Carlos III University of Madrid

This course offers an introduction to critical thinking and problem-solving. Topics include: theoretical foundations of thinking; the human brain and decision-making; models of thinking; phases of the analysis process and the creative process; parallels and divergences; creative and critical problem-solving; proactivity and innovation.

This course offers an introduction to the field of political science. Topics include: politics and political power; forms of political organization; democracies and dictatorships; state structures; parliaments and political representation; government systems; culture and political socialization; actors in the political system; political and electoral behavior; public policies; challenges of politics in today's world.   

This course discusses the main instruments of management accounting. Topics include: income statement types; CVP analysis; pricing decisions; budgets; job and process costing; ABC and department costing. Pre-requisites: Introduction to Accounting.

This course discusses the concepts, models, and basic theories of the role that entrepreneurs and companies play in economic growth. Topics include: the rise of big business; emergence of managerial capitalism and the US model; alternative types of companies-- Japan, Europe, China; flexible specialization and industrial districts; sources of competitive advantage-- technological innovation, trademarks, and marketing; multinational enterprises.  

This course offers a study of classical mechanics applied to flight mechanics and aerospace systems. Topics include: kinematics of point particles; dynamics of point particles; kinematics of a rigid body; geometry of masses; rigid body dynamics; systems of rigid bodies; torque-free motion of the rigid body; the airplane as a point particle. Pre-requisites: Calculus I, Calculus II, Linear Algebra, Physics I. 

This course offers an introduction to the general laws of mechanics, thermodynamics, fields, waves, electromagnetism, and their application to the resolution of engineering problems. Pre-requisites: calculus and linear algebra.

This course offers a study of stochastic processes. Topics include: discrete time Markov chains; renewal theory and Poisson process; continuous time Markov chains; Brownian motion. Pre-requisite: Probability 

This course offers a study of film and tv in Spain including basic concepts, approaches, and methodologies of analysis. Topics include: historical periods and social, cultural, and aesthetic keys; film and tv canon-- authorship and popular cinema; issues, questions, and cases of film and tv in Spain. Prior academic-level knowledge of Spanish history from 1940-1992 is strongly recommended.

This course examines a wide range of quantitative methods for the empirical analysis of microeconomic decisions. Topics include: maximum likelihood estimator; qualitative binary decisions-- binary choice models; other qualitative dependent variable models-- ordered, multivariant, and counting models; decisions with corner solutions-- censored models; Monte Carlos simulation. Pre-requisites: An introductory course in Econometrics. Knowledge of the econometric software gretl is recommended.

This course explores the history of aesthetics and art theory. It focus on the link between art and thought, as well as some of the fundamental theoretical problems in art today and their potential resolutions.