Spanish

This course examines terrorism both in Spain and globally. Topics include: terrorism in Spain; victims of terrorism; psychological consequences of terrorist attacks on the victims; secondary vicitimization, violence of terrorist persecution and their psychological consequences; comprehensive care for victims of terrorism.

This course offers a study of the different literary movements, genres, and authors of 18th century Spain. 

Topics in this course include: key concepts in sociology for the analysis of social reality; main forms of sociological explanation and understanding; sociology as a scientific discipline; historical emergence of sociology.

This course offers a study of the evolution of Western music in contemporary times from a historical and stylistic perspective, relating it to the circumstances and context in which it arises and develops, as well as to other artistic and cultural manifestations.

The course provides a historical and critical analysis of 20th century Spanish literature. It examines tradition and originality in literary texts throughout history; the classical foundations of literature; the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition; and genre theory. Topics include the modernist revolution, the new art of the novel, the war novel and novelists of exile, the rehabilitation of realism, novel and memoir, literature and experimentation, novel and democracy, and thinking through novels.

This course provides an introduction to iconography and iconology and considers the power of the symbol. It covers the foundations of aesthetics and philosophy of the image, hermeneutic methods, and analysis of images and artistic languages. The course discusses the creation, revolution, and destruction of images between East and West; iconological schools; and literal iconoclasms. Finally, it examines the origins of medieval aesthetics to the invention of art in modernity, considering subliminal, ancient, and contemporary iconoclasms.

Topics in this international relations course include: problems arising from environmental degradation; regulatory agreements; the roles of various actors; effectiveness of environmental regimes; the challenges of reaching international agreements for regulation; decision-making processes in the environmental field at the international level; the influence of non-government actors, companies, and advocacy groups on environmental legislation; the relationship between the environment, economy, and sustainable development.

This course examines European and Spanish culture from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age through the study of a selected set of representative literary works. It analyzes the literary texts in light of their corresponding historical, cultural, and literary contexts.

This course focuses on the distribution of economic activities to identify and contrast the territorial scope of their spatial organization. It analyzes both economic information and spatial relationship to explore geographic phenomena.

This course analyzes artistic heritage as a material manifestation of societal memory. It explores the interdependence between artistic heritage and the context of its creation and appreciation.