Carlos III University of Madrid

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.

Topics in this Statistics for Journalism course include: the concept and uses of statistics; terminology; types of variables; analysis of univariate data; analysis of bivariate data; probability and probability models; statistical inference.

This course offers a study of basic demographic concepts, collection and use of demographic data, and tools for demographic analysis. It discusses population dynamics from a historical and global comparative perspective including current trends and future forecasts. This course examines determinants of demographic change, socioeconomic and environmental consequences of demographic change, and population policies.

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.