Spain

This course explores the microeconomics of banking theory to understand the operation, regulation, and challenges of the banking sector. Topics include: financial intermediation; demand deposit contract; banking crises; bank regulation; credit risk analysis; interest rate risk; liquidity risk.

Topics in this Economic Sociology course include: genesis of the capitalist economic system; sociological ambiguities of the economy; the new neo-liberal system-- the German model and the North American model; contemporary economic organization; social effects of economic flexibility; society, economy, and globalization.

This course provides a comprehensive survey of English literature from its origins through the late eighteenth century. It provides a critical analysis of some of the classical works of English poetry and prose from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, paying close attention to historical context and literary theory. 

This course examines the forms, channels, and strategies behind the distribution of propaganda. It reviews the history of propaganda from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, the invention of mechanized printing, and to the modern state. Particular emphasis is placed on propaganda in modern wartime. 

This course discusses the problems and challenges inherent in the analytical framework of studying social movements and transnational actors (TNAs). It examines contemporary struggles covering diverse social mobilizations based in different parts of the world. This course explores differences and commonalities in selected fields of social justic struggles.

This course covers techniques of recording and stimulation in neuroscience and clinical psychophysiology, including structural and functional neuroimaging, invasive and non-invasive electrophysiology, and neuromodulation and neurofeedback. Additional topics include neuroendocrinology of acute and chronic stress and the implications for learning and memory; psychophysiology of pain; and brain connectivity and resting-state activity patterns. 

This course offers a study of contemporary societies from the perspective of social and cultural anthropology. It covers the main concepts and theoretical approaches of social and cultural anthropology that contribute to the understanding of geographical reality, and introduces the methodological approaches and research techniques that anthropologists use in investigations within contemporary societies. The course also discusses political anthropology, economic anthropology, and anthropology and space.

This course introduces fundamental concepts in the field of political sociology and examines how social policies work today. It explores how the dynamics between the State, the market, and society have undergone significant transformations which have reshaped the concept and operation of European welfare states. The course explains the structure and changes of the European welfare states as well as the evolution of the main social policies in Spain and Catalonia in the last three decades.

This course offers a study of the fundamentals of pathophysiology necessary to understand and interpret the mechanisms underlying alterations in different functional systems that lead to the development of disease. It examines the basic principles of pharmacology and the therapeutic tools currently available for treating these pathophysiological alterations. 

This course offers a study of the theory of automata and formal languages. Topics include: automata theory; finite automata; languages and formal grammars; regular languages; pushdown automata; Turing machine; compilers.