Spain

This course offers an exploration of diverse family models, emphasizing equality, inclusivity, and the roles of gender in parenting. It delves in the complexities of surrogacy, reproductive technologies and the legal frameworks surrounding parenthood, focusing on international issues and comparative perspectives, through a blend of lectures, interactive discussions, case studies and research projects.

This course analyzes current aspects of digital markets and the relationships between market participants - suppliers, consumers, and digital platforms. It examines the implications on consumer protection that arise within digital environments. Special focus will be on European law with emphasis on comparative aspects with US law. Topics include: consumer protections, consumer law, and behavior problems in consumer law; European Data Protection; E-marketplaces; technology and digital markets; contracts and data.

This course examines the roots of the primitive Arab state, its conquests, expansion, and evolution, as well as its cultural influence both on the spaces dominated by Arabs and other political institutions of their environment, highlighting in particular the dialogue with Europe throughout the Middle Ages. It is divided into three units: the birth of the Islamic world-- unity, expansion, and culture; geopolitical transformation of the Islamic world; political (re)presentation of Islam.

This course explores industrial security and current geopolitical aspects minimizing the influence of fake news and corruption and providing efficient tools through intelligence analysis. It offers an introduction to the activities and attitudes of intelligence analysts in the field of business, non-governmental institutions and administration.

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.