Spain

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 offers an introduction to the general laws of mechanics, thermodynamics, fields, waves, electromagnetism, and their application to the resolution of engineering problems. Pre-requisites: calculus and linear algebra.

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 offers a study of stochastic processes. Topics include: discrete time Markov chains; renewal theory and Poisson process; continuous time Markov chains; Brownian motion. Pre-requisite: Probability 

This course offers a study of film and tv in Spain including basic concepts, approaches, and methodologies of analysis. Topics include: historical periods and social, cultural, and aesthetic keys; film and tv canon-- authorship and popular cinema; issues, questions, and cases of film and tv in Spain. Prior academic-level knowledge of Spanish history from 1940-1992 is strongly recommended.

This course examines a wide range of quantitative methods for the empirical analysis of microeconomic decisions. Topics include: maximum likelihood estimator; qualitative binary decisions-- binary choice models; other qualitative dependent variable models-- ordered, multivariant, and counting models; decisions with corner solutions-- censored models; Monte Carlos simulation. Pre-requisites: An introductory course in Econometrics. Knowledge of the econometric software gretl is recommended.