Chile

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.

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.