Spain

Topics in this course include: key concepts in sociology for the analysis of social reality; main forms of sociological explanation and understanding; sociology as a scientific discipline; historical emergence of sociology.

This course offers a study of the evolution of Western music in contemporary times from a historical and stylistic perspective, relating it to the circumstances and context in which it arises and develops, as well as to other artistic and cultural manifestations.

This course provides an introduction to medical robotics and its applications. It covers recent developments in robotics for medical applications, position and orientation (POSE) of a robotic system, the kinematics of arm-type and vehicle-type robots, the trajectory of an arm-type robot end effector, and the different biomedical system controls.

The course provides a historical and critical analysis of 20th century Spanish literature. It examines tradition and originality in literary texts throughout history; the classical foundations of literature; the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition; and genre theory. Topics include the modernist revolution, the new art of the novel, the war novel and novelists of exile, the rehabilitation of realism, novel and memoir, literature and experimentation, novel and democracy, and thinking through novels.

This course provides an introduction to iconography and iconology and considers the power of the symbol. It covers the foundations of aesthetics and philosophy of the image, hermeneutic methods, and analysis of images and artistic languages. The course discusses the creation, revolution, and destruction of images between East and West; iconological schools; and literal iconoclasms. Finally, it examines the origins of medieval aesthetics to the invention of art in modernity, considering subliminal, ancient, and contemporary iconoclasms.

Topics in this introductory political science course include: politics; the state; democracy; elections; collective action; institutions and public policy.

Topics in this international relations course include: problems arising from environmental degradation; regulatory agreements; the roles of various actors; effectiveness of environmental regimes; the challenges of reaching international agreements for regulation; decision-making processes in the environmental field at the international level; the influence of non-government actors, companies, and advocacy groups on environmental legislation; the relationship between the environment, economy, and sustainable development.

This course discusses the concept of emerging countries and the transition of developing countries to emerging countries and on to developed countries. It provides an overview of economics, state and political institutions, and challenges of emerging countries.

This course offers an introduction to cryptography. Topics include: mathematical foundations of cryptography; classic cryptography; symmetric encryption; key distribution and asymmetric encryption; hash functions, MAC, and authenticated encryption; digital signatures schemes; public key infrastructure; user authentication.