Complutense University of Madrid

This course focuses on the Spanish Social Services System in the context of the European welfare state. It examines the object, concepts, mechanisms of action, and modes of provision of the Spanish Social Services System within the social and democratic state of law. 

This course focuses on the analysis of financial transactions as an instrument for financial valuation to assist the decision-making process within organizations and within companies. It discusses different financial concepts and systems and the general approach of financial transactions. Other topics include financial values of annuities, the financial transactions of accumulation (sinking funds), and financial transactions of amortization (loans).  

This course analyzes the driving forces behind income, prices and other macroeconomic variables in closed and open economies. Topics include: macroeconomic problems and national accounts; goods market; financial markets; IS-LM Model; opening goods and financial markets; Mundell-Fleming Model; expectations-- instruments, consumption, investment, and financial market. Pre-Requisites: Macroeconomics I

This course offers a study of the concept and importance of technology and innovation for companies as well as the strategies companies can follow both to protect their innovations and to obtain the technological knowledge to make the most of them. Prior completion of the course Strategic Management is recommended.

This course offers a study of the structural, formal, and thematic characteristics of literary texts. Topics include: literature as a communicative language-- text and context; textual cohesion and textual pragmatics; the literary text-- nature, properties, and study methods; theory and praxis of text analysis and its typologies-- narrative, essayistic, lyrical, and dramatic.

This course is a study of consumer behavior and the variables affecting the purchasing decision process. It reviews the characteristics of consumer behavior, including internal variables such as motivations of buying behavior and the perception of marketing stimuli, as well as external socio-cultural demographic variables.

This course analyzes the economics of different types of tourism companies. It focuses on ownership and management functions including strategic, tactical, and operative decisions of tourism companies. This course also discusses the main socio-cultural impacts of tourism.

This course explores the principles of civil, commercial, and labor law pertaining to economics. It discusses legal entities, the framework of the entrepreneur (including labor-management relations), free competition, copyright/intellectual property and patent/industrial rights, and consumer protection law or company insolvency.

This course offers an introduction to computers with topics including: representation of digital information; specification and implementation of combinational systems; basic combinational modules; specification and implementation of sequential systems; basic sequential modules; design practices of combinational and sequential circuits.