University of Chile

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. 

The course offers a study of the “social question” and popular movement in Chile. Topics include: the concept of popular movement; independence and the formation of the republican state; conservative order and socio-political opposition; formation and expansion of the popular movement during the Portalian regime (1830-1891); liberal order and the discovery of the "social question"; parliamentary republic and the centennial crisis; labor transition and conflict (1880-1910); movement for the "regeneration of the people" and movement for the emancipation of workers; the "social question" and the redefinition of the role of the State; dilemma of the labor movement.

This course examines the problems, methods, and results of semantics and pragmatics, with an emphasis on how they complement one another. It explores the development of semantics and pragmatics and contextualizes them in the development of general linguistics theory. Finally, this courses uses an organic assembly of theoretical concepts and methodologies for semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Spanish language.

This course offers a study of concepts related to series scriptwriting including: story line, synopsis, narrative approach, and dialogue writing. It also discusses the importance of a pilot episode. Other topics include: series episode structure; differences between a feature film script and a series episode script; tv genres; pitching a series.

Through practice twice a week, the course fosters coordination, strength, and conditioning for the sport. It promotes team-building skills and playing in a low-stress environment.

The course discusses the problems, methods, and results of sociolinguistics, in particular the social aspects that influence linguistic change. It explores the incidence of social and cultural factors in the acquisition and use of language, as well as on the sociolinguistic status of Indigenous languages and the linguistic planning of the different Latin American countries.