Spain

This course examines the forms, channels, and strategies behind the distribution of propaganda. It reviews the history of propaganda from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, the invention of mechanized printing, and to the modern state. Particular emphasis is placed on propaganda in modern wartime. 

This course discusses the problems and challenges inherent in the analytical framework of studying social movements and transnational actors (TNAs). It examines contemporary struggles covering diverse social mobilizations based in different parts of the world. This course explores differences and commonalities in selected fields of social justic struggles.

This course covers techniques of recording and stimulation in neuroscience and clinical psychophysiology, including structural and functional neuroimaging, invasive and non-invasive electrophysiology, and neuromodulation and neurofeedback. Additional topics include neuroendocrinology of acute and chronic stress and the implications for learning and memory; psychophysiology of pain; and brain connectivity and resting-state activity patterns. 

This course offers a study of contemporary societies from the perspective of social and cultural anthropology. It covers the main concepts and theoretical approaches of social and cultural anthropology that contribute to the understanding of geographical reality, and introduces the methodological approaches and research techniques that anthropologists use in investigations within contemporary societies. The course also discusses political anthropology, economic anthropology, and anthropology and space.

This course introduces fundamental concepts in the field of political sociology and examines how social policies work today. It explores how the dynamics between the State, the market, and society have undergone significant transformations which have reshaped the concept and operation of European welfare states. The course explains the structure and changes of the European welfare states as well as the evolution of the main social policies in Spain and Catalonia in the last three decades.

This course offers a study of the fundamentals of pathophysiology necessary to understand and interpret the mechanisms underlying alterations in different functional systems that lead to the development of disease. It examines the basic principles of pharmacology and the therapeutic tools currently available for treating these pathophysiological alterations. 

This course offers a study of the theory of automata and formal languages. Topics include: automata theory; finite automata; languages and formal grammars; regular languages; pushdown automata; Turing machine; compilers.

This course offers 40 hours of elementary study of Spanish language for students at an A1 to A2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course discusses the theory of market design, its most advanced tools, and their current applications. Topics include: auction theory and matching theory; study of real markets from an allocative and strategic perspective; application of market design tools to the redesign of specific markets.

Topics in this statistics for psychology course include: basic concepts of measurement and types of variables; data summarization and visualization; measures of central tendency, variability, and skewness; measures of association; probability theory; probability distributions of some continuous and discrete random variables; sampling.