Complutense University of Madrid

This course examines contemporary Spanish reality and the different cultural forms and manifestations within Spain. Site visits to various places in Madrid provide an immersive experience and academic and social context. This course also reinforces Spanish language learning through oral and written communication skills.

This course discusses the dynamics of cities and urban planning and the basic regulatory and instrumental framework for urban space planning. 

This course explores the theory and history of cinema, from a historical perspective, with different considerations: historical, aesthetic, linguistic, industrial, technological, and sociological.

This course examines the parts of speech and meanings presented in literature and mass media. Weekly topics include: the factors and functions of semiotics, poetry and rhetoric; verbal versification; meaning, reference, context, situation, and theme; verbal and visual morphology; types of speech and strategy; narration and the effects of narration; manipulations in media, meaning, and speech; figures of speech.

This course provides a critical analysis of the criteria used to distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior and apply psychopathological diagnosis. Topics covered include: history of clinical psychology and psychopathology; general models of abnormal behavior; evaluation, classification and diagnosis of abnormal behavior; disorders of perception, awareness and attention; memory disorders; disorders of thought and language; psychomotor disorders; food and sleep disorders. 

This course offers a study of the main sociocultural processes that make up human life such as socialization and social control. It analyzes social inequalities-- class, gender, ethnicity-- and social change. Topics include: primary dimensions of social stratification, inequality, and social exclusion-- gender, ethnicity, social class; primary structures, institutions, and social practices-- family and kinship, education, religion, etc.; social change and globalization.

This course provides a study of artificial systems capable of generating, coding, storing and transmitting knowledge. Topics covered include perception and artificial vision; data and text mining; codification of knowledge and expert systems; usability; virtual and augmented reality; artificial learning.