Spanish Language and Culture

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What's Included

Classes in this program are designed for international students who want to study abroad in Bilbao to increase their Spanish language proficiency in an immersive setting. Students choose courses from the following disciplines: Spanish language, Hispanic and Basque culture, Spanish civilization, literature, and more.

What's Included?

Highlights

Pre Departure Services

Advising

@api Online System

Orientation Materials and Resources

Access to International Phone Plans

API Alumni Network

Social Networking

Scholarships

On Site Services

Airport Reception

On-Site Orientation

Excursions (overnight, day, international)

Resident Director

Tuition

Medical and Life Insurance

Social and Cultural Activities

Welcome and Farewell Group Meals

Volunteer Opportunities

Tutoring

Housing (including meals and laundry with host families and dorms)

Language and Culture Tools

Re-Entry Services

Re-Entry Materials and Support

Post-Program Evaluation

Transcript

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Application Requirements

  • Minimum 2.75 G.P.A.
  • Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors
  • Open to all levels of Spanish speakers
  • Completed API application
  • University Approval Form
  • One letter of recommendation
  • Official transcript
  • Additional supplemental forms
  • Entry requirements: valid passport with student visa
Excursions

API students participate in several excursions per session designed to help familiarize them with areas of their host city, country, and surrounding region. The following is a listing of all excursions for API Bilbao programs. All excursions are subject to change.

  • Gernika

    Gernika is home to the ‘Tree of Gernika,’ a large oak tree that became symbolic of the traditional rights of the Basque people. In 1937, the Nazis completely destroyed the town of Gernika during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso’s famous painting that has become an international symbol against war in general is named ‘Guernica’ after the atrocities that occurred here. In 1987 (50 years after the bombings) Gernika became known as a symbol of peace. On the way to Gernika lies San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a tiny island connected to the mainland by a man made bridge. On top of the island there is a hermitage that dates from the 10th century.

  • Madrid

    Spain’s capital blends the modern with an important cultural and artistic heritage. Three of the most important art galleries in the world (the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museums) are all located in the center of Madrid. All this, combined with the momentum of a society that is dynamic, liberal and welcoming, has turned this metropolis into one of the western world’s great capitals.

  • Winery Tour

    One of Spain’s truly legendary winemaking regions, the region of La Rioja in central-North of Spain is home to some of the world’s best and most exclusive red wines. Laguardia, capital of the Alava region in the Basque country, is a gateway for experiencing the Rioja wine region and it is a good example of a walled village that has not changed much since the 13th century. During the Middle Ages, residents dug deep into the rock below their homes (and sometimes the home of their neighbor) to create places for food storage and refuge during the siege.When wine production became prominent in the region, the underground passages were found to be ideal for the fermenting of wine. The winery Ysios joins tradition with the modernity of facilities designed by Santiago Calatrava and inaugurated in 2001.

  • San Sebastián

    San Sebastián was founded in 1180 and is one of the Basque country’s most beautiful towns. It has been an important vacation spot since the late 1800s after being adopted as the summer home for Madrid’s royalty.

  • Southern France

    Biarritz is in the south-western corner of France, close to the border with Spain. The town is a lively one and a pleasure to explore. It contains very impressive grand 19th-century houses with wrought iron balconies and other decoration, with a faded elegance that adds to its charm. Biarritz has a high reputation as a surfing capital of Europe due to its fine sandy beach in the center of town.

  • Toledo

    Toledo, located south of Madrid, was declared ‘City of Mankind’s Heritage’ by UNESCO in 1986. It was capital of Spain from mid-6th to the mid-16th centuries, as evidenced by its impressive medieval architecture. Known as the “City of the Three Cultures,” it served as a hub for Jews, Moors and Christians and has today become a symbol of religious tolerance. Walking through Toledo is like taking a magic journey into the past.

  • London

    London is the largest city in Western Europe, home of the Kings and Queens of England since time immemorial. The Tower of London, with its Beefeaters and grisly past, is a prominent landmark and is the place where the Tudor King Henry VIII had two of his queens beheaded! It is situated next to the famous Tower Bridge, which spans the River Thames. Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the houses of Parliament and Big Ben are all equally famous historical buildings, of which there is no shortage in London. They are presided over by Buckingham Palace, where the current Queen lives, and overlooked by the London Eye. London is a magical city with plenty to offer any visitor.

  • Gernika

    Gernika is home to the ‘Tree of Gernika,’ a large oak tree that became symbolic of the traditional rights of the Basque people. In 1937, the Nazis completely destroyed the town of Gernika during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso’s famous painting that has become an international symbol against war in general is named ‘Guernica’ after the atrocities that occurred here. In 1987 (50 years after the bombings) Gernika became known as a symbol of peace. On the way to Gernika lies San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a tiny island connected to the mainland by a man made bridge. On top of the island there is a hermitage that dates from the 10th century.

  • Madrid

    Spain’s capital blends the modern with an important cultural and artistic heritage. Three of the most important art galleries in the world (the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museums) are all located in the center of Madrid. All this, combined with the momentum of a society that is dynamic, liberal and welcoming, has turned this metropolis into one of the western world’s great capitals.

  • Winery Tour

    One of Spain’s truly legendary winemaking regions, the region of La Rioja in central-North of Spain is home to some of the world’s best and most exclusive red wines. Laguardia, capital of the Alava region in the Basque country, is a gateway for experiencing the Rioja wine region and it is a good example of a walled village that has not changed much since the 13th century. During the Middle Ages, residents dug deep into the rock below their homes (and sometimes the home of their neighbor) to create places for food storage and refuge during the siege.When wine production became prominent in the region, the underground passages were found to be ideal for the fermenting of wine. The winery Ysios joins tradition with the modernity of facilities designed by Santiago Calatrava and inaugurated in 2001.

  • Toledo

    Toledo, located south of Madrid, was declared ‘City of Mankind’s Heritage’ by UNESCO in 1986. It was capital of Spain from mid-6th to the mid-16th centuries, as evidenced by its impressive medieval architecture. Known as the “City of the Three Cultures,” it served as a hub for Jews, Moors and Christians and has today become a symbol of religious tolerance. Walking through Toledo is like taking a magic journey into the past.

  • Santander

    Santander is an elegant city that extends over a wide bay with views of the Cantabrian Sea. Its historic quarter is situated against an incredible natural backdrop of sea and mountains.

  • Paris

    One of the most intriguing cities in the world, Paris is brimming with amazing museums, architecture, fashion, and beauty. Innumerable monuments built to reflect the glory of France and its rulers stand testament to the city’s rich history.

  • Gernika

    Gernika is home to the ‘Tree of Gernika,’ a large oak tree that became symbolic of the traditional rights of the Basque people. In 1937, the Nazis completely destroyed the town of Gernika during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso’s famous painting that has become an international symbol against war in general is named ‘Guernica’ after the atrocities that occurred here. In 1987 (50 years after the bombings) Gernika became known as a symbol of peace. On the way to Gernika lies San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a tiny island connected to the mainland by a man made bridge. On top of the island there is a hermitage that dates from the 10th century.

  • Madrid

    Spain’s capital blends the modern with an important cultural and artistic heritage. Three of the most important art galleries in the world (the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museums) are all located in the center of Madrid. All this, combined with the momentum of a society that is dynamic, liberal and welcoming, has turned this metropolis into one of the western world’s great capitals.

  • Winery Tour

    One of Spain’s truly legendary winemaking regions, the region of La Rioja in central-North of Spain is home to some of the world’s best and most exclusive red wines. Laguardia, capital of the Alava region in the Basque country, is a gateway for experiencing the Rioja wine region and it is a good example of a walled village that has not changed much since the 13th century. During the Middle Ages, residents dug deep into the rock below their homes (and sometimes the home of their neighbor) to create places for food storage and refuge during the siege.When wine production became prominent in the region, the underground passages were found to be ideal for the fermenting of wine. The winery Ysios joins tradition with the modernity of facilities designed by Santiago Calatrava and inaugurated in 2001.

  • San Sebastián

    San Sebastián was founded in 1180 and is one of the Basque country’s most beautiful towns. It has been an important vacation spot since the late 1800s after being adopted as the summer home for Madrid’s royalty.

  • Southern France

    Biarritz is in the south-western corner of France, close to the border with Spain. The town is a lively one and a pleasure to explore. It contains very impressive grand 19th-century houses with wrought iron balconies and other decoration, with a faded elegance that adds to its charm. Biarritz has a high reputation as a surfing capital of Europe due to its fine sandy beach in the center of town.

  • Toledo

    Toledo, located south of Madrid, was declared ‘City of Mankind’s Heritage’ by UNESCO in 1986. It was capital of Spain from mid-6th to the mid-16th centuries, as evidenced by its impressive medieval architecture. Known as the “City of the Three Cultures,” it served as a hub for Jews, Moors and Christians and has today become a symbol of religious tolerance. Walking through Toledo is like taking a magic journey into the past.

  • Santander

    Santander is an elegant city that extends over a wide bay with views of the Cantabrian Sea. Its historic quarter is situated against an incredible natural backdrop of sea and mountains.

  • Paris

    One of the most intriguing cities in the world, Paris is brimming with amazing museums, architecture, fashion, and beauty. Innumerable monuments built to reflect the glory of France and its rulers stand testament to the city’s rich history.

  • Lisbon

    Lisbon is a European city like no other. It boasts as grand a cultural and historical heritage as many other European cities but also has an earthier side that sets it apart. An impressive Gothic cathedral, the Hieronymites Monastery, St. George’s Castle and Torre de Belém are all part of the colorful cityscape. Another side of Lisbon is discovered wandering around the narrow lanes of Alfama, Rossio and Barrio Alto Quarters, and taking in the sounds and rhythm of the city. One experiences a step back in time through visits to the cultural sites in Lisbon, while also gaining an impression of the differences between Portugal and Spain.

Program Details

What You’ll Study

TOTAL CREDITS - 12-15 credits per semester

Classes in this program are designed for international students who want to study abroad in Bilbao to increase their Spanish language proficiency in an immersive setting. Students choose courses from the following disciplines: Spanish language, Hispanic and Basque culture, Spanish civilization, literature, and more. A student’s Spanish level is determined by a placement exam administered upon arrival by the University of Deusto. Students can take up to 15 credits per semester and can add additional courses, internships, and practicums for an extra fee.

COURSES WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Students have the opportunity to enroll in up to two classes per semester with Spanish students. These classes are taught in Spanish and English. Students at all levels can enroll in classes with Spaniards that are taught in English as long as students meet the course prerequisites. However, API students must place into level Spanish III or higher in order to be eligible to enroll in classes with Spaniards that are taught in Spanish.

DEUSTO TANDEM PROGRAM

API students at Deusto have the exciting opportunity to participate in the Tandem Program, which facilitates intercultural exchange by matching full-time Spanish students with recently arrived study abroad students. It is a program with mutual benefits! The local Spanish students are eager to spend time with their API conversation partner and show them around Bilbao, and the API students are encouraged to integrate with local students and learn more about Spanish life, both inside and out of the university setting.

TRANSCRIPTS

API students will receive a transcript from the Universidad de Deusto upon completion of their program.

Staff & Coordinators

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    Andrea Gorricho

    Andrea Gorricho will be your Resident Director and a resource for you on-site.

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    Ryan McCann

    Ryan McCann will be your Program Coordinator and prepare you to go abroad with us!

    Email - ryan.mccann@apiabroad.com

Courses

COURSE OFFERINGS

Depending on their language level, students can earn 3-10 U.S. credits of Spanish language. In addition to the language course, each student can choose cultural electives and/or select some courses with Spaniards. Students may also elect to participate in an internship for an additional fee.

CLASSES WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Classes with Spaniards are available in both English and Spanish. Offerings vary by semester and cannot be guaranteed. Additional courses with Spanish students in different areas such as law, history, sociology, education, anthropology, literature, religious studies, psychology and computer science may be available.

CREDIT INFORMATION

Most API partner universities in Spain operate on the contact hour system, wherein the number of credits earned depends on the time spent in class. To determine the conversion of contact hours to U.S. credits, divide the contact hours available by 15.

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: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Intermediate Spanish I

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Intermediate Spanish III

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Advanced Spanish 302: Spanish for Academic and Professional Purposes

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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Conversation

The main goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary resources to develop their oral skills in Spanish towards an advanced level, both in formal and informal situations, by focusing on organization techniques of oral speech. Students will also improve their interaction skills in conversation and will be offered the appropriate tools to carry out oral expositions about current topics successfully.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Spanish 301: Grammar and Communication

The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for them to develop their communicative competence from an intermediate level towards an advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will focus on specific grammar aspects that will be approached from a communicative perspective that will assume and value active participation of the students in the class at all times.

The main functional contents of the course will be the following:• Talking about learning habits.• Expressing wishes and opinions.• Assessing actions.• Providing and understanding recipes.• Sequencing actions.• Narrating in the past.• Telling a tale.• Assessing proposals.• Expressing purpose.• Suggesting solutions.• Speculating about the future.• Making predictions.• Expressing obligations and rules.• Expressing prohibition.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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Academic Spanish (Writing)

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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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 Basque   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Culture, Politics and Economics in Contemporary Spanish Society

This course offers an introduction to Spanish culture and civilization so that students can become familiar with the social, economic and political structures of Spain today. Our study will be focused on some specific aspects which make Spain both appealing and richly varied: its ancestral monarchy recently restored, its organization in autonomous areas which may be a solution to historical conflicts, the fact that it is one of the main tourist destinations in the world and, at the same time, the country of Don Quijote, Don Juan, Lorca, bullfighting, and soccer. All these features of life, history, and politics will be analyzed all through the course, both in the lectures and in the tour that will take students to some of the most historically relevant cities in Spain.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. The communicative approach (both oral and written) will be used in

the classroom, which means the four language skills will be worked on: listening and written

comprehension, writing and oral skills. The textbook will be implemented with complementary

material taken from newspapers, magazines, and/or other textbooks of Business Spanish,

according to the interests and necessities of the students.

Language of Instruction: English    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.

Language of Instruction: English    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

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: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Practicum Course – Spanish Through Gastronomy

The main goal of the course is to improve students’ communicative and cultural competence in Spanish. Meal times and the development of personal and professional relations around meals are very important aspects of the Spanish culture. 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.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics II

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Spanish Cinema and Literature

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature II

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Service Learning: Social Participation and Development

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.

Activities in the SERVICE LEARNING course require a commitment on your part.

-The exact dates and schedule will be provided by instructors on the first week of classes.

-There are two projects you can participate in. One of them involves direct contact with minors; therefore, in order to be able to participate in this project, you will need to bring a state police criminal record with you from your home country. This is a requirement for anyone volunteering with minors in Spain. You need to contact your local or state police in order to get the document, which will then need to be authenticated by an Apostille. The process is simple, but we recommend that you start with it as soon as possible.

-Please notice that, if you bring this police record, you will have access to both projects in the course.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Practicum Course – 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 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/Superior  

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. In order to do so, different areas of management are explored, together with the main tasks that underlie each one of them. Real Madrid, F.C. Barcelona, Manchester United or Bayern Munich are perhaps the clearest examples of successful models of sports management, although there are also others closer to home such as Athletic Bilbao, which will also be examined during the course. An essential element around which everything is structured is that football is a game. Practical activities outside the classroom will be organized with this in mind.

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 on how those artistic expressions marked and identified each culture. From prehistoric times until contemporaneity, we will analyze the most relevant moments of artistic creation, focusing in Western Europe. We will be taking into account the social contexts in which the different styles started, their main formal characteristics, and most representative works of art and artists of each time. The course and the practice of a historical-artistic methodology will help students to develop their analytic and critical skills. They will get to know the main civilizations in history, by studying the forms of representation they used and, therefore, their perception of the world.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Contemporary Novel in English

The 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. It explores the development of the contemporary novel in English by focusing on two important periods for the development of the English narrative: the 1920's or the so-called Modernist literature; and the post-war period that yields to the decolonization process and the beginning of postcolonial movements. One-quarter of the world population lives in one of the 54 countries once colonized by Great Britain. They share a fairly recent colonial history and the often violent consequences of the decolonization process. But above all this, they share a common language: English. This course intends to explore some expressions of colonial and post-colonial literature in English, as well as the circumstances that helped shape these texts as expressions of a complex and multilayered reality. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Creative Use of Teaching Resources in Primary Education

Educational resources are an essential element in learning-teaching processes. 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. Getting to know ICT tools, using them, valuing their educational application, their contributions, and limitations, and the criteria for selecting, using and integrating them in effective teaching-learning practices in class is the main objective of this subject.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Entrepreneurship

Course description currently unavailable.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Didactics of Foreign Languages I

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.Therefore, this subject has, among others, the following aims:
  • To introduce the concepts and terms of teaching and learning the English Language.
  • To introduce the main theories, approaches, and activities in an English classroom.
  • To share resources to be used in the classroom for young learners in order to teach and learn the different language skills.
  • To learn how to plan and teach a class for young learners of English.
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. This subject is contributing also to the general objective of the Degree in Business Administration of the University of Deusto, which is to train professionals and persons having the general and specific competencies to understand, analyze, decide, plan and act inside firms, taking into account the international economic situation and perspectives, generating value for society and firms. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Food and Beverage Management

Las empresas de restauración son unas de las principales salidas profesionales que un titulado con el Grado en Turismo tiene cuando acaba sus estudios. Es por ello fundamental que el alumno también conozca el funcionamiento práctico de las empresas que gestionan el área de alimentos y bebidas, desde el conocimiento de las herramientas específicas de gestión. Se trata de conseguir estudiantes competentes a la hora de poder ocupar con éxitos puestos directivos de empresas de restauración en un futuro próximo.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Foreign Policy

Course description currently unavailable.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Interaction and Multimedia

Any student in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) related engineering should be prepared to design and develop software applications. Many of them are interactive, that is to say, they are intended to establish a dialog with the user. 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. This course provides the tools to develop computer applications that adapt to the characteristics and limitations of the users.In addition to the above, it is more and more common for these applications to include text and images, but also audio, video and animations. These multimedia applications put forward specific challenges, such as data compression and synchronization.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Interpersonal Relationships

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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. This course focuses specifically on adaptation issues. It also investigates how the introduction of new communication technologies has transformed our perception of fictional texts and reality.Literature and Cinema explore the type of “translation” that literary works undergo when they are taken to the screen. Since both arts rely on quite distinctive industries and semiotic systems, it will soon become apparent that our analyses of both “texts” are highly conditioned by the medium. As a result, such aspects as the relationship between the reader/viewer and the “text”, the concepts and protocols of analysis, the conventions to interpret each kind of narrative and the ideological implications are necessarily different in each of the two media. COURSE 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.

The course will cover issues such as the creation of the Modern State, the main political revolutions, the evolution of the collective mentalities and their influence on the creation of new political systems, the impact and development of the main social movements, or the economic reforms and transformations, which are necessary for a rigorous interpretation of the information and knowledge obtained in other courses.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Regional Integration Processes and Policies

This course is part of the module "Theory, organization and dynamics of international society" and the subject "International organization and theory"

The 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 conceptualized 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.

The theoretical point of departure is in the different integration theories studied in the course: federalism, neo-functionalism, inter-governmentalism, constructivism etc. whereas the empirical component of the course has two main dimensions: Firstly, a study of the general features of processes of regional integration in other parts of the world and, second, a group project analyzing a specific case of regional integration. Thereby, the student obtains both a theoretically grounded general understanding of regional integration as well as in-depth knowledge of a specific regional case.

The competence of critical thinking is developed through project seminars, where students will provide and receive feedback as well as reflect on their own group process.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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. In this subject, students will gain the needed competencies for the definition and modeling of a system in an organized and systematic way, as well as the techniques for gathering the required information from the stakeholders.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

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". It also deepens the specific translation skills. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Civil Education

La educación ciudadanía se ha convertido en un referente para los procesos educativos, formales y no formales, de forma que se considera una de las grandes narrativas modernas de la educación (Gimeno Sacristán, 2003). Los y las profesionales de la Educación Social han asumido esta propuesta, especialmente al incorporar entre sus objetivos la capacitación de las personas para desempeñar un papel activo en la vida pública y asumir de forma responsable su destino y el de su sociedad. Se trata de un reto importante ya que requiere articular contextos educativos que favorezcan la plena incorporación de las personas en la sociedad.Esta asignatura constituye el marco de referencia básico para los profesionales de la educaciónsocial, permitiendo:
  • Analizar, desde un pensamiento crítico (sustentado en aportaciones de diferentes disciplinas y modelos teóricos), a los diversos contextos educativos y sociales.
  • Reflexionar sobre las principales tareas del educador/a social en esta área. Se trata de una asignatura que aborda las denominadas Pedagogías de la Sociedad Civil (consumo, medio ambiente, salud, interculturalidad), que, según Colom (1998: 78) se refieren a desarrollos pedagógicos caracterizados por su origen social. Por tanto, suelen propiciar la participación social, o, al menos, la toma de conciencia de la población respecto a una situación. Aunque en su inicio, su gestión era ajena a la institución escolar formal, suelen experimentar innovaciones metodológicas ya que son ámbitos dinámicos, libres y atractivos. Se relaciona tanto con asignaturas impartidas en la Diplomatura de Educación Social (Psicología Comunitaria, Pedagogía Social, Sociología, Antropología, Educación de Adultos) así como con uno de los modelos del Practicum de tercer curso y otras asignaturas optativas que abordan el trabajo con diferentes colectivos (inmigrantes, personas mayores, personas con discapacidad).
COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Consumer Behavior

El propósito o finalidad fundamental de esta asignatura es proporcionar a los estudiantes ciertas claves para poder comprender el comportamiento del ser humano como consumidor, usuario o comprador. Según Kotler, el marketing es "el proceso de planificar y ejecutar el concepto, precio, promoción y distribución de ideas, bienes y servicios para crear intercambios que satisfagan los objetivos de los particulares y de las organizaciones". Así, cualquierestrategia y acción de marketing (tanto a escala nacional como transnacional) que quiera tener éxito, y cualquier estudiante que quiera especializarse en esta área de la gestión, debe partir del conocimiento del comportamiento del consumidor y/o comprador para poder adecuarse a él y por tanto poder generar esta satisfacción.Por un lado, la comprensión del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis del entorno, del mercado y de ciertas conductas observables, tales como la cantidad comprada, cuándo, quién ha realizado la compra, con quién o la forma en que tales compras se consumen. Por otro, el estudio del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis de variables que afectan al consumidor y que no se pueden observar a simple vista. Algunas de estas variables se refieren al consumidor como individuo (variables internas o psicológicas): sus valores, percepciones, actitudes, personalidad, autoconcepto, proceso de aprendizaje, la información que guardan, cómo la obtienen y la procesan, cómo evalúan alternativas, cómo se sienten poseyendo y utilizando productos y servicios, etc. Y otras se refieren al consumidor en relación con su entorno cultural y social (variables externas o socioculturales). Nos estamos refiriendo a los grupos de pertenencia y de referencia, a la cultura, a las subculturas, a la clase social... Además, esta asignatura relaciona esta comprensión del consumidor y/o comprador con la gestión de marcas y/o categorías (y los planes de marca y/o categoría en unos canales determinados), al entender que lo uno no puede existir sin lo otro.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Contemporary Spanish Literature

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia LITERATURA HISPÁNICA, dentro de la Mención de Estudios Hispánicos y Mención de Literatura del Grado de Lenguas Modernas. La asignatura aporta conocimientos fundamentales sobre la Literatura Española del siglo XX-XXI que le permiten al titulado la comprensión cultural y formal de la producción literaria en España. Asimismo contribuye a la formación mediante el desarrollo de competencias dedicadas al desarrollo de herramientas metodológicas y formación de expertos en literatura. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Cultural Studies

Como parte de una materia transversal común a los grados de Humanidades y Lenguas, esta asignatura contribuye al perfil académico-profesional del estudiante proporcionándole un bagaje adecuado para enfrentarse a los fenómenos culturales de nuestro tiempo, con visión crítica capaz de ir de lo local a lo global, de lo uno a lo diverso. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Globalization, Citizenship, and Intercultural Skills

Plurality is one of the most outstanding characteristics of postmodern societies, where dealing with the difference, whatever its origin, will be a mainstay in any profession. This subject is offered within the framework of the Identity and Mission Module of Deusto University. UD explicitly proclaims its commitment to the social and cultural reality as well as with social justice. Consequently, this course includes a theoretical approach to the situation, factors, and consequences of globalization and plurality. But it goes beyond that approach. From the beginning, a proactive attitude is incorporated, in order to generate awareness about the role we play in professional and personal relations and to look for an effective and appropriate communication with people of different origins, cultures, beliefs and other differences. In sum, it is a subject related to the essential elements of the practice of citizenship today. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Health and Positive Psychology

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 broadened 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.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: 4  

Human Resources Management

Esta asignatura introduce a los y las estudiantes en las funciones propias de la dirección de personas, tanto en la elaboración de un plan de personas ligado al plan estratégico de la organización, como en aquellas tareas propias de la función de personas y que se encuentran descentralizadas, esto es, que deben ser realizadas también por quienes dirigen las demás áreas funcionales y/o equipos en las organizaciones. La asignatura aporta al alumnado criterios orientadores para la dirección de personas, además de los procedimientos y herramientas necesarias para llevar a cabo esta función. Además, contribuirá a desarrollar la capacidad de trabajar en equipo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Operational Marketing

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes los criterios orientadores y las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una correcta planificación, definir la estructura organizativa de una empresa, tomar decisiones operativas y realizar un control efectivo en las empresas, desarrollando la capacidad de interrogarse sobre los fundamentos en las que se asientan las distintas teorías y prácticas de la gestión de las empresas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Principles of Business Organizations

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes los criterios orientadores y las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una correcta planificación, definir la estructura organizativa de una empresa, tomar decisiones operativas y realizar un control efectivo en las empresas, desarrollando la capacidad de interrogarse sobre los fundamentos en las que se asientan las distintas teorías y prácticas de la gestión de las empresas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Principles of Marketing

Esta asignatura inicia a los estudiantes en las funciones estratégicas de un gestor de marketing y/o comercial, es decir, reflexionar sobre el enfoque marketing de una organización, proponer investigaciones de mercado, decidir sobre el posicionamiento y los segmentos a los que debe dirigirse la empresa y, además, entender el comportamiento del consumidor/comprador, así como las decisiones estratégicas que se deben tomar en cuanto a producto, precio,distribución y comunicación. Servirá de introducción, por lo tanto, al resto de asignaturas de marketing del grado. Esta asignatura, además, potenciará el desarrollo del trabajo en equipo.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Psychology of Education

Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del profesorado de Educación Primaria aportando conocimiento de los procesos educativos, especialmente de enseñanza-aprendizaje, y de las variables personales y ambientales implicadas en los mismos. Este conocimiento le permitirá diseñar su actuación educativa con rigor y fundamento científico, establecer relaciones educativas eficaces, hacer frente a las dificultades de aprendizaje y diseñar entornos deaprendizaje adecuados a cada persona y situación.Asimismo, en esta asignatura se ofrecen temas, documentación y estrategias de aprendizaje para aprender a aprender, diseñar acciones psicopedagógicas para favorecer un aprendizaje estratégico y mejorar la propia competencia como aprendiz estratégico. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Contact Hours: 4

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Psychological Wellbeing and Community Psychology

Psychological well-being has traditionally centered its interest on personal development, on the style and manner of facing the vital challenges, on the effort and eagerness to achieve our goals and promote development. These objectives connect directly to those established by community psychology.

The subject also aims to provide the profile of the psychologist of social intervention with a conceptual framework, which allows him to observe, analyze, understand and interpret the community reality and psychosocial dynamics from new parameters of well-being, as well as to raise awareness about the transformative potential that This way of approaching reality has.

Community psychology has a clear and preferably applied vocation, however, its contents are presented as founders of other subjects, of a social nature, aimed at different population groups or specific intervention methods. The subjects also contribute to the psychologist of social intervention the basic skills to reflect and try to address psychosocial problems from, with and for the community, favoring the involvement of the group itself, from criteria of justice, equity, and flexibility.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Anthropology

La Antropología social estudia cómo investigar y conocer a unas sociedades definidas por su "alteridad" y su "no occidentalidad".

Esta asignatura es una introducción a la Antropología Social para conocer y aplicar qué es y cómo se estudia la alteridad, la diversidad cultural. El estudio del análisis de la variabilidad y d la evolución cultural en los ámbitos del parentesco, la economía, la política, la religión y las representaciones simbólicas enseña cómo percibir, pensar y vivir las diferencias y similitudes culturales.Para los estudiantes de Relaciones Internacionales esta asignatura capacita, mediante la práctica del pensamiento y del razonamiento antropológico, para captar y entender el sentido y el significado de la diversidad de las relaciones humanas y sus diferentes manifestaciones en el mundo contemporáneo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Theory of International Relations

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Education Internship

This internship is intended for students who wish to double-major in Spanish and Education at their home university and who are registered for Spanish III or have a higher equivalent level of Spanish language proficiency. The internship focuses on the observation of Spanish or English language classes (approximately 1 hour per week), and on the active participation of students as teachers in classes of English as a Foreign Language (about 3-5 hours per week) in primary or secondary schools (public or private). Academic meetings at the University of Deusto will be held on a regular basis (approximately 15 hours over the course of the term), and a supervisor will assist the students in the internship setting. Through these activities, selected readings, and written assignments, students will acquire useful skills for their future career as teachers. Students need to apply for the internship when they submit their application for their study abroad program. They are required to sign an agreement form with the basic information regarding the internships, together with a statement of intent and some information related to their background in education and classroom observation. An additional fee of $290 applies for this option.

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Spanish for Health Sciences

This course is specifically intended for those students getting into the healthcare workforce. The class has been designed to help future health professionals (MD, RN, PharmD, DDS, etc.) interact with their patients and patients’ families in Spanish. At the same time, students will enrich their vocabulary in the target language by learning health and anatomy related words in Spanish. Furthermore, students will be able to read, understand and analyze scientific abstracts and even research papers by becoming acquainted with keywords, expressions, and grammatical structures often used in health journals in Spanish. Finally, they will be able to formulate hypotheses following the scientific method in Spanish.

But this class will not only focus on students’ competence of the language. Future health professionals will also have the chance to visit health care practitioners of their interest at their workplace to witness firsthand how the health system works in Spain and to be able to find similarities and differences, and pros and cons when compared to the system in their own country.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Gender Topics in Spanish Society

This course intends to offer an insight into contemporary politics, society, and culture in Spain from a gender perspective. Its aim is to offer students a nuanced and in-depth vision of Spanish society and to aid them in the process of critical thinking within this subject area and in relation to comparisons between Spain and other countries.

A short introduction on basic terminology and some theory will act as the basis for the perspective that students will be taking throughout the rest of the course.

Spain presents certain characteristics that set it apart from other countries which hold similar cultural values, such as the rest of Western Europe and the USA. This is the reason why we are interested in analyzing how the dominant culture of the turbulent 20th century shaped and molded its models of femininity, especially during the long dictatorship in Spain.

Furthermore, the class will focus on Spain in the present, in order to achieve an all-round perspective of the current situation for Spanish women and to find out what challenges they face. This includes studying the new struggles the feminist movement is fighting for, how intersectionality between feminism, ethnicity, and social class works, how gender perspectives have entered the field of legislation and what new forms of activism have social media given way to, amongst others.

Last but not least, the class will visit an organization that deals with gender issues in Bilbao in order to take a closer look at feminist activism in the local area.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Connections Between Spain and Latin America

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Critical Choices in Social Life

The subject aims to promote reflection on relevant issues of the global world and stimulate the formation of an ethical spirit in different areas of social life in which it will have to position itself. It seeks thus to support the process of integral formation of the person, basic objective of the University of Deusto.

The contents and methodologies of the subject help the students in the first place, to perceive the complexity and conflicts of interest in the socio-economic, political and cultural context in which they live. Second, to be aware that you make decisions with consequences for other people and the environment. Third, to recognize the values on which their decisions are based. Fourth, to promote an ethical attitude towards decision options and their consequences.

In this process, our reference will be Christian Social Thought that approaches social issues from the defense, respect, and promotion of the fundamental value of human dignity. The fundamental intuitions of the common good, the universal destiny of goods, the principle of subsidiarity, solidarity, the preferential option for the poor, participation and social justice are closely linked to this fundamental value.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

In this direction, the subject "Ethical challenges in the global world" (from the module "Human Formation in Values") tries to contribute precisely to the student's critical reflection on the global world in which we live and the economic, political, and cultural consequences, ethical, religious and ecological that produces the process of globalization. All this with the aim of helping the student to become aware of the main ethical challenges that arise in this process (economic-social injustice, intercultural coexistence, violation of human rights, climate change, etc.), and to know the different analysis and positions around these challenges, so that it is able to elaborate its own position and argue it in a convenient and convincing way.

With all this, we will approach the initial objective that students can contribute, from their respective professional fields and as citizens of the global world, to the construction of a more just, democratic and egalitarian society.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

The East and the West in its Great Religious Traditions

The religious fact has been present in all cultures and has helped to shape the societies of all time; We are, therefore, faced with a highly significant universal phenomenon to know and deepen the human experience and identity. The subject East and West in its great religious traditions show how under the term religion hides an enormous diversity of forms, rites, practices, expressions, traditions and sensitivities, whose plurality illuminates while deepening the understanding of the religious phenomenon in society current. The subject contributes to the professional profile from an interdisciplinary perspective, attending to the systemic formation of a person, whose activity must be guided by the principles of respect and the promotion of Human Rights. It aims to train students to integrate into an increasingly globalized world, where the encounter between different cultures and religions seems inescapable. Knowledge of other traditions will allow you to assess the contributions and limits of your own religious context, as well as to respect and appreciate diversity in public life and the necessary dialogue to build a future for humanity in peace. Along with this, the interdisciplinary dimension of university education must be attentive - beyond the areas of knowledge of a certain professional activity- to ethical, philosophical, cultural and religious elements that consolidate systemic formation of the person and that trains to integrate and integrate in the different areas of public life(manifestations of culture, religion, education, work, coexistence in a plural society, etc.).

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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). They will also become aware of the importance of accuracy, organization, coherence, originality, credibility, and persuasiveness. The course is practical in nature since it relies entirely on relevant readings and regular submission of writing tasks and oral presentations (in group or individual), with close facilitation and regular feedback from the instructor and their own (and their peers') analysis and revision. It will focus on the role of media organizations and their coverage of issues such as: the globalisation process, climate change, state sovereignty and nationalism, the foreign policy of key states, international security and terrorism, ecological sustainability, economic and sustainable development, economic crisis, global finance, organised crime and money laundering, human rights, and the roles inter-governmental organisations (IGO), campaigning organisations [including international non-governmental organisations (INGO) and non-governmental organisations (NGO)], and multinational corporations (MNC).

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Public International Law

This course is part of the module "Foundations of International Relations" and the subject "law".

Being essentially a set of rules that govern the interaction between states, Public International Law provides a regulatory framework that defines and constrains the behavior of states with the aim of ensuring peaceful coexistence and enhancing international cooperation in a globalizing world.

The course Public International Law will provide the students with a thorough understanding of 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. Thereby, students will also be able to conduct a critical analysis of the role of International Law in the context of global economic competition and power politics. Therefore, understanding Public International Law is fundamental for anyone who wants to act internationally, whether as a diplomat, in an international organization or as an international specialist in a private company or non-governmental organization.

The course develops the general competence of problem-solving through a method focused on applying the concepts and rules of international law to specific cases, in order to identify the legal and political nature of international problems as well as the legal basis of possible solutions.

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Language of Instruction: French   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psychological Intervention and Treatment III

This subject has two complementary parts.

The first one expects to introduce the techniques derived from Cognitive Therapy. In addition to achieving skills in the implementation of these techniques, their application to different psychological problems, such as depression, aggressive behavior or stress will be reflected on. In the second part, some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed. Students are expected to know the theoretical basis of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as its main types and methods.

In the second part of the subject, some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed. Students are expected to know the theoretical basis of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as its main types and methods.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psychology of Groups and Organizations

.This subject contributes to the Profile of the Psychologist by providing the knowledge and practices necessary for the training of professionals in Psychology in one of the traditional areas of Psychology, which is working with groups and in organizations. It studies what is an organization and the different explanatory models of it and its structure; the role of groups in organizations, understanding this as a group of groups working towards common objectives; the management skills needed to develop an effective organization; and the most current management models in organizations as well as the expected future development. Throughout the course, the role of the psychologist in them is presented and how, from its own formation, it can contribute to the best management of it,

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Intermediate Spanish I

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Intermediate Spanish III

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Advanced Spanish 302: Spanish for Academic and Professional Purposes

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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Conversation

The main goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary resources to develop their oral skills in Spanish towards an advanced level, both in formal and informal situations, by focusing on organization techniques of oral speech. Students will also improve their interaction skills in conversation and will be offered the appropriate tools to carry out oral expositions about current topics successfully.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Spanish 301: Grammar and Communication

The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for them to develop their communicative competence from an intermediate level towards an advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will focus on specific grammar aspects that will be approached from a communicative perspective that will assume and value active participation of the students in the class at all times.

The main functional contents of the course will be the following:• Talking about learning habits.• Expressing wishes and opinions.• Assessing actions.• Providing and understanding recipes.• Sequencing actions.• Narrating in the past.• Telling a tale.• Assessing proposals.• Expressing purpose.• Suggesting solutions.• Speculating about the future.• Making predictions.• Expressing obligations and rules.• Expressing prohibition.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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Academic Spanish (Writing)

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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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 Basque   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Culture, Politics and Economics in Contemporary Spanish Society

This course offers an introduction to Spanish culture and civilization so that students can become familiar with the social, economic and political structures of Spain today. Our study will be focused on some specific aspects which make Spain both appealing and richly varied: its ancestral monarchy recently restored, its organization in autonomous areas which may be a solution to historical conflicts, the fact that it is one of the main tourist destinations in the world and, at the same time, the country of Don Quijote, Don Juan, Lorca, bullfighting, and soccer. All these features of life, history, and politics will be analyzed all through the course, both in the lectures and in the tour that will take students to some of the most historically relevant cities in Spain.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. The communicative approach (both oral and written) will be used in

the classroom, which means the four language skills will be worked on: listening and written

comprehension, writing and oral skills. The textbook will be implemented with complementary

material taken from newspapers, magazines, and/or other textbooks of Business Spanish,

according to the interests and necessities of the students.

Language of Instruction: English    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.

Language of Instruction: English    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

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: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Practicum Course – Spanish Through Gastronomy

The main goal of the course is to improve students’ communicative and cultural competence in Spanish. Meal times and the development of personal and professional relations around meals are very important aspects of the Spanish culture. 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.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics I

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature I

The main goals of the course are to enhance students’ ability to use techniques for reading,

writing, and analyzing literary texts by means of appropriate methodological and critical tools, as

well as to help them to acquire a general knowledge of Spanish and Latin American literature,

from their origins to the present, through representative works from different genres. By

analyzing those texts, students will also explore the underlying social, cultural, and literary

values shown in them.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Survey of Spanish Literature

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Service Learning: Social Participation and Development

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.

Activities in the SERVICE LEARNING course require a commitment on your part.

-The exact dates and schedule will be provided by instructors on the first week of classes.

-There are two projects you can participate in. One of them involves direct contact with minors; therefore, in order to be able to participate in this project, you will need to bring a state police criminal record with you from your home country. This is a requirement for anyone volunteering with minors in Spain. You need to contact your local or state police in order to get the document, which will then need to be authenticated by an Apostille. The process is simple, but we recommend that you start with it as soon as possible.

-Please notice that, if you bring this police record, you will have access to both projects in the course.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Practicum Course – 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 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/Superior  

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. In order to do so, different areas of management are explored, together with the main tasks that underlie each one of them. Real Madrid, F.C. Barcelona, Manchester United or Bayern Munich are perhaps the clearest examples of successful models of sports management, although there are also others closer to home such as Athletic Bilbao, which will also be examined during the course. An essential element around which everything is structured is that football is a game. Practical activities outside the classroom will be organized with this in mind.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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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. This subject is contributing also to the general objective of the Degree in Business Administration of the University of Deusto, which is to train professionals and persons having the general and specific competencies to understand, analyze, decide, plan and act inside firms, taking into account the international economic situation and perspectives, generating value for society and firms. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Consumer Behavior

El propósito o finalidad fundamental de esta asignatura es proporcionar a los estudiantes ciertas claves para poder comprender el comportamiento del ser humano como consumidor, usuario o comprador. Según Kotler, el marketing es "el proceso de planificar y ejecutar el concepto, precio, promoción y distribución de ideas, bienes y servicios para crear intercambios que satisfagan los objetivos de los particulares y de las organizaciones". Así, cualquierestrategia y acción de marketing (tanto a escala nacional como transnacional) que quiera tener éxito, y cualquier estudiante que quiera especializarse en esta área de la gestión, debe partir del conocimiento del comportamiento del consumidor y/o comprador para poder adecuarse a él y por tanto poder generar esta satisfacción.Por un lado, la comprensión del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis del entorno, del mercado y de ciertas conductas observables, tales como la cantidad comprada, cuándo, quién ha realizado la compra, con quién o la forma en que tales compras se consumen. Por otro, el estudio del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis de variables que afectan al consumidor y que no se pueden observar a simple vista. Algunas de estas variables se refieren al consumidor como individuo (variables internas o psicológicas): sus valores, percepciones, actitudes, personalidad, autoconcepto, proceso de aprendizaje, la información que guardan, cómo la obtienen y la procesan, cómo evalúan alternativas, cómo se sienten poseyendo y utilizando productos y servicios, etc. Y otras se refieren al consumidor en relación con su entorno cultural y social (variables externas o socioculturales). Nos estamos refiriendo a los grupos de pertenencia y de referencia, a la cultura, a las subculturas, a la clase social... Además, esta asignatura relaciona esta comprensión del consumidor y/o comprador con la gestión de marcas y/o categorías (y los planes de marca y/o categoría en unos canales determinados), al entender que lo uno no puede existir sin lo otro.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Human Resources Management

Esta asignatura introduce a los y las estudiantes en las funciones propias de la dirección de personas, tanto en la elaboración de un plan de personas ligado al plan estratégico de la organización, como en aquellas tareas propias de la función de personas y que se encuentran descentralizadas, esto es, que deben ser realizadas también por quienes dirigen las demás áreas funcionales y/o equipos en las organizaciones. La asignatura aporta al alumnado criterios orientadores para la dirección de personas, además de los procedimientos y herramientas necesarias para llevar a cabo esta función. Además, contribuirá a desarrollar la capacidad de trabajar en equipo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Principles of Marketing

Esta asignatura inicia a los estudiantes en las funciones estratégicas de un gestor de marketing y/o comercial, es decir, reflexionar sobre el enfoque marketing de una organización, proponer investigaciones de mercado, decidir sobre el posicionamiento y los segmentos a los que debe dirigirse la empresa y, además, entender el comportamiento del consumidor/comprador, así como las decisiones estratégicas que se deben tomar en cuanto a producto, precio,distribución y comunicación. Servirá de introducción, por lo tanto, al resto de asignaturas de marketing del grado. Esta asignatura, además, potenciará el desarrollo del trabajo en equipo.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Psychology of Education

Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del profesorado de Educación Primaria aportando conocimiento de los procesos educativos, especialmente de enseñanza-aprendizaje, y de las variables personales y ambientales implicadas en los mismos. Este conocimiento le permitirá diseñar su actuación educativa con rigor y fundamento científico, establecer relaciones educativas eficaces, hacer frente a las dificultades de aprendizaje y diseñar entornos deaprendizaje adecuados a cada persona y situación.Asimismo, en esta asignatura se ofrecen temas, documentación y estrategias de aprendizaje para aprender a aprender, diseñar acciones psicopedagógicas para favorecer un aprendizaje estratégico y mejorar la propia competencia como aprendiz estratégico. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Contact Hours: 4

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Social and Cultural Anthropology

La Antropología social estudia cómo investigar y conocer a unas sociedades definidas por su "alteridad" y su "no occidentalidad".

Esta asignatura es una introducción a la Antropología Social para conocer y aplicar qué es y cómo se estudia la alteridad, la diversidad cultural. El estudio del análisis de la variabilidad y d la evolución cultural en los ámbitos del parentesco, la economía, la política, la religión y las representaciones simbólicas enseña cómo percibir, pensar y vivir las diferencias y similitudes culturales.Para los estudiantes de Relaciones Internacionales esta asignatura capacita, mediante la práctica del pensamiento y del razonamiento antropológico, para captar y entender el sentido y el significado de la diversidad de las relaciones humanas y sus diferentes manifestaciones en el mundo contemporáneo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Accounting Applications

The acquisition of the skills of the subject accounting in 3-year facilitates the understanding and application of the contents of this course.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Accounting and Balance Sheets

This course aims to bring students to the reality of economic transactions as well as their record and interpretation.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Anthropology

Anthropology as a scientific discipline has been collecting an impressive array of knowledge about human diversity both in the present and past societies. This knowledge helps to understand and interact with others in societies that are every day more interconnected and diverse.This course is an introduction to social anthropology and tries to explain and apply what is cultural diversity and how it is studied. The study of the analysis of variability and cultural evolution in the fields of kinship, economics, politics, religion, and symbolic representations teaches how to perceive, think and live the cultural differences and similarities.The course allows students to understand the meaning of diversity in human relationships and its different expressions today by practicing anthropological thinking and reasoning.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Biomedicine and Law

Proper training for all jurists requires, as a supplement, knowledge on the potential social consequences of advances in the field of biomedicine, as well as in relation to our pluralistic value systems, with those individual fundamental rights as well as other legal structures. The applications of new biomedical technologies are increasingly penetrating in the personal lives and relationships of human beings. It is therefore of great interest to analyze the panorama on the various ethical and legal aspects that biomedical and biotechnological advances currently pose.Consideration of the fundamental issues raised by the development of Human Genetics and Human solutions requires assessing the solutions currently provided by Law for each one of these issues. However, due to the rapid pace with which new biomedical advances continue to develop, it is necessary, in addition to expounding the currently open debates and possible avenues of a solution, to provide the appropriate theoretical tools to meet the future challenges that the jurist is confronted with in this field.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Congress and Event Management

La organización de reuniones y eventos es un segmento relacionado con el turismo profesional que actualmente está en auge. El País Vasco es un destino importante en cuanto a ferias y reuniones de negocios, y por ende este tipo de turismo está generando grandes oportunidades de negocio en nuestra Comunidad Autónoma.Los eventos requieren de una fase previa de planificación que es fundamental y compleja, según las características del evento. Hay que tener en cuenta muchos detalles que son los que marcarán la diferencia y harán que el evento tenga éxito. Igualmente importante es el control del evento en sí mismo, y la evaluación una vez finalizado.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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English Poetry and Drama

The skills acquired in this course are crucial towards the consolidation of the Modern Languages/ English Studies Track / Literary Studies Track academic profile as the focus will be on a wide range of twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry written in English and modern and contemporary Irish drama. The aim is to help students increase their creative responsiveness to the interplay between text and context and between language and social approach to literary language that is consistently contextualized. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Financial Instruments and Institutions

The evolution over recent decades of Information Technologies together with the globalization and liberalizing process of the financial markets has meant that the Financial System now plays a key role not only in the economy but also in the public life of developed companies.Institutions and Financial Instruments analyses and considers (attempting to link financial practice and theory) the structures and products that drive the financial markets.(20% of the course is taught in Spanish)COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Gender Studies

The interdisciplinary fields of gender and women¿s studies constitute one of the most innovative and challenging areas of recent scholarship that pervades not only the social sciences and the arts, but also disciplines apparently alien such as computing, engineering, health, or the natural sciences. Departing from a transdisciplinary approach, the main aim of this course is to provide students with a critical framework for thinking of gender identity as an integral component of the human condition that pervades both the real and symbolic orders of social life, and intersects with other social and cultural identities such as race, class, nationality, or religion. Together with this main goal, this course aims at:

  • analyzing the construction of women as social and cultural subjects
  • exploring how gender identities are constructed, and to identify the dominant cultural fabric of stereotypes and prejudices that underlie an apparently neutral reality.
  • getting acquainted with the main trends of feminism and theoretical thinking on women's studies in the past, and the challenges for the future.
  • promoting gender justice by identifying the challenges of gender inequality in contemporary societies, in order to gain mutual understanding and a fairer society.
  • It will also improve their communicative skills in English and show them how to use proficiently the key concepts in disciplines related to the Humanities.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Global History

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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International Protection of Human Rights

According to the Strategic Plan of the University of Deusto, human rights are an essential pillar of the integral formation of our students. Human rights have become a very relevant tool for a Social and Democratic State, as stated by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Spain has ratified most of the international human rights instruments, as the vast majority of European states. This course aims at knowing the main human rights instruments as well as assuming a commitment to a human rights culture.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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International Trade Law

En la sociedad actual la globalización ha tenido como consecuencia un incremento de las transacciones comerciales de carácter internacional. Las implicaciones jurídicas de esas transacciones comerciales son especiales y complejas y por ello merecen una particular atención, sobre todo para aquellos estudiantes que pretendan orientar sus salidas profesionales desde una perspectiva de internacionalización.Para poder analizar en profundidad los problemas que se plantean y las diferentes vías de solución, se parte, por tanto, de la conciencia de las implicaciones que en el ámbito jurídico ha tenido el incremento las transacciones comerciales internacionales debido a la mundialización de la sociedad y la economía y a la revolución que las nuevas tecnologías han supuesto en la contratación internacional.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Introduction to International Relations

This course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to international relations as a basis of their academic professional profile. It shows an overview of the world of international relations in an era of globalization. Students will understand the complexity of politics and political patterns of interaction in the world and not only between states and will learn the different dynamics, processes, and issues facing the contemporary international system.The introduction to the discipline of international relations its main approaches, concepts and instruments of analysis will enable students to analyze and think how the interrelated parts of the international system connect, interrelate and interact.In this context, it will enable students to integrate different knowledge within the discipline and thus provide them with a foundation for other courses of the degree in international relations. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Literary Landmarks in English

This course contributes to the profile of the Modern-Language student who majors in English by helping him gain a deeper knowledge of a small number of authors whose work has been central to the development of literary culture, and whose influence has been particularly strong on their successors. It is also intended that the student comes to a good understanding of the historical context in which the selected authors produced their works. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Multiculturalism and Intercultural Dialogue

This course contributes to the consolidation of the students’ academic- professional profile by showing them that nowadays the reality in most Western countries is highly diverse and multicultural. They will also learn that this ethnic diversity has produced all kinds of new socio-cultural phenomena that need to be investigated in order to tackle the problems our societies are facing. The texts students will be reading present them with new challenges that cannot be adequately dealt with by using traditional approaches. They will be encouraged and taught to find both effective and ethical solutions to these challenges.The main aims of this course are: to make students think of social and cultural diversity as integral components of the human condition, to promote dialogue in order to gain mutual understanding and a fairer society. It will also improve their communicative skills in English and show them how to use proficiently the key concepts in disciplines related to the Humanities. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Political and Economic Integration of the E.U.

This course deepens into the study of rules and case law governing the European internal market and the most relevant aspects of political dimension in the current European Union. This matter is therefore essential for any jurist who wants to work in a European or international institution. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Private International Law

This course provides an explanation of the main ways of solving the problems related to the private social relations with a foreign element. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Psychopathology

Psychopathology focuses on the study of the abnormal or pathological behavior, both in descriptive and explicative dimensions as well as in the etiology. Regarding the professional profile of the student in the field of health psychology as well as in other fields of psychological expertise, the understanding of the different psychopathological disorders is an exceptionally important knowledge for the clinical practice. The field of psychological intervention and evaluation in mental health is linked with the knowledge of the different clinical entities in psychopathology. Also, psychopathology is linked to other subjects of the psychological studies as basic psychological processes, biology, sociology, and physiology.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Psychometrics

Esta asignatura trata sobre los modelos matemáticos y las técnicas de construcción de los principales instrumentos de medida en Psicología y en Educación, esto es tests, escalas y cuestionarios. La asignatura, por tanto, ayudará al estudiante a adquirir las bases conceptuales y metodológicas para construir y emplear responsablemente los tests psicológicos en beneficio de la teoría, la investigación y la práctica psicológica.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Second Language Acquisition

  • Distintos enfoques teóricos en el campo de la adquisición de segundas lenguas.
  • Métodos de enseñanza de segundas lenguas y lenguas extranjeras.
  • El papel del profesor, el/la alumno-a y los materiales didácticos en la adquisición de lenguas extranjeras.
  • Tipos de actividades y estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje.
Observación: esta asignatura se impartirá en inglés y todos los trabajos escritos, presentaciones orales, pruebas y demás actividades se harán en el mismo idioma.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Software Design

Una de las labores fundamentales de las personas tituladas en el Grado en Ingeniería Informática es el diseño e implementación de soluciones software. Si se analiza el ciclo de vida de desarrollo de un sistema de software, el segundo paso fundamental es el diseño del producto que se va a construir.En esta asignatura, se adquieren las competencias necesarias para el diseño de software orientado a objetos distribuido, utilizando como notación de modelado el estándar UML y aplicando reconocidos patrones de diseño, así como heurísticas y buenas prácticas. Por lo tanto, esta asignatura contribuye, desde un punto de vista competencial, a la resolución de problemas y diseño de sistemas, componentes y aplicaciones, con un enfoque sistémico (a la vez que creativo e innovador), a partir de requisitos existentes y considerando diferentes criterios de valoración de soluciones alternativas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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The Study of Language

One thing that distinguishes human beings from other animals, even relatively smart ones like chimps and elephants, is our ability to use productive and combinatory language. Language plays an important role in how we think about abstract notions, or, at the very least, language appears to be structured in such a way that it allows us to express abstract notions. Sentences are how we get at expressing abstract thought processes. Thus, this course is aboutone seminal aspect of how language works -- how sentences are structured: Syntax. The study of syntax is an important foundation stone for understanding how we communicate and interact with each other as humans. The syntax is what mediates between the sounds that someone produces and the meaning they intend to convey.The aim of this course is to introduce students to sentence structure, syntax parsing, tree diagram representation, and the basic terminology of syntax. It will be shown how traditional concepts are used and reinterpreted within the framework of Generative Grammar. We shall try to decide what sort of internal grammar native speakers of English have at their disposal and to determine what it is that makes a sentence acceptable or unacceptable, what sort of grammatical principles can be advocated and to what extent these are universal or language- specific. For the practical component of this course, the students will be presented with data from English as well as from other languages and will be expected to develop skills to piece these data together, construct hypotheses, check these and ultimately discover the explanation for the evidence assembled.The course is mostly practical in nature since it relies on the students’ regular submission of short exercises and their constant improvement thanks to the feedback received from the instructor. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Basic Principles of Law

This subject is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge of the main aspects relating to the field of law, explaining the elementary principles, processes, and institutions of law, evaluating the law in its historical and theoretical context from a holistic point of view. Acquisition of the rudiments of law, knowledge of basic legal norms and their application to social life.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Basic Psychological Processes I

Procesos Psicológicos Básicos I es la primera parte de una serie de módulos de formación en procesos psicológicos básicos que supone el inicio de familiarización con el conocimiento que será fundamental para entender y analizar los procesos psicológicos superiores y la vida mental. El ámbito de la psicología supone la necesidad de un mayor conocimiento del mundo que le rodea; y este conocimiento se fundamenta necesariamente en los procesos básicos de percepción del mundo real y de los propios procesos psicológicos que se dan en la persona. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Economy of Spain and the World

La asignatura contribuye a la adquisición de competencias relacionadas con la identificación de oportunidades y riesgos en el entorno local y global, y con la estimación de su impacto en las decisiones empresariales.La contribución de la asignatura se enmarca dentro del objetivo general del título de grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por la Universidad de Deusto, que es formar personas y profesionales con las competencias generales y específicas necesarias para comprender, analizar, interpretar, decidir, planificar y actuar en las organizaciones, guiándolas y haciendo que éstas contribuyan al propósito para el que hubieran sido creadas.En términos generales, el Graduado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por la Universidad de Deusto, será capaz de promover el desarrollo de proyectos empresariales, colaborando de forma comprometida, responsable y ética con la consecución de los objetivos de la empresa al objeto de mejorar su competitividad en un entorno globalizado.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Economy and Business Organization

Esta asignatura pretende acercar los estudiantes a la realidad compleja de la empresa y de su organización interna, sin obviar las relaciones varias que mantiene con el entorno macroeconómico. Asimismo, la empresa, comprometida con los valores de eficiencia y de participación activa, aparece como una herramienta central del mantenimiento de la cohesión social en nuestras sociedades desarrolladas. De ahí que se proceda a un breve análisis previode ciertas nociones económicas como mercados, bienes, oferta y demanda etc., conceptos que se han de conocer para entender el marco externo en el que se desenvuelven las empresas y las diversas estrategias de organización interna por las que pueden optar.A continuación se procederá a analizar las estrategias competitivas de las empresas y cómo han ido evolucionando sus procesos de organización interna para adaptarse mejor a los nuevos retos socioeconómicos. Los alumnos de la UD percibirán no obstante que la empresa es o debería ser portadora de ciertos valores en términos de responsabilidad social que la hacen ser un eslabón fundamental en la estructuración participativa de nuestras sociedades.Así pues, la asignatura se propone no sólo transmitir los necesarios conocimientos técnicos para formar los estudiantes como profesionales competentes sino también como personas con determinados valores solidarios. Han de contribuir como personas formadas y desde sus específicas competencias profesionales a que el mundo en que vivimos sea más humano, justo y solidario.En esta dirección, la asignatura “Economía y organización de empresas” trata en primer lugar de acercar el alumno a esta realidad compleja y multifacética que es la empresa para ayudarle a entender críticamente las decisiones que puedan ser adoptadas en el ámbito empresarial, decisiones que están cada vez más condicionadas por la inevitable globalización económica y financiera.El alumno habrá de tomar conciencia de los principales desafíos económicos y sociales a los que se enfrenta la empresa para hacer compatibles los principios de eficiencia económica con los de una mayor equidad social, si bien la actual realidad económica adversa parece inclinar el fiel de la balanza del lado de la eficiencia y de la competitividad económicas mediante la elección de unas estrategias que no siempre son compatibles con el logro de una mayorequidad social. En cualquier caso, le incumbe al alumno conocer los diferentes análisis y posturas en torno a esos desafíos mayores.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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European Literature

De todos los contenidos mencionados por la materia Discurso, aluden expresamente a esta asignatura los siguientes: La construcción de los géneros literarios y el paradigma literario occidental; la creación del canon a lo largo de la historia literaria europea y sus problemas, los periodos y movimientos literarios en Europa en sus contextos históricos, filosóficos y culturales; clasicismo y anticlasicismo.Los contenidos de la asignatura se dividen en dos grandes bloques, uno de los cuales trata la cuestión del canon literario y se corresponde con la primera unidad. El segundo bloque de cinco unidades consiste en un repaso de los grandes periodos que convencionalmente se distinguen en la literatura europea moderna, con algunos de sus movimientos, géneros, autores y obras más representativos. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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General Sociology

El objetivo general de la asignatura es que el/la estudiante comprenda los conceptos básicos que nos sirven para explicar y conocer la realidad social y sea capaz de ser crítico con el entorno que le rodea.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Hispanic Narrative Fiction

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia de Literatura Hispánica y contribuye a la completa preparación de los estudiantes matriculados en el grado de Lenguas Modernas. Tiene por objeto proporcionar una doble formación, por un lado, en relación al género y sus características formales y, por otro, en relación a la producción novelística española desde el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad.Siendo el género más abierto y flexible, la novela presenta una indudable relevancia hoy en día. Además, desde sus orígenes, con formatos y fórmulas diversas, y pese a su ausencia en las Poéticas clásicas, ha tenido la virtud de conectar con el público y ser un valioso exponente de los cambios sociales. Un análisis de las características que presenta, en cuanto a contenidos, estructura y recursos formales, proporcionará al estudiante herramientas muy útiles tanto desde una perspectiva histórica, como específicamente literaria.Tras el estudio de los rasgos caracterizadores del género, que remitirá a importantes autores del contexto internacional, el curso se centrará en el análisis de las tendencias y obras más significativas de la literatura hispánica, desde las novelas cervantinas y picarescas hasta el experimentalismo del siglo XX. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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History of Political Thought

Esta asignatura se inscribe dentro del módulo "Fundamentos de las Relaciones Internacionales" y de la materia "Historia" y, como todas las asignaturas de esta materia y módulo, tiene como objetivo que el estudiante adquiera los marcos conceptuales y las bases científicas propias de las disciplinas que estudian el funcionamiento de la sociedad internacional.En concreto, se abordará la historia de las ideas que conforman, en la tradición occidental, la reflexión sobre la forma en la que el ser humano ha organizado la convivencia política. Se hará especial hincapié en las ideas que han articulado las relaciones intercomunitarias y en la conformación histórica del concepto moderno de "relaciones internacionales". COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Introduction to Economics

El Derecho forma parte de las Ciencias que estudian la realidad social y difícilmente se puede comprender ésta sin considerar la faceta económica que la impregna totalmente. Esta asignatura de Introdución a la Economía contribuye al desarrollo del perfil profesional del Graduado en Derecho dado que le aporta las competencias necesarias para la comprensión e interpretación de la realidad social en la que se asienta el Derecho, así como los agentes sociales sujetos de derechos y obligaciones acerca de sus propios intereses económicos, tanto privados (consumidores y empresas) como públicos (Administraciones públicas). Además, esta asignatura constituye el punto de partida y la base teórica de las asignaturas de la Especialidad Económica.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Latin American Literature

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia LITERATURA HISPÁNICA, dentro de la Mención de Estudios Hispánicos y Mención de Literatura del Grado de Lenguas Modernas. La asignatura aporta conocimientos fundamentales sobre la Literatura Hispanoamericana que le permitan al titulado la comprensión cultural y formal de la producción literaria en Hispanoamérica. Asimismo contribuye a la formación mediante el desarrollo de competencias dedicadas aldesarrollo de herramientas metodológicas en su formación de expertos en literatura. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Leisure and Entertainment

Esta asignatura propone a los estudiantes una reflexión y una habilitación profesional universitaria en la intervención en ocio y animación sociocultural, como parte esencial de la formación de un profesional de la Educación Social. Permite precisar conceptos y modos de intervención, a partir de conocimientos, metodologías, instrumentos y técnicas que permiten adquirir las competencias necesarias para poder orientar la acción. También se analiza el trabajo del profesional que diseña, gestiona, desarrolla y evalúa programas o equipamientos socioculturales dirigidos a diversos sectores de población (infancia/juventud, personas mayores, minorías, etc) desde distintos contextos: centros culturales o cívicos, asociaciones, etc. Por estos motivos, la asignatura introduce diferentes estudios de caso.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Management and Direction of Touristic Companies

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas del ámbito turístico.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes parte de las competencias necesarias que debe poseer todo gestor de empresas turísticas. Muchas de ellas son competencias necesarias para poder abordar otras materias propias de la disciplina de estudio en el Grado. Por ello, es necesario su desarrollo y superación previamente a la de asignaturas de Organización y Procesos de Producción de Alojamientos y Restauración,Dirección Hotelera, Dirección Financiera de empresas turísticas, Gestión de Recursos Humanos, Dirección de Marketing Turístico.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Psychology: History Science, and Profession

La psicología actual, tanto en su vertiente científica como en la profesional, apenas puede entenderse si no se tienen conocimientos previos sobre sus raíces intelectuales y sobre las grandes escuelas de psicología que han dominado el pasado siglo XX. La presente asignatura pretende cubrir esta necesidad dotando al estudiante de estos conocimientos básicos sobre los orígenes históricos de su disciplina, así como de las características básicas de la psicología en el presente. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Social Psychology

The understanding of the social bases of behavior is an essential part of the training of the psychologist. This subject helps to understand the psycho-social principles of how individuals operate in groups. Experimental situations are used to reflect on the cognitive and social processes in order to explain the way in which individuals perceive and interpret the conduct of other individuals in groups and the way in which they influence each other and interact.The contents and activities making up the subject will facilitate the analysis of social situations linked to the beliefs, attitudes and aggressiveness, prejudice, altruism and other current key themes, by fostering reflection and questioning beyond a strict ethical code. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Social Work in the Organization

Las organizaciones son sistemas sociales con límites relativamente definidos, creados deliberadamente con carácter permanente para el logro de una misión combinando recursos humanos y materiales. Los y las trabajadoras sociales se ubican en organizaciones para desarrollar su intervención con el objetivo de logar una determinada misión. Esta materia contribuye al perfil académico profesional del/ la trabajadora social aportando losconocimientos científicos, teorías y métodos necesarios para la gestión y administración de equipos, proyectos y servicios. Pretende el desarrollo de competencias y habilidades en el alumnado relacionadas con la capacidad emprendedora y de organización y gestión de recursos. La asignatura de Trabajo Social en las Organizaciones establece contenido formativo en uno de los niveles de responsabilidad profesional actual en expansión: coordinación y dirección de equipos, proyectos y servicios.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Touristic Destinations

El crecimiento y el desarrollo de las actividades turísticas en el espacio es la razón fundamental de la necesidad de que un Graduado en Turismo disponga de las competencias asociadas a la materia de gestión del territorio. Siendo, además, imprescindible una visión holística del contexto turístico vinculado al territorio, para cualquier desarrollo profesional en el sector turístico.Las asignaturas Recursos y Productos Territoriales Turísticos y Recursos y Productos Turísticos del Patrimonio y de la Cultura aportan las competencias necesarias para comprender los factores en los que pivotan los destinos turísticos, y a partir de ahí la presente asignatura aporta el conocimiento y análisis necesarios para asimilar el marco en el que se desarrollan las experiencias turísticas, más allá de los factores. Siendo, aún así, de especial importancia, elconocimiento y comprensión de los Grandes Destinos Mundiales que forman parte de los denominados “Grandes Viajes” y que dan origen a las corrientes turísticas “minoritarias” pero de mayor calidad y prestigio.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Women's Psychology

Psicología de la Mujer es una reflexión sobre el dualismo "masculino-femenino" en el contexto cultural de las sociedades postindustriales. Presa de algunas de las contradicciones estructurales de estos modelos de organización social, la mujer es hoy un preclaro exponente de las debilidades del sistema. Por ello, la disciplina se acerca a aquellos ámbitos de vida disfuncionales que más fuertemente están socavando el bienestar femenino: 1) sexualidad ymaternidad, 2) desarrollo laboral y 3) la convivencia violenta y/o cuasi marginal. Desde el punto de vista físico se trabaja la intervención en el síndrome premestrual, la depresión postparto, el apoyo psicológico en las nuevas técnicas de procreación así como la asistencia en los procesos de adopción. En cuanto a la autorrealización profesional, se abordan las principales enfermedades laborales femeninas. La salud social es analizada desde las relacionesinterpersonales marcadas por la marginación -prostitución y pobreza- y por la violencia: abuso sexual infantil, violación, acoso sexual en el empleo, tiranía de la prole. El enfoque práctico de la asignatura prepara al estudiante en el diagnóstico, orientación y seguimiento de la subárea de trabajo de su preferencia.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Education Internship

This internship is intended for students who wish to double-major in Spanish and Education at their home university and who are registered for Spanish III or have a higher equivalent level of Spanish language proficiency. The internship focuses on the observation of Spanish or English language classes (approximately 1 hour per week), and on the active participation of students as teachers in classes of English as a Foreign Language (about 3-5 hours per week) in primary or secondary schools (public or private). Academic meetings at the University of Deusto will be held on a regular basis (approximately 15 hours over the course of the term), and a supervisor will assist the students in the internship setting. Through these activities, selected readings, and written assignments, students will acquire useful skills for their future career as teachers. Students need to apply for the internship when they submit their application for their study abroad program. They are required to sign an agreement form with the basic information regarding the internships, together with a statement of intent and some information related to their background in education and classroom observation. An additional fee of $290 applies for this option.

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Spanish for Health Sciences

This course is specifically intended for those students getting into the healthcare workforce. The class has been designed to help future health professionals (MD, RN, PharmD, DDS, etc.) interact with their patients and patients’ families in Spanish. At the same time, students will enrich their vocabulary in the target language by learning health and anatomy related words in Spanish. Furthermore, students will be able to read, understand and analyze scientific abstracts and even research papers by becoming acquainted with keywords, expressions, and grammatical structures often used in health journals in Spanish. Finally, they will be able to formulate hypotheses following the scientific method in Spanish.

But this class will not only focus on students’ competence of the language. Future health professionals will also have the chance to visit health care practitioners of their interest at their workplace to witness firsthand how the health system works in Spain and to be able to find similarities and differences, and pros and cons when compared to the system in their own country.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Gender Topics in Spanish Society

This course intends to offer an insight into contemporary politics, society, and culture in Spain from a gender perspective. Its aim is to offer students a nuanced and in-depth vision of Spanish society and to aid them in the process of critical thinking within this subject area and in relation to comparisons between Spain and other countries.

A short introduction on basic terminology and some theory will act as the basis for the perspective that students will be taking throughout the rest of the course.

Spain presents certain characteristics that set it apart from other countries which hold similar cultural values, such as the rest of Western Europe and the USA. This is the reason why we are interested in analyzing how the dominant culture of the turbulent 20th century shaped and molded its models of femininity, especially during the long dictatorship in Spain.

Furthermore, the class will focus on Spain in the present, in order to achieve an all-round perspective of the current situation for Spanish women and to find out what challenges they face. This includes studying the new struggles the feminist movement is fighting for, how intersectionality between feminism, ethnicity, and social class works, how gender perspectives have entered the field of legislation and what new forms of activism have social media given way to, amongst others.

Last but not least, the class will visit an organization that deals with gender issues in Bilbao in order to take a closer look at feminist activism in the local area.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Spanish and Latin American Cinema

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Connections Between Spain and Latin America

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Geopolitics

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Human Rights and Development Cooperation

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

International Institutions and Organizations

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Political Sciences: International Organizations

The subject of International Organizations contributes to the development of the jurist's professional profile, providing knowledge and normative references about international organizations as relevant actors in the global, changing and multipolar context. The course highlights, in particular, the role of international organizations, their capabilities, and influence in the management of responses to global problems and challenges.

For this, the study of International Organizations is addressed not only from its legal dimension but also from the geopolitical perspective and international relations.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Political Theory and Comparative Political Systems

This course contributes to the consolidation of the students’ academic-professional profile by helping them to acquire a significant knowledge of the relevant concepts of political theory and the basic dimension of the political system in comparative perspective. It is part of the module B "Theory, organization and dynamics of international society" and the subject is "political science".

The knowledge of the functioning of the political system, and of its elements, is crucial to understand the State in an international context. The functioning of institutions, as well as the key elements of political culture, party systems, and electoral systems contribute significantly to contextualize the State into the international spectrum.

Significant knowledge in comparative method and comparative approach provides also a key tool for the profile in International Relations. A specific focus is being made on the concept and implications of political systems, and differences between democracies and non democracies highlighting the key theoretical aspects, approaches and paradigms in political science and political theory. More specifically, the student

Establishes relationships between concepts, theories and political phenomena
Explains the structure, evolution and functioning of political systems
Identifies similarities and differences between contemporary political systems
Relates current political institutions with their historical roots
Analyzes political practices from the perspective of different theoretical positions
Actively participates in discussions on topics related to the subject following the appropriate rules and guidelines

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Cinema in Spain and Latin America

This course is an approach to Spanish and Latin American cinema, especially focused on the productions of the last 20 years. A variety of films from different countries, belonging to this period of time, will be watched and analyzed in class. The students will have the chance to learn about the cultural, social and aesthetic values portrayed. These films will also be used as learning material for students to develop their language skills through activities based on listening and conversation. Such activities include the very process of watching the films followed by class discussion.

The number of full movies to be seen in class may vary from year to year. The lecturer will choose different ones depending on the needs and requirements of the particular group they are in charge of. Some films may not be watched entirely but certain fragments will be selected and analyzed. Of course, students are very welcome to watch these films in full outside the classroom.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Course Level: 6  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: 6  

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Social and Cultural Connections between Spain and Latin America

This course offers an approach to socio-cultural relations between Spain and Latin America, a vast, complex and ever-changing network made up of not one but a variety of different cultures.

Throughout the length of the course, different subjects will be studied in order to guarantee that students have access to this previously mentioned cultural diversity. These topics are 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   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

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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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Biological Bases of Behavior I

In this subject Biological Bases of Behavior, the profile of the clinical psychologist begins to be developed by studying and acquiring the biological foundations of human behavior and its evolutionary development.

The biological bases of behavior study the systems and biological processes that allow the organism to interact actively with the environment.

These systems and biological processes, that is, the structural, physiological and behavioral characteristics, are based on two factors: phylogeny (genetic information that includes the evolutionary history of the species) and the interaction of the organism (genotype) with the environment.

To understand the behavior of an individual, it is necessary to know the biological characteristics of the individual (genotype), the mechanisms that modify genetic information throughout evolution and the neuroendocrine system that allows regulating the active relationship of the individual with their environment and emit a behavior.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Biological Bases of Behavior III

The main role of a psychologist is to understand and predict human behavior. This subject provides students with an insight into Basic Motivators and Emotions, their general features, determining variables, and particularly the Psychobiological Processes involved. Understanding these processes and others related to them will promote professional development in any of the applied fields of Psychology

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Legal and Forensic Psychology

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Personality Psychology

The course on Personality Psychology is part of the Personality and Psychopathology area, the introduction to the Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments module. The course intends to offer a conceptual and scientific basis to describe, explain and predict human behavior. It is a key foundation to acquire competencies related to diagnosis, assessment, and psychological treatments. The course facilitates the critical application of constructs and paradigms developed in the science of psychology to describe, explain and predict human behavior and also fosters the acquisition of reflexive thinking regarding the behavior of others and oneself.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

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: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Intermediate Spanish I

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Intermediate Spanish III

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Advanced Spanish 302: Spanish for Academic and Professional Purposes

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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Conversation

The main goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary resources to develop their oral skills in Spanish towards an advanced level, both in formal and informal situations, by focusing on organization techniques of oral speech. Students will also improve their interaction skills in conversation and will be offered the appropriate tools to carry out oral expositions about current topics successfully.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Spanish 301: Grammar and Communication

The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for them to develop their communicative competence from an intermediate level towards an advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will focus on specific grammar aspects that will be approached from a communicative perspective that will assume and value active participation of the students in the class at all times.

The main functional contents of the course will be the following:• Talking about learning habits.• Expressing wishes and opinions.• Assessing actions.• Providing and understanding recipes.• Sequencing actions.• Narrating in the past.• Telling a tale.• Assessing proposals.• Expressing purpose.• Suggesting solutions.• Speculating about the future.• Making predictions.• Expressing obligations and rules.• Expressing prohibition.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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Academic Spanish (Writing)

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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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 Basque   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Culture, Politics and Economics in Contemporary Spanish Society

This course offers an introduction to Spanish culture and civilization so that students can become familiar with the social, economic and political structures of Spain today. Our study will be focused on some specific aspects which make Spain both appealing and richly varied: its ancestral monarchy recently restored, its organization in autonomous areas which may be a solution to historical conflicts, the fact that it is one of the main tourist destinations in the world and, at the same time, the country of Don Quijote, Don Juan, Lorca, bullfighting, and soccer. All these features of life, history, and politics will be analyzed all through the course, both in the lectures and in the tour that will take students to some of the most historically relevant cities in Spain.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. The communicative approach (both oral and written) will be used in

the classroom, which means the four language skills will be worked on: listening and written

comprehension, writing and oral skills. The textbook will be implemented with complementary

material taken from newspapers, magazines, and/or other textbooks of Business Spanish,

according to the interests and necessities of the students.

Language of Instruction: English    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.

Language of Instruction: English    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

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: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Practicum Course – Spanish Through Gastronomy

The main goal of the course is to improve students’ communicative and cultural competence in Spanish. Meal times and the development of personal and professional relations around meals are very important aspects of the Spanish culture. 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.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics I

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics II

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Spanish Cinema and Literature

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature I

The main goals of the course are to enhance students’ ability to use techniques for reading,

writing, and analyzing literary texts by means of appropriate methodological and critical tools, as

well as to help them to acquire a general knowledge of Spanish and Latin American literature,

from their origins to the present, through representative works from different genres. By

analyzing those texts, students will also explore the underlying social, cultural, and literary

values shown in them.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature II

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Survey of Spanish Literature

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Service Learning: Social Participation and Development

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.

Activities in the SERVICE LEARNING course require a commitment on your part.

-The exact dates and schedule will be provided by instructors on the first week of classes.

-There are two projects you can participate in. One of them involves direct contact with minors; therefore, in order to be able to participate in this project, you will need to bring a state police criminal record with you from your home country. This is a requirement for anyone volunteering with minors in Spain. You need to contact your local or state police in order to get the document, which will then need to be authenticated by an Apostille. The process is simple, but we recommend that you start with it as soon as possible.

-Please notice that, if you bring this police record, you will have access to both projects in the course.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Practicum Course – 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 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/Superior  

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. In order to do so, different areas of management are explored, together with the main tasks that underlie each one of them. Real Madrid, F.C. Barcelona, Manchester United or Bayern Munich are perhaps the clearest examples of successful models of sports management, although there are also others closer to home such as Athletic Bilbao, which will also be examined during the course. An essential element around which everything is structured is that football is a game. Practical activities outside the classroom will be organized with this in mind.

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 on how those artistic expressions marked and identified each culture. From prehistoric times until contemporaneity, we will analyze the most relevant moments of artistic creation, focusing in Western Europe. We will be taking into account the social contexts in which the different styles started, their main formal characteristics, and most representative works of art and artists of each time. The course and the practice of a historical-artistic methodology will help students to develop their analytic and critical skills. They will get to know the main civilizations in history, by studying the forms of representation they used and, therefore, their perception of the world.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Contemporary Novel in English

The 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. It explores the development of the contemporary novel in English by focusing on two important periods for the development of the English narrative: the 1920's or the so-called Modernist literature; and the post-war period that yields to the decolonization process and the beginning of postcolonial movements. One-quarter of the world population lives in one of the 54 countries once colonized by Great Britain. They share a fairly recent colonial history and the often violent consequences of the decolonization process. But above all this, they share a common language: English. This course intends to explore some expressions of colonial and post-colonial literature in English, as well as the circumstances that helped shape these texts as expressions of a complex and multilayered reality. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Creative Use of Teaching Resources in Primary Education

Educational resources are an essential element in learning-teaching processes. 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. Getting to know ICT tools, using them, valuing their educational application, their contributions, and limitations, and the criteria for selecting, using and integrating them in effective teaching-learning practices in class is the main objective of this subject.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Entrepreneurship

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Didactics of Foreign Languages I

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.Therefore, this subject has, among others, the following aims:
  • To introduce the concepts and terms of teaching and learning the English Language.
  • To introduce the main theories, approaches, and activities in an English classroom.
  • To share resources to be used in the classroom for young learners in order to teach and learn the different language skills.
  • To learn how to plan and teach a class for young learners of English.
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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. This subject is contributing also to the general objective of the Degree in Business Administration of the University of Deusto, which is to train professionals and persons having the general and specific competencies to understand, analyze, decide, plan and act inside firms, taking into account the international economic situation and perspectives, generating value for society and firms. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Food and Beverage Management

Las empresas de restauración son unas de las principales salidas profesionales que un titulado con el Grado en Turismo tiene cuando acaba sus estudios. Es por ello fundamental que el alumno también conozca el funcionamiento práctico de las empresas que gestionan el área de alimentos y bebidas, desde el conocimiento de las herramientas específicas de gestión. Se trata de conseguir estudiantes competentes a la hora de poder ocupar con éxitos puestos directivos de empresas de restauración en un futuro próximo.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Foreign Policy

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Interaction and Multimedia

Any student in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) related engineering should be prepared to design and develop software applications. Many of them are interactive, that is to say, they are intended to establish a dialog with the user. 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. This course provides the tools to develop computer applications that adapt to the characteristics and limitations of the users.In addition to the above, it is more and more common for these applications to include text and images, but also audio, video and animations. These multimedia applications put forward specific challenges, such as data compression and synchronization.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Interpersonal Relationships

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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. This course focuses specifically on adaptation issues. It also investigates how the introduction of new communication technologies has transformed our perception of fictional texts and reality.Literature and Cinema explore the type of “translation” that literary works undergo when they are taken to the screen. Since both arts rely on quite distinctive industries and semiotic systems, it will soon become apparent that our analyses of both “texts” are highly conditioned by the medium. As a result, such aspects as the relationship between the reader/viewer and the “text”, the concepts and protocols of analysis, the conventions to interpret each kind of narrative and the ideological implications are necessarily different in each of the two media. COURSE 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.

The course will cover issues such as the creation of the Modern State, the main political revolutions, the evolution of the collective mentalities and their influence on the creation of new political systems, the impact and development of the main social movements, or the economic reforms and transformations, which are necessary for a rigorous interpretation of the information and knowledge obtained in other courses.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Regional Integration Processes and Policies

This course is part of the module "Theory, organization and dynamics of international society" and the subject "International organization and theory"

The 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 conceptualized 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.

The theoretical point of departure is in the different integration theories studied in the course: federalism, neo-functionalism, inter-governmentalism, constructivism etc. whereas the empirical component of the course has two main dimensions: Firstly, a study of the general features of processes of regional integration in other parts of the world and, second, a group project analyzing a specific case of regional integration. Thereby, the student obtains both a theoretically grounded general understanding of regional integration as well as in-depth knowledge of a specific regional case.

The competence of critical thinking is developed through project seminars, where students will provide and receive feedback as well as reflect on their own group process.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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. In this subject, students will gain the needed competencies for the definition and modeling of a system in an organized and systematic way, as well as the techniques for gathering the required information from the stakeholders.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

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". It also deepens the specific translation skills. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Civil Education

La educación ciudadanía se ha convertido en un referente para los procesos educativos, formales y no formales, de forma que se considera una de las grandes narrativas modernas de la educación (Gimeno Sacristán, 2003). Los y las profesionales de la Educación Social han asumido esta propuesta, especialmente al incorporar entre sus objetivos la capacitación de las personas para desempeñar un papel activo en la vida pública y asumir de forma responsable su destino y el de su sociedad. Se trata de un reto importante ya que requiere articular contextos educativos que favorezcan la plena incorporación de las personas en la sociedad.Esta asignatura constituye el marco de referencia básico para los profesionales de la educaciónsocial, permitiendo:
  • Analizar, desde un pensamiento crítico (sustentado en aportaciones de diferentes disciplinas y modelos teóricos), a los diversos contextos educativos y sociales.
  • Reflexionar sobre las principales tareas del educador/a social en esta área. Se trata de una asignatura que aborda las denominadas Pedagogías de la Sociedad Civil (consumo, medio ambiente, salud, interculturalidad), que, según Colom (1998: 78) se refieren a desarrollos pedagógicos caracterizados por su origen social. Por tanto, suelen propiciar la participación social, o, al menos, la toma de conciencia de la población respecto a una situación. Aunque en su inicio, su gestión era ajena a la institución escolar formal, suelen experimentar innovaciones metodológicas ya que son ámbitos dinámicos, libres y atractivos. Se relaciona tanto con asignaturas impartidas en la Diplomatura de Educación Social (Psicología Comunitaria, Pedagogía Social, Sociología, Antropología, Educación de Adultos) así como con uno de los modelos del Practicum de tercer curso y otras asignaturas optativas que abordan el trabajo con diferentes colectivos (inmigrantes, personas mayores, personas con discapacidad).
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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Consumer Behavior

El propósito o finalidad fundamental de esta asignatura es proporcionar a los estudiantes ciertas claves para poder comprender el comportamiento del ser humano como consumidor, usuario o comprador. Según Kotler, el marketing es "el proceso de planificar y ejecutar el concepto, precio, promoción y distribución de ideas, bienes y servicios para crear intercambios que satisfagan los objetivos de los particulares y de las organizaciones". Así, cualquierestrategia y acción de marketing (tanto a escala nacional como transnacional) que quiera tener éxito, y cualquier estudiante que quiera especializarse en esta área de la gestión, debe partir del conocimiento del comportamiento del consumidor y/o comprador para poder adecuarse a él y por tanto poder generar esta satisfacción.Por un lado, la comprensión del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis del entorno, del mercado y de ciertas conductas observables, tales como la cantidad comprada, cuándo, quién ha realizado la compra, con quién o la forma en que tales compras se consumen. Por otro, el estudio del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis de variables que afectan al consumidor y que no se pueden observar a simple vista. Algunas de estas variables se refieren al consumidor como individuo (variables internas o psicológicas): sus valores, percepciones, actitudes, personalidad, autoconcepto, proceso de aprendizaje, la información que guardan, cómo la obtienen y la procesan, cómo evalúan alternativas, cómo se sienten poseyendo y utilizando productos y servicios, etc. Y otras se refieren al consumidor en relación con su entorno cultural y social (variables externas o socioculturales). Nos estamos refiriendo a los grupos de pertenencia y de referencia, a la cultura, a las subculturas, a la clase social... Además, esta asignatura relaciona esta comprensión del consumidor y/o comprador con la gestión de marcas y/o categorías (y los planes de marca y/o categoría en unos canales determinados), al entender que lo uno no puede existir sin lo otro.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Contemporary Spanish Literature

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia LITERATURA HISPÁNICA, dentro de la Mención de Estudios Hispánicos y Mención de Literatura del Grado de Lenguas Modernas. La asignatura aporta conocimientos fundamentales sobre la Literatura Española del siglo XX-XXI que le permiten al titulado la comprensión cultural y formal de la producción literaria en España. Asimismo contribuye a la formación mediante el desarrollo de competencias dedicadas al desarrollo de herramientas metodológicas y formación de expertos en literatura. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Cultural Studies

Como parte de una materia transversal común a los grados de Humanidades y Lenguas, esta asignatura contribuye al perfil académico-profesional del estudiante proporcionándole un bagaje adecuado para enfrentarse a los fenómenos culturales de nuestro tiempo, con visión crítica capaz de ir de lo local a lo global, de lo uno a lo diverso. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Globalization, Citizenship, and Intercultural Skills

Plurality is one of the most outstanding characteristics of postmodern societies, where dealing with the difference, whatever its origin, will be a mainstay in any profession. This subject is offered within the framework of the Identity and Mission Module of Deusto University. UD explicitly proclaims its commitment to the social and cultural reality as well as with social justice. Consequently, this course includes a theoretical approach to the situation, factors, and consequences of globalization and plurality. But it goes beyond that approach. From the beginning, a proactive attitude is incorporated, in order to generate awareness about the role we play in professional and personal relations and to look for an effective and appropriate communication with people of different origins, cultures, beliefs and other differences. In sum, it is a subject related to the essential elements of the practice of citizenship today. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Health and Positive Psychology

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 broadened 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.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: 4  

Human Resources Management

Esta asignatura introduce a los y las estudiantes en las funciones propias de la dirección de personas, tanto en la elaboración de un plan de personas ligado al plan estratégico de la organización, como en aquellas tareas propias de la función de personas y que se encuentran descentralizadas, esto es, que deben ser realizadas también por quienes dirigen las demás áreas funcionales y/o equipos en las organizaciones. La asignatura aporta al alumnado criterios orientadores para la dirección de personas, además de los procedimientos y herramientas necesarias para llevar a cabo esta función. Además, contribuirá a desarrollar la capacidad de trabajar en equipo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Operational Marketing

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes los criterios orientadores y las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una correcta planificación, definir la estructura organizativa de una empresa, tomar decisiones operativas y realizar un control efectivo en las empresas, desarrollando la capacidad de interrogarse sobre los fundamentos en las que se asientan las distintas teorías y prácticas de la gestión de las empresas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Principles of Business Organizations

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes los criterios orientadores y las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una correcta planificación, definir la estructura organizativa de una empresa, tomar decisiones operativas y realizar un control efectivo en las empresas, desarrollando la capacidad de interrogarse sobre los fundamentos en las que se asientan las distintas teorías y prácticas de la gestión de las empresas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Principles of Marketing

Esta asignatura inicia a los estudiantes en las funciones estratégicas de un gestor de marketing y/o comercial, es decir, reflexionar sobre el enfoque marketing de una organización, proponer investigaciones de mercado, decidir sobre el posicionamiento y los segmentos a los que debe dirigirse la empresa y, además, entender el comportamiento del consumidor/comprador, así como las decisiones estratégicas que se deben tomar en cuanto a producto, precio,distribución y comunicación. Servirá de introducción, por lo tanto, al resto de asignaturas de marketing del grado. Esta asignatura, además, potenciará el desarrollo del trabajo en equipo.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Psychology of Education

Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del profesorado de Educación Primaria aportando conocimiento de los procesos educativos, especialmente de enseñanza-aprendizaje, y de las variables personales y ambientales implicadas en los mismos. Este conocimiento le permitirá diseñar su actuación educativa con rigor y fundamento científico, establecer relaciones educativas eficaces, hacer frente a las dificultades de aprendizaje y diseñar entornos deaprendizaje adecuados a cada persona y situación.Asimismo, en esta asignatura se ofrecen temas, documentación y estrategias de aprendizaje para aprender a aprender, diseñar acciones psicopedagógicas para favorecer un aprendizaje estratégico y mejorar la propia competencia como aprendiz estratégico. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Contact Hours: 4

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Psychological Wellbeing and Community Psychology

Psychological well-being has traditionally centered its interest on personal development, on the style and manner of facing the vital challenges, on the effort and eagerness to achieve our goals and promote development. These objectives connect directly to those established by community psychology.

The subject also aims to provide the profile of the psychologist of social intervention with a conceptual framework, which allows him to observe, analyze, understand and interpret the community reality and psychosocial dynamics from new parameters of well-being, as well as to raise awareness about the transformative potential that This way of approaching reality has.

Community psychology has a clear and preferably applied vocation, however, its contents are presented as founders of other subjects, of a social nature, aimed at different population groups or specific intervention methods. The subjects also contribute to the psychologist of social intervention the basic skills to reflect and try to address psychosocial problems from, with and for the community, favoring the involvement of the group itself, from criteria of justice, equity, and flexibility.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Anthropology

La Antropología social estudia cómo investigar y conocer a unas sociedades definidas por su "alteridad" y su "no occidentalidad".

Esta asignatura es una introducción a la Antropología Social para conocer y aplicar qué es y cómo se estudia la alteridad, la diversidad cultural. El estudio del análisis de la variabilidad y d la evolución cultural en los ámbitos del parentesco, la economía, la política, la religión y las representaciones simbólicas enseña cómo percibir, pensar y vivir las diferencias y similitudes culturales.Para los estudiantes de Relaciones Internacionales esta asignatura capacita, mediante la práctica del pensamiento y del razonamiento antropológico, para captar y entender el sentido y el significado de la diversidad de las relaciones humanas y sus diferentes manifestaciones en el mundo contemporáneo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Theory of International Relations

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Accounting Applications

The acquisition of the skills of the subject accounting in 3-year facilitates the understanding and application of the contents of this course.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Accounting and Balance Sheets

This course aims to bring students to the reality of economic transactions as well as their record and interpretation.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Anthropology

Anthropology as a scientific discipline has been collecting an impressive array of knowledge about human diversity both in the present and past societies. This knowledge helps to understand and interact with others in societies that are every day more interconnected and diverse.This course is an introduction to social anthropology and tries to explain and apply what is cultural diversity and how it is studied. The study of the analysis of variability and cultural evolution in the fields of kinship, economics, politics, religion, and symbolic representations teaches how to perceive, think and live the cultural differences and similarities.The course allows students to understand the meaning of diversity in human relationships and its different expressions today by practicing anthropological thinking and reasoning.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Biomedicine and Law

Proper training for all jurists requires, as a supplement, knowledge on the potential social consequences of advances in the field of biomedicine, as well as in relation to our pluralistic value systems, with those individual fundamental rights as well as other legal structures. The applications of new biomedical technologies are increasingly penetrating in the personal lives and relationships of human beings. It is therefore of great interest to analyze the panorama on the various ethical and legal aspects that biomedical and biotechnological advances currently pose.Consideration of the fundamental issues raised by the development of Human Genetics and Human solutions requires assessing the solutions currently provided by Law for each one of these issues. However, due to the rapid pace with which new biomedical advances continue to develop, it is necessary, in addition to expounding the currently open debates and possible avenues of a solution, to provide the appropriate theoretical tools to meet the future challenges that the jurist is confronted with in this field.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Congress and Event Management

La organización de reuniones y eventos es un segmento relacionado con el turismo profesional que actualmente está en auge. El País Vasco es un destino importante en cuanto a ferias y reuniones de negocios, y por ende este tipo de turismo está generando grandes oportunidades de negocio en nuestra Comunidad Autónoma.Los eventos requieren de una fase previa de planificación que es fundamental y compleja, según las características del evento. Hay que tener en cuenta muchos detalles que son los que marcarán la diferencia y harán que el evento tenga éxito. Igualmente importante es el control del evento en sí mismo, y la evaluación una vez finalizado.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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English Poetry and Drama

The skills acquired in this course are crucial towards the consolidation of the Modern Languages/ English Studies Track / Literary Studies Track academic profile as the focus will be on a wide range of twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry written in English and modern and contemporary Irish drama. The aim is to help students increase their creative responsiveness to the interplay between text and context and between language and social approach to literary language that is consistently contextualized. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Financial Instruments and Institutions

The evolution over recent decades of Information Technologies together with the globalization and liberalizing process of the financial markets has meant that the Financial System now plays a key role not only in the economy but also in the public life of developed companies.Institutions and Financial Instruments analyses and considers (attempting to link financial practice and theory) the structures and products that drive the financial markets.(20% of the course is taught in Spanish)COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Gender Studies

The interdisciplinary fields of gender and women¿s studies constitute one of the most innovative and challenging areas of recent scholarship that pervades not only the social sciences and the arts, but also disciplines apparently alien such as computing, engineering, health, or the natural sciences. Departing from a transdisciplinary approach, the main aim of this course is to provide students with a critical framework for thinking of gender identity as an integral component of the human condition that pervades both the real and symbolic orders of social life, and intersects with other social and cultural identities such as race, class, nationality, or religion. Together with this main goal, this course aims at:

  • analyzing the construction of women as social and cultural subjects
  • exploring how gender identities are constructed, and to identify the dominant cultural fabric of stereotypes and prejudices that underlie an apparently neutral reality.
  • getting acquainted with the main trends of feminism and theoretical thinking on women's studies in the past, and the challenges for the future.
  • promoting gender justice by identifying the challenges of gender inequality in contemporary societies, in order to gain mutual understanding and a fairer society.
  • It will also improve their communicative skills in English and show them how to use proficiently the key concepts in disciplines related to the Humanities.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Global History

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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International Protection of Human Rights

According to the Strategic Plan of the University of Deusto, human rights are an essential pillar of the integral formation of our students. Human rights have become a very relevant tool for a Social and Democratic State, as stated by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Spain has ratified most of the international human rights instruments, as the vast majority of European states. This course aims at knowing the main human rights instruments as well as assuming a commitment to a human rights culture.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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International Trade Law

En la sociedad actual la globalización ha tenido como consecuencia un incremento de las transacciones comerciales de carácter internacional. Las implicaciones jurídicas de esas transacciones comerciales son especiales y complejas y por ello merecen una particular atención, sobre todo para aquellos estudiantes que pretendan orientar sus salidas profesionales desde una perspectiva de internacionalización.Para poder analizar en profundidad los problemas que se plantean y las diferentes vías de solución, se parte, por tanto, de la conciencia de las implicaciones que en el ámbito jurídico ha tenido el incremento las transacciones comerciales internacionales debido a la mundialización de la sociedad y la economía y a la revolución que las nuevas tecnologías han supuesto en la contratación internacional.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Introduction to International Relations

This course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to international relations as a basis of their academic professional profile. It shows an overview of the world of international relations in an era of globalization. Students will understand the complexity of politics and political patterns of interaction in the world and not only between states and will learn the different dynamics, processes, and issues facing the contemporary international system.The introduction to the discipline of international relations its main approaches, concepts and instruments of analysis will enable students to analyze and think how the interrelated parts of the international system connect, interrelate and interact.In this context, it will enable students to integrate different knowledge within the discipline and thus provide them with a foundation for other courses of the degree in international relations. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Literary Landmarks in English

This course contributes to the profile of the Modern-Language student who majors in English by helping him gain a deeper knowledge of a small number of authors whose work has been central to the development of literary culture, and whose influence has been particularly strong on their successors. It is also intended that the student comes to a good understanding of the historical context in which the selected authors produced their works. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Multiculturalism and Intercultural Dialogue

This course contributes to the consolidation of the students’ academic- professional profile by showing them that nowadays the reality in most Western countries is highly diverse and multicultural. They will also learn that this ethnic diversity has produced all kinds of new socio-cultural phenomena that need to be investigated in order to tackle the problems our societies are facing. The texts students will be reading present them with new challenges that cannot be adequately dealt with by using traditional approaches. They will be encouraged and taught to find both effective and ethical solutions to these challenges.The main aims of this course are: to make students think of social and cultural diversity as integral components of the human condition, to promote dialogue in order to gain mutual understanding and a fairer society. It will also improve their communicative skills in English and show them how to use proficiently the key concepts in disciplines related to the Humanities. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Political and Economic Integration of the E.U.

This course deepens into the study of rules and case law governing the European internal market and the most relevant aspects of political dimension in the current European Union. This matter is therefore essential for any jurist who wants to work in a European or international institution. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Private International Law

This course provides an explanation of the main ways of solving the problems related to the private social relations with a foreign element. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Psychopathology

Psychopathology focuses on the study of the abnormal or pathological behavior, both in descriptive and explicative dimensions as well as in the etiology. Regarding the professional profile of the student in the field of health psychology as well as in other fields of psychological expertise, the understanding of the different psychopathological disorders is an exceptionally important knowledge for the clinical practice. The field of psychological intervention and evaluation in mental health is linked with the knowledge of the different clinical entities in psychopathology. Also, psychopathology is linked to other subjects of the psychological studies as basic psychological processes, biology, sociology, and physiology.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Psychometrics

Esta asignatura trata sobre los modelos matemáticos y las técnicas de construcción de los principales instrumentos de medida en Psicología y en Educación, esto es tests, escalas y cuestionarios. La asignatura, por tanto, ayudará al estudiante a adquirir las bases conceptuales y metodológicas para construir y emplear responsablemente los tests psicológicos en beneficio de la teoría, la investigación y la práctica psicológica.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Second Language Acquisition

  • Distintos enfoques teóricos en el campo de la adquisición de segundas lenguas.
  • Métodos de enseñanza de segundas lenguas y lenguas extranjeras.
  • El papel del profesor, el/la alumno-a y los materiales didácticos en la adquisición de lenguas extranjeras.
  • Tipos de actividades y estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje.
Observación: esta asignatura se impartirá en inglés y todos los trabajos escritos, presentaciones orales, pruebas y demás actividades se harán en el mismo idioma.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Software Design

Una de las labores fundamentales de las personas tituladas en el Grado en Ingeniería Informática es el diseño e implementación de soluciones software. Si se analiza el ciclo de vida de desarrollo de un sistema de software, el segundo paso fundamental es el diseño del producto que se va a construir.En esta asignatura, se adquieren las competencias necesarias para el diseño de software orientado a objetos distribuido, utilizando como notación de modelado el estándar UML y aplicando reconocidos patrones de diseño, así como heurísticas y buenas prácticas. Por lo tanto, esta asignatura contribuye, desde un punto de vista competencial, a la resolución de problemas y diseño de sistemas, componentes y aplicaciones, con un enfoque sistémico (a la vez que creativo e innovador), a partir de requisitos existentes y considerando diferentes criterios de valoración de soluciones alternativas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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The Study of Language

One thing that distinguishes human beings from other animals, even relatively smart ones like chimps and elephants, is our ability to use productive and combinatory language. Language plays an important role in how we think about abstract notions, or, at the very least, language appears to be structured in such a way that it allows us to express abstract notions. Sentences are how we get at expressing abstract thought processes. Thus, this course is aboutone seminal aspect of how language works -- how sentences are structured: Syntax. The study of syntax is an important foundation stone for understanding how we communicate and interact with each other as humans. The syntax is what mediates between the sounds that someone produces and the meaning they intend to convey.The aim of this course is to introduce students to sentence structure, syntax parsing, tree diagram representation, and the basic terminology of syntax. It will be shown how traditional concepts are used and reinterpreted within the framework of Generative Grammar. We shall try to decide what sort of internal grammar native speakers of English have at their disposal and to determine what it is that makes a sentence acceptable or unacceptable, what sort of grammatical principles can be advocated and to what extent these are universal or language- specific. For the practical component of this course, the students will be presented with data from English as well as from other languages and will be expected to develop skills to piece these data together, construct hypotheses, check these and ultimately discover the explanation for the evidence assembled.The course is mostly practical in nature since it relies on the students’ regular submission of short exercises and their constant improvement thanks to the feedback received from the instructor. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Basic Principles of Law

This subject is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge of the main aspects relating to the field of law, explaining the elementary principles, processes, and institutions of law, evaluating the law in its historical and theoretical context from a holistic point of view. Acquisition of the rudiments of law, knowledge of basic legal norms and their application to social life.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Basic Psychological Processes I

Procesos Psicológicos Básicos I es la primera parte de una serie de módulos de formación en procesos psicológicos básicos que supone el inicio de familiarización con el conocimiento que será fundamental para entender y analizar los procesos psicológicos superiores y la vida mental. El ámbito de la psicología supone la necesidad de un mayor conocimiento del mundo que le rodea; y este conocimiento se fundamenta necesariamente en los procesos básicos de percepción del mundo real y de los propios procesos psicológicos que se dan en la persona. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Economy of Spain and the World

La asignatura contribuye a la adquisición de competencias relacionadas con la identificación de oportunidades y riesgos en el entorno local y global, y con la estimación de su impacto en las decisiones empresariales.La contribución de la asignatura se enmarca dentro del objetivo general del título de grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por la Universidad de Deusto, que es formar personas y profesionales con las competencias generales y específicas necesarias para comprender, analizar, interpretar, decidir, planificar y actuar en las organizaciones, guiándolas y haciendo que éstas contribuyan al propósito para el que hubieran sido creadas.En términos generales, el Graduado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por la Universidad de Deusto, será capaz de promover el desarrollo de proyectos empresariales, colaborando de forma comprometida, responsable y ética con la consecución de los objetivos de la empresa al objeto de mejorar su competitividad en un entorno globalizado.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Economy and Business Organization

Esta asignatura pretende acercar los estudiantes a la realidad compleja de la empresa y de su organización interna, sin obviar las relaciones varias que mantiene con el entorno macroeconómico. Asimismo, la empresa, comprometida con los valores de eficiencia y de participación activa, aparece como una herramienta central del mantenimiento de la cohesión social en nuestras sociedades desarrolladas. De ahí que se proceda a un breve análisis previode ciertas nociones económicas como mercados, bienes, oferta y demanda etc., conceptos que se han de conocer para entender el marco externo en el que se desenvuelven las empresas y las diversas estrategias de organización interna por las que pueden optar.A continuación se procederá a analizar las estrategias competitivas de las empresas y cómo han ido evolucionando sus procesos de organización interna para adaptarse mejor a los nuevos retos socioeconómicos. Los alumnos de la UD percibirán no obstante que la empresa es o debería ser portadora de ciertos valores en términos de responsabilidad social que la hacen ser un eslabón fundamental en la estructuración participativa de nuestras sociedades.Así pues, la asignatura se propone no sólo transmitir los necesarios conocimientos técnicos para formar los estudiantes como profesionales competentes sino también como personas con determinados valores solidarios. Han de contribuir como personas formadas y desde sus específicas competencias profesionales a que el mundo en que vivimos sea más humano, justo y solidario.En esta dirección, la asignatura “Economía y organización de empresas” trata en primer lugar de acercar el alumno a esta realidad compleja y multifacética que es la empresa para ayudarle a entender críticamente las decisiones que puedan ser adoptadas en el ámbito empresarial, decisiones que están cada vez más condicionadas por la inevitable globalización económica y financiera.El alumno habrá de tomar conciencia de los principales desafíos económicos y sociales a los que se enfrenta la empresa para hacer compatibles los principios de eficiencia económica con los de una mayor equidad social, si bien la actual realidad económica adversa parece inclinar el fiel de la balanza del lado de la eficiencia y de la competitividad económicas mediante la elección de unas estrategias que no siempre son compatibles con el logro de una mayorequidad social. En cualquier caso, le incumbe al alumno conocer los diferentes análisis y posturas en torno a esos desafíos mayores.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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European Literature

De todos los contenidos mencionados por la materia Discurso, aluden expresamente a esta asignatura los siguientes: La construcción de los géneros literarios y el paradigma literario occidental; la creación del canon a lo largo de la historia literaria europea y sus problemas, los periodos y movimientos literarios en Europa en sus contextos históricos, filosóficos y culturales; clasicismo y anticlasicismo.Los contenidos de la asignatura se dividen en dos grandes bloques, uno de los cuales trata la cuestión del canon literario y se corresponde con la primera unidad. El segundo bloque de cinco unidades consiste en un repaso de los grandes periodos que convencionalmente se distinguen en la literatura europea moderna, con algunos de sus movimientos, géneros, autores y obras más representativos. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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General Sociology

El objetivo general de la asignatura es que el/la estudiante comprenda los conceptos básicos que nos sirven para explicar y conocer la realidad social y sea capaz de ser crítico con el entorno que le rodea.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Hispanic Narrative Fiction

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia de Literatura Hispánica y contribuye a la completa preparación de los estudiantes matriculados en el grado de Lenguas Modernas. Tiene por objeto proporcionar una doble formación, por un lado, en relación al género y sus características formales y, por otro, en relación a la producción novelística española desde el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad.Siendo el género más abierto y flexible, la novela presenta una indudable relevancia hoy en día. Además, desde sus orígenes, con formatos y fórmulas diversas, y pese a su ausencia en las Poéticas clásicas, ha tenido la virtud de conectar con el público y ser un valioso exponente de los cambios sociales. Un análisis de las características que presenta, en cuanto a contenidos, estructura y recursos formales, proporcionará al estudiante herramientas muy útiles tanto desde una perspectiva histórica, como específicamente literaria.Tras el estudio de los rasgos caracterizadores del género, que remitirá a importantes autores del contexto internacional, el curso se centrará en el análisis de las tendencias y obras más significativas de la literatura hispánica, desde las novelas cervantinas y picarescas hasta el experimentalismo del siglo XX. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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History of Political Thought

Esta asignatura se inscribe dentro del módulo "Fundamentos de las Relaciones Internacionales" y de la materia "Historia" y, como todas las asignaturas de esta materia y módulo, tiene como objetivo que el estudiante adquiera los marcos conceptuales y las bases científicas propias de las disciplinas que estudian el funcionamiento de la sociedad internacional.En concreto, se abordará la historia de las ideas que conforman, en la tradición occidental, la reflexión sobre la forma en la que el ser humano ha organizado la convivencia política. Se hará especial hincapié en las ideas que han articulado las relaciones intercomunitarias y en la conformación histórica del concepto moderno de "relaciones internacionales". COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Introduction to Economics

El Derecho forma parte de las Ciencias que estudian la realidad social y difícilmente se puede comprender ésta sin considerar la faceta económica que la impregna totalmente. Esta asignatura de Introdución a la Economía contribuye al desarrollo del perfil profesional del Graduado en Derecho dado que le aporta las competencias necesarias para la comprensión e interpretación de la realidad social en la que se asienta el Derecho, así como los agentes sociales sujetos de derechos y obligaciones acerca de sus propios intereses económicos, tanto privados (consumidores y empresas) como públicos (Administraciones públicas). Además, esta asignatura constituye el punto de partida y la base teórica de las asignaturas de la Especialidad Económica.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Latin American Literature

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia LITERATURA HISPÁNICA, dentro de la Mención de Estudios Hispánicos y Mención de Literatura del Grado de Lenguas Modernas. La asignatura aporta conocimientos fundamentales sobre la Literatura Hispanoamericana que le permitan al titulado la comprensión cultural y formal de la producción literaria en Hispanoamérica. Asimismo contribuye a la formación mediante el desarrollo de competencias dedicadas aldesarrollo de herramientas metodológicas en su formación de expertos en literatura. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Leisure and Entertainment

Esta asignatura propone a los estudiantes una reflexión y una habilitación profesional universitaria en la intervención en ocio y animación sociocultural, como parte esencial de la formación de un profesional de la Educación Social. Permite precisar conceptos y modos de intervención, a partir de conocimientos, metodologías, instrumentos y técnicas que permiten adquirir las competencias necesarias para poder orientar la acción. También se analiza el trabajo del profesional que diseña, gestiona, desarrolla y evalúa programas o equipamientos socioculturales dirigidos a diversos sectores de población (infancia/juventud, personas mayores, minorías, etc) desde distintos contextos: centros culturales o cívicos, asociaciones, etc. Por estos motivos, la asignatura introduce diferentes estudios de caso.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Management and Direction of Touristic Companies

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas del ámbito turístico.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes parte de las competencias necesarias que debe poseer todo gestor de empresas turísticas. Muchas de ellas son competencias necesarias para poder abordar otras materias propias de la disciplina de estudio en el Grado. Por ello, es necesario su desarrollo y superación previamente a la de asignaturas de Organización y Procesos de Producción de Alojamientos y Restauración,Dirección Hotelera, Dirección Financiera de empresas turísticas, Gestión de Recursos Humanos, Dirección de Marketing Turístico.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Psychology: History Science, and Profession

La psicología actual, tanto en su vertiente científica como en la profesional, apenas puede entenderse si no se tienen conocimientos previos sobre sus raíces intelectuales y sobre las grandes escuelas de psicología que han dominado el pasado siglo XX. La presente asignatura pretende cubrir esta necesidad dotando al estudiante de estos conocimientos básicos sobre los orígenes históricos de su disciplina, así como de las características básicas de la psicología en el presente. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Social Psychology

The understanding of the social bases of behavior is an essential part of the training of the psychologist. This subject helps to understand the psycho-social principles of how individuals operate in groups. Experimental situations are used to reflect on the cognitive and social processes in order to explain the way in which individuals perceive and interpret the conduct of other individuals in groups and the way in which they influence each other and interact.The contents and activities making up the subject will facilitate the analysis of social situations linked to the beliefs, attitudes and aggressiveness, prejudice, altruism and other current key themes, by fostering reflection and questioning beyond a strict ethical code. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Social Work in the Organization

Las organizaciones son sistemas sociales con límites relativamente definidos, creados deliberadamente con carácter permanente para el logro de una misión combinando recursos humanos y materiales. Los y las trabajadoras sociales se ubican en organizaciones para desarrollar su intervención con el objetivo de logar una determinada misión. Esta materia contribuye al perfil académico profesional del/ la trabajadora social aportando losconocimientos científicos, teorías y métodos necesarios para la gestión y administración de equipos, proyectos y servicios. Pretende el desarrollo de competencias y habilidades en el alumnado relacionadas con la capacidad emprendedora y de organización y gestión de recursos. La asignatura de Trabajo Social en las Organizaciones establece contenido formativo en uno de los niveles de responsabilidad profesional actual en expansión: coordinación y dirección de equipos, proyectos y servicios.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Touristic Destinations

El crecimiento y el desarrollo de las actividades turísticas en el espacio es la razón fundamental de la necesidad de que un Graduado en Turismo disponga de las competencias asociadas a la materia de gestión del territorio. Siendo, además, imprescindible una visión holística del contexto turístico vinculado al territorio, para cualquier desarrollo profesional en el sector turístico.Las asignaturas Recursos y Productos Territoriales Turísticos y Recursos y Productos Turísticos del Patrimonio y de la Cultura aportan las competencias necesarias para comprender los factores en los que pivotan los destinos turísticos, y a partir de ahí la presente asignatura aporta el conocimiento y análisis necesarios para asimilar el marco en el que se desarrollan las experiencias turísticas, más allá de los factores. Siendo, aún así, de especial importancia, elconocimiento y comprensión de los Grandes Destinos Mundiales que forman parte de los denominados “Grandes Viajes” y que dan origen a las corrientes turísticas “minoritarias” pero de mayor calidad y prestigio.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Women's Psychology

Psicología de la Mujer es una reflexión sobre el dualismo "masculino-femenino" en el contexto cultural de las sociedades postindustriales. Presa de algunas de las contradicciones estructurales de estos modelos de organización social, la mujer es hoy un preclaro exponente de las debilidades del sistema. Por ello, la disciplina se acerca a aquellos ámbitos de vida disfuncionales que más fuertemente están socavando el bienestar femenino: 1) sexualidad ymaternidad, 2) desarrollo laboral y 3) la convivencia violenta y/o cuasi marginal. Desde el punto de vista físico se trabaja la intervención en el síndrome premestrual, la depresión postparto, el apoyo psicológico en las nuevas técnicas de procreación así como la asistencia en los procesos de adopción. En cuanto a la autorrealización profesional, se abordan las principales enfermedades laborales femeninas. La salud social es analizada desde las relacionesinterpersonales marcadas por la marginación -prostitución y pobreza- y por la violencia: abuso sexual infantil, violación, acoso sexual en el empleo, tiranía de la prole. El enfoque práctico de la asignatura prepara al estudiante en el diagnóstico, orientación y seguimiento de la subárea de trabajo de su preferencia.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Education Internship

This internship is intended for students who wish to double-major in Spanish and Education at their home university and who are registered for Spanish III or have a higher equivalent level of Spanish language proficiency. The internship focuses on the observation of Spanish or English language classes (approximately 1 hour per week), and on the active participation of students as teachers in classes of English as a Foreign Language (about 3-5 hours per week) in primary or secondary schools (public or private). Academic meetings at the University of Deusto will be held on a regular basis (approximately 15 hours over the course of the term), and a supervisor will assist the students in the internship setting. Through these activities, selected readings, and written assignments, students will acquire useful skills for their future career as teachers. Students need to apply for the internship when they submit their application for their study abroad program. They are required to sign an agreement form with the basic information regarding the internships, together with a statement of intent and some information related to their background in education and classroom observation. An additional fee of $290 applies for this option.

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Spanish for Health Sciences

This course is specifically intended for those students getting into the healthcare workforce. The class has been designed to help future health professionals (MD, RN, PharmD, DDS, etc.) interact with their patients and patients’ families in Spanish. At the same time, students will enrich their vocabulary in the target language by learning health and anatomy related words in Spanish. Furthermore, students will be able to read, understand and analyze scientific abstracts and even research papers by becoming acquainted with keywords, expressions, and grammatical structures often used in health journals in Spanish. Finally, they will be able to formulate hypotheses following the scientific method in Spanish.

But this class will not only focus on students’ competence of the language. Future health professionals will also have the chance to visit health care practitioners of their interest at their workplace to witness firsthand how the health system works in Spain and to be able to find similarities and differences, and pros and cons when compared to the system in their own country.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Gender Topics in Spanish Society

This course intends to offer an insight into contemporary politics, society, and culture in Spain from a gender perspective. Its aim is to offer students a nuanced and in-depth vision of Spanish society and to aid them in the process of critical thinking within this subject area and in relation to comparisons between Spain and other countries.

A short introduction on basic terminology and some theory will act as the basis for the perspective that students will be taking throughout the rest of the course.

Spain presents certain characteristics that set it apart from other countries which hold similar cultural values, such as the rest of Western Europe and the USA. This is the reason why we are interested in analyzing how the dominant culture of the turbulent 20th century shaped and molded its models of femininity, especially during the long dictatorship in Spain.

Furthermore, the class will focus on Spain in the present, in order to achieve an all-round perspective of the current situation for Spanish women and to find out what challenges they face. This includes studying the new struggles the feminist movement is fighting for, how intersectionality between feminism, ethnicity, and social class works, how gender perspectives have entered the field of legislation and what new forms of activism have social media given way to, amongst others.

Last but not least, the class will visit an organization that deals with gender issues in Bilbao in order to take a closer look at feminist activism in the local area.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Spanish and Latin American Cinema

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Connections Between Spain and Latin America

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Geopolitics

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Human Rights and Development Cooperation

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

International Institutions and Organizations

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Political Sciences: International Organizations

The subject of International Organizations contributes to the development of the jurist's professional profile, providing knowledge and normative references about international organizations as relevant actors in the global, changing and multipolar context. The course highlights, in particular, the role of international organizations, their capabilities, and influence in the management of responses to global problems and challenges.

For this, the study of International Organizations is addressed not only from its legal dimension but also from the geopolitical perspective and international relations.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Political Theory and Comparative Political Systems

This course contributes to the consolidation of the students’ academic-professional profile by helping them to acquire a significant knowledge of the relevant concepts of political theory and the basic dimension of the political system in comparative perspective. It is part of the module B "Theory, organization and dynamics of international society" and the subject is "political science".

The knowledge of the functioning of the political system, and of its elements, is crucial to understand the State in an international context. The functioning of institutions, as well as the key elements of political culture, party systems, and electoral systems contribute significantly to contextualize the State into the international spectrum.

Significant knowledge in comparative method and comparative approach provides also a key tool for the profile in International Relations. A specific focus is being made on the concept and implications of political systems, and differences between democracies and non democracies highlighting the key theoretical aspects, approaches and paradigms in political science and political theory. More specifically, the student

Establishes relationships between concepts, theories and political phenomena
Explains the structure, evolution and functioning of political systems
Identifies similarities and differences between contemporary political systems
Relates current political institutions with their historical roots
Analyzes political practices from the perspective of different theoretical positions
Actively participates in discussions on topics related to the subject following the appropriate rules and guidelines

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

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.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Critical Choices in Social Life

The subject aims to promote reflection on relevant issues of the global world and stimulate the formation of an ethical spirit in different areas of social life in which it will have to position itself. It seeks thus to support the process of integral formation of the person, basic objective of the University of Deusto.

The contents and methodologies of the subject help the students in the first place, to perceive the complexity and conflicts of interest in the socio-economic, political and cultural context in which they live. Second, to be aware that you make decisions with consequences for other people and the environment. Third, to recognize the values on which their decisions are based. Fourth, to promote an ethical attitude towards decision options and their consequences.

In this process, our reference will be Christian Social Thought that approaches social issues from the defense, respect, and promotion of the fundamental value of human dignity. The fundamental intuitions of the common good, the universal destiny of goods, the principle of subsidiarity, solidarity, the preferential option for the poor, participation and social justice are closely linked to this fundamental value.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

In this direction, the subject "Ethical challenges in the global world" (from the module "Human Formation in Values") tries to contribute precisely to the student's critical reflection on the global world in which we live and the economic, political, and cultural consequences, ethical, religious and ecological that produces the process of globalization. All this with the aim of helping the student to become aware of the main ethical challenges that arise in this process (economic-social injustice, intercultural coexistence, violation of human rights, climate change, etc.), and to know the different analysis and positions around these challenges, so that it is able to elaborate its own position and argue it in a convenient and convincing way.

With all this, we will approach the initial objective that students can contribute, from their respective professional fields and as citizens of the global world, to the construction of a more just, democratic and egalitarian society.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

The East and the West in its Great Religious Traditions

The religious fact has been present in all cultures and has helped to shape the societies of all time; We are, therefore, faced with a highly significant universal phenomenon to know and deepen the human experience and identity. The subject East and West in its great religious traditions show how under the term religion hides an enormous diversity of forms, rites, practices, expressions, traditions and sensitivities, whose plurality illuminates while deepening the understanding of the religious phenomenon in society current. The subject contributes to the professional profile from an interdisciplinary perspective, attending to the systemic formation of a person, whose activity must be guided by the principles of respect and the promotion of Human Rights. It aims to train students to integrate into an increasingly globalized world, where the encounter between different cultures and religions seems inescapable. Knowledge of other traditions will allow you to assess the contributions and limits of your own religious context, as well as to respect and appreciate diversity in public life and the necessary dialogue to build a future for humanity in peace. Along with this, the interdisciplinary dimension of university education must be attentive - beyond the areas of knowledge of a certain professional activity- to ethical, philosophical, cultural and religious elements that consolidate systemic formation of the person and that trains to integrate and integrate in the different areas of public life(manifestations of culture, religion, education, work, coexistence in a plural society, etc.).

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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). They will also become aware of the importance of accuracy, organization, coherence, originality, credibility, and persuasiveness. The course is practical in nature since it relies entirely on relevant readings and regular submission of writing tasks and oral presentations (in group or individual), with close facilitation and regular feedback from the instructor and their own (and their peers') analysis and revision. It will focus on the role of media organizations and their coverage of issues such as: the globalisation process, climate change, state sovereignty and nationalism, the foreign policy of key states, international security and terrorism, ecological sustainability, economic and sustainable development, economic crisis, global finance, organised crime and money laundering, human rights, and the roles inter-governmental organisations (IGO), campaigning organisations [including international non-governmental organisations (INGO) and non-governmental organisations (NGO)], and multinational corporations (MNC).

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Public International Law

This course is part of the module "Foundations of International Relations" and the subject "law".

Being essentially a set of rules that govern the interaction between states, Public International Law provides a regulatory framework that defines and constrains the behavior of states with the aim of ensuring peaceful coexistence and enhancing international cooperation in a globalizing world.

The course Public International Law will provide the students with a thorough understanding of 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. Thereby, students will also be able to conduct a critical analysis of the role of International Law in the context of global economic competition and power politics. Therefore, understanding Public International Law is fundamental for anyone who wants to act internationally, whether as a diplomat, in an international organization or as an international specialist in a private company or non-governmental organization.

The course develops the general competence of problem-solving through a method focused on applying the concepts and rules of international law to specific cases, in order to identify the legal and political nature of international problems as well as the legal basis of possible solutions.

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Language of Instruction: French   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psychological Intervention and Treatment III

This subject has two complementary parts.

The first one expects to introduce the techniques derived from Cognitive Therapy. In addition to achieving skills in the implementation of these techniques, their application to different psychological problems, such as depression, aggressive behavior or stress will be reflected on. In the second part, some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed. Students are expected to know the theoretical basis of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as its main types and methods.

In the second part of the subject, some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed. Students are expected to know the theoretical basis of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as its main types and methods.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psychology of Groups and Organizations

.This subject contributes to the Profile of the Psychologist by providing the knowledge and practices necessary for the training of professionals in Psychology in one of the traditional areas of Psychology, which is working with groups and in organizations. It studies what is an organization and the different explanatory models of it and its structure; the role of groups in organizations, understanding this as a group of groups working towards common objectives; the management skills needed to develop an effective organization; and the most current management models in organizations as well as the expected future development. Throughout the course, the role of the psychologist in them is presented and how, from its own formation, it can contribute to the best management of it,

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Cinema in Spain and Latin America

This course is an approach to Spanish and Latin American cinema, especially focused on the productions of the last 20 years. A variety of films from different countries, belonging to this period of time, will be watched and analyzed in class. The students will have the chance to learn about the cultural, social and aesthetic values portrayed. These films will also be used as learning material for students to develop their language skills through activities based on listening and conversation. Such activities include the very process of watching the films followed by class discussion.

The number of full movies to be seen in class may vary from year to year. The lecturer will choose different ones depending on the needs and requirements of the particular group they are in charge of. Some films may not be watched entirely but certain fragments will be selected and analyzed. Of course, students are very welcome to watch these films in full outside the classroom.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Course Level: 6  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: 6  

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Social and Cultural Connections between Spain and Latin America

This course offers an approach to socio-cultural relations between Spain and Latin America, a vast, complex and ever-changing network made up of not one but a variety of different cultures.

Throughout the length of the course, different subjects will be studied in order to guarantee that students have access to this previously mentioned cultural diversity. These topics are 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   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

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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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Biological Bases of Behavior I

In this subject Biological Bases of Behavior, the profile of the clinical psychologist begins to be developed by studying and acquiring the biological foundations of human behavior and its evolutionary development.

The biological bases of behavior study the systems and biological processes that allow the organism to interact actively with the environment.

These systems and biological processes, that is, the structural, physiological and behavioral characteristics, are based on two factors: phylogeny (genetic information that includes the evolutionary history of the species) and the interaction of the organism (genotype) with the environment.

To understand the behavior of an individual, it is necessary to know the biological characteristics of the individual (genotype), the mechanisms that modify genetic information throughout evolution and the neuroendocrine system that allows regulating the active relationship of the individual with their environment and emit a behavior.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Biological Bases of Behavior III

The main role of a psychologist is to understand and predict human behavior. This subject provides students with an insight into Basic Motivators and Emotions, their general features, determining variables, and particularly the Psychobiological Processes involved. Understanding these processes and others related to them will promote professional development in any of the applied fields of Psychology

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Legal and Forensic Psychology

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COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

Personality Psychology

The course on Personality Psychology is part of the Personality and Psychopathology area, the introduction to the Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments module. The course intends to offer a conceptual and scientific basis to describe, explain and predict human behavior. It is a key foundation to acquire competencies related to diagnosis, assessment, and psychological treatments. The course facilitates the critical application of constructs and paradigms developed in the science of psychology to describe, explain and predict human behavior and also fosters the acquisition of reflexive thinking regarding the behavior of others and oneself.

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Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Contact Hours: 6

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: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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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    Language Level Required: Beginning  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Intermediate Spanish I

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Intermediate Spanish III

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    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

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Advanced Spanish 302: Spanish for Academic and Professional Purposes

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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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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    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Conversation

The main goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary resources to develop their oral skills in Spanish towards an advanced level, both in formal and informal situations, by focusing on organization techniques of oral speech. Students will also improve their interaction skills in conversation and will be offered the appropriate tools to carry out oral expositions about current topics successfully.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Advanced Spanish 301: Grammar and Communication

The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for them to develop their communicative competence from an intermediate level towards an advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will focus on specific grammar aspects that will be approached from a communicative perspective that will assume and value active participation of the students in the class at all times.

The main functional contents of the course will be the following:• Talking about learning habits.• Expressing wishes and opinions.• Assessing actions.• Providing and understanding recipes.• Sequencing actions.• Narrating in the past.• Telling a tale.• Assessing proposals.• Expressing purpose.• Suggesting solutions.• Speculating about the future.• Making predictions.• Expressing obligations and rules.• Expressing prohibition.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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Academic Spanish (Writing)

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: High Advanced/Superior  

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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 Basque   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Culture, Politics and Economics in Contemporary Spanish Society

This course offers an introduction to Spanish culture and civilization so that students can become familiar with the social, economic and political structures of Spain today. Our study will be focused on some specific aspects which make Spain both appealing and richly varied: its ancestral monarchy recently restored, its organization in autonomous areas which may be a solution to historical conflicts, the fact that it is one of the main tourist destinations in the world and, at the same time, the country of Don Quijote, Don Juan, Lorca, bullfighting, and soccer. All these features of life, history, and politics will be analyzed all through the course, both in the lectures and in the tour that will take students to some of the most historically relevant cities in Spain.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. The communicative approach (both oral and written) will be used in

the classroom, which means the four language skills will be worked on: listening and written

comprehension, writing and oral skills. The textbook will be implemented with complementary

material taken from newspapers, magazines, and/or other textbooks of Business Spanish,

according to the interests and necessities of the students.

Language of Instruction: English    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.

Language of Instruction: English    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

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: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Practicum Course – Spanish Through Gastronomy

The main goal of the course is to improve students’ communicative and cultural competence in Spanish. Meal times and the development of personal and professional relations around meals are very important aspects of the Spanish culture. 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.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics II

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Spanish Cinema and Literature

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literature II

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Service Learning: Social Participation and Development

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.

Activities in the SERVICE LEARNING course require a commitment on your part.

-The exact dates and schedule will be provided by instructors on the first week of classes.

-There are two projects you can participate in. One of them involves direct contact with minors; therefore, in order to be able to participate in this project, you will need to bring a state police criminal record with you from your home country. This is a requirement for anyone volunteering with minors in Spain. You need to contact your local or state police in order to get the document, which will then need to be authenticated by an Apostille. The process is simple, but we recommend that you start with it as soon as possible.

-Please notice that, if you bring this police record, you will have access to both projects in the course.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced/Superior  

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Practicum Course – 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 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/Superior  

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. In order to do so, different areas of management are explored, together with the main tasks that underlie each one of them. Real Madrid, F.C. Barcelona, Manchester United or Bayern Munich are perhaps the clearest examples of successful models of sports management, although there are also others closer to home such as Athletic Bilbao, which will also be examined during the course. An essential element around which everything is structured is that football is a game. Practical activities outside the classroom will be organized with this in mind.

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 on how those artistic expressions marked and identified each culture. From prehistoric times until contemporaneity, we will analyze the most relevant moments of artistic creation, focusing in Western Europe. We will be taking into account the social contexts in which the different styles started, their main formal characteristics, and most representative works of art and artists of each time. The course and the practice of a historical-artistic methodology will help students to develop their analytic and critical skills. They will get to know the main civilizations in history, by studying the forms of representation they used and, therefore, their perception of the world.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Contemporary Novel in English

The 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. It explores the development of the contemporary novel in English by focusing on two important periods for the development of the English narrative: the 1920's or the so-called Modernist literature; and the post-war period that yields to the decolonization process and the beginning of postcolonial movements. One-quarter of the world population lives in one of the 54 countries once colonized by Great Britain. They share a fairly recent colonial history and the often violent consequences of the decolonization process. But above all this, they share a common language: English. This course intends to explore some expressions of colonial and post-colonial literature in English, as well as the circumstances that helped shape these texts as expressions of a complex and multilayered reality. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Creative Use of Teaching Resources in Primary Education

Educational resources are an essential element in learning-teaching processes. 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. Getting to know ICT tools, using them, valuing their educational application, their contributions, and limitations, and the criteria for selecting, using and integrating them in effective teaching-learning practices in class is the main objective of this subject.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Entrepreneurship

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Didactics of Foreign Languages I

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.Therefore, this subject has, among others, the following aims:
  • To introduce the concepts and terms of teaching and learning the English Language.
  • To introduce the main theories, approaches, and activities in an English classroom.
  • To share resources to be used in the classroom for young learners in order to teach and learn the different language skills.
  • To learn how to plan and teach a class for young learners of English.
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. This subject is contributing also to the general objective of the Degree in Business Administration of the University of Deusto, which is to train professionals and persons having the general and specific competencies to understand, analyze, decide, plan and act inside firms, taking into account the international economic situation and perspectives, generating value for society and firms. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Food and Beverage Management

Las empresas de restauración son unas de las principales salidas profesionales que un titulado con el Grado en Turismo tiene cuando acaba sus estudios. Es por ello fundamental que el alumno también conozca el funcionamiento práctico de las empresas que gestionan el área de alimentos y bebidas, desde el conocimiento de las herramientas específicas de gestión. Se trata de conseguir estudiantes competentes a la hora de poder ocupar con éxitos puestos directivos de empresas de restauración en un futuro próximo.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Foreign Policy

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Interaction and Multimedia

Any student in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) related engineering should be prepared to design and develop software applications. Many of them are interactive, that is to say, they are intended to establish a dialog with the user. 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. This course provides the tools to develop computer applications that adapt to the characteristics and limitations of the users.In addition to the above, it is more and more common for these applications to include text and images, but also audio, video and animations. These multimedia applications put forward specific challenges, such as data compression and synchronization.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Interpersonal Relationships

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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. This course focuses specifically on adaptation issues. It also investigates how the introduction of new communication technologies has transformed our perception of fictional texts and reality.Literature and Cinema explore the type of “translation” that literary works undergo when they are taken to the screen. Since both arts rely on quite distinctive industries and semiotic systems, it will soon become apparent that our analyses of both “texts” are highly conditioned by the medium. As a result, such aspects as the relationship between the reader/viewer and the “text”, the concepts and protocols of analysis, the conventions to interpret each kind of narrative and the ideological implications are necessarily different in each of the two media. COURSE 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.

The course will cover issues such as the creation of the Modern State, the main political revolutions, the evolution of the collective mentalities and their influence on the creation of new political systems, the impact and development of the main social movements, or the economic reforms and transformations, which are necessary for a rigorous interpretation of the information and knowledge obtained in other courses.

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Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Regional Integration Processes and Policies

This course is part of the module "Theory, organization and dynamics of international society" and the subject "International organization and theory"

The 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 conceptualized 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.

The theoretical point of departure is in the different integration theories studied in the course: federalism, neo-functionalism, inter-governmentalism, constructivism etc. whereas the empirical component of the course has two main dimensions: Firstly, a study of the general features of processes of regional integration in other parts of the world and, second, a group project analyzing a specific case of regional integration. Thereby, the student obtains both a theoretically grounded general understanding of regional integration as well as in-depth knowledge of a specific regional case.

The competence of critical thinking is developed through project seminars, where students will provide and receive feedback as well as reflect on their own group process.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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. In this subject, students will gain the needed competencies for the definition and modeling of a system in an organized and systematic way, as well as the techniques for gathering the required information from the stakeholders.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

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". It also deepens the specific translation skills. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Civil Education

La educación ciudadanía se ha convertido en un referente para los procesos educativos, formales y no formales, de forma que se considera una de las grandes narrativas modernas de la educación (Gimeno Sacristán, 2003). Los y las profesionales de la Educación Social han asumido esta propuesta, especialmente al incorporar entre sus objetivos la capacitación de las personas para desempeñar un papel activo en la vida pública y asumir de forma responsable su destino y el de su sociedad. Se trata de un reto importante ya que requiere articular contextos educativos que favorezcan la plena incorporación de las personas en la sociedad.Esta asignatura constituye el marco de referencia básico para los profesionales de la educaciónsocial, permitiendo:
  • Analizar, desde un pensamiento crítico (sustentado en aportaciones de diferentes disciplinas y modelos teóricos), a los diversos contextos educativos y sociales.
  • Reflexionar sobre las principales tareas del educador/a social en esta área. Se trata de una asignatura que aborda las denominadas Pedagogías de la Sociedad Civil (consumo, medio ambiente, salud, interculturalidad), que, según Colom (1998: 78) se refieren a desarrollos pedagógicos caracterizados por su origen social. Por tanto, suelen propiciar la participación social, o, al menos, la toma de conciencia de la población respecto a una situación. Aunque en su inicio, su gestión era ajena a la institución escolar formal, suelen experimentar innovaciones metodológicas ya que son ámbitos dinámicos, libres y atractivos. Se relaciona tanto con asignaturas impartidas en la Diplomatura de Educación Social (Psicología Comunitaria, Pedagogía Social, Sociología, Antropología, Educación de Adultos) así como con uno de los modelos del Practicum de tercer curso y otras asignaturas optativas que abordan el trabajo con diferentes colectivos (inmigrantes, personas mayores, personas con discapacidad).
COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Consumer Behavior

El propósito o finalidad fundamental de esta asignatura es proporcionar a los estudiantes ciertas claves para poder comprender el comportamiento del ser humano como consumidor, usuario o comprador. Según Kotler, el marketing es "el proceso de planificar y ejecutar el concepto, precio, promoción y distribución de ideas, bienes y servicios para crear intercambios que satisfagan los objetivos de los particulares y de las organizaciones". Así, cualquierestrategia y acción de marketing (tanto a escala nacional como transnacional) que quiera tener éxito, y cualquier estudiante que quiera especializarse en esta área de la gestión, debe partir del conocimiento del comportamiento del consumidor y/o comprador para poder adecuarse a él y por tanto poder generar esta satisfacción.Por un lado, la comprensión del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis del entorno, del mercado y de ciertas conductas observables, tales como la cantidad comprada, cuándo, quién ha realizado la compra, con quién o la forma en que tales compras se consumen. Por otro, el estudio del comportamiento del consumidor incluye el análisis de variables que afectan al consumidor y que no se pueden observar a simple vista. Algunas de estas variables se refieren al consumidor como individuo (variables internas o psicológicas): sus valores, percepciones, actitudes, personalidad, autoconcepto, proceso de aprendizaje, la información que guardan, cómo la obtienen y la procesan, cómo evalúan alternativas, cómo se sienten poseyendo y utilizando productos y servicios, etc. Y otras se refieren al consumidor en relación con su entorno cultural y social (variables externas o socioculturales). Nos estamos refiriendo a los grupos de pertenencia y de referencia, a la cultura, a las subculturas, a la clase social... Además, esta asignatura relaciona esta comprensión del consumidor y/o comprador con la gestión de marcas y/o categorías (y los planes de marca y/o categoría en unos canales determinados), al entender que lo uno no puede existir sin lo otro.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Contemporary Spanish Literature

Esta asignatura forma parte de la materia LITERATURA HISPÁNICA, dentro de la Mención de Estudios Hispánicos y Mención de Literatura del Grado de Lenguas Modernas. La asignatura aporta conocimientos fundamentales sobre la Literatura Española del siglo XX-XXI que le permiten al titulado la comprensión cultural y formal de la producción literaria en España. Asimismo contribuye a la formación mediante el desarrollo de competencias dedicadas al desarrollo de herramientas metodológicas y formación de expertos en literatura. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Cultural Studies

Como parte de una materia transversal común a los grados de Humanidades y Lenguas, esta asignatura contribuye al perfil académico-profesional del estudiante proporcionándole un bagaje adecuado para enfrentarse a los fenómenos culturales de nuestro tiempo, con visión crítica capaz de ir de lo local a lo global, de lo uno a lo diverso. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

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. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Globalization, Citizenship, and Intercultural Skills

Plurality is one of the most outstanding characteristics of postmodern societies, where dealing with the difference, whatever its origin, will be a mainstay in any profession. This subject is offered within the framework of the Identity and Mission Module of Deusto University. UD explicitly proclaims its commitment to the social and cultural reality as well as with social justice. Consequently, this course includes a theoretical approach to the situation, factors, and consequences of globalization and plurality. But it goes beyond that approach. From the beginning, a proactive attitude is incorporated, in order to generate awareness about the role we play in professional and personal relations and to look for an effective and appropriate communication with people of different origins, cultures, beliefs and other differences. In sum, it is a subject related to the essential elements of the practice of citizenship today. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Health and Positive Psychology

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 broadened 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.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: 4  

Human Resources Management

Esta asignatura introduce a los y las estudiantes en las funciones propias de la dirección de personas, tanto en la elaboración de un plan de personas ligado al plan estratégico de la organización, como en aquellas tareas propias de la función de personas y que se encuentran descentralizadas, esto es, que deben ser realizadas también por quienes dirigen las demás áreas funcionales y/o equipos en las organizaciones. La asignatura aporta al alumnado criterios orientadores para la dirección de personas, además de los procedimientos y herramientas necesarias para llevar a cabo esta función. Además, contribuirá a desarrollar la capacidad de trabajar en equipo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Operational Marketing

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes los criterios orientadores y las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una correcta planificación, definir la estructura organizativa de una empresa, tomar decisiones operativas y realizar un control efectivo en las empresas, desarrollando la capacidad de interrogarse sobre los fundamentos en las que se asientan las distintas teorías y prácticas de la gestión de las empresas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Principles of Business Organizations

Un Graduado en Turismo debe tener una formación académica adecuada en Gestión Empresarial para poder desempeñar funciones de gestión y organización dentro de las empresas.Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del Graduado proporcionando a los participantes los criterios orientadores y las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una correcta planificación, definir la estructura organizativa de una empresa, tomar decisiones operativas y realizar un control efectivo en las empresas, desarrollando la capacidad de interrogarse sobre los fundamentos en las que se asientan las distintas teorías y prácticas de la gestión de las empresas.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Psychology of Education

Esta asignatura contribuye al perfil del profesorado de Educación Primaria aportando conocimiento de los procesos educativos, especialmente de enseñanza-aprendizaje, y de las variables personales y ambientales implicadas en los mismos. Este conocimiento le permitirá diseñar su actuación educativa con rigor y fundamento científico, establecer relaciones educativas eficaces, hacer frente a las dificultades de aprendizaje y diseñar entornos deaprendizaje adecuados a cada persona y situación.Asimismo, en esta asignatura se ofrecen temas, documentación y estrategias de aprendizaje para aprender a aprender, diseñar acciones psicopedagógicas para favorecer un aprendizaje estratégico y mejorar la propia competencia como aprendiz estratégico. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Contact Hours: 4

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Psychological Wellbeing and Community Psychology

Psychological well-being has traditionally centered its interest on personal development, on the style and manner of facing the vital challenges, on the effort and eagerness to achieve our goals and promote development. These objectives connect directly to those established by community psychology.

The subject also aims to provide the profile of the psychologist of social intervention with a conceptual framework, which allows him to observe, analyze, understand and interpret the community reality and psychosocial dynamics from new parameters of well-being, as well as to raise awareness about the transformative potential that This way of approaching reality has.

Community psychology has a clear and preferably applied vocation, however, its contents are presented as founders of other subjects, of a social nature, aimed at different population groups or specific intervention methods. The subjects also contribute to the psychologist of social intervention the basic skills to reflect and try to address psychosocial problems from, with and for the community, favoring the involvement of the group itself, from criteria of justice, equity, and flexibility.

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Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Anthropology

La Antropología social estudia cómo investigar y conocer a unas sociedades definidas por su "alteridad" y su "no occidentalidad".

Esta asignatura es una introducción a la Antropología Social para conocer y aplicar qué es y cómo se estudia la alteridad, la diversidad cultural. El estudio del análisis de la variabilidad y d la evolución cultural en los ámbitos del parentesco, la economía, la política, la religión y las representaciones simbólicas enseña cómo percibir, pensar y vivir las diferencias y similitudes culturales.Para los estudiantes de Relaciones Internacionales esta asignatura capacita, mediante la práctica del pensamiento y del razonamiento antropológico, para captar y entender el sentido y el significado de la diversidad de las relaciones humanas y sus diferentes manifestaciones en el mundo contemporáneo. COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Theory of International Relations

Course description currently unavailable.COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

Education Internship

This internship is intended for students who wish to double-major in Spanish and Education at their home university and who are registered for Spanish III or have a higher equivalent level of Spanish language proficiency. The internship focuses on the observation of Spanish or English language classes (approximately 1 hour per week), and on the active participation of students as teachers in classes of English as a Foreign Language (about 3-5 hours per week) in primary or secondary schools (public or private). Academic meetings at the University of Deusto will be held on a regular basis (approximately 15 hours over the course of the term), and a supervisor will assist the students in the internship setting. Through these activities, selected readings, and written assignments, students will acquire useful skills for their future career as teachers. Students need to apply for the internship when they submit their application for their study abroad program. They are required to sign an agreement form with the basic information regarding the internships, together with a statement of intent and some information related to their background in education and classroom observation. An additional fee of $290 applies for this option.

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 4  

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Spanish for Health Sciences

This course is specifically intended for those students getting into the healthcare workforce. The class has been designed to help future health professionals (MD, RN, PharmD, DDS, etc.) interact with their patients and patients’ families in Spanish. At the same time, students will enrich their vocabulary in the target language by learning health and anatomy related words in Spanish. Furthermore, students will be able to read, understand and analyze scientific abstracts and even research papers by becoming acquainted with keywords, expressions, and grammatical structures often used in health journals in Spanish. Finally, they will be able to formulate hypotheses following the scientific method in Spanish.

But this class will not only focus on students’ competence of the language. Future health professionals will also have the chance to visit health care practitioners of their interest at their workplace to witness firsthand how the health system works in Spain and to be able to find similarities and differences, and pros and cons when compared to the system in their own country.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Gender Topics in Spanish Society

This course intends to offer an insight into contemporary politics, society, and culture in Spain from a gender perspective. Its aim is to offer students a nuanced and in-depth vision of Spanish society and to aid them in the process of critical thinking within this subject area and in relation to comparisons between Spain and other countries.

A short introduction on basic terminology and some theory will act as the basis for the perspective that students will be taking throughout the rest of the course.

Spain presents certain characteristics that set it apart from other countries which hold similar cultural values, such as the rest of Western Europe and the USA. This is the reason why we are interested in analyzing how the dominant culture of the turbulent 20th century shaped and molded its models of femininity, especially during the long dictatorship in Spain.

Furthermore, the class will focus on Spain in the present, in order to achieve an all-round perspective of the current situation for Spanish women and to find out what challenges they face. This includes studying the new struggles the feminist movement is fighting for, how intersectionality between feminism, ethnicity, and social class works, how gender perspectives have entered the field of legislation and what new forms of activism have social media given way to, amongst others.

Last but not least, the class will visit an organization that deals with gender issues in Bilbao in order to take a closer look at feminist activism in the local area.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Social and Cultural Connections Between Spain and Latin America

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Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Critical Choices in Social Life

The subject aims to promote reflection on relevant issues of the global world and stimulate the formation of an ethical spirit in different areas of social life in which it will have to position itself. It seeks thus to support the process of integral formation of the person, basic objective of the University of Deusto.

The contents and methodologies of the subject help the students in the first place, to perceive the complexity and conflicts of interest in the socio-economic, political and cultural context in which they live. Second, to be aware that you make decisions with consequences for other people and the environment. Third, to recognize the values on which their decisions are based. Fourth, to promote an ethical attitude towards decision options and their consequences.

In this process, our reference will be Christian Social Thought that approaches social issues from the defense, respect, and promotion of the fundamental value of human dignity. The fundamental intuitions of the common good, the universal destiny of goods, the principle of subsidiarity, solidarity, the preferential option for the poor, participation and social justice are closely linked to this fundamental value.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

In this direction, the subject "Ethical challenges in the global world" (from the module "Human Formation in Values") tries to contribute precisely to the student's critical reflection on the global world in which we live and the economic, political, and cultural consequences, ethical, religious and ecological that produces the process of globalization. All this with the aim of helping the student to become aware of the main ethical challenges that arise in this process (economic-social injustice, intercultural coexistence, violation of human rights, climate change, etc.), and to know the different analysis and positions around these challenges, so that it is able to elaborate its own position and argue it in a convenient and convincing way.

With all this, we will approach the initial objective that students can contribute, from their respective professional fields and as citizens of the global world, to the construction of a more just, democratic and egalitarian society.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

The East and the West in its Great Religious Traditions

The religious fact has been present in all cultures and has helped to shape the societies of all time; We are, therefore, faced with a highly significant universal phenomenon to know and deepen the human experience and identity. The subject East and West in its great religious traditions show how under the term religion hides an enormous diversity of forms, rites, practices, expressions, traditions and sensitivities, whose plurality illuminates while deepening the understanding of the religious phenomenon in society current. The subject contributes to the professional profile from an interdisciplinary perspective, attending to the systemic formation of a person, whose activity must be guided by the principles of respect and the promotion of Human Rights. It aims to train students to integrate into an increasingly globalized world, where the encounter between different cultures and religions seems inescapable. Knowledge of other traditions will allow you to assess the contributions and limits of your own religious context, as well as to respect and appreciate diversity in public life and the necessary dialogue to build a future for humanity in peace. Along with this, the interdisciplinary dimension of university education must be attentive - beyond the areas of knowledge of a certain professional activity- to ethical, philosophical, cultural and religious elements that consolidate systemic formation of the person and that trains to integrate and integrate in the different areas of public life(manifestations of culture, religion, education, work, coexistence in a plural society, etc.).

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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). They will also become aware of the importance of accuracy, organization, coherence, originality, credibility, and persuasiveness. The course is practical in nature since it relies entirely on relevant readings and regular submission of writing tasks and oral presentations (in group or individual), with close facilitation and regular feedback from the instructor and their own (and their peers') analysis and revision. It will focus on the role of media organizations and their coverage of issues such as: the globalisation process, climate change, state sovereignty and nationalism, the foreign policy of key states, international security and terrorism, ecological sustainability, economic and sustainable development, economic crisis, global finance, organised crime and money laundering, human rights, and the roles inter-governmental organisations (IGO), campaigning organisations [including international non-governmental organisations (INGO) and non-governmental organisations (NGO)], and multinational corporations (MNC).

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Public International Law

This course is part of the module "Foundations of International Relations" and the subject "law".

Being essentially a set of rules that govern the interaction between states, Public International Law provides a regulatory framework that defines and constrains the behavior of states with the aim of ensuring peaceful coexistence and enhancing international cooperation in a globalizing world.

The course Public International Law will provide the students with a thorough understanding of 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. Thereby, students will also be able to conduct a critical analysis of the role of International Law in the context of global economic competition and power politics. Therefore, understanding Public International Law is fundamental for anyone who wants to act internationally, whether as a diplomat, in an international organization or as an international specialist in a private company or non-governmental organization.

The course develops the general competence of problem-solving through a method focused on applying the concepts and rules of international law to specific cases, in order to identify the legal and political nature of international problems as well as the legal basis of possible solutions.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: French   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psychological Intervention and Treatment III

This subject has two complementary parts.

The first one expects to introduce the techniques derived from Cognitive Therapy. In addition to achieving skills in the implementation of these techniques, their application to different psychological problems, such as depression, aggressive behavior or stress will be reflected on. In the second part, some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed. Students are expected to know the theoretical basis of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as its main types and methods.

In the second part of the subject, some aspects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be developed. Students are expected to know the theoretical basis of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as its main types and methods.

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: English Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psychology of Groups and Organizations

.This subject contributes to the Profile of the Psychologist by providing the knowledge and practices necessary for the training of professionals in Psychology in one of the traditional areas of Psychology, which is working with groups and in organizations. It studies what is an organization and the different explanatory models of it and its structure; the role of groups in organizations, understanding this as a group of groups working towards common objectives; the management skills needed to develop an effective organization; and the most current management models in organizations as well as the expected future development. Throughout the course, the role of the psychologist in them is presented and how, from its own formation, it can contribute to the best management of it,

COURSE TAUGHT WITH SPANISH STUDENTS

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Highlights
  • Classes taught in Spanish & English
  • Students can enroll directly in classes with University of Deusto students
  • Internships available (for credit; additional fee)
  • Tandem partner program
  • International excursion
Housing

API students in Bilbao live with host families with wireless internet included.

Students who live with families generally have their own room, but may share a double room with a fellow API student, and are provided with three meals per day and laundry service. Families provide an amazing opportunity to experience Spanish culture firsthand. Host families serve as a unique introduction into Spanish culture and may be made up of a married couple with children, a divorced or widowed woman with children still at home, or a family with some members living at home and others living outside the home. Students can opt for a single room for an additional fee.

***The apartment option can only be offered if requested by a minimum of 3 students of the same gender. When there is insufficient interest in this housing option, students are placed with host families.***

Student apartments require more independence and provide less cultural interaction with Spaniards, although other apartments in the building are often rented or owned by Spanish families. Each apartment can generally accommodate 3-4 people. The majority of the rooms in student apartments are double rooms. However, based on availability, some students may be assigned to a single room on a first-come, first served basis. Students are responsible for buying and preparing all of their own meals, and kitchens are furnished with the necessary cookware to do so. Sheets and blankets are also provided.

Note: Housing between the fall and spring semesters is not included.

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Dates & Fees
Session Program Dates Program Cost Application Deadline Payment Deadline
Fall Aug 30, 2019 - Dec 18, 2019 $13,480 Jun 10, 2019 Jul 1, 2019
Academic Year Aug 30, 2019 - May 14, 2020 $26,790 Jun 10, 2019 Jul 1, 2019
Spring Jan 4, 2020 - May 14, 2020 $14,280 Oct 15, 2019 Nov 1, 2019
Spring Jan 4, 2019 - May 16, 2019 $14,280 Oct 15, 2018 Nov 1, 2018