Spain

This course focuses on international public relations as a form of strategic communication to create and maintain beneficial connections between an organization (corporation, NGO, or government agency) and its audience in other countries. It explores the functions of international public relations and the techniques used to achieve strategic goals based on the objectives and needs of each case. This courses analyzes the conceptual factors of an organization's environment in different countries that impact public relations activities.

This course offers a systematic approach to different types of decision-making problems that allows for thoughtful, sensible, and better decisions that are effective and applicable in a real context. It focuses on the determination and criteria for comparing and assessing different alternatives (certain, uncertain, and risky). This course introduces the game theory reasoning method in a context of complete information. Specifically, it analyzes the concept of equilibrium both in situations of simultaneous and sequential decision-making, and rationalization through a process of dominant alternatives or backward induction.

This course examines the question: what is sustainable development? Other topics include: key concepts linking the economy, society, and environment; social and biophysical limits to growth; pro-growth versus post-growth perspectives on sustainable development. It also discusses current topics in sustainable development and case studies.

This course examines the Spanish political system and its evolution, and compares and contrasts it to other systems of the world. It is divided into three parts: institutional framework, elections, and political culture.

This course focuses on Spanish Baroque art of the 17th and 18th centuries through the analysis of works of art, the artists, and their relationships to their patrons and contemporary culture.

This course offers a study of Numerical Methods (NM) to calculate approximate solutions of mathematical models. Topics include: floating point, errors, stability, and algorithms; solution of linear systems of equations; numerical solution of equations and systems of nonlinear equations; interpolation and approximation of functions; least squares problems; numerical optimization; numerical integration; numerical differentiation; fast Fourier transform. 

This course studies linguistic variation in the Spanish language, specifically, diachronic and synchronic differences in the Spanish of Spain. It also examines linguistic geography and provides an analysis of dialectal variations of Spanish both inside and outside of Spain. Topics covered include: concepts of language and dialect; dialectology and aural geography, regional atlases, isoglosses; linguistic variation in Spanish, Hispanic languages and dialects, Spanish in America, Africa, and Asia, Judeo-Spanish; history and dialectal divisions dialect spoken in Spain, principle phonetic, morphosyntactic and lexical traits of each.

This course offers an exploration of diverse family models, emphasizing equality, inclusivity, and the roles of gender in parenting. It delves in the complexities of surrogacy, reproductive technologies and the legal frameworks surrounding parenthood, focusing on international issues and comparative perspectives, through a blend of lectures, interactive discussions, case studies and research projects.