Spanish

This course has been designed to introduce English-speaking students to social health, public health, and primary health care emphasizing particular characteristics of the Caribbean region, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. The course follows an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to individual and community health by means of social and medical science concepts that allow for critical and logical analysis of health determinants and their impact on people's health, health system's organization and functions, and the health-illness scheme that contextualizes health based on cultural characteristics.

This course provides a study of the process of formation and development of social thought in Latin America, from the establishment of nation states to the present day. It analyzes prevailing conceptual frameworks that examine the problems of greatest cultural, economic, political and social significance of Latin America. It looks at the process of evolution in its historical context, analyzing the most representative examples of each stage of its development and discussing their degree of reliability or uncertainty for the diagnosis of political, social, and economic problems of Latin America.

This course offers a study of the most representative and influential works in the field of literary thought and creation. Topics include: functions and definitions of art and issues with aesthetic periodization; notions of aesthetics and medieval symbolism; continuities and inflections of the classicist cycle-- from the Renaissance to Enlightenment; aesthetic movements of the 19th century-- from Romanticism to Decadence; aesthetic ruptures of the 20th century-- the Avant-Garde.

This course offers study of Spanish spoken in everyday situations. Topics include: shopping; Spanish and Latin American gastronomy; popular festivals and holidays; Barcelona neighborhoods; public transport; activities on a night out; activities for a weekend in Barcelona; colloquial expressions.

This course discusses the main applications of linguistics in the analysis of the language in legal documents, language used in legal contexts, and language produced by those familiar with the field in the forensic institutional context. It explores the theoretical-methodological problems in the linguistic analysis of forensic text as well as the unequal distribution of power in the forensic institutional context.