Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Students will consider hegemonic understandings of the body as essentially linked to histories of colonialism and power. They will investigate frameworks about the body proposed by minoritized groups, developed out of collective struggle and political movements, found in feminism and critical indigenous studies. Students will recognize the essential differences between these frameworks as well as how they intermingle and intersect.

The course focuses on learning analytical capacity and aesthetic sensitivity regarding musical interpretation, through the experience of systematically and regularly witnessing live concerts, on dates and places assigned by the course teachers. The classes address the expressive resources linked to the interpretation of music and listening modes, the process of assimilating a work, form, style and musical genre, among others.

This course analyses a selection of poems written by authors in English, with special emphasis on the literary and linguistic aspects of the language. It also involves the analysis of poems, the theories that feed poetic creation and its critical reception. The course will consider the status of lyric poetry in Western culture, and the history of the form in English poetry.

The course proposes a tour - not strictly chronological - through the Spanish American essay from the 19th century to the present. The main ideas, paradigms, sensitivities and tensions that articulate regional thought will be presented, such as those of civilization and barbarism, the local and the foreign, center and periphery, tradition and modernity, among others. In the same way, key thematic axes of contemporary essay production will be addressed, such as the monstrous, animality and gender as they provide notions that inform a discourse of the Hispanic American intellectual subject in relation to the local and global present.