Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

The course discusses the central elements of the Chilean political process between 1833 and the era following the end of the authoritarian regime in March 1990. It examines the traits that created the current state of contemporary Chilean democracy. Due to this large historical period, the course focuses on the features and evolution of three main elements: political regime, political institutions, and the main political actors. 

The course relates the abstract field of architecture with the built works of prominent architects who explain, firsthand, the details of their design and the corresponding construction process. It discusses the connection between the preliminary architectural idea and the resulting space, as well as the relationship between construction detail and process in order to understand the various stages and strategies required to create a building.

This course offers a comprehensive linguistic description of similarities and differences between the English and Spanish languages focusing on a selection of phonological, morpho-syntactic, lexical, and discoursal aspects of both languages. It examines the most pertinent approaches within the contrastive linguistics area and their application in real English L2 production under the parameters of Spanish as L1. 

This course critically examines dramatic and poetic texts spanning the 18th century to the present that have made a significant impact to Spanish literature. Topics cover the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism of the 18th century; Romanticism of the first half of the 19th century; Realism and bourgeois revolutions (second half of the 19th century); fin de siècle, vanguards, and the Generation of '27; post-war literature and recent decades.