University of Chile

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.

This course focuses on various Chilean poets during the dictatorship and post-dictatorship. It connects censorship, gender identity, and different aspects of Chilean culture to rhetorical devices utilized in the poetry. 

This is a special studies course involving an internship with a corporate, public, governmental, or private organization, arranged with the Study Center Director or Liaison Officer. Specific internships vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. A substantial paper or series of reports is required. Units vary depending on the contact hours and method of assessment. The internship may be taken during one or more terms but the units cannot exceed a total of 12.0 for the year.

This course focuses on three thought leaders of anti-colonialist social movements in 20th century Latin American: Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Fausto Reinaga. It analyzes their main written works with an emphasis on themes of race, culture, and colonial condition.

This course analyzes the role of political parties in the Chilean democratic system and the socio-historical context of the emergence of new social demands. It explores the formation of social movements in Chile.

This course explores the concepts of social justice, citizenship, and democracy and their relationship to the disciplinary debate and professional practice of social work. It examines contemporary debates on social justice, citizenship, and democracy as well as their implications for current social, economic, and cultural challenges.

This course analyzes the history and dialectology of Latin American Spanish, with special focus on Chilean history and linguistic documentation of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Topics include: the concept of Latin American Spanish-- unity and diversity, Latin American Spanish and Atlantic Spanish; the influence of Andalusia and genetic matrices; diastratic-diatopic variation and zoning; historical aspects-- periodization of Latin American Spanish; koineization and standardization processes; linguistic contact-- indigenous substrata and immigrant languages.

The course focuses on German reading comprehension skills of basic level written texts (A1 on the CEFR) related to international studies and related areas.

This class teaches female students to dance merengue, salsa, cha cha, rock and roll, and cueca. Students take the techniques learned and apply them to individual and couples dances.

This course examines transitional justice measures implemented in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to face the grave human rights violations committed during the military dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, and their relationship with the transition to democracy in these countries between 1983 and 2014.