University of Chile

This course offers a study of the different pre-Hispanic indigenous peoples, from a multidimensional perspective, establishing dialogues with the processes that these peoples currently experience. 

This course examines the main sources, concepts, and contexts associated with critical and cultural theory. It discusses some structuring concepts of the modern experience and international system such as capitalism, mass culture, public sphere, social criticism, crisis, neoliberalism, and patriarchy, among others.

This course examines European and Spanish culture from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age through the study of a selected set of representative literary works. It analyzes the literary texts in light of their corresponding historical, cultural, and literary contexts.

This course focuses on the distribution of economic activities to identify and contrast the territorial scope of their spatial organization. It analyzes both economic information and spatial relationship to explore geographic phenomena.

This course examines literary texts and films to explore different themes and topics related to Chilean culture and politics. It discusses Chilean films and literary texts from the late 1960's to the early 2020's in order to better understand and contextualize some of the main events and discourses that have characterized Chilean society during the past fifty years.

This course offers a study of bioinformatics methodologies. Topics include: introduction to programming; processing and analysis of biological sequence data; modeling and simulation of molecular dynamics; genomics and metagenomics; transcriptomics.

This course explores the culture and history of the Basque Country and its people including historical processes, diversity, and current issues. It analyzes the connection with Chile considering the notable and continuous Basque immigration to Chile over the last 400 years. This course offers a basic study of Basque language to better understand some of the cultural and linguistic traits that define Basque culture and its history. 

This course provides an overview of the foundations that the main trends of the Western ethical tradition have provided and that still constitute the theoretical basis for the interpretation and resolution to the challenges and issues that arise from the complexities of modern life.

This course offers an introduction to the most relevant concepts of economics and international relations to complement professional training for journalism students.

This course offers a study of texts produced from the arrival of Christopher Columbus until the mid-18th century which are representative of the main themes and issues characterizing the emergence of Latin American and, particularly, Chilean literature and culture.