Spanish

This course offers a study of fictional and non-fictional audiovisual narratives, considering both content and expression across the various media, formats, genres, and platforms in which they appear. It explores the most relevant models of audiovisual narrative, as well as the tools to apply this knowledge to the analysis, construction, and evaluation of narrative discourses.

This course offers a study of work models and crisis communication management. Topics include: the nature of crises; crisis communication plan; factors that contribute to a crisis; online crises; how to manage a crisis; crisis response-- when to speak; after a crisis; case studies; leadership; crisis communication training processes.

This course analyzes the relationship between urban planning and transportation systems in urban spaces. It studies tools, techniques, and methods for urban transport planning and management, as well as the impacts of transportation on the city. The course also examines sustainable mobility management.

This course explores the relationship between the natural sciences, specifically their abiotic aspects, and geography. It discusses the fundamental concepts of astronomy, geology, geophysics, and hydrology, and their application to spatial studies. Topics include: the Earth's position and movements and their impact on the distribution of solar energy; characteristics and composition of solid materials exposed on Earth's surface-- minerals and rocks; dynamics and evolution of the lithosphere and its influence on the earth-- global tectonics and geological history; basic characteristics, composition, and general dynamics of the hydrosphere.

This course focuses on English literature and its internalization from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and the critical analysis of literary discourses and specific texts from that period. Students engage with the historical and cultural foundations of British society between the 20th and 21st centuries and topics include the analysis, criticism, creation, editing, and publication of texts.

This course introduces the foundations of reasoning under uncertainty, its characteristics and the effect of these on inference processes. Topics include modeling, using and designing fuzzy expert systems, Bayesian networks, stochastic knowledge, decision theory, Markov decision processes, and Kalman filtering.

This course discusses the historical, ecological, geographical, evolutionary, and anthropogenic context for plant biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin. It examines the richness of plant species in the different regions and environments of the Iberian Peninsula. This course also explores plant taxa, useful tools for differentiating botanical groups, as well as preparation of flora inventories, vegetation inventories, biogeographical analyses, technical reports, etc.  

This course examines heuristic search, games, and algorithms. Topics include the importance of heuristics in search problems, search algorithms, evolutionary programming, evaluating heuristics, and game problems. Students examine NP-completeness theory, classifying problems, graph matching, and information theory. 

This course explores animal diversity through specialized training in the methodologies required to identify different zoological groups. Students learn how to recognize the most representative species of fauna and create fauna inventories, measure and interpret animal variability and differentiate zoological groups, as well as how to prepare research studies and fauna inventories and catalogs aimed at characterizing animal communities, biogeographical studies, strategic environmental assessments, environmental impact assessments, and the delimitation of protected areas. 

Pre-requisites: It is recommended to have taken and passed Zoology