Concepts studied in the course: Gods and kings, Mesopotamian art, Babylon, architecture and power, pyramids, temples, iconography, funerary art, Persian art, Crete and Mycenae.

- The role of classical art in art history.
- Homeric poetry and the origins of narrative.
- The origins of the Greek temple.
- Parthenon.
- The Roman portrait.
- Imperial architecture.
- The private life.

Origins, evolution and development of the process of cultural, social, political and artistic transformation in the Mediterranean and Eastern world between the 4th and the 8th century.

Analysis of: the origins of Islamic art and architecture, holy houses, the problem of the conversion of churches to mosques, symbolism, textiles, inland metalwork, innovations in bronze technology and aesthetics.

Definition and analysis of cultural property: monument, historical group or set, historical garden, historic site, archaeological zone, movable heritage, protected objects. Preservation and restoration: history and techniques. Cultural property and preservation in Spain.

1- The artificial eye.
2- Photographic paradox and reality effect.
3- Photography and identity.
4- Photography and the world: coloniality and imaginary museum.
5- Photography and mass media.
6- Society and photography.
7- Avant-gardes.
8- Photographic discourse.
9- Photography and avant-garde.
10- Photography and narrative.
11- Photography in the digital age.

Topics analyzed in this course: Romanticism and the Romantic landscape (Turner and Constable), Europeam sculpture, Realism, Victorian painting in England (Pre-Raphaelites), Spanish art, French Impressionism, Symbolism, and Modernism.

Some of the topics analyzed in this course are the following:
- Artistic genres and society in Early Modern Europe.
- Painting and sculpture in Early Modern Europe.
- Religious images.
- Portraits.
- Still-life.

Analysis of urban heritage in the Early Modern Period.
Urbanism in the following countries: Italy, France, Spain, Latin America, the Philippines, England, the Netherlands, Portugal and Russia.

Basic concepts of urbanism and architecture during the nineteenth century. Architectural revival. Renovation during the second half of the nineteenth century. Modernism, the interwar period, post-Modernism, high-tech.

1. Concept of “pre-Gothic” and its problematic nomenclature: San Bernardo and Suger, two different mentalities
2. Historiography of the term gothic: definitions, geography, history and chronology.
3. Cathedral as a symbol
4. Integration of architecture and sculpture: Temple door and iconography.
5. 14th Century- Kingdom of Castile: French influence and indigenous elements, gothic architecture in Great Britain and Italy
6. So-called crisis of the 14th century: Southern gothic style and importance of the Kingdom of Aragon.
7. 14th Century: Devotional and funerary sculpture: Art of the Ducal Courts of Burgundy and Claus Sluter.
8. 15th Century: Spain and the Court of the Catholic Monarchs.
9. Italy: Survival of Mosaics in the 13th Century: renowned painters of the 12th and 13th Century
10. Concepts of Sumptuary Art: Ivory, tapestry, gold and silver and its prominent position in the Middle Ages.

1. Ghiberti and Donatello: naturalism of the human body
2. Masaccio and Jan van Eyck: space, light and textures
3. Michelangelo: heroic figures
4. Botticelli and Leonardo: myths and emotions
5. Raphael: Classical Forms
6. Titian and his visual poems: colors and accidental style
7. Carracci: scholarly paintings
8. Caravaggio: presence of divinity
9. Rubens: fusion of Italy and Flanders
10. Bernini: unity of the visual arts

1. Filippo Brunelleschi: Roman architecture: orders and typologies
2. Leon Battista Alberti: archeology and experimentation
3. Urbino: Ducal Palace
4. Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican: Pope’s basilica
5. Andrea Palladio: reconstruction of Classical Antiquity
6. Jacopo Vignola: return to Bramante and order
7. Francesco Borromini: modern imagination
8. Gianlorenzo Bernini: classical architecture
9. Jules Hardouin-Mansart: renovation of classic tradition in French architecture
10. Baldassarre Longhena: Venetian experiment

1. Art and theory in the Antiquity: Greece and Rome, philosophers and artists, Pliny and Vitruvius.
2. Art theory and practice in the medieval world.
3. Artistic literature in the Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Giorgio Vasari.
4. Architectural treatises: Alberti and the Vitruvius editions and Palladio.
5. Classicism of the Academies in the 18th Century: Bellori and Poussin, the Paris Academy of Art.
6. Spain in the 18th Century: Painting theory, academic texts, travel books, dictionaries of art, treatises of military architecture and fortification.
7. J.J. Winckelmann

1. Fauvism: color as expression, the search for new cultural models.
2. Expressionism
3. Cubism: nature reduced to geometric forms, analytic and synthetic cubism, and the “collage”.
4. Futurism: manifestations and aesthetics of movement and sound and protection in other cultural environments
5. Abstraction: lyrical abstraction, geometrical abstraction, Russian suprematism.
6. Constructionism
7. Dadaism: Zurich, the artistic environment of Cabaret Voltaire and Germany, the photomontage and Merz.
8. Duchamp
9. The 1920s and 1930s: realism.
10. Surrealism: manifests, magazines, practices, psychoanalysis, reality, dreams, uncertainty, the body, landscape, the object and the presences of surrealist in the US.

1. Informalist abstraction.
2. Art and culture of the masses: the Pop Art years.
3. Structures, processes and ideas from Post-Painterly Abstraction to Op Art.
4. Expansion of the frontiers of art: Post-minimalism, Povera, Land Art, Actionism, Body Art, Situationism, and Feminism.
5. Conceptual art: definitions and approximations.
6. Returning to post-modernity.
7. Art and new mediums: brief history of video art and experimental cinema, the Internet and digital art.
8. Artistic practices and policies at the turn of the century: Transnational capitalism and culture shows.

1. Introduction: making and workings of a film, defining cinematographic style and film format
2. Principal cinematographic tendencies since the 1920s
3. Classic Hollywood films since the arrival of sound
4. Movies with sound in Europe: films of dictatorships; realism; national cinema.
5. Italian cinema around neorealism.
6. The 1950s: the grand masters between the East and the West.
7. North American artistic and narrative cinema: New Hollywood and the New American Cinema

Study of international relations between Asia and Africa through analysis of regional and external factors which influence these regions. Theory and history of international relations. Ideology and institutions in Eastern Asia.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17628.pdf

Oral and written comprehension. Declarative knowledge: linguistic analyisis of different language levels. Instrumental uses: oral and written communication. Writing knowledge and techniques. Different stages in the creation of a text: finding sources, arranging materials, writing and revising.
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Study of main stages, events and actors. Chronological approach of the history of China (1200 BC – 1949 AD). Students are advised to read textbook during the summer previous to the course, either in Spanish or in English:
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (2009). Historia de China, Cambridge. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (1996). The Illustrated Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17664.pdf

Students will become familiar with Chinese literature from Antiquity to 20th century. Literary theory, cultural and social contexts of Chinese literature, as well analysis of different texts and methodologies.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17665.pdf

Study of different stages, genres, literary works and authors in their historical and cultural context, from the origins of Arabic literature to the present. Study of the role of literary criticism, as well as the reception of these literatures in the Western world.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17630.pdf

Study of main stages, events and actors. Chronological approach of the history of Japan from Prehistory to Modern History (Jômon to Early Shôwa).
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17689.pdf

Introduction to history of medieval Islam. Students will gain understanding of the influence of Islam in today’s world. Topics studied: Shi’ism, Mohammed, Islamic calendar, caliphs, Islam in Central Asia (Mongols and Turks). Islam in Black Africa. Muslim West. Empires.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17629.pdf

Beginning of Japanese literature. Narrative and lyrical genres. Heian’s feminine literature. Middle Ages. Classical theater (no, bunrako, kabuki). Premodern era: popular literature and haiku. Illustration: Meiji, Ogai, Natsume, Tanizaki. Modern and contemporary literature.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17690.pdf

Introduction to history of the Arab and Islamic world, from Ottoman Empire to today. Course highlights political, economic, social and military events in the Arab and Islamic world.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17638.pdf

Common and unique features of Arab and Islamic world. Population and use of resources. Cultural, social and political characteristics of the regions. Focus on two regions: Maghreb and Mashreq (including Iran, Afghanistan and several countries in Central Asia).
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17639.pdf

Students must have previous linguistic and literary knowledge of Arabic. Topics: Nahda, birth of modern prose, realism, Arabic feminism, Arabic theater, the interwar period, poetry, feminine writing, the sixties, queer literature, best sellers.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17640.pdf

General knowledge of Chinese business world. Access to the market. Culture and protocol. Opportunity and risk. Marketing. Common problems and reasons to succeed.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17670.pdf

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Ming China: Institutions, society, business, religión, culture, science and technology.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17671.pdf

Study of main social, economic, business and political processes that have influenced today’s world. Framing question: Is China a future global power?
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17672.pdf

Critical approach to Chinese Anthropology. Ethnicity in China and the role of the State in configuring nationalism and identity in different ethnic groups.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17673.pdf

Business practices among Japan and its associates. Business protocol and verbal and non-verbal language. Necessary stages for success when negotiating.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17693.pdf

COURSE DESCRIPTION COMING SOON

Study of evolution of structure and economic and social reforms in Japan from the end of the Second World War to today. Future prospects in different economic and social sectors.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17695.pdf

Anthropology of Japan: history, trends and institutions. Definitions and theories of Japanese culture. Cultural identity, nihonjinron and concept of cultural nation. Communication and justice. Economic and social structures. Family, marriage and kinship.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17696.pdf

1. Social and cultural anthropology field and perspectives
2. Research methods and techniques
3. Concept of the Other from different viewpoints: social, individual, psychological, ideological, etc.
4. Biological nature and culture of a species, limits and determinisms: diversity
5. Relationships and social organization: Southeast Asia, China and Japan models
6. Gender anthropology
7. Social and identity movements: civil society and the fight for rights

1. Macroeconomics: A global vision
2. Macroeconomic aggregates: Concepts and measurements. National Accounts
3. Economy in the long-term: Economic growth
4. Economy in the short-term: Focus on demand.
5. Money and the banking system
6. Monetary Policy
7. Foreign Sector: foreign commerce, balance of payments and exchange systems

COMING SOON

1. Introduction: Sources for studying art in China.
2. Art and ritual
3. Images of power
4. Buddhism and art
5. The Court during the Tang Dynasty
6. Calligraphy in China
7. Origins and development of painting
8. Long march towards modernity

1. Introduction: visual culture and study of Japanese Art
2. Architecture: typologies, techniques, principal monuments
3. Sculpture: Buddhist iconographies, techniques, principal works
4. Painting: forms, techniques, schools/styles, principal works/painters
5. Graphic art: techniques, forms, principal creators
6. Ceramics: techniques, ovens, contemporary world

1: Basic concepts for the study of Economic History.
2: General characteristics of preindustrial economies.
3: First Industrial Revolution, pioneered by Great Britain.
4: Second Technological Revolution and the process of industrialization, 1870-1914.
5: Formation of an international economy, the “first globalization.”
6: Interwar period.
7: Golden Age of growth, 1950-1973.
8: From the oil crisis to “globalization,” 1973-2000.

1: The European Union: introduction, history, institutions, shared rights and integration of Spain into the EU.
2: Single marketplace: integration of markets, fiscal harmonization and competition policy.
3: Single currency: characteristics, the European Central Bank and the European System of Central Banks, and monetary policies.
4: Budget and public policy.
5: Agriculture: agricultural policies and the agriculture of Spain.
6: Industry and Construction: community frameworks and Spain specific.
7: Energy: community frameworks and Spain specific.
8: Services: community frameworks and Spain specific.
9: Financial Sector: the integration of financial markets and Spain’s financial sector.
10: Foreign Relations: balance of payments, and commercial and financial relations with the world.
11: Human Resources and the Job Market: shared strategies, population and the job market in Spain.
12: Rent Distribution: functional, personal and territorial distribution, and present convergence with the EU.

1. Decision Theory: Choice under uncertainty with expected value.
2. Applications of Expected Value Theory.
3. Strategic interaction: Game Theory
4. Applications of Game Theory.

1. World Economy and Globalization
Analysis of World Economy: forces, sources and instruments.
World economy and process of globalization.
2. International Economic Relations
3International Commerce.
Foreign Direct Investment.
International financial flows.
Growth and development of world economy.
3. Foundations of the Spanish Economy. Factor endowment and comparsions with the European Union
Foundations of growth of Spanish economy.
Natural resources and productive sector endowments.
4. Productive activity and institutional aspects
Structure of productive sectors.
Foreign commercial and financial relations.
Public sector in the economy.
Rent distribution and economic and social cohesion.

1. Financial management of a business: content and scope.
2. Business investments.
3. Selection of the investments.
4. Particular aspects of investment policies.
5. Risks involved in investment analysis.
6. Introduction to portfolio theory.
7. Internal financing.
8. External financing.
9. Cost of capital, financial structure and dividend policy.

1: General characteristics of preindustrial economies.
2: Industrial and Technological Revolutions to 1914.
3: Formation of an international economy, the “First Globalization,” 1870-1914.
4: Interwar period, 1914-1939.
5: Golden Age of economic growth, 1950-1973.
6: From the 1973 energy crisis to the financial and debt crises.

1. Introduction to macroeconomic policy issues and data.
2. Macroeconomics in the long-term.
3. Economy in the short-term.
4. Financial Markets.
5. Integration of goods and financial markets: the IS/LM model.
6. Financial markets and expectations.

1. Introduction: Aging as multidimensional phenomenon, causes and consequences.
2. Aging and social institutions: ensuring well-being of senior citizens, pensions, healthcare, dependency, retirement and the job market, family and social relations and politics.
3. Experiencing aging and theoretical explanations about aging including future perspectives.

1: Presentation and objectives
2: The Entrepreneurial Society: opportunities.
3: The Entrepreneur
4: Business concept: analyzing the opportunity.
5: Analyzing the environment.
6: Studying the market and commercial viability.
7: Commercial area
8: Areas of operation
9: Sources of financing
10: Analysis of financial viability
11: Legal frameworks and incorporation process

Course divided in five parts:
1. General study of methodological aspects when analyzing the world’s economic structure.
2. Structural and systemic differences between levels of economic development throughout the world.
3. Characteristics of principle actors in the national economy.
4. Institutional organization and basic components of international economic relations.
5. Globalization, international financial markets, age of economic crisis.

Part 1: Introduction
• Canonical Model of Behavior of Economic Agents
Part 2: Behavioral Economics: The microeconomic perspective.
• Preferences, incentives and behaviors
• Irrationality and cognitive limitations
• Micromotives and macrobehavior
Part 3: Behavioral Economics: The macroeconomic perspective.
• Uncertainty, confidence and instability
• Financial System and Real Economy
• Job Market and Inflation

1. Introduction: Empirical evidence about economic growth.
2. Solow Model: Physical capital accumulation.
3. Growth accounting.
4. Ramsey Model.
5. Extensions of growth model.

1. Globalization: What is it and when did it begin?
2. The Middle Ages, 5th-15th century: integration of Europe in intercontinental commerce and economic effects of the Black Plague.
3. Globalization of exchange in the mercantilism era, 16th-18th century.
4. Industrialization and globalization in 19th century.
5. Reversal of globalization in interwar period, 1914-1945.
6. Globalization in modern world, 1944-2000.

1. Sociology and the concept of culture: an introduction.
2. Cultural codes and practices.
3. Theory of pseudo-culture.
4. Cultural processess: beginnings and transformations.
5. Culture, ideology and power.
6. Popular culture, elitism and culture of the masses.
7. Immigration and multiculturalism.
8. Globalization, culture and means of communicating with the masses.
9. The phenomenon of tourism and its impact on culture.
10. Social uses of cultural heritage.
11. Cultural industries.
12. Management of culture and cultural diversity.
13. Analysis of cultural policies in Europe and Spain.

1. Introduction: Arrival of the Old Regime and the Liberal Revolution.
2. Problems of industrialization in the 19th century (1830-1890).
3. Nationalism & Industrialization (1890-1936).
4. Isolation from the international economy (1936-1959).
5. Development and reintegration in the international economy (1960-1973).
6. Economic crisis, political transition and integration in Europe (1973-2000).

1. Time value of money
2. Financial function of a business.
3. Process of investing in a business.
4. Evaluating investments.
5. Risks involved in investment analysis.
6. Cost of capital.
7. Financial system in an economy.
8. Internal financing.
9. Short-term external financing.
10. Mid-term and long-term external financing.
11. Managing liquidity.
12. Capital structure in a company.
13. Dividend policies.

I. Basic Aspects of Economic Policy
1. Field of Economic Policy.
2. Model for analysis of Economic Policy.
II. Macroeconomic stabilization
3. Objectives for internal equilibrium: prices and employment.
4. Objectives for external equilibrium: balance of payments.
III. Instruments of Economic Policy
5. Monetary Policy
6. Fiscal and Mixed Policy
7. Types of exchange and other intruments of external adjustments
8. Microeconomic Policies

First Part: Fundamentals of Organization Theory
1. Organization studies.
2. Evolution of Organization Theory.
Second Part: Basic Concepts and Theories
3: The organization and its surroundings.
4: Social structure of the organization
5: The organization and technology.
6: The organizational culture.
7: Physical structure of the organizations.
8: Power, control and conflict in the organization.
Third Part: Practical aspects of organizational function
9: Organization Theory in practice.
10: New developments in Organization theory.
11: Organizational Behavior.

Curriculum consists of 9 topics viewed through the angle of market orientation. Once the desired position of the company in the marketplace is defined, the rest of the course is centered on creating an integrated marketing plan including management of commercial variables.
1: Market orientation and profitability.
2: Selection of market segmentation and positioning.
3: Product: Goods and Services
4: Decisions about branding and product portfolio.
5: Pricing Strategy
6: Distribution Channels
7: Publicity
8: Other marketing tools
9: Management of marketing strategy

Topics discussed: chemical composition of the body, cell structure and respiration, metabolism, neurons, the nervous system, muscle, blood, the immune system, cardiovascular system and respiratory physiology.

Relationship of physical activity and health in relation to various physiological systems and pathologies. Physical activity and health in the educational system. Materials and resources for the creation of healthy physical activities.

Analysis of the importance of sports in the education of children and young adults. Defining the concepts of sport and education. Socialization and sports. How to teach physical education.

- Introduction to children’s literature.
- Classic fairy tales.
- Literary education.
- Text and image in children’s books.
- Oral narration, poetry, drama.

Topics discussed in class: scientific and experimental methods, matter and energy, physical processes and chemical changes, the Earth and its living organisms. Class experiments in Primary Education. How to teach science to children.

Students will learn what social sciences are and how to teach them to children: Geography, History, Art History, contemporary culture. The social sciences curriculum for Primary Education.

- Teaching and learning experimental sciences: a theory.
- Scientific education in Primary School.
- The experimental sciences curriculum in Primary Education.
- Field trips and other practical ways of teaching the experimental sciences.

-The social sciences curriculum in Primary Education.
- Teaching and learning social sciences.
- Resources and materials for social sciences teachers.

1. Education policies: politics of Education, international education and Supranational Organizations involved in Supranational Education Policy
2. Origins of the concept of Europe: geography, anthropology, language, shared roots
3. European integration: integration prior to the EU and significant milestones in the creation of the EU.
4. First stage of EU education policy: from Foundational Treaties (1951/57) to the first Education Action Program (1976)
5. Second stage: from first Education Action Program (1976) to Lisbon European Council (2000).
6. Third stage: the “Lisbon effect,” benchmarks in Education in the EU until 2010, Lifelong Learning program
7. European Space for Higher Education: justification, origins, evolution, dimension and challenges. Implications for Spanish universities.
8. Key Competencies in the European Union: reflections in the, LOE, curriculum and essential knowledge
9. Benchmarks in European Union education from 2010-2020: “knowledge triangle”.

Evolution of Physical Education as an academic discipline; importance of the discipline in the Primary Education curriculum (education, well-being, health and quality of life of children).

1. Introduction
2. Energy and Physical Exercise
• Exercise output at rest and during exercise
• Metabolic adaptation
• Energy utilization during exercise
• Fatigue and its causes
3. Muscular Adaptations
4. Cardiovascular Response and Adaptation
5. Respiratory Regulation
6. Hormonal Regulation
7. Health and Nutrition

1. The body, physical activities in prehistoric socieites: motrocity and human evolution.
2. Social function of physical activity in different historical periods: social value.
3. History: meaning and funcitonality. Place of the body in culture. Descriptive vs. Interpretive History.
4. Theories of the origin of sports
5. Pre-Helenic Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Creet, Egypt.
6. The Classical World.
7. Industrial Revolution. Physical activity and violence.
8. 18th & 19th centuries. Development and expansión of institutionalized sports.
9. Critical analysis of the Olympics

WORKING WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF DISABILITIES
1. Characteristics of psychologically or mentally disabled people. Difficulties with perception, impulsive behavior and hyperactivity. Psycho-emotional and psycho-motor characteristics and their implication in physical activity and sports.
2. Physical disabilities. Etiologies, characteristics and their incidence in physical activity and sports
3. Sensory disabilities. Type, degree and implication.
MOTOR SKILLS AND PHYSICAL-SPORTS ACTIVITIES IN DISABLED PEOPLE
4. Motor skills in the realm of disability, stage of development and degree of impact.
5. Various types of physical and sports activities (educational, ludic-recreational, therapeutic and competitive)
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & SPORTS IN EDUCATION
6. Educational differences in Special Education
7. Curricular adaptation in special schools

1. General concepts about new trends in physical education oriented to health and quality of life.
2. Methods and resources for obtaining information
3. Models of analysis
4. New trends in strength training, functional training, aquatics, equipment, materials, organization and management
5. Appropriateness of use for different groups
6. Practices

Block 1. Educative function of the family
1. Theoretical framework of the family: concept of family and its functions, a construction from diversity
2. Types of families: multicultural, underprivileged, divorced, children with disabilities and specific support needs, etc.
3. Familiar education: educative models (democratic, permissive, etc.)
Block 2: School/home relationship
4. Elements that influence and aspects that facilitate or hinder relations
5. Counseling family in elementary education: basic foundations, principles, functions and professional profile. Social abilities that facilitate communication and dialog.
Block 3. Knowledge of different forms of counseling and intervention that teachers have: needs and demands
6. Intervention modes and strategies: clarification of demands, interview, group meetings
7. Models of intervention about the most frequent childhood family psychoeducational problems
8. Organization, activities, instruments and resources to develop an adequate school and family intervention: family interview in the school setting, meetings, team coordination with parents.

1. Language in Elementary Education: structure and objectives
2. Phonetic plane of language: introduction to the phonological-phonetic system of Spanish, rules for pronunciation and variants
3. Introduction to the study of the morphosyntactic plane: formation of words and learning lexicon, word segmentation and analysis of grammar.
4. Semantics: significance, semantic relations and recognizing semantic structures
5. Written expression: methodological resources to develop comprehension and expression, orthography, accentuation and punctuation.
6. Oral expression: methodological resources to develop expression, pronunciation, accent and intonation
7. Sociocultural diversity in the use of the Spanish language
8. Didactic resources and materials to teach and learn Spanish in elementary school

Block 1: Perspectives about human variability
1. Social concepts and attitudes about student differences in learning and teaching: historical trajectory.
2. Inclusive and exclusive education: concepts, dimensions, nature and implications.
Block II: Early intervention
1. Detection, evaluation and stimulation: prevention of learning difficulties.
2. Students with special education needs: specific education supports and principal risk groups
3. Role of the family in early intervention
4. Psychopedagogical teams and services: functions, roles and coordination
Block III. Adaptation and accommodation strategies for individuals in inclusive schools. Coordinating learning and the participation of all students in class.
1. Organizational and curricular methods for attention to diversity in different school systems.
2. Adapted learning: Levels of intervention, methods for classroom inclusion, and Individual Education Plans (IEP)
3. Strategies and support for inclusive education: Levels, conditions and competencies for a collaborative effort.

1. Psychology of education: role in relation to other education sciences and psychological disciplines
2. Cognitive learning and development during primary education
3. Multiple intelligences and creativity
4. Process of cognitive and socioaffective learning: perception, attention, memory, problem resolution and motivation, goals, expectations, attributions, self-concept and self-esteem
5. Constructivist concept of education as an instrument of analysis of educational practices
6. Learning strategies: learning to learn, metacognition, interaction between students and cooperative learning
7. Instrumental learning abilities and their difficulties: reading, writing and arithmetic
8. Friendship, play and interaction among equals during school
9. Family in the context of development and learning: role of parents
10. Childhood, media and new technologies
11. Instruments and techniques for analysis and evaluation of behavior: direct observation, participatory observation, interviews, surveys and analysis of results

1. Analysis of objectives and motor content in elementary education
2. Education focus on and apart from movement
3. Physical-motor development of a child
4. Fundamentals of the didactics of motor function in this age group
5. Methodology and strategies for teaching physical education in elementary school
6. Importance of games and the distinct strategic forms of application.
7. Movement forms for the elementary stage
8. Methodological proposals as a result of the elaboration of different learning slogans
9. Motor story: a didactic alternative.
10. The circuit: its dynamic benefit for sessions.
11. Ideas for teaching expressive movement.
12. Motor evaluation in elementary education.

Basic motor skills
1. Motor development: introduction, factors that hinder, motor characteristics by stage (postnatal, infancy and childhood)
2. Psychomotor aspects of Elementary Education: concept, classification, elements to consider, evolution and analysis
3. Proposals of practical applications of psychomotor content in Elementary Education
4. Evaluating motor skills and psychomotor aspects
Health and Hygiene
1. Promoting health in school: concepts and general terms
2. Disease, infections, contagious diseases: signs and detection of most common diseases in school
3. The body’s natural and acquired defenses: immune system, antibodies and health habits that reinforce defenses
4. Disease prevention: healthy habits of personal hygiene and types, composition, and schedule of vaccines
5. Body awareness: identification of different parts, regions and areas of the body and locating different organs and body systems
6. The senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch
7. General concepts of health: habits, routines and oral health
8. Emergency situations in the school setting: accidents, definition of terms, methods of prevention, action plans and first responders
8. Emergency situations in the cafeteria: prevention and action plan
9. Growth and birth of a baby
10. Feeding a baby: advantages of breastfeeding and types of milk and extra vitamins
Food and Nutrition
1. Basic concepts and terminology: present state of Food Education
2. Components of food: food groups, the wheel of foods, the Food Pyramid and other initiatives
3. Nutrients: mechanical and chemical digestions, absorption, and digestive hygiene
4. Food in the kitchen: mixes and changes in the kitchen, culinary chemistry.
5. How is food preserved?
6. Food additives and preservatives
7. Foodborne infections: illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms, toxic chemical substances and the food itself
8. Eating and life style: indices and indicators, metabolism and level of physical activity
9. Diets and principles of adequate nutrition: balance, quality and variety of nutrients

A. Spanish literature
1. Introduction to literature: literary theory and studies.
2. Literary communication: literary language
3. Canonical and peripheral literary systems: concepts and functions
4. Speech and writing in literature
5. Literary genres: Literary history and periodization
6. Theater: Study of a dramatic text
7. Poetry: Study of a poetry collection
8. Narration: Study of a narrative text
(All texts will be Spanish literature, classical or contemporary)
B. Children’s Literature
9. Introduction to children’s literature: Concept and characterization.
10. Classics of Spanish children’s literature
11. Text and pictures and books for children
12. Genres of children’s literature: narrative, poetry, theatre text and performance
C. Literary Education
13. Literary education and teaching literature: Notions of literary learning
14. Text selection: criteria and resources
15. Resources for literary education: workshops about reading and writing
16. Reading guides and text commentaries: activities for comprehension and expression

1. Rhythm and movement
2. Sound and vocal education
3. Study of theory of musical elements necessary for reading and interpreting music
4. Study of instruments
5. Didactics of music education in elementary school

COMING SOON

Course content:
1) Poetry in the Romantic Period: Nature and novelty / Orientalism /The age of revolution/ Medievalism and the past / Narrative poetry / Versions of the poet.
2) Fiction in the Romantic period: The novel of manners and mores (Austen´s Pride and Prejudice) /The novel of ideas ( Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein)
3) Fiction in the Victorian age: Romance and realism / Serialization /Didacticism / the Bildungsroman/ Status and class relations / Gender roles / Nationhood and empire / The sensational thriller and popular forms.
4) Victorian Poetry: Portraits of the artist / Gender roles and relations/ The dramatic monologue and other themes, issues and forms.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17266.pdf

Course objectives:
The study of the literary and cultural implications of the processes of state formation and of political independence, the development of the subject and the new public sphere in the 18th century; the new genres that accompany those processes will be studied in a variety and English and American texts.
Our main objective and focus is the literary analysis and close readings of texts of literature written or published in the 18th century. We will also be paying attention to the more general cultural background of the so-called “Enlightenment”.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17267.pdf

Course contents:
1- The formative processes of character individualization in 14th and 15th century English Literature.
2- The Native English tradition: Mystery and Miracle plays.
3- Elizabethan Tragedy.
4- Form, order, reason and beyond; origins and development of the sonnet form.
5- Elizabethan prose.
6- Elizabethan comedy: Shakespeare’s romantic comedies.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17288.pdf

Course content:
1- Introduction to Modernity.
2- Centers and peripheries.
3- Gender alternatives to the modern subject and to patriarchal discourse.
4- The transatlantic journey of the avant-garde.
5- The Crash of 1929.
Readings: Conrad, Joyce, Hulme, Owen, Pound, Woolf, Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Dos Passos…
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17289.pdf

Course content:
1. N. Hawthorne’s reinterpretation of the Puritan self in the community: The Scarlet Letter.
2. The crisis of the enlightened self: E.A.Poe’s Gothic literature
3. H. Melville. The alienated self
4. The new awareness of the self: R.W.Emerson. Thoreau.Trascendentalism and
Nature.
5. E. Dickinson’s poetry: Identity as otherness
6. The poet as a democratic hero: W.Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
7. Writing within the conventions of realist fiction: M.Twain, H.James
8. The illusions of nature and reality: S. Crane

History of United States, focusing on important events and historical people: American colonies and the independence of the United States, Manifest Destiny, Secession War, important presidents, Great War and 2nd World War, immigration, 1929 crack, Kennedy, Bush, 9/11, Obama…

Course content:
1- From Tudor to Stuart.
2- Metaphysical poetry.
3- Religious and political tolerance and intolerance after the Civil War.
4- Satirical comedy.
5- Jacobean society and the narrowing of the tragic visión.
6- The Age of Reason.

Course content:
1- After Modernism.
2- “A World Elsewhere”.
3- Vietnam War and the breaking of America.
4- Response to Postmodernism.
5- History as fiction.
6- Multiculturalism and revisionism.

Study of the Earth’s structural relief as the basis for landscape and territory. Analysis of structural relief and landforms as well as the dynamic processes to which they are associated.
Course content:
• Structural elements: rocks.
• Alteration of rocks.
• Morphostructural relief.
• Landforms.
• Climate.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17716.pdf

Study of territory: geomorphology, biogeography and climatology. Special emphasis on field work, lab work, graphic and cartographic work as well as the creation of specific material.
Course content:
1- Climate system.
2- Energy balance: radiation and heat. Global and regional balance.
3- Temperature: definition, scales and units. Cosmic and geographic factors.
4- Atmospheric humidity and rainfall.
5- Atmospheric circulation.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17718.pdf

Theory and main methods for analysis in the field of Human Geography. Basic concepts of geodemography. Organization and dynamics of rural and urban space. Spatial features of industry and services. Interpretation of the interrelations between population, economic activity and natural resources.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17719.pdf

Relationship between society and nature. Europe, Spain and Spanish regions. Territorial & temperature distribution. Political organization, natural resources, demographic problems and economic dynamics.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17722.pdf

Main characteristics of cartography. Historical evolution of the discipline. Georeference and projection systems. Practical study of basic cartography. Computer tools.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17723.pdf

Physical features and natural resources of territory. Proposals for the distribution and management of territory. Geodiversity and sustainability. This course will have theory as well as practice.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17726.pdf

Intervention in urban spaces. Comparison between local, regional and urban planning. Regulations of urban planning in Spain. Students are encouraged to be critical as well as creative.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17727.pdf

Geographic languages and techniques. Main concepts of photointerpretation and remote sensing. Information sources and technical developments. Course will enable students to use these techniques in the field of Geography as well as in related science disciplines.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17732.pdf

Course teaches theory, methods, implementation and basic concepts of Geography of Industry and Services. Students learn to identify, describe and analyze interrelations between industry and services and the territory.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17733.pdf

Geographical knowledge of Spain through study of its regions and physical and social differences between them. Emphasis on recent processes and most important trends and phenomena. Regional transformation and geographical assessment.
www.ffil.uam.es/ordenacion/guiasDocentes/2011-2012/17734.pdf

Introduction to Biogeography.

2- Environmental and cultural factors that influence the composition, organization, and distribution of human communities.

3- Study of human communities: population and community parameters.

4- Analysis of soil.

5- Large biogeographical areas of the planet and bioclimatic zones: location and characteristics.

6- Specific technologies for biogeographical analysis.

Analysis of:
- Rural and urban activities and their impact on rural and urban areas.

- Human action on geographical areas.

- Rural and agrarian societies.

- Urban society.

Study of Europe’s singular geography: rivers, lakes and inland seas, major islands, plains and lowlands, mountain ranges, temperature and precipitation and countries depending on their shape and location.

Analysis of Spain’s geography, focusing on the following regions:
- Basque Country.

- Catalonia.

- Andalusia.

We will also study the most important concepts and perform field work.