Spain

This course explores the opportunities and threats presented through cyberculture in our information society. It discusses the possibilities and limitations of improving living conditions inherent to scientific-technological development. This course analyzes the links between technology, law, philosophy, and social interests of the groups that promote and develop it. Topics include: the new information economy; human rights on the internet; expansion of beliefs, fundamentalism, and political phenomena such as populism via social networks; the new digital economy.

This course focuses on basic teaching skills to design, implement, and evaluate educational projects in art education. Topics include: safety, hygiene, and good practices; mechanisms for learning, understanding, and transmission of artistic and cultural values and criteria; teaching of visual arts in different education settings; curricular design; application of different teaching methods; curriculum of artistic education.

This course offers a study of video art design and creation and the field of experimental cinema. It explores techniques and technologies of digital video and audio, as well as methods of audiovisual production. Students work in a group to develop an audiovisual project that incorporates video art techniques and formats. 

This course offers a study the literature of the United States to 1850, taking into consideration the history of the country and the evolution of literary forms, notably prose and poetry. It examines the context of socio-political and cultural relations that have shaped the literary history and traditions of the US. This course discusses literary works from the following historical periods: Pre-colonial and Puritan traditions (1492-1776), literature of the New Republic (1776-1836), and Romanticism and the so-called American Renaissance (1836-1850). 

This course is a study of human resources management and its effect on organizational success. It is divided into four units: managing employees for competitive advantage; work design and workforce planning; managing employee competences; managing employee attitudes and behaviors.

This course offers a study of the origins of theater in Greece as well as its literary aspects-- tragedy, comedy, and satirical drama-- from the archaic and classical periods. It explores the cultural, social, and religious functions of theater in Greece as well as the role of classical literature in the birth and configuration of European vernacular literature.

This course examines popular musical culture with an emphasis on musicological, sociological, and anthropological aspects. Other topics include: comparative folklore; how and why popular music should be studied; the songbooks and folklore missions in Spain; methods and procedures in ethnomusicological research; anthropology of music-- music in culture; reformulation of folklore; processes of transit and cultural contact. Pre-requisites: Musicology students with prior musical knowledge

This course focuses on the biology of viruses, main viral agents, and their interactions with organisms. It examines the characteristics of viral particles from a structural perspective, the replication strategies of different groups of viruses, and the routes of transmission of viruses in their hosts. 

This course analyzes the cultural construction of reality through different symbolic manifestations. It discusses contributions of symbolic anthropology to the understanding of cultural manifestations and processes, as well as the relationship between their material and symbolic dimensions. This course reflects on symbols, rituals, representation, expressiveness, worldview, mythology, magic, and the imaginary to understand the cultural and social processes of human groups.

This course provides a study of the history and evolution of the English language. It examines the major phases and commonly recognized periods of English, the main changes and characteristics of each phase, and the historical and cultural context in which they developed. Topics covered include: fundamentals of historical-comparative linguistics; English among the Germanic languages; migration of Germanic groups to England; Old English; Middle English; Modern English; late Modern English; Contemporary English and new perspectives on change.