Chile

This course examines different methods for studying wildlife species, communities, and their habitats. It uses a range of social science methods including standard qualitative and quantitative methods. This course explores methods for documenting local environmental knowledge and change and it discusses culturally appropriate, ethically-sound, and environmentally sustainable field studies. This course offers a combination of lectures, discussions, labs, and field activities to develop research skills relevant to sustainability and environmental conservation.

The course provides a study of the different border situations that characterize contemporary societies. It looks at political and social effects of borders and how globalization has changed them. The course examines the way the changing economic systems affect the physical use of space and how it has changed from political units of city states to the Westphalian system. It also discusses the ways in which internal borders, including physical, administrative, and social perceptions in cities shape inequality, focusing specifically on examples within Santiago. Different examples of international borders, and specific conflicts over border areas in Latin America, are also studied.

This course provides an introduction to the works of 15th-century poets of the fifteenth century and their historical and cultural contexts. It examines the characteristics and themes of melancholy and nostalgia in poetry of the late Middle Ages in Spain and in other regions of Europe. The course covers works by Jorge Manrique, Francois Villon and Charles d'Orléans, as well as the poets registered in the Cancionero de Palacio and in the Romances Viejos collections in Spain. It also examines the relationships between the works of medieval poets and the romantic movements in 19th-century art and literature.

This course provides an analysis of the nature, characteristics and functions of the civil society at the international level. It draws on case studies to discuss the role and influence of different entities, including non-governmental organizations and international lobbying networks.

This course examines contemporary social theory in the study of injustice and social conflicts. Topics include: the neoliberal understanding of social injustice and the idea of justice as "equity" (Rawls), and its critics; Axel Honneth's theory of social experiences of contempt and its relation to "struggles for recognition;" and Nancy Fraser's theory about the plurality of gender injustices and their insertion in current debates about identities, recognition and participation (in particular, her discussion with Judith Butler).

This course examines the relationship between art and politics, specifically in Chile and Latin America, through a selection on contemporary art, audiovisual materials, and texts.

This is an upper-level elective course on the management of wildlife. It introduces students to problems concerning wildlife management in the context of human and economic activity. The course addresses both the mechanisms by which human activity interacts with wildlife as well as methods for mitigating the unwanted results of these interactions.

This course requires the reading and interpretation of cultural essays related to the theme of national identity and continental Latin American identity. In addition to studying the evolution and forms of this kind of literary genre, the course demands critical analysis of the different authors and their works including José Martí, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz y Luis Oyarzún. Students analyze the problems and cultural models suggested by these essayists and interpret the construction of a traditional Latin American culture.