Carlos III University of Madrid

This course explores the main changes resulting from the development of contemporary sociological theory. It identifies the primary authors and trends that contributed to the development of contemporary sociological theory. Topics include: functionalism; the Frankfurt school; symbolic interactionism; phenomenology and ethnomethodology; methodological individualism; new modernity; postmodernity.

This introductory astronomy course discusses the following topics: motion of celestial bodies; celestial vault; history of astronomy; telescopes and CCD cameras; astronomy from space; the solar system; stars; cosmological models; nearby universe.

This course focuses on how to model and apply optimization and simulation methods in business decision-making. It discusses linear, discrete, and non-linear models as well as a review of case studies.

This course offers a study of spatial and tourism planning. Topics include: planning and tourism-- concept and need for regional planning and tourism; territorial planning methodology and tourism; key concepts in regional planning and tourism; the different modalities of planning; tourist planning in Spain.

This course examines the processes of political and social changes and their impact on economic institutions and processes. Topics include: how to make collective decisions for a group of individuals with heterogeneous needs and preferences; typical failures of different voting rule; designing a voting rule that makes rational decisions and satisfies some minimal democratic requirement; how governments and electoral competition work; why economic competition and electoral competition are so different in nature; the role and influence of interest groups in the political process.

This course offers a study of basic Machine Learning techniques, when to use Machine Learning on real problems, how to determine which technique is appropriate for each problem, and to apply the techniques in a practical way to real problems. Topics include: classification and prediction techniques; non-supervised techniques; reinforcement-based techniques; relational learning; methodological aspects.

This course offers a study of the following topics: entrepreneurship and tourism; business opportunities in tourism sectors-- identification and evaluation; evolution of business trends in tourism sectors; innovative business ideas and value propositions-- generation and analysis of initial viability; business plan-- design, structure, and purpose; elaboration of the business plan.

This course focuses on how operating systems function as expanded machines, their components, major entities (processes, memory, files, etc.), and relation to the software and hardware of the computer. It explores how to use a program's operating system, the difference between processes and threads, including the main scheduling policies used, how to develop applications with multiple processes or threads using communication and synchronization mechanisms between them, as well as concurrent programming mechanisms. 

This course offers an introduction to statistical modeling. Topics include: introduction to statistical inference; confidence intervals for a single sample; test of hypotheses for a single sample; statistical inference for two samples; analysis of variance; goodness of fit tests.