Spanish

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 examines the nature of human language and its main characteristics, as well as the different theoretical-analytical dimensions involved in the study of language. It analyzes fundamental problems of linguistics, in particular, those related to language as a cultural, social, and cognitive phenomenon.

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.

In this course, students work and understand the territorial reality, in a specific case of interaction with the environment. Participants use the anything-goes methodological pluralism to co-design and co-build tools adjusted to territorial contexts, capable of being used by communities in research, action, and dissemination processes, on expanded problems.

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.

This linear algebra course offers a study of the following topics: vector space, linear independence, algebraic basis, dimension, linear mapping, kernel and image, bilinear form, dot product, diagonalization, and Jordan canonical form.

This course offers a study of the structure and historical evolution of family and family relationships, as well as new family models and family organization. It focuses specifically on Spanish society. 

This oral skills course corresponds to levels A2-B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference. It focuses on improving communicative competition and expanding lexical knowledge and discursive strategies that allow students to interact successfully in Spanish daily life.

This course offers an introduction to aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. Topics include: the question of art and beauty in antiquity; the foundation of a philosophical discipline; from Kant and the Enlightenment to Romanticism; the romantic revolution and its consequences; Nietzsche and the centrality of the aesthetic dimension; the 20th century and the opening of perspectives for contemporary aesthetics.