Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

The course presents a general view of the current scientific understanding of the Universe with its components, including basic notions on its physical and observational fundaments. It teaching methdology includes lectures, tutoring sessions, and study of the night at an astronomic observatory.

This course addresses the particularities of production systems of salmonids (salmon and trout) so that students acquire the specific language, understand its biological bases and relate them to commercial production of salmonid species for human consumption. Special emphasis is placed on the activity in Chile, its requirements, characteristics and cultivation systems.

This course offers an overview of the main questions that drive current reflection in the area of ​​the relationships between the brain, cognitive processes, and language. Students learn to distinguish the areas of study within Psycholinguistics, particularly those related to language comprehension and production, as well as its acquisition.

The course introduces basic elements of marine botany that allow students to recognize the diversity of algae. Combining lectures, laboratories and field trips, students are exposed to concepts and vocabulary specific to the complexity of this highly diverse group of organisms.

This course is an introduction to the development of the economic ideas from the Ancient until modern times. It portrays the relevance of these ideas and how, and why these ideas were brought about and changed over time. It examines how the characteristics of the economy changed, from the verbal explanations of the political economy and moral philosophy of the 18th century to the formal social science of the late 20th century.

This course examines the main phyla of marine invertebrates, including their diversity, phylogenetic relationships, morphofunctional characteristics, habitat, and main lines of research in Chile. Practices methodologies used for studying,  including lab sessions and field work, of marine invertebrate in the plancton, in sand and rocky beaches.

In this course students take a scientific approach to literature by applying ideas from linguistics and cognitive science to the analysis of literary texts. The course explores the textual and cognitive foundations for literary interpretations and aesthetic effects, and the underlying ideological and psychological implications of particular linguistic choices.

In this course, student participants will analyze how ideas about gender and sexuality influenced left-wing revolutionary movements and right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America since 1959, considering both political history and the experiences lived by contemporary people in the cases of Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua, among others.