Chile

This is a variable topics course covering central aspects, related authors, periods, and intellectual movements of political theory. Topics and themes discussed vary by term and instructor.

This course analyzes the role of political parties in the Chilean democratic system and the socio-historical context of the emergence of new social demands. It explores the formation of social movements in Chile.

This Spanish language course corresponds to intermediate advanced level (B2 on the CEFR). By the end of the course students can understand the main ideas in complex texts that are concrete and abstract; interact with native speakers with sufficient fluency and naturalness; produce clear and detailed texts on various topics and defend points of view on general topics indicating pros and cons. The course integrates topics on Chilean culture. 

This course explores the concepts of social justice, citizenship, and democracy and their relationship to the disciplinary debate and professional practice of social work. It examines contemporary debates on social justice, citizenship, and democracy as well as their implications for current social, economic, and cultural challenges.

This course analyzes the history and dialectology of Latin American Spanish, with special focus on Chilean history and linguistic documentation of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Topics include: the concept of Latin American Spanish-- unity and diversity, Latin American Spanish and Atlantic Spanish; the influence of Andalusia and genetic matrices; diastratic-diatopic variation and zoning; historical aspects-- periodization of Latin American Spanish; koineization and standardization processes; linguistic contact-- indigenous substrata and immigrant languages.

The course focuses on German reading comprehension skills of basic level written texts (A1 on the CEFR) related to international studies and related areas.

This class teaches female students to dance merengue, salsa, cha cha, rock and roll, and cueca. Students take the techniques learned and apply them to individual and couples dances.

This course examines transitional justice measures implemented in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to face the grave human rights violations committed during the military dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, and their relationship with the transition to democracy in these countries between 1983 and 2014. 

The course offers a study of the “social question” and popular movement in Chile. Topics include: the concept of popular movement; independence and the formation of the republican state; conservative order and socio-political opposition; formation and expansion of the popular movement during the Portalian regime (1830-1891); liberal order and the discovery of the "social question"; parliamentary republic and the centennial crisis; labor transition and conflict (1880-1910); movement for the "regeneration of the people" and movement for the emancipation of workers; the "social question" and the redefinition of the role of the State; dilemma of the labor movement.

This course examines the problems, methods, and results of semantics and pragmatics, with an emphasis on how they complement one another. It explores the development of semantics and pragmatics and contextualizes them in the development of general linguistics theory. Finally, this courses uses an organic assembly of theoretical concepts and methodologies for semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Spanish language.