Spanish

This course analyzes economic, political, cultural, religious, and ideological factors and their reflection on European society and art of the Modern Age. Topics include: formation of European society in the 15th and 16th centuries; centers of power and art; artist training; philosophy, religion, literature, and their impact on art; political and social changes in Renaissance and Baroque Europe; new centers of art; prestige of music and theater.

This course offers 90 hours of elementary study of Spanish language for students at an A1 to A2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course focuses on the Spanish Social Services System in the context of the European welfare state. It examines the object, concepts, mechanisms of action, and modes of provision of the Spanish Social Services System within the social and democratic state of law. 

This course offers a study of the concept and importance of technology and innovation for companies as well as the strategies companies can follow both to protect their innovations and to obtain the technological knowledge to make the most of them. Prior completion of the course Strategic Management is recommended.

This course offers a study of the structural, formal, and thematic characteristics of literary texts. Topics include: literature as a communicative language-- text and context; textual cohesion and textual pragmatics; the literary text-- nature, properties, and study methods; theory and praxis of text analysis and its typologies-- narrative, essayistic, lyrical, and dramatic.

This course is a study of consumer behavior and the variables affecting the purchasing decision process. It reviews the characteristics of consumer behavior, including internal variables such as motivations of buying behavior and the perception of marketing stimuli, as well as external socio-cultural demographic variables.

This course analyzes the economics of different types of tourism companies. It focuses on ownership and management functions including strategic, tactical, and operative decisions of tourism companies. This course also discusses the main socio-cultural impacts of tourism.

This course offers a study of film and tv in Spain including basic concepts, approaches, and methodologies of analysis. Topics include: historical periods and social, cultural, and aesthetic keys; film and tv canon-- authorship and popular cinema; issues, questions, and cases of film and tv in Spain. Prior academic-level knowledge of Spanish history from 1940-1992 is strongly recommended.

This is the first semester of the year-long Spanish Pragmatics course. It analyzes both oral and written Spanish language structures through theoretical and contextual frameworks of language use.