Chile

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.

This course offers a study of the political and historical transition from ‘indigenismo’ to ‘indianismo’ in Latin America since the 1960s and the emergence of contemporary indigenous movements. 

This course focuses on the main concepts and tools of Bayesian inference. It explores computational algorithms for the Bayesian analysis of some specific models, such as linear regression and simple hierarchical models.

This course explores the experience of violence involving children and adolescents. It discusses the protection of the rights of children and adolescents, the development of psychopathology and psychological problems in the child and adolescent population, and the impact of violence on psychosocial well-being, as well as the factors that affect the appearance and evolution of mental health problems. It conceptually characterizes the phenomenon of children and adolescents who grow up in homes where there is domestic violence between their caregivers and the co-occurrence of other forms of violence against children and adolescents, such as sexual assault.

This course examines the history of gender in Chile from the colonial era to the present. It discusses how ideas about the roles of men and women in society were historically constructed and influenced other social relationships. This course examines how gender shapes politics and politics shapes gender. It focuses on ways gender has molded historical processes such as the creation of State and citizenship, as well as the links between gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class.

This course offers a study of trade policy, including the foundations of the multilateral trading system, as well as the main elements of preferential trade agreements. It discusses aspects related to the growing internationalization and interdependence of the world economy.

This course explores the main problems, themes, and foundations of political aesthetics, particularly the tense and diffuse relationship between aesthetics and politics.

This is a special studies course involving an internship with a corporate, public, governmental, or private organization, arranged with the Study Center Director or Liaison Officer. Specific internships vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. A substantial paper or series of reports is required. Units vary depending on the contact hours and method of assessment. The internship may be taken during one or more terms but the units cannot exceed a total of 12.0 for the year.