Complutense University of Madrid

This course provides a study of the history and development of mathematics, from its origins to the present. Topics include: Math in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt; math in ancient China and India; math in classical Greece; Hellenistic and Roman math; the Middle Ages in the Near East and Europe; the Renaissance; 17th century and mathematical revolution; 18th century-- calculus and mechanics; 19th and 20th centuries-- differential geometry and geometrization of space, algebra and algebraic geometry, foundations of math, foundations of analysis, foundations of probability.

This course provides an introduction to Italian language and culture in order to develop a communicative competence that allows students to function and interact in common daily life situations.

This course analyzes the fundamental aspects of three great proposals on human action: the Aristotelian conception of voluntary action, the Kantian description of motivation, and the phenomenological distinctions between desire and will, and motives and causes.

This course offers a study of victimology as a necessary subject within the field of criminology to examine the person and their role as victim. It discusses the role of the victim today and identifies perceptions and reciprocal attitudes about offenders and victims. Lastly, this course explores the idea of knowledge of the victim as a means to prevent crime.

This course explores the emerging writers in Britain from 1950 onwards. It analyzes the relationship between their work and modernism, as well as their role in the global canon of British tradition. Additionally, this course examines the interaction between contemporary English fiction and other characteristics of post-modern cultural events.