Spain

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 is the first semester of the year-long Spanish Pragmatics course. It analyzes both oral and written Spanish language structures through theoretical and contextual frameworks of language use.

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.

This course is a study of current topics related to ethics and legislation within the field of computer science and technology. Topics include: privacy; digital rights and inequality; copyright; cyber crime, security, and control; professional ethical codes.

This course explores the history of aesthetics and art theory. It focus on the link between art and thought, as well as some of the fundamental theoretical problems in art today and their potential resolutions.

This course explores the main lines of Latin American philosophical thought of the 20th century, starting with the problem of identity and the phenomenon of populism. In the first part of the course, it discusses the main debates of Latin American thought since the mid-20th century. In the second part, it analyzes the work of some of the most distinguished Latin American philosophers of recent decades. 

This course offers an introduction to AI including its history, types of AI, and applications and challenges of AI. Topics include: problem-solving with search; uninformed search; informed or heuristic search; optimization and local search; genetic algorithms; neural networks; reinforcement learning; basic approaches to planning and scheduling; advanced applications.

This course explores abstract physical concepts through lectures, experiments, and problem solving with the aid of mathematical tools. Topics include: electric charges and electric forces; the electric field; electric flux and Gauss' law; electrostatic potential energy; capacitance and dielectrics; current and resistance; magnetic fields; sources of magnetic fields; electromagnetic induction; electromagnetic waves; properties of light. Pre-requisites: Physics I; Calculus I and II; Linear Algebra.

This course offers a study of commercial distribution including basic concepts of structure, environment, forms, and functions of distribution, as well as innovative and relevant aspects of distribution such as new commercial formats, e-commerce, blending, and advances in merchandising. Additional topics include: manufacturer distribution strategies; relationships in the distribution channel; distributor strategies; location strategy; distribution logistics. Pre-requisite: Marketing Fundamentals 

This course provides a study of the major movements, schools, genres, styles, writers and works in the history of cinema. It takes an in-depth look at the meaning of the language of cinema and how it relates to the humanities. NOTE: This course is the same as FILM 104 but taught in the UC3M International School.