Español C.1 (estrategias orales) Temas de actualidad y cultura
Este curso está orientado a quienes les guste debatir y conversar compartiendo ideas sobre temas actuales de la esfera política, socioeconómica y cultural tanto nacional como internacional. El curso tiene como objetivo mejorar las diferentes destrezas del alumno, en especial la oral. Para ello, utilizaremos materiales que incluyen diferentes medios auditovisuales y escritos, y su […]
Hablando de cortos
Este curso está orientado a aquellas personas a las que les gusten los cortometrajes y el cine en general pero también es un curso ideal para quienes les guste observar, conversar y compartir ideas. El curso tiene como objetivo mejorar las diferentes destrezas lingüísticas de los y las participantes, en especial la expresión oral, y […]
Español B2 Parte 2 + Crónicas periodísticas
El curso Español B2 Parte 2 cubre de la lección 5 a la lección 8 del manual y se trabajan las crónicas periodísticas. Los textos periodísticos no sustituyen las actividades escritas del libro sino que las complementan, ya que se pretente mejorar las habilidades de escritura, practicando una redacción periodística: actual, clara y concisa. Nivel: […]
Molecular Biology for Engineering
Contents: 1. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells – cell organization (membranes, genetic material, organelles, nucleus, cell energy storage. Cell division. Cell biology techniques. Microscopy. 2. Proteins. Protein structure and properties: aminoacids, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure. Protein classification. Enzyme kinetics and its regulation. Methods for protein characterization: electrophoresis, chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopic techniques – UV, […]
Mathematical Optimisation
This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). Subjects: The scope of integer and combinatorial optimization, Linear programming, Network flow problems, Integer Programming, Combinatorial optimization, Heuristic algorithms, Relaxation techniques, Dynamic programming, Introducing python and Gurobi for optimisation. Goals: capability of formulating a […]
Ceramic Materials
Kroeger-Vink notation. Quasi-chemical approach to defects population in ceramics. Kroeger-Vink diagrams. Defects energies. Mixing energy and entropy. Most important raw materials for traditional ceramics (clays and feldspars; Physical, chemical and mechanical properties of alumina, zirconia, silicon nitride, silicon carbide and diamond (diamond-like coatins). Industrial preparations, separation and characterization of powders. Forming of ceramics: uniaxial and […]
Human Rights and Global Justice
This course aims to examine contemporary human rights as a sociopolitical phenomenon, its evolution, implementation challenges, and possible solutions. The interdisciplinary course explores the social, cultural, political, and institutional-legal aspects of human rights implementation. Students will analyze the United Nations human rights system and its implementation on the local, national and global levels, will explore […]
Sociology of Body
This course will analyse the ways the body is portrayed, described and represented in culture, particularly contemporary pop culture. What is the body? What kind of bodies are favoured in popular culture? How is the body shaped by such factors as sex, gender, class, ethnicity and race? Topics to be covered in this course include […]
Sociology of Family
The course aims at presenting the basic terminology, sociological theoretical perspectives, and research in order to understand the historical development and diversity of families, their changing forms and complexity in the contemporary world; to discuss developmental stages of families and the social forces that shape family forms. After completion of the course students will be […]
Well-being and communication from a psycholinguistic perspective
In the class, students will look at the concept of well-being from different perspectives, exploring the universality yet individualization of the well-being-seeking process on a daily basis, for example taking into account language and ways/wants/anxieties of communication, affective factors and their impact on communication. In the exercises and discussions, we will refer to current realities, […]
