Online Open Courses at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Entirely taught in Spanish, this MOOC will allow you to start a journey towards yourself and towards the peace of mind through Mindfulness training. Have a go at trying meditation as a way of exploring, experimenting, and bringing attention to automatic reactions or habits that are the base of a lot of stress or emotional suffering.

The course might help you to:

• Recognise and deal with difficult emotions
• Develop emotions such as gratitude, kindness, compassion, and joy
• Balance a tendancy towards negative anticipation
• Focus attention and suppress distracting information

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In times of Don Quixote, the lights of Literature and Art geniuses shined upon the shadows of the Inquisition. Let’s travel into the sublime culture of Spanish Golden Age. This MOOC focuses on Spanish history between the Renaissance and Baroque periods, a time when the Spanish culture set the tone in the Western world.

In this period, between the 16th and 17th centuries, Spanish society achieved excellence in Arts and Literature. Exceptional and talented people such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Velázquez were drawn to Madrid. Literary academies, theatre productions and celebrations flourished in other big cities of the Empire as Seville, Lisbon, Barcelona, Naples, Mexico and Lima. A synthesis of nations united for the loyalty to the Crown and the Catholic faith.

In our tour through the Spain of Don Quixote, we will discuss the relationship between fantastic and real geography. Society was polarized between the privileged (nobility and clergy) and the poor and rogues. Humanism was cultivated in universities. Family, food, housing, games and celebrations played a part in everyday life.

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This course is aimed at people of any age who are interested in learning how to lead a healthy life and age well.

What is aging? What is more important when it comes to aging: heredity or environment? Can we act on our own aging? What should we do to age well? These and many other questions will be answered in this online course, which aims to transmit updated and scientific knowledge on how to achieve a positive and healthy longevity, while motivating participants to put into practice a series of healthy behaviors and habits. 

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 In this online course you will learn the methods, techniques and procedures to successfully complete a software project meeting time, resource and cost requirements.

When you finish this course you will have the necessary knowledge and tools to be able to develop and manage your projects effectively. Both you and your team will be able to be more productive, perform higher quality work and have a better working environment.        

If you want to know everything about Software Engineering, improve the way you develop and manage your projects or simply learn new techniques and methodologies that will help you to be more effective in your work, do not hesitate to sign up for this course!

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This online course will allow you to learn the basic concepts that will help you develop the necessary programming skills to get started in the C language.

In this course you will:

• Learn how to declare variables and give them values
• Work with tables and strings
• Use structures to store values
• Request, display and operate with all this information

This is a very practical online course where you will start programming from scratch. Each concept will be accompanied by exercises to put into practice your learning ad become an expert in C programming.

It is a completely introductory MOOC, which you can take whether you have never programmed before or if you already have experience with other languages.

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This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of organic chemistry and molecular structure, without requiring any prior knowledge of chemistry, believe it or not!

What you will learn:

• You will acquire important rudiments of organic chemistry.
• The course will satisfy your curiosity about the molecular structure of many substances.
• Appreciate the importance of certain molecules, natural and unnatural, in the preservation of life, disease control and efficient food production.
• You will discover that chemistry in general, and organic chemistry in particular, is not the problem, but certainly the solution to an enormous number of everyday problems.
• You will discover the beauty locked in molecules and in the creative process of chemists to devise and synthesize them physically in the laboratory or, on a much larger scale, in industry.

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