Spanish

This course explores different indigenous tribes from Latin America. The course considers how an indigenous group’s history contributes to their current status under the modern nation state. It discusses the role of language and speech throughout history, through analyzing primary sources written in indigenous dialects. The course also explores how the transition from empire to independent nations impacted indigenous populations. 

In this course, students will design a social campaign using social marketing principles. Topics covered will include: target audience research, segmentation strategies, communication channels, and a social marketing mix incorporating behavioral theories.

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 take taken during one or more terms but the units cannot exceed a total of 12.0 for the year.

This course aims to introduce students to the central topics of the problem of knowledge in philosophy. To achieve this, the course will examine the subject from both historical and contemporary perspectives. A historical perspective will enable the student to understand the development of the debate on the possibility, origin, and essence of knowledge within modern philosophy, focusing on the main proponents of rationalism, empiricism, and critical philosophy. The contemporary discussion will consider the question of justification within the framework of analytic philosophy.

This course introduces fiction narratives, both literary and cinematic. Students learn the fundamental concepts of the storytelling art, through the analytical interpretation of fundamental literary and film works.

This course studies the phenomenon of migration and critically analyzes the development of international migration and the complexity it presents for the states involved and for society in general. 

The course is structured around the question of the formation of a so-called “Spanish literature” and its place in the republic of letters. In an exercise of situated criticism, from the Southern Cone, a panoramic and transversal view of Spanish literature is offered from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with a special emphasis, on the one hand, on the topics that predominate in the self- and hetero-characterizations of what is recognized as “Spanish literature” and, on the other hand, in those texts that have been a milestone both in the peninsular literary scene and in the Hispanic cultures on the other side of the Atlantic.

This course aims to provide a brief introduction to the Basque language while also offering a comprehensive view of the culture of this people, who, although small, possess a rich and vibrant cultural heritage that remains alive today.

This course introduces students to various modes of symbolic production, considering representative examples from primitive, classical, medieval, and Renaissance aesthetics. It addresses the purposes of art in different worldviews and some of the roles with which society has identified creators in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

In this course, students will approach, from an interdisciplinary, critical, practical, and reflective perspective, territories that, possessing some degree of heritage identification, must coexist with tourism. It provides students with the analytical and assessment tools for studying heritage and touristic aspects. The course methodology and assessments seek that students working in teams formulate strategies of sustainable development of urban heritage territories that serve a touristic purpose.