Spanish

This course offers a study of the psychology of personality. Topics include: personality structures and processes; normal personality models; personality stability and change; biological and psychosocial foundations of personality; the relationship among personality, health, and psychological well-being; personality and culture. 

This course offers a study of film and literature. Topics include: film and its relationship with other art forms; film writing; adaptation; construction of the film narrative; film in debates of the artistic avant-garde; theories and poetics of realism; the crisis of reality and its fictions; the film essay.

This course provides a study of the sociolinguistics of the Spanish language. Topics include: sociolinguistics and dialectology; sociolinguistic variation applied to Spanish language study; analysis of phenomena derived from the contact of Spanish with other languages; Spanish in contact with other peninsular languages.

This course examines questions related to human action, its goals, and moral judgment in light of classical thought and contemporary ethical dilemmas. Topics include: the questions of ethics; foundational models of ethics; free action and practical judgment. 

This course is designed to deepen and refine the communicative competence of students at the B2.1 level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). Specific objectives of the course include developing the capacity to present ideas in a clear, detailed, and complex manner; to write clear, complex, structured text on any subject; participate in daily conversations on a variety of topics with fluency; to compose clear, coherent, and properly spelled written assignments using correct grammar and vocabulary.

This course examines the neurobiological aspects of normal aging as well as those caused by various forms of dementia. It analyzes the cognitive changes and decline associated with aging on a normal brain, as well as those impacted by Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis, vascular dementia, and dementias due to HIV. It also explores techniques and procedures for early detection of cognitive impairment and possible intervention in the areas of memory, control and integration processes and language.

The course explores the relationship between language and culture from an evolutionary and current perspective. It discusses the concept of linguistics as a social science and analyzes the phenomenon of linguistic contact in Chile including the various languages and dialects in contact: indigenous languages, Spanish and its socio-dialectal varieties, English, etc.