Carlos III University of Madrid

This course offers a study of image formation and how contrast, resolution, and signal to noise ratio affects image quality, including the quantitative information it may deliver and its interpretation. It explores the main aspects of imaging (resolution, contrast, and quantification) within different imaging modalities, either currently used in medical imaging or under development for future implementation. This course discusses which imaging modalities are more appropriate for a specific instance and why, based on what each imaging approach can deliver in terms of sensitivity, resolution, and quantitation.

Pre-requisites: Physics I and II. It is also very beneficial (not mandatory) to have taken Differential equations and Numerical Methods in Biomedicine 

This course discusses the foundations and principles of innovation in the digital age, the digital product development lifecycle, and the importance of agile teams and roles involved in developing an innovative digital product. It explores the methods and techniques for designing a value proposition for customers, methods and techniques for the design, development, management, and validation of digital products, as well as the technologies for working as agile teams.  

This course focuses on the framework and practice of collective bargaining in Spain including how collective agreements are formed, their legal basis, and their role in regulating working conditions. It examines negotiation processes, conflict resolution methods, and key issues such as equality, labor rights, and the balance between workers’ and employers’ interests. 

Pre-requisites: Trade Union Law 

This course explores the idea of the cultural industry and its economic, social, and ideological implications. It discusses the philosophical problems associated with mass culture, popular culture, cultural and creative industries, and mass media. Topics include: the film industry; the music industry; advertising; pop art; the value of language in cultural production; intellectual property; collective rights management.

This course offers a study of the basic institutions, essential regulation, global perspectives, and basic principles governing financial market law. It discusses the organization and functional concepts of accounting and finance. The course is divided into four parts: an introduction to financial market law; securities; banking; insurance.

Pre-requisites: Commercial Law 

This course offers a historical and thematic journey through European literature of the 16th to 20th centuries with a focus on Spanish works. It explores key literary movements from Humanism to Modernism, and how themes such as autonomy, realism, conflict, and social commitment have shaped modern writing. This course focuses on female writers and female representation, combining close reading with class discussion and critical analysis. 

Pre-requisites: C1 level of Spanish 

This course provides a study of the methodology for the analysis of equilibrium and efficiency in exchange economies, production economies, and environments with external effects.

This course offers a study of basic Machine Learning techniques including when to use Machine Learning to solve real problems, which techniques are appropriate, and how to apply them in a practical way. It examines classification and various techniques: prediction, non-supervised, and reinforcement-based ones. This course also discusses relational learning and methodological aspects of machine learning.  

Pre-requisites- Programming and Statistics 

This course explores the impact that the complex relationship between humans and nature has on climate and biodiversity. It discusses the historical evolution of humanity's approach to nature and those representations in Latin American literature. It focuses on the cultural/environmental implications of extractivism, histories of land use, the social impact of economy on bodies and the biosphere, the political use of nature, non-human/human relations, the emergence of Latin American environmental thinking, ecocriticism, modern Latin American literature, and some of the most important political and cultural debates of the continent in recent history.