Spain

This course explores the relationship between theater and religion in Antiquity, from the Pharaonic era to the early Middle Ages. It examines the spaces and forms of possible interactions between dramatic performances and cultural practices, the identity of the actors involved, and the effectiveness of drama in the process of emotional and cognitive arousal, both individual and collective, within the religious experience.

This course offers a study of ethology and evolution of behavior. It analyzes the relative importance of different ecological and social factors that shape behavior, as well as how evolution and adaptation contribute to the development of individual and social behavior. Through evolutionary reasoning, it examines the socio-spatial, sexual, and reproductive behavior in the human species and in other animal species.

This course analyzes the main contemporary art manifestations in their various forms of expression. It focuses on their origin, evolution and meaning, and plastic and stylistic values within their historical and social contexts. 

This course offers an introduction to individual decision-making. It explores game theory techniques that can be useful to understand strategic situations that appear in all areas of everyday life. Topics include: preferences; simultaneous games; nash equilibrium; backward induction; subgame perfect nash equilibrium; behavioral economics; neuroeconomics.