Spain

This course covers the following topics: consumption theory-- consumer preferences and budget constraint, consumer choice, and individual demand; business theory--technology, costs, and benefits; perfectly competitive market-- competitive equilibrium and efficiency and social welfare.

This course provides a study of literature produced in the United States during the 19th century. It examines cultural diversity throughout history, as it is represented in literature. Its contents cover the following topics: The first literature of the United States, The American Renaissance, Slave narrative and Post-Civil War literature.

This course discusses the various creative fields in which Barcelona has been a pioneer. Topics include: urban design, art, culture, design and fashion, theater, dance, music.

This course explores the truthfulness of AI, as a non-reliable source of information, from a linguistic angle. On the premise that AI-tools are increasingly used to provide “information” in professional and private settings, but in reality are producing ‘hallucinations’, false information, the course compares the logic and architecture behind large language models (LLM) used in AI-tools with the logic and architecture behind human cognition (including the capacity for language). It also delves into several aspects of human language that contribute to our inclination to take AI-generated output at face value.

This course offers 45 hours of advanced study of Spanish language for students at a C1.1 to C2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course examines major issues related to new topics in Spanish media. It is divided into two parts. Part one focuses on the representation of Spain through both traditional and new media. The second part explores how fiction, whether on television, cinema, or social media, is capable of describing in detail the reality of Spain.

This linear algebra course offers a study of the following topics: vector space, linear independence, algebraic basis, dimension, linear mapping, kernel and image, bilinear form, dot product, diagonalization, and Jordan canonical form.

The course examines how Europe (the EU, in particular) and Spain have responded to social inequalities, global pandemic pressures, gender inequality, migrations, nationalism(s), climate change, and sustainability. It provides a critical overview of these current challenges at the transnational, regional and national level. The course combines analytical tools and categories stemming from political science, international relations, economics, European Integration studies, public policies analysis and development economics.

This course offers a study of the structure and historical evolution of family and family relationships, as well as new family models and family organization. It focuses specifically on Spanish society. 

This oral skills course corresponds to levels A2-B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference. It focuses on improving communicative competition and expanding lexical knowledge and discursive strategies that allow students to interact successfully in Spanish daily life.