University of Chile

This class explores the field of education though the lens of cognitive neuroscience. The class uses topics within education and investigates their current and potential applications. It also examines misuses and misinterpretations of neuroscience as it pertains to education.

This course provides an introduction to the most important topics of labor economics: demand and supply of work, returns to education, wage inequality, discrimination and the role of labor market institutions. It covers the necessary tools used to analyze labor market issues with a critical economic focus. The course also allows the application of microeconometric techniques that are essential for understanding and interpreting the most important aspects of the relevant literature.

This course provides a study of the colonial economy of Chile through an examination of agricultural and mining development in the Metropolitan and Aconcagua regions during the 16th through 18th centuries. The course includes a map building workshop to research indigenous and Hispanic property in the Santiago region during the 16th century as well as a field visits to agricultural sectors in the metropolitan region.

The course seeks to understand the gender dynamics that take place in the university space (particularly Campus Juan Gómez Millas), as an expression of the gender relations that are experienced in Chilean society today. Through analysis of the Chilean context and its gender transformations, it discusses patriarchal mandates as determining factors in the structure-agency tensions and their influence on campus relational dynamics. It also critically analyzes various expressions of machismo, sexism and phobias of the patriarchal heteronormativity, and presents a set of guiding criteria for university coexistence through a participatory process.

This course provides a study of the main works of Chilean poetry from the end of the 20th century to the present day. It examines the post-dictatorship literary scene in relation to the contributions of the promotion of poets of the 1990s as well as more recent authors. The course reviews concepts of "modernity" and "postmodernity" as a framework for the works studied; the history of critical systems “generation” (Cedomil Goic), “promotion” (Soledad Bianchi) and “scene” (Patricio Marchant); the ratios of "foundation", "revision" and "influence" to establish continuity between the works; and the differences between the selected works and the different aesthetic achievements of these in the context of contemporary Chilean poetry.

This course provides a general overview of conservation and biodiversity as well as a specific study of conservation and biodiversity in Chile. Topics covered include: extinction: diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems; conservation strategies; the current state of Chilean biodiversity; legislative framework and planning systems regarding biodiversity; current threats in biodiversity; ways to evaluate the environmental impacts on biodiversity; economic systems regarding conservation; implementation of different institutions for biodiversity; knowledge-based management options for ecological conservation; the institutionalization of conservation knowledge for society.

This course provides an introduction to public policy and law creation with a focus on the environment and sustainable development. In addition to the beaurocracy behind the creation and application of public policy, this class delves into the reasons for public policy and the driving factors that bring issues into the public sphere.

The course provides a study of contemporary Hispanic, Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literary production and discusses relevant critical literary debates, especially in relation to migration and diasporas. It focuses on the analysis of texts by Caribbean authors, including novels, poems and essays.

This course examines the relationship between myth, politics and tragedy in Ancient Greece and Rome.