Spanish

This course delves into the key concepts and elements of public policies. It focuses on policy implementation, including the tools needed to implement it, paying special attention to policy management in decentralized contexts and in a multilevel government. This course evaluates public policy as a tool for better governance. It also discusses the basic concepts and issues of evaluation theory as well as the study of public systems and evaluation cultures, the actors and decision-making involved in implementation, and public policy evaluation.  

This intermediate Spanish course develops communicative proficiency at the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students strengthen listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills while expanding their vocabulary and developing more complex grammatical structures. Through practical language activities, students learn to communicate about familiar academic, professional, social, and cultural topics, express opinions and experiences, and navigate everyday situations in Spanish-speaking contexts. The course also develops cultural awareness through the exploration of Spanish customs, society, media, politics, and contemporary issues.  The course will enable advancement of one level.

This course focuses on the importance of the accessibility of digital information systems and the need to incorporate usability and accessibility principles at all stages of the design and development of these systems and the digital documents they contain. The course is divided into three parts: digital content architecture; digital content creation; legal and functional accessibility.

This course focuses on language production-- both written and spoken-- at the B2 level according to the CEFR.

This course offers a study of the nuclear concepts of the history of art and the main characteristics of artistic movements. It analyzes the activity and management of tourist spaces, for students who will be working in the tourism field in the future. Topics include: art history and tourism; ancient art from Egypt to Rome; medieval art from across Europe; art and culture in the modern age; contemporary art and architecture.

This course prepares and improves students writing and analytical skills in Spanish in preparation for producing long research papers.It reviews and practices different writing strategies, argumentative transitions, and common stylistic forms in Spanish. Close readings of works from the social sciences and humanities on different topics will also be part of the course. The class will produce original written compositions every day and a longer piece of research writing for their final grade.

This beginner-level Spanish course develops foundational communicative proficiency at the A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills while building essential vocabulary and basic grammatical structures. Through practical activities, students learn to communicate in simple everyday and academic situations, including introducing themselves, describing people and places, discussing routines and interests, and expressing basic preferences and needs.  The course does not advance a full level but contributes to skill improvement.

This course explores the field of anthropology from the perspective of health systems in diverse sociocultural contexts (global North and global South, indigenous and non-indigenous societies, etc.). The first part of the course focuses on mental health, concepts of normalcy and pathology from a transcultural perspective, representations of madness, and the social and medical institutions that objectify them. The second part of the course examines the notion of the person, how the body is conceived of culturally and physically, how it ages and how it dies. The course also considers other topics such as feminist anthropological critiques of sexuality and gender, the anthropology of transmissible diseases, profound trauma, and questions of morality and culture in biomedicine and medical technology.

This course provides an anthropological study of the present-day Mapuche people through a critical analysis of the history of Mapuche-Chilean relations and its impact on the current political situation. It examines the characteristics and sociocultural expressions of the Mapuche people and the different contemporary artistic expressions of Mapuche creators in light of their historical and cultural particularity.

This course explores the causes of underdevelopment and the models of development. It offers a study of the international cooperation system for development while considering its dynamic nature and its evolution from 1945 to the present day. This course discusses the actors (primarily donors and recipients) and forms of cooperation involved. It considers why problems in areas such as food, health, education, democracy, and human rights exist and what solutions development cooperation offers. This course examines the main issues affecting current cooperation while taking into consideration the Millennium Development Goals.