University of Chile

This course examines the nature of human language and its main characteristics, as well as the different theoretical-analytical dimensions involved in the study of language. It analyzes fundamental problems of linguistics, in particular, those related to language as a cultural, social, and cognitive phenomenon.

In this course, students work and understand the territorial reality, in a specific case of interaction with the environment. Participants use the anything-goes methodological pluralism to co-design and co-build tools adjusted to territorial contexts, capable of being used by communities in research, action, and dissemination processes, on expanded problems.

This course offers a study of the political and historical transition from ‘indigenismo’ to ‘indianismo’ in Latin America since the 1960s and the emergence of contemporary indigenous movements. 

This course explores the experience of violence involving children and adolescents. It discusses the protection of the rights of children and adolescents, the development of psychopathology and psychological problems in the child and adolescent population, and the impact of violence on psychosocial well-being, as well as the factors that affect the appearance and evolution of mental health problems. It conceptually characterizes the phenomenon of children and adolescents who grow up in homes where there is domestic violence between their caregivers and the co-occurrence of other forms of violence against children and adolescents, such as sexual assault.

This course offers a study of trade policy, including the foundations of the multilateral trading system, as well as the main elements of preferential trade agreements. It discusses aspects related to the growing internationalization and interdependence of the world economy.

This course offers a study of the major themes, theoretical approaches, and authors of Latin American anthropology, societies, and cultures.

In this course, students observe, understand, and analyze linguistic phenomena specific to Spanish, in the phonetic and phonological domain.

This course offers a study of the main intellectual traditions and paradigms of International Relations from the interwar era to the first half of the Cold War, including idealism, realism, the English school, neorealism, and institutional liberalism, among others. 

This course discusses the historical-anthropological and geographic-cultural processes present in the creation of Chilean society from the pre-Hispanic era to today.

This course offers a critical analysis of masculinity. Topics include: links between masculinities, gender studies, and feminisms; masculinities and human rights; mapping the living conditions of men, women, and dissidents in Chile; body, sexualities, and masculinities; sexual diversities and non-hegemonic masculinities in the current social context; media, social networks, and representations of masculinities; contributions to changing gender relations in times of social transformations.