Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

This course discusses education and educational public policy at both the Chilean and international levels and analyzes their impact in a quantitative manner.

This intensive language program course reviews grammatical structures as a basis for further development of linguistic and communicative abilities. Emphasis is placed on written expression, comprehension, and oral competency. The course also integrates topics in Chilean culture.

This course provides an introduction to basic concepts and computer tools used in creating, editing, and retouching digital photography.

The course examines identification of problems related to fluid mechanics and engineering work. It presents the concepts necessary to explain and model fluid performance; methods and techniques for quantitative analysis of fluid performance. Prerequisites for the course are Differential Equations (MAT1640), Thermodynamics (FIS1523), and Calculus III (MAT1630).

This course provides a critical analysis of a series of literary works, from the Middle Ages to the present day and across various cultural contexts, in which authors represent or portray the feminine. It considers the different cultural contexts in which these works were written and also the way in which they are valued and considered valid today.

This course examines the theoretical principles that influence the political analysis of Latin America. National case studies are used to focus discussion of development strategies and divergent institutional evolutions. The difficulties faced by contemporary Latin American democracies are another major focus for analysis. Assessment is based on attendance and participation, a midterm exam, a final exam, and a final project based on presented topics.

This course provides a study of the theoretical and conceptual bases that underpin the fields of both cultural geography and social geography. It examines the meaning and ways in which the social and/or cultural is structured in symbiosis with the spatial. The course also covers the processes of social production of space and themes of cultural and social geography such as territory and feminist geography.

This course covers the different techniques of wood engraving, including the construction of matrixes that allow multiple reproductions of an image. Hands on work with blocks of wood and carving techniques are combined with lectures on the history of printmaking.

This course examines some of the fundamental processes of the historical evolution of Chile in the 19th century, such as the transition from Colony to Republic, the republican organization, the integration into the world market, the exercise of sovereignty, and the formation of the nation. It also identifies and explains the social and cultural characteristics of society, relating the political and economic processes with the living conditions of the population.