University of Chile

This course aims to develop the efficient and creative use of the body and voice, through a process of disinhibition, imagination, improvisation and dramatization, allowing the student to improve their body awareness and access through artistic language diverse possibilities of creative expression, which give rise to a common language and which become a sample of collective expression, addressing the topics of interest to the participants.

The course examines the history of Chile from its foundation until present times. It focuses on the history from the social angle and with a feminist, intersectional and decolonial approaches. It identifies three historical periods: Creation of Chile, Welfare and Neoliberal states. The course proposes students to reflect on the role of the social worker in relation to the history of Chile and the importance of knowing this history for working in this profession.

In this course, students detect and enhance the creative resources that contribute to the writing process, and acquire from the reading and writing practice, the basic methodological skills of written narration, from the short story to dramatic writing. Students link the abstract world, ideas and concepts, with concrete reality.

Students analyze and evaluate the environmental impacts of human activity on the land in general, and of urban and architectural interventions in particular. The course focuses on architectural and urban planning, taking into account urban and environmental planning criteria.

The Urban Planning Methods and Practices course contributes to the development of the professional profile of architects, empowering students with the various methods and tools of urban planning focused on environmental interpretation, urban design, and planning, with a critical and proactive approach.

The course seeks to improve precise use of vocabulary and grammar rules in the oral and written communication in academic and social situations. The course emphasizes the acquisition of idioms and their use in the appropiate sociocultural contexts for reinforcing the communicative ability and fluency.

The formative purpose of the course is to promote the exercise of cultural citizenship through participation in mediated cultural activities of a diverse nature, planned in order to generate a panoramic and critical view of the value of culture and its necessary rights-based approach.

This course aims for students to understand the production context and the cultural fields associated with the generation of narrative discourses in circumstances of political and economic crisis, analyze from cultural matrices of meaning, narrative discourses created in 20th century Spain, interpret the political modelizations present in the narrative discourses generated by authors of different aesthetic and ideological currents in Spain in the first half of the 20th century, and determine the multiple relationships established by the narrative discourses of Spain in the first half of the 20th century. 

The objective of this course is to offer students a guided exploration of fundamental aspects of argumentation theory in some of its most relevant variants. It is about acquiring the ability to recognize the most important elements of the reasoning structures used in the community of philosophical inquiry.