University of Chile

This course provides a critical analysis of primary sources regarding political violence, often in the forms of written testimonies and oral history, such as interviews and documentaries. It examines the importance and key role of memory in the social construction of history, and the way in which historical documents and survivors' testimonials construct this memory. The course also examines the motives for survivors to document their experience of political violence, as well as motives for society to read and listen to these testimonies.

This course discusses the study of material religion, the research of religious objects and images and the materialism of beliefs. It is divided into three sections: introduction to the studies of religiosity; the study of material religion; religiosity, materialism, and imagery in Latin America.

This creative poetry workshop provides space for the reflective reading of student works and critical analysis of the writing process.

This course provides a study of the origins and development of ancient Greece and Rome. Specific topics covered vary by instructor and term.

This course provides an introduction to the causes and consequences of slavery in Ancient Rome. It examines the origin of slavery and its use in agriculture, artisanry, and within royal spaces. It discusses issues of civil and private liberties, the politics of the State regarding the relationship between slaves and freedmen, class struggle, and citizenship.

This course provides a study of the contemporary debates in sociology of art in relation to the perspective of imaginary and symbolic representations. Texts by key theorists, including Passeron, Fabiani, Leenhardt, Heinich, Péquignot, Bachelard, Durand, Castoriadis, Carretero, Baeza, are covered. The course also critically analyzes works and artistic trajectories to understand the social and symbolic dimensions of artistic production and art institutions.

This course provides a multidisciplinary study of the relationship between film and fiction and their reflection of modern culture. It explores various themes relating to societal development and the role of artists, writers, and poets in the development process. The course is divided into three sections: understanding contemporary culture (modern literature and identity crisis, film and cultural identity); modernity as a culture of violence and disintegration (traditional culture versus a culture of change, crisis of modern rationality); postmodernism and cultural complexity (complex subjectivity and new realism, uncertainty and equilibrium).

The course provides a critical analysis of feminism as a field of study and political occupation in connection with the development of theories and studies in the social sciences. The class focuses on the discussions and arguments of historical and present themes that the feminist movement has confronted as well as the political and contemporary proposals of Latin American feminists.

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.