Chile

This course offers a study of contemporary Chilean and world history through examination of artistic expression (film, music, visual arts) of the Golden Age from 1945-1973.

This course examines the main sources, concepts, and contexts associated with critical and cultural theory. It discusses some structuring concepts of the modern experience and international system such as capitalism, mass culture, public sphere, social criticism, crisis, neoliberalism, and patriarchy, among others.

This course examines European and Spanish culture from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age through the study of a selected set of representative literary works. It analyzes the literary texts in light of their corresponding historical, cultural, and literary contexts.

This course focuses on the distribution of economic activities to identify and contrast the territorial scope of their spatial organization. It analyzes both economic information and spatial relationship to explore geographic phenomena.

This course analyzes artistic heritage as a material manifestation of societal memory. It explores the interdependence between artistic heritage and the context of its creation and appreciation. 

This course examines literary texts and films to explore different themes and topics related to Chilean culture and politics. It discusses Chilean films and literary texts from the late 1960's to the early 2020's in order to better understand and contextualize some of the main events and discourses that have characterized Chilean society during the past fifty years.

This course offers a study of bioinformatics methodologies. Topics include: introduction to programming; processing and analysis of biological sequence data; modeling and simulation of molecular dynamics; genomics and metagenomics; transcriptomics.

The course offers a study of the conceptual framework of cultural heritage, from the theoretical point of view and the application of national and international legislation, to the reality of the expressions present in Chile today. It uses case studies, bibliographic reviews, and practical work in the field, to discuss the problems related to initiatives to safeguard and protect the intangible, material, and natural areas of cultural heritage.

This course explores the culture and history of the Basque Country and its people including historical processes, diversity, and current issues. It analyzes the connection with Chile considering the notable and continuous Basque immigration to Chile over the last 400 years. This course offers a basic study of Basque language to better understand some of the cultural and linguistic traits that define Basque culture and its history. 

This course offers a study of the poetry of Spanish-speaking Latin America from pre-Hispanic times to the beginning of the 20th century.