Spain

This course explores key social science concepts like integration and cooperation of particular relevance for analyzing specific development problems in Latin America and Iberia such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, rural stagnation, and regional relations among different Latin American countries, integration politics, panamericanism, and globalization.

The course examines the collective nature of social, cultural, psychological, and historical processes. Topics include: social psychology, research, and psychosocial intervention; identity; social interaction: aggression, altruism, and interpersonal attraction; attitude; influence, conformity, and obedience; groups, social movements, and social institutions.

This course focuses on common and useful Spanish vocabulary to follow the development of classes at Complutense. It discusses uncertainties students have about Spanish with an emphasis on achieving a better degree of fluency in the spoken language and the ability to produce texts written in Spanish.

This course provides a study of twentieth-century Latin American literature. Topics include: modernism and post-modernism (José Martí, Rubén Darío, Delmira Agustini y Leopoldo Lugones); avant-garde literature (Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Oliverio Girondo, Alejandra Pizarnik); thought, creation, and criticism (Jorge Luis Borges); Simon Bolivar in literature; novels of the Mexican Revolution; the Latin American Boom; post-modern fiction (Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Juan José Saer, Fernando Vallejo).

This course discusses parametric estimation and the different techniques of parametric estimation. The course is divided into two units. The first unit covers point estimation including: properties of estimators; estimation of the mean, variance, and proportion of a population; procedures for the construction of estimators. The second unit covers interval estimation including: confidence intervals; pivotal quantity method.

This class expands on the sociological and social psychology studies of emotion and thought at an international level. It discusses linguistic expression, differences in forms of communication, ethic compromising, critical thinking, and general analysis of the principal concepts of society.