course offers a study of the theoretical foundations and calculus rules of Probability Theory. Topics include: probability and random phenomena; random variables; common distribution models; jointly distributed random variables; properties of expectation; limit theorems.