Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

This course approaches Dante's "Divine Comedy" as a founding poem for the history of literature. Through a wide selection of cantos, the course delves into the most relevant themes of the poem, the symbolic structures, the ideology and the history of reception.

This course covers the history of women in Chile during the 19th and 20th centuries. The course presents the transformation of Chilean society and civic life as a result of women entering the male-dominated workforce. The course also emphasizes the role of women in literature as both authors and characters.

This course examines the role of interculturality in education based on the belief that quality education is a human right. This class provides an interdisciplinary analysis of existing issues within intercultural education (e.g. democracy, equality, discrimination, development, assimilation, and language). It examines how rights play a role in creating policy, as well as the way various intercultural factors contribute to the construction of intercultural societies.

This course provides a study of the characteristics of multilateral institutions within the framework in which states and non-state actors negotiate global governance initiatives. It examines the running themes of the conflict between North and South, the capacity of international organizations to promote cooperation between states, the impact of non-state actors (such as companies, transnational networks of experts, civil society) on global governance, and the role of emerging powers (including China, India, Brazil, among others) in multilateral institutions.

This course discusses social change, conflict theory, theory of revolutions, and the way different social, cultural, economic, and political processes influence Latin American revolutions. The Mexican Revolution, Cuban Revolution, and Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are compared and contrasted in order examine the sociopolitical processes that occur within the context of an interconnected, rapidly modernizing world. The specific conditions of pre-revolutionary periods, the revolution itself, and the political evolution of the post-revolutionary phases are analyzed for each case.

This course provides an introductory study of psychological processes that provide a foundation for various subfields in psychology. It examines topics such as: the debate between innate versus acquired, the phylogeny and ontogeny of psychological processes; processes of perception, attention, imagination, memory, thought, motivation, autoregulation, empathy; abnormal functions in psychological processes including attention deficit, amnesia, and intellectual disabilities.

This course reflects on human-plant relationships and interactions across various societies through space and time. Special emphasis is placed on the understanding and use of plants and their landscape by different cultural groups. The class covers techniques and methods for reconstructing this kind of knowledge ethnographically, archaeologically and paleoecologically. Current efforts to preserve and reinterpret this biocultural legacy are also debated.

The course explores the links between anthropology and law, the main theoretical and methodological currents of the anthropology of law, and contemporary study topics. It examines human rights and their standards, legal pluralism, collective rights and minority rights, indigenous law, the impact of the economic and social systems with this concept of human rights, and alternatives that have been raised from the field of anthropology.

This course provides a study of the financial decisions of both individuals and companies, and the behavior of capital markets. It covers investment theory, portfolio selection, aversion to risk and decisions under uncertainty, and market efficiency. Financial models, including the CAPM and Black-Scholes model, are discussed both theoretically and applied empirically. Further topics include corporate finance through financial policies, the cost of capital, and the role of debt and taxes.