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This course explores how culture influences management and organizational practices in international contexts. It discusses cultural dimensions, global mobility, ethical challenges, and research paradigms in cross-cultural studies. Students gain skills to analyze cultural differences, manage diverse teams effectively, and understand the impact of culture on human resources and leadership practices. 

Pre-requisites: Human Resource Management. 

This course is designed to strengthen and refine all four core language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students expand their ability to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts, including discussing present and past events, expressing desires and wishes for the future, and reacting to others. The course also emphasizes the development of argumentative and persuasive language, enabling students to express opinions, agree or disagree, and structure discourse logically. Additional focus areas include describing people and objects, giving instructions and advice, expressing emotions, and preferences.

This course details the key concepts, objectives, and tools of economic policy, with a focus on both national and European contexts. Topics include economic growth, employment, inflation, income distribution, fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and environmental sustainability. It explores how governments and institutions design and implement policies to manage the economy, and assess their effectiveness in achieving policy goals. Special attention is given to EU strategies and frameworks such as the European Employment Strategy, the Stability and Growth Pact, and Europe 2020.  No prior coursework in economics is required, though a basic understanding of macroeconomic principles is recommended.

The course builds on foundational concepts in general linguistics to provide a comprehensive understanding of the linguistic system. It examines the structure and units of language—both in expression and content—through historical and theoretical perspectives. It explores the organization of language, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, and semantics. The course also introduces interdisciplinary branches of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, neurolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and applied linguistics, preparing students for advanced study and research in language analysis.

This course provides a foundational and comprehensive introduction to key philosophical texts and concepts that have shaped Western culture. Students acquire the conceptual tools to analyze and understand major works of philosophy through a historical journey covering key moments in Hellenistic, Christian, Renaissance, Modern, Post-Enlightenment, and Contemporary thought.

This course focuses on contemporary fiction that looks to our future as radically dystopian. It explores the reasons for dystopia and the way we construct, through film and literature, images of an uncertain future and the challenges we face as a society. This course also discusses speculative fiction, specifically the impact of scientific and technological development on our society as constructed and proposed through literature and film.   

Pre-requisites: Advanced knowledge of Spanish 

This course examines gender studies within the field of media including how gender shapes representation, identity, and power through film, visual culture, and digital media. Topics include: gender as social construction, performance, and technology; representations of violence; the impact of new media, social networks, and AI on gender identities and narratives. 

The course covers communication, in both public and private sectors, as an essential means to connect with clients and anticipate processes of social change. It examines global information processes, with an emphasis on strategic management and effective communication. 

This course offers a study of the fundamentals of kinematic and dynamic behavior of rigid bodies, the theory of machines, and mechanisms. Other topics include: kinematics of planar mechanisms; dynamics of planar mechanisms; energy and power. 

Pre-requisites: Physics I; Calculus I; Calculus II; Linear Algebra 

This course explores key elements in the formation of Western thought: the rationalization of Greek myths. It examines how rational thought emerged from mythological frameworks and how similar processes continue today, particularly in relation to information and communication technologies.