Spain

This course is for the student with an A2.1 elementary level of French. It introduces the phonetics and phonology, the morphology and syntax of simple sentences of French. It teaches oral and written communication skills related to activities of daily life. Topics include: the French alphabet; simple phrases; the nominal group; determinants; pronouns; verbs; vocabulary for basic communication.

This course offers an introduction to aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. Topics include: the question of art and beauty in antiquity; the foundation of a philosophical discipline; from Kant and the Enlightenment to Romanticism; the romantic revolution and its consequences; Nietzsche and the centrality of the aesthetic dimension; the 20th century and the opening of perspectives for contemporary aesthetics.

This course offers a study of current political systems dynamics, the main political and electoral behavior issues, and the role of political culture, values, and ideologies in democracies. The course is divided into the following thematic blocks: political culture, values, and ideologies; political participation and elections; public policy and administration.

This oral skills course corresponds to levels A1-A2.1 of the Common European Framework of Reference. It focuses on lexical knowledge and discursive strategies that allow students to interact in certain everyday situations. 

This courses focuses on strategies for interpreting and constructing written texts of different types and genres, with an emphasis on the processes of reading comprehension, planning, writing, and revision. It is designed for international students at the intermediate level. 

This course analyzes the history of archaeological discoveries, from antiquity to the present day, relating these discoveries to the different historical stages in which they occurred, taking into account the social, political, philosophical, and ideological contexts of each of the stages, and how this has been reflected in the collecting of antiquities, in the history of museums, and in the formation of current museum heritage.

This course offers an intermediate study of Spanish language for students at a B1.1 to B2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course studies and discusses different aspects of modern science using some of the magical short stories of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It uses Borges' work as a vehicle for discussing how our views of the world have been affected by the advances made by science in the last 100 years. In particular, the course focuses on the foundations of disciplines such as cosmology, quantum theory, statistical physics, neuroscience, and computing, as well as mathematical concepts such as combinatorics and the idea of infinity, and other notions such as the concept of time.

This course examines the elements of the immune system and the mechanisms that control the coordinated response. It explores the principles of experimentation on which the study of immunology is based.