Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

This is a special studies course in the field of women's and gender studies, with projects arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific topics of study vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. The number of units varies with the student’s projects, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student’s special study project form.

Students will develop skills to design solutions, based on scientific knowledge and innovation opportunities, that contribute to building sustainable future societies and environments, while safeguarding the integrity of the biosphere and ensuring equitable and dignified well-being.

In this course, students will design a social campaign using social marketing principles. Topics covered will include: target audience research, segmentation strategies, communication channels, and a social marketing mix incorporating behavioral theories.

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 take taken during one or more terms but the units cannot exceed a total of 12.0 for the year.

This course introduces fiction narratives, both literary and cinematic. Students learn the fundamental concepts of the storytelling art, through the analytical interpretation of fundamental literary and film works.

The course is structured around the question of the formation of a so-called “Spanish literature” and its place in the republic of letters. In an exercise of situated criticism, from the Southern Cone, a panoramic and transversal view of Spanish literature is offered from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with a special emphasis, on the one hand, on the topics that predominate in the self- and hetero-characterizations of what is recognized as “Spanish literature” and, on the other hand, in those texts that have been a milestone both in the peninsular literary scene and in the Hispanic cultures on the other side of the Atlantic.

This course aims to provide a brief introduction to the Basque language while also offering a comprehensive view of the culture of this people, who, although small, possess a rich and vibrant cultural heritage that remains alive today.

This course introduces students to various modes of symbolic production, considering representative examples from primitive, classical, medieval, and Renaissance aesthetics. It addresses the purposes of art in different worldviews and some of the roles with which society has identified creators in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

In this course, students will approach, from an interdisciplinary, critical, practical, and reflective perspective, territories that, possessing some degree of heritage identification, must coexist with tourism. It provides students with the analytical and assessment tools for studying heritage and touristic aspects. The course methodology and assessments seek that students working in teams formulate strategies of sustainable development of urban heritage territories that serve a touristic purpose.

The course analyzes the concepts and models of urban systems from the perspectives of geography, sociology, architecture, spatial economics, and location theory. It then delves into the current dynamics of urban problems and the potential solutions proposed for these processes. Furthermore, readings will be offered on the relationship between the city and the regional, global, and local contexts. The course concludes with the study of advanced contemporary topics such as territory and power, and the social construction of the city.