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In this course, student participants will analyze how ideas about gender and sexuality influenced left-wing revolutionary movements and right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America since 1959, considering both political history and the experiences lived by contemporary people in the cases of Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua, among others.

Students are expected to be able to distinguish different focuses and approaches to environmental education for sustainability, and then plan their own learning strategies according to the educational context they must address.

This course examines the cultural role of Andean textiles, their technical spectrum, their aesthetic and heritage values. The aim is to understand the contributions of Andean textile artifacts to contemporary design, to culturally contextualize the material under study and practical knowledge by exercising textile techniques in which structure-texture-color relationships are considered.

In this course, students analyze the dynamics between civil-military relations and the process of formulating security and defense policies in democratic states of law, with a focus on Latin America. In this way, at the end of the course, students are expected to understand, analyze and evaluate how the different levels of civil control over the military and structuring of the Armed Forces in a democracy impact the rationality and efficiency of national defense policies and strategies.

In the course, students will be able to answer the broad dilemma of how to understand Latin America today?, from an interdisciplinary analysis that emphasizes the connection between history, geography and political science in order to unravel and read the various dynamics and challenges of the region. Through methodologies such as lectures, case studies and debates, they will be able to understand the changes, continuities and cultural, social, economic and political projections of the region.

In this course, students will learn design tools for social justice and put them at the service of local organizations that promote environmental justice. The course puts the A+S (Service Learning) methodology into practice and aims for students to develop their social and public vocation, facilitating opportunities for environmental organizations to increase their autonomy and potential.

The course develops a chronological vision of the evolution of the costume, from antiquity to the present day, in light of the development of techniques that allowed this evolution and historical events that inspired its aesthetics in different periods. Focused mainly - although not exclusively - on the textile universe of Western clothing from the time of anonymous artisans of the ancient world to the emergence of the contemporary designer/artist.

The course introduces basic concepts of energy and the understanding of its territorial deployment, along with a critical and innovative look at its implications (risks and opportunities) in terms of sustainability, as well as the role that energy plays in the development of various territories and their inhabitants. The course will combine expository classes, case studies and collaborative learning, along with group studies and presentations on contingent cases, which reveal a reflective approach from the students' various disciplines.

The course will provide a vision of the geological, biological, historical and pre-historic processes to understand the geography, natural and human history of the Atacama Desert. The course addresses the evolution of the landscape from a geological and climatic point of view, man's adaptation to his changing environment, natural resources, and their historical management and exploitation. The discussion of these topics is expected to address and generate an interdisciplinary view towards the construction of a sustainable relationship for the 21st century between society and the use of the natural resources available in the Atacama Desert.