Carlos III University of Madrid

Through this course students learn the varieties and uses of spoken Spanish in different communicative situations. Students analyze the proper characteristics of oral language in comparison to the written language, and colloquial register is specifically studied. 

This course introduces the different areas of study of the sociology of culture. Topics include: study of culture in classical sociology; schools of the sociology of culture and interdisciplinarity; culture and identity; class, power, and culture; gender and ethnicity; cultural production; cultural reception; culture and mass media; culture of citizenship.

This course covers the fundamentals of journalistic communication and the techniques and journalistic expression in the audiovisual media. Other topics include: the historical origins of journalistic information; its social, economic and political causes; its evolution and its impact on contemporary societies; rhetoric and argument in informative speeches; theory and analysis of the information in the audiovisual media; and globalization and social change in 21st century journalism.

This course provides a study of continuous and discrete-time signals and LTI (linear and time-invariant) systems in the time and frequency domain. Topics covered include: signals; systems; Fourier series representation of continuous-time periodic signals and sequences; continuous-time Fourier transform; sampling; Laplace transform and z-transform. Students are expected to have completed coursework in calculus and linear algebra.

This course focuses on the organization and structure of a computer. Topics include: data representation; basic arithmetic; execution of instructions; assembly programming; main memory; cache memory; virtual memory; input/output systems.

This course explores the concept and different degrees of “interpretation” in journalistic terms, the logical continuity between information and interpretation, as well as techniques for the development of journalistic messages of an informative–interpretative nature. Students are expected to have completed previous coursework in media theory and journalism.