Spanish

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

This course examines the Spanish labor market before the economic crisis began in 2007 and implications of the crisis. It explores labor rights and the reality post-crisis as well as the impact of COVID-19 on the labor market and the aftermath. Finally, it discusses future labor market challenges such as the digital economy and robotization. 

This is the second semester of the course "Spanish Pragmatics" (PRAGMÀTICA DE L'ESPANYOL) which analyzes both oral and written Spanish language structures through theoretical and contextual frameworks of language use.

In this course, student participants will analyze how ideas about gender and sexuality influenced left-wing revolutionary movements and right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America since 1959, considering both political history and the experiences lived by contemporary people in the cases of Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua, among others.

Students are expected to be able to distinguish different focuses and approaches to environmental education for sustainability, and then plan their own learning strategies according to the educational context they must address.

This course examines the cultural role of Andean textiles, their technical spectrum, their aesthetic and heritage values. The aim is to understand the contributions of Andean textile artifacts to contemporary design, to culturally contextualize the material under study and practical knowledge by exercising textile techniques in which structure-texture-color relationships are considered.

In this course, students analyze the dynamics between civil-military relations and the process of formulating security and defense policies in democratic states of law, with a focus on Latin America. In this way, at the end of the course, students are expected to understand, analyze and evaluate how the different levels of civil control over the military and structuring of the Armed Forces in a democracy impact the rationality and efficiency of national defense policies and strategies.

In the course, students will be able to answer the broad dilemma of how to understand Latin America today?, from an interdisciplinary analysis that emphasizes the connection between history, geography and political science in order to unravel and read the various dynamics and challenges of the region. Through methodologies such as lectures, case studies and debates, they will be able to understand the changes, continuities and cultural, social, economic and political projections of the region.