Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

This physical activities course focuses on improving tactical, physical, and technical soccer skills.

This course provides a study of the ecological processes involved in organic agriculture and their positive and negative effects on the productivity and quality of organic products. It takes into account the environmental benefits and risks of organic production, the challenges to organic agriculture, and the national and international legislation associated with organic agriculture and the certification process. note: The course is directed at agronomy students and requires previous knowledge of agricultural production, protection of vegetation, and plant nutrition.

This course examines the development of music in Chile and Latin America from the 17th century to the present. Topics include music in colonial society; music in cathedrals and missions; colonial carols; European instruments and their projections in Latin America, music in 19th century republican society; music, culture, and society in 20th century Latin America; popular urban music, and the institutionalization of music. Assessment is based on exams and written assignments.

This course provides a study of the history of clothing and fashion in Chile during the twentieth century. It provides an analysis of the relationship between the social construction of appearance and specific historical contexts (i.e. social, political, economic, and cultural) and demonstrates the role of cultural models as regulatory mechanisms in determining the way and style of dressing.

This course analyzes the historical development of humanitarianism and human rights over the last two hundred and fifty years. It traces the emergence of the idea of humanity and its expression in the fundamental texts of the Atlantic Revolutions. The course includes a brief discussion on the rise of humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the elaboration of the doctrine of human rights in the mid-twentieth century, its reformulation in the second half of the twentieth century and its growing importance in international relations, and in the way the relations between states and individuals is understood.

This course examines a representative corpus of poetry by Chilean women, from the 19th century to the present day, including Mapuche poets. Topics covered include: gender and poetry; poetics of women writers in the early twentieth century(melodrama, madness, eroticism); poetics of hatching: eroticism, transgression and citizenship; heterogeneous poetics: sexuality, wandering, indigenous voices.

This course covers the basic concepts of taxonomy, the main species of Chilean fauna, protected areas in Chile, techniques of wildlife management and monitoring, and provides an analysis of the main socio-environmental problems of wildlife management, particularly in protected areas. It focuses on sustainability and effective management of animal wildlife and areas reserved for conservation, protection, research and recreation.

This graphic design course discusses technical drawing and CAD specifically as a drawing tool used to transmit the design of a three-dimensional piece through a clear and unequivocal graphic expression, making it possible to quickly perform spatial analysis.

This course provides a study of game theory, the study of situations in which decisions are made based on the actions and reactions of other individuals. Students strategically analyze situations of individual and organizational interaction using the framework of game theory and create models and interpret the results in order to help predict the social behavior of participants of a game.

This course examines the impact of rock, one of the most important cultural expressions of the West in the second half of the twentieth century, on Chilean society and culture. It explores the musical genre's importation from Anglo-Saxon America to Chile and the way in which it became an element of national identity, as well as popular musical expression provides an insight to contemporary Chilean history.