Chile

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.

This course provides a study of what is meant by literature and how it is studied today. It considers definitions of literature developed by academics and creators whose opinions have been decisive in the contemporary intellectual debate. The course also analyzes the concept of literary genres (drama, lyric, narrative), and reviews their historical evolution. Key concepts of the metalanguage of literary studies (speech / text, enunciation / enunciation and fiction / non-fiction, among others) is also examined.

The course seeks to understand the gender dynamics that take place in the university space (particularly Campus Juan Gómez Millas), as an expression of the gender relations that are experienced in Chilean society today. Through analysis of the Chilean context and its gender transformations, it discusses patriarchal mandates as determining factors in the structure-agency tensions and their influence on campus relational dynamics. It also critically analyzes various expressions of machismo, sexism and phobias of the patriarchal heteronormativity, and presents a set of guiding criteria for university coexistence through a participatory process.

This workshop focuses on techniques and approaches to photographic portraits. Students practice taking portraits in medium format and explore the use of lighting, movement, and gesture to provide character and expression to an image.

The course provides a study on artistic creation and drawing as a tool of analysis and plastic comprehension. It examines the works of visual artists linked to the topics addressed in the workshop.