Elementary Spanish I
This course is designed for those students who have no prior knowledge of Spanish or with very basic knowledge at the elementary level. This course is aimed at international students studying abroad, who will learn the language not only in the classroom but also in real context.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Course Level: Lower Division
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Elementary Spanish II
This course is designed for those students who have no prior knowledge of Spanish or with very basic knowledge at the elementary level. This course is aimed at international students studying abroad, who will learn the language not only in the classroom but also in real context.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Elementary Spanish III
This course is designed for those students who have no prior knowledge of Spanish or with very basic knowledge at the elementary level. This course is aimed at international students studying abroad, who will learn the language not only in the classroom but also in real context.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Intermediate Spanish I
Learn how to communicate well in various situations as well as comprehend and write various texts.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Course Level: Lower Division
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Intermediate Spanish II/Conversation
This course is designed for those students who have a previous knowledge of basic or elementary Spanish. This course is aimed at international students studying abroad, who will learn the language not only in the classroom but also in real context.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Lower Division
Course Level: Lower Division
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Intermediate Spanish III
This course examines the role of the most relevant international organizations (IOs) in contemporary global governance. Its main focus is on the United Nations (UN) and its many organs and agencies, which form the centerpiece of global governance. At the theoretical level, the course conceives of IOs not only as instruments of member states, but also as independent bureaucracies with a political life of their own. At the practical level, the course aims to provide the student with the required skills to interact and participate in a UN-simulated context, training him/her for a future professional career.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Lower Division
Course Level: Lower Division
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CH 5171 Spanish for Academic and Professional Uses
This course will focus on the improvement and accuracy of the writing skills of students at an advanced level of Spanish. The aim of the course is to enable those students to produce formal texts in personal, social, professional, and academic settings. They will analyze a range of text types, identify their main and ancillary ideas, and recognize general structural elements in order to be able to produce similar texts of their own. Formal elements such as spelling, punctuation, and quoting will also be addressed.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Course Level: Upper Division
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Advanced Composition
The main goal of this course is to enable students to create different basic descriptive, narrative and argumentative texts in Spanish (narrative, descriptive, argumentative...) by means of exercises involving exposition, reflection, and practice. Students will learn techniques to organize the written speech, as well as style resources that will let them progress within the area of writing in Spanish.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Advanced Conversation
The main goal of this course is to enable students to create different basic descriptive, narrative and argumentative texts in Spanish (narrative, descriptive, argumentative...) by means of exercises involving exposition, reflection, and practice. Students will learn techniques to organize the written speech, as well as style resources that will let them progress within the area of writing in Spanish.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Academic Spanish (Writing)
The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for them to develop their communicative competence from an advanced level towards a high advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and through the focus on specific grammar aspects in an advanced context. The course will specifically address subordinate clauses and conjunctions, both of which will ultimately help students speak a fluent and coherent Spanish.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Basque Culture and Language
The history of the Basque Country has come a long way from the ancient times before the Roman conquest of the Peninsula to the present day. What we can see nowadays is a highly modernized European country which is going through a promising time. The course will help students become familiar with Basque geography, history, and economy, as well as with the Basque culture, traditions, and language (Euskara, an ancient language of unknown origin). These topics, whose aim is to offer a global vision on the Basque Country, will be dealt with by means of group activities and discussions.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Business Spanish
The objective of the course is to help students improve their communicative skills in the area of business. The course is mainly based on a textbook focused on the use of language in different areas of the working world. NB: Must be registered for Spanish II or have an equivalent level of speaking ability for class
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Europe in the World
The goal of the course is to provide a general vision of current Europe in the world at different levels. It will focus on the analysis of the European Union both as the main and practically only European actor in the international scenario, and as one of the main most recent experiences in terms of social organizations. The so-called European social and economic model and the limits of the European Union will also be addressed, as well as the role of the E.U. in the field of foreign relations.
NB: Must be registered for Spanish II or have equivalent level
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Spanish Through Drama
The main goal of the course is to improve students’ communicative competence in Spanish.Students’ work will focus on literary, drama, and cultural contents by means of tasks based on excerpts of plays by renown Spanish speaking playwrights from different literary periods (from the 20th century mostly).
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Practicum Course – Spanish Through Gastronomy
Students will become familiar with Spanish food culture by focusing on vocabulary and grammar structures pertaining to the topic, as well as on habits and traditions in different regions in Spain. They will also get to know the process of cooking some of the most typical dishes of Spanish cuisine and, particularly, of Basque cuisine (tortilla de patata, paella, natillas…). An additional fee of $215 applies for this option. NB: Student must have registered for Spanish II or have an equivalent level of Spanish.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics II
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Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature II
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Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Practicum Course – Spanish Through Drama
Students’ work will focus on literary, drama, and cultural contents by means of tasks based on actual excerpts of plays by renown Spanish speaking playwrights from different literary periods (mainly, but not necessarily, from the 20th century). Excerpts will be analyzed as literary texts, but also as samples of aspects of Spanish culture (with an emphasis on interculturalism), and as potential starting points of new texts to be created by students. At the end of the course, some or all of the new scenes will be performed by students for their program mates.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Sports Management: European Football
The course examines the sports management system of European football (soccer). The main goal is that students become familiar with the basic characteristics of the management of a professional football club.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Art History
The course will analyze the place of art in the life of humans, and especially, how artistic expressions started and were developed in each historical context. Students will reflect about how those artistic expressions marked and identified each culture.
NB: Course taught with Spanish Students
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Contemporary Novel in English
Contemporary novel in English contributes to the consolidation of the academic-professional profile of Modern Languages students by providing a comprehensive approach to 20th century narrative writing in English, both in the British Isles and English speaking countries.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Creative Use of Teaching Resources in Primary Education
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer a number of tools that adequately used can favor active, creative and collaborative learning processes. Second language teachers at Primary Education need to know the basic principles for using educational resources in class to enhance competences development and also meaningful tools that can help language learning and active and collaborative learning processes among students.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Didactics of Foreign Languages
The teaching of an English class or a class taught in a different language to one’s native tongue (CLIL), requires different methodologies and approaches to those of other subjects. Teachers of Primary Education need to know the concepts related to the teaching and learning of the English Language as well as the background to and practice of the language, and their application in the classroom.
NB Course taught with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Economics and International Policy Issues
This particular subject makes a contribution to the Degree in Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration by giving the necessary tools to each student in order to know and understand the interactions between economics and international relationships, so that each student may understand how those interactions affect decision making in firms.
NB Course taught with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Food and Beverage Management
Catering companies are one of the main professional opportunities for Tourism Degree graduates when they complete their degree. Therefore, it is essential that students also know the practical functioning of the companies that manage the area of food and beverages, from the knowledge of specific management tools. They try to get competent students when it comes time to successfully occupy director positions in catering companies.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Course Level: Upper Division
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Foreign Policy
The aim of this course is threefold: first, to introduce students to the main concepts and tools of foreign policy analysis, second, to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the elaboration of Spain's foreign policy, its evolution over the last century, and its main projection areas, third, to offer students a first approach to the global powers' foreign policy, notably the US, the BRICS and the EU's external action.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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History of International Relations
This course examines the role of the most relevant international organizations (IOs) in contemporary global governance. Its main focus is on the United Nations (UN) and its many organs and agencies, which form the centerpiece of global governance. At the theoretical level, the course conceives of IOs not only as instruments of member states but also as independent bureaucracies with a political life of their own. At the practical level, the course aims to provide the student with the required skills to interact and participate in a UN-simulated context, training him/her for a future professional career.
NB Course taught with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Interaction and Multimedia
This course provides the tools to develop computer applications that adapt to the characteristics and limitations of the users. In order to ensure that the application adapts to user needs, it is mandatory for the designer to be familiar with human computer interaction issues.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Literature and Cinema
This course contributes to the consolidation of the academic-professional profile of Modern Languages students by showing them that national cultures are a mosaic of written and visual “texts” constantly interacting with each other. Fidelity, authenticity, intertextuality, genre boundaries, hybridity, reading conventions, and notions of the kind are all integral to the analysis of the transference occurring between different art forms.
NB Class taught with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Modern and Contemporary History
This course aims to present an introduction to the contemporary world, through an overview of global history over the last two centuries. The justification of this course rests on the importance of understanding relevant historic processes in order to contextualize the courses which make up the Modern Languages and Modern Languages and Management degrees.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Regional Integration Processes and Policies
This course aims to provide the student with a solid understanding of the politics and processes of regional integration across the globe and how and why these differ from the European experience. Regionalism is conceptualised as an intrinsic part of the EU's ideology and foreign policy, and the course seeks to understand to what extent the European model of post-sovereign governance is applicable in other parts of the world.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Software Requirements
One of the main tasks of graduates in Computing Engineering is the development of tools or software solutions. If the life cycle of a software system development process is analyzed, the first step will always be the definition of what this system \/tool is supposed to be","those who better know what they want are the system stakeholders, those who are affected by the prospective system.
NB Class taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Unseen Translation
This subject sees the translation from Spanish into English as a means to improve not only the skills to understand the "source language", but also, as a way to enhance the writing skills of the "target language". This class also deepens specific translation skills.
NB: Class taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Varieties of English
Language is a multifaceted reality, and so are languages. What we designate with a single name 'English' (or any other, for that matter), actually hides heterogenous forms and components. In this class, we will examine some of the main axes of variation for different forms of English: diachronic and dialectal variation.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Civil Education
Civil education has become a reference for educational processes, both formal and informal, in a way that is considered one of the great modern narratives of education (Gimeno Sacristán, 2003). Professionals of Social Education have taken on this proposal, especially when incorporating among their objectives the training of people to play an active role in public life and responsibly assume their destiny and the destiny of their society. It is an important challenge since it requires the articulation of educational contexts that favor the full incorporation of people into society.
NB: Course taught with Spanish Students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Consumer Behavior
This course is designed to explore consumer behavior across a number of domains -- from the cognitive biases that impact daily decisions, to the ways in which consumers are influenced by the environment. This course draws from research in behavioral economics, psychology, and marketing and is intended to broadly survey concepts and case analyses in the study and practice of consumer behavior.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Contemporary Spanish Literature
This course is under the subject of HISPANIC LITERATURE, under the Reference of Hispanic Studies and Reference of Literature Degree of Modern Languages. The course provides fundamental knowledge of Spanish Literature from XX-XXI century that allows the student the cultural and formal understanding of literary production in Spain. It also contributes to training through the development of skills dedicated to the development of methodological tools and formation of experts in literature.
NB: Course taught with Spanish Students"
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Corporate Law
This subject is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge of the main aspects relating to the field of business law, explaining the elementary principles, processes, and institutions of the most important areas of business law from a practical point of view. Acquisition of the basic principles of business law and their use in a business environment.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Cultural Studies
As a part of a transversal subject common to the Humanities and Languages degrees, this course contributes to the academic-professional profile of the student, providing them with an adequate background to face the cultural phenomenons of our time, with a critical eye capable of going from the local to the global, from the one to the diverse.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Developmental Psychology
This course contributes to the profile of the Psychologist by analyzing the own processes related to the different evolutionary moments of humans throughout the life cycle, such as physical, psychomotor, cognitive, affective and social development. This enables to interpret their behaviors and to optimize the development, by adapting interventions from this evolving reality.
NB Course taught with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Globalization, Citizenship, and Intercultural Competence
The history of the global world is a key element in understanding the international order, the international relations and the logic of the world as it currently is. The course explores the historical perspective of a set of changes and transformations in the global world, not only economic and technological but also political, cultural and in terms of identity.
NB course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Health and Positive Psychology
The course complements the psychology curriculum offering an overview of the latest developments in the field and the course will focus on health related issues in Positive Psychology.
NB course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Human Resources Management
This course introduces students to the functions of people management, from the development of a plan that link people to the strategic plan of the organization, and in those tasks of people’s function which are decentralized, that is, they must also be carried out by those who direct the other functional areas and/or teams in the organizations.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Course Level: Upper Division
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Principles of Business Organizations
This course will involve adequate academic training in Business Management to be able to carry out management and organization functions within companies.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Psychology of Education
This course contributes to the Primary Education teachers profile of knowledge of the educational processes, especially of teaching-learning, and of the personal and environmental variables in them. This knowledge will allow one to design their educational performance with rigor and scientific basis, establish effective educational relationships, address learning difficulties and design learning environments appropriate to each person and situation.
Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Contact Hours: 4
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Psychological Wellbeing and Community Psychology
The subject of the course contribute the basic skills to reflect and try to approach psychosocial problems from, with and for the community, favoring the involvement of the collective itself, from criteria of justice, equity and flexibility.
NB Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Anthropología Social Y Cultural (Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Social Anthropology studies how to investigate and understand societies defined by their “otherness” and their “non-westerness”.
This course is an introduction to Social Anthropology to understand and apply what it is and how to study otherness, cultural diversity.
Course taught with Spanish students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
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Social and Cultural Connections Between Spain and Latin America
Topics include the following: the history of colonization and independence of the Americas, natural wealth and variety of the landscape, the history of the Spanish language and its varieties, commercial activities on both sides of the Atlantic, the world of art from different points of view, the employment system and the education system, as well as some of the most representative ceremonies and festivals of Hispanic culture.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Bible and Culture
The Bible, far from being the cultural heritage of a religious group or a creed, is part of the cultural heritage of humanity and is in itself a crossroads of cultures and examples of voices and traditions, sometimes in dialogue with others. The themes, characters and stories narrated in it are still a source of inspiration for essays, novels, films, paintings, sculptures, music ... This subject wants to show some reasons for these inexhaustible texts, explain the historical circumstances of their composition and development, reveal some of the interests that are hidden behind them and after their interpretations throughout history, ... learn, in short, to read them with a critical and open mind.
NB: Course taught with Spanish Students
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Critical Choices in Social Life
The course aims to promote reflection on issues of our global world in the perspective of training the whole person. From different approaches of problems in economic, political, cultural and social areas we look for the formulation of critical/ethical criteria to guide decisions on matters which affect society. The topics will be focused from the perspective of the principles of Christian social thought of dignity, common good, universal destination of goods, the principle of subsidiarity, solidarity, the preferential option for the poor, participation and social justice.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Ethical Challenges in a Global World
This course, aimed at students of all the degrees of the UD, responds to one of the essential principles of the "Deusto University Project": the training of students not only as competent professionals but also as people with certain values. More specifically, as people who contribute, from their specific professional skills to the world in which we live is more human, fair and supportive.
NB: Course taught with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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The East and the West in its Great Religious Traditions
This course will analyze the major religious practices in the Western and Eastern traditions along with its canon.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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European Union Law
This subject provides essential knowledge about European Union Law as a supranational legal system, focusing mainly on its system of sources and the principles that govern its effective application in domestic law. As a specific material area, fundamental economic freedoms are studied in the context of the European Internal Market. These contents and the active methodology applied in their learning provide students with the necessary training to perceive the European dimension of the issues and problems whose diagnosis and solution they should address in their professional life.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Media and International Relations
This course contributes to the consolidation of the students' academic-professional profile by helping them to improve their analytical abilities, communications skills (oral and written), initiative, judgment, team building, and critical thinking in discipline-specific contexts. The students will be exposed to relevant and diverse readings and will practice a variety of speaking activities of particular importance in their study field (mainly presentations and debates).
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Public International Law
The course Public International Law will provide the students with a thorough understanding of the nature and basic features of International Law, as well as its role in contemporary International Relations. Students will be able to understand the legal foundation of the international states system and to apply international rules and legal principles in the analysis of international problems and conflicts.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Psychological Intervention and Treatment III
This subject expects to introduce to the techniques derived from Cognitive Therapy. In this part of the subject some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Psychology of Groups and Organizations
The past decade has witnessed a major development of a new movement called Positive Psychology. Advances made, and its application in the different realms of psychological professional activity, grant an introduction to this area given the broaden horizon of research and psychological intervention. The course complements the psychology curriculum offering an overview of the latest developments in the field. The course will focus on health related issues in Positive Psychology.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Community Service in a Global World
The objective of the course is to favor the holistic training of students as individuals, professionals and citizens. It focuses on developing attitudes and values such as opening up to social reality and sensitivity towards global injustice, social exclusion, and the situation of the victims of such reality. The course will be based on the service learning methodology, and includes a solidarity service that aims at meeting actual community needs and favoring students’ learning process through experience.
GOALS
1. To contribute to the improvement of the personal and social development of underprivileged individuals in the community through service.
2. To implement service with the study of today’s global context and the need to broaden the perspective of one’s responsibility as a citizen.
3. To reflect on the possibilities of civil and political participation for the construction of more egalitarian social conditions, focusing on respect and promotion of diversity as the way for social transformation.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3s
Contact Hours: 6
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