Chile

This course provides an introduction to the causes and consequences of slavery in Ancient Rome. It examines the origin of slavery and its use in agriculture, artisanry, and within royal spaces. It discusses issues of civil and private liberties, the politics of the State regarding the relationship between slaves and freedmen, class struggle, and citizenship.

This course provides a study of the contemporary debates in sociology of art in relation to the perspective of imaginary and symbolic representations. Texts by key theorists, including Passeron, Fabiani, Leenhardt, Heinich, Péquignot, Bachelard, Durand, Castoriadis, Carretero, Baeza, are covered. The course also critically analyzes works and artistic trajectories to understand the social and symbolic dimensions of artistic production and art institutions.

This course offers readings, analysis and interpretations of diverse poetic voices throughout Latin America. Topics include love poetry, comparison of feminine and masculine voices, metaphysical and transcendental poetry, religious and philosophical poetry, populism and poetry that denounces the social majority.

This course provides a multidisciplinary study of the relationship between film and fiction and their reflection of modern culture. It explores various themes relating to societal development and the role of artists, writers, and poets in the development process. The course is divided into three sections: understanding contemporary culture (modern literature and identity crisis, film and cultural identity); modernity as a culture of violence and disintegration (traditional culture versus a culture of change, crisis of modern rationality); postmodernism and cultural complexity (complex subjectivity and new realism, uncertainty and equilibrium).

The course provides a critical analysis of feminism as a field of study and political occupation in connection with the development of theories and studies in the social sciences. The class focuses on the discussions and arguments of historical and present themes that the feminist movement has confronted as well as the political and contemporary proposals of Latin American feminists.

This course provides a study of the elements and principles that govern ecological sciences, including interactions, theories, hypotheses, and paradigms of the subject. This course includes discussion of the differences between ecology and environmentalism, the field of ecology in Chile, environmental issues such as development and sustainability, and the environmental influences of human beings from an evolutionary perspective.

This class explores the field of education though the lens of cognitive neuroscience. The class uses topics within education and investigates their current and potential applications. It also examines misuses and misinterpretations of neuroscience as it pertains to education.

This course provides an introduction to the most important topics of labor economics: demand and supply of work, returns to education, wage inequality, discrimination and the role of labor market institutions. It covers the necessary tools used to analyze labor market issues with a critical economic focus. The course also allows the application of microeconometric techniques that are essential for understanding and interpreting the most important aspects of the relevant literature.

This course examines detective and crime fiction, from the works of Edgar Allen Poe and the inception of the genre and development of sub-genres. It looks at noir novels and film, explores themes such as the "femme fatale" or the detective's sidekick, and finally dives into contemporary Latin American and Chilean takes on the genre.

This course provides a study of the colonial economy of Chile through an examination of agricultural and mining development in the Metropolitan and Aconcagua regions during the 16th through 18th centuries. The course includes a map building workshop to research indigenous and Hispanic property in the Santiago region during the 16th century as well as a field visits to agricultural sectors in the metropolitan region.