Chile

This course examines behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective, considering its adaptive nature, through active methodologies and systematic observation work in the field and/or audiovisual material. Topics include: biological basis of behavior; evolution and behavior; genetics of behavior; neuroethology and comparative physiology.

This course offers a study of classical partial differential equations from mathematics and physics. It examines the structures of differential equations and their practical applications. 

Utilizing the modern tools of photography, this course focuses on developing students' photographic skills and techniques for effective presentation of photographic essays. It also discusses major milestones of photography and photojournalism throughout history as well as current photo shoot trends. Photo assignments in the field, visits to photojournalism exhibitions, hands-on use of photo editing software, and lectures enhanced with audiovisuals are part of this course.

This course characterizes indigenous American societies from a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary perspective. It offers a study of the main events and processes that occurred on the continent prior to the 16th century as well as the challenges of recovering the history of pre-Columbian America. 

This course observes and examines the changes and continuities of Chilean institutions. It discusses prison, judicial, health, educational, labor, and social policies and repressions of the last two centuries and offers an overview of the institutional development of Chile's republican history.

This course examines some fundamental events in Latin American history during the 19th and 20th centuries. It analyzes cases that include the main milestones in the relations between Latin America and the United States between the years 1823 and 1989, the existence of nationalist and populist trends such as the Peronist movement in Argentina, and the emergence and development of guerrilla movements such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru. 

This course examines the nature of human language and its main characteristics, as well as the different theoretical-analytical dimensions involved in the study of language. It analyzes fundamental problems of linguistics, in particular, those related to language as a cultural, social, and cognitive phenomenon.

In this course, students work and understand the territorial reality, in a specific case of interaction with the environment. Participants use the anything-goes methodological pluralism to co-design and co-build tools adjusted to territorial contexts, capable of being used by communities in research, action, and dissemination processes, on expanded problems.