Chile

The course seeks to improve precise use of vocabulary and grammar rules in the oral and written communication in academic and social situations. The course emphasizes the acquisition of idioms and their use in the appropiate sociocultural contexts for reinforcing the communicative ability and fluency.

The formative purpose of the course is to promote the exercise of cultural citizenship through participation in mediated cultural activities of a diverse nature, planned in order to generate a panoramic and critical view of the value of culture and its necessary rights-based approach.

This course aims for students to understand the production context and the cultural fields associated with the generation of narrative discourses in circumstances of political and economic crisis, analyze from cultural matrices of meaning, narrative discourses created in 20th century Spain, interpret the political modelizations present in the narrative discourses generated by authors of different aesthetic and ideological currents in Spain in the first half of the 20th century, and determine the multiple relationships established by the narrative discourses of Spain in the first half of the 20th century. 

The objective of this course is to offer students a guided exploration of fundamental aspects of argumentation theory in some of its most relevant variants. It is about acquiring the ability to recognize the most important elements of the reasoning structures used in the community of philosophical inquiry.