This course provides ambitious bachelor students in economic, management, business and law with modern insights into key issues of corporate governance, with a specific focus on the economic causes and effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The first week of the course is devoted to key issues

Using historical, cultural, and sociological documents and data, this course examines the dominant self-perception of what are arguably the three most important global players, the United States, the European Union, and the People%E2%80%99s Republic of China. The course explores how the rather

This course aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the highly dynamic global economy, offering professionals and highly-skilled students advanced training in the specialized areas of which it is composed. The University of Barcelona serves as a hub for the dissemination of the tools covered

The Summer School develops speaking, reading and writing skills in the Croatian language, and offers participants excellent insights into relevant factors of the Croatian cultural identity. This year language course (50 lessons), adjusted to participants' previous knowledge of Croatian language,

11-day music course in the historic and beautiful setting of Wells Cathedral School, for piano,violin,viola,cello,voice,chamber ensembles,composition, theory. Ages approximately 10-24, intermediate to advanced level. Expert tuition from world class teachers and performers, with professor and

The course%E2%80%99s thematic content will focus on six issues: 1) film language and audiovisual thinking, 2) the film essay, 3) the ethnographic film, 4) photography and film, 5) working in multiplatform storytelling, 6) music video. These issues will be outlined and discussed in relation to the

The summer school course in language description and linguistic fieldwork will give you a broad introduction to the practical and methodological aspects of fieldwork, and the art of language description. It will also provide insight in the structures of two unfamiliar languages. The course consists

New languages that emerge out of contact is a fascinating area of linguistics. In this course, social, historical and structural aspects of three types of contact languages are dealt with: pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. The teachers of this course are both leading researchers in the field of

This course begins by asking the fundamental question: %E2%80%9CWhy think about the future?%E2%80%9D It will explore this through an overview of essential futuring skills%E2%80"horizon scanning and trends identification and analysis%E2%80"looking at weak signals, micro- and macro-trends%E2%80"and

This course explores the relations between power, media and democracy. Students will learn- to reconstruct different theories that are helpful to understand the relations between power, media and democracy;- to reflect on central problems related to it, such as the tension between the ideal and the