Carlos III University of Madrid

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. 

This course provide an overview of the key aspects and trends of contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature, placing particular attention on areas of influence and contact between the two traditions. Topics covered include: the literary and cultural dialogue between Spain and Latin America; Spanish and Latin American Modernism vs. the Generation of '98; the poetic vanguards on both sides of the Atlantic; realism, magic and fantasy; Spanish postwar literature; women in the Hispanic world; transcendence, fragmentation, and transatlantic dialogue in the 20th century; literary trends in postmodern Spain and Latin America.

This course explores the history and evolution of the Spanish language. It discusses dialect and speech, where Spanish is spoken, semantics and pragmatics, and changes in the language.

This course discusses the causes, consequences, and trends of conflict in the world. Topics include: types of conflict (inter-state wars, intra-state wars, terrorism, ethnic conflict, and state repression); their long-term evolution; political, economic and social causes of conflict; their consequences for the world order. 

This course offers a study of the fundamental and applied knowledge of the laws that determine fluid motion with an emphasis on high-Reynolds-numbers flows and gases and their application to the description of problems of interest in aerospace engineering.

This course focuses on the importance of transforming large volumes of data into relevant information for decision-making and business development for companies and individuals. It offers a study of the basic techniques of preprocessing and visualization of data, working with missing and atypical data, use of dimension reduction techniques, methods of supervised learning in regression and their usefulness in prediction problems, distinguishing between linear and non-linear models, and model selection methods.