Spanish

This course explores literary criticism and theory in Latin America and the theoretical foundations and critical and methodological contributions proposed for the study of Latin American literature. Topics include: Latin American literature in the 19th century and the problem of the formation of literature-- originality, independence, and nation; the professionalization of critical practice-- between tradition and modernity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and originality and dependence; theory and criticism of the testimony genre-- the problem of genres in literary theory, forms and types of testimony, subject and voices in testimony, and fiction in testimony.

This course focuses on practicing, expanding, and improving Spanish language oral production in everyday contexts as well as improving pronunciation of Spanish through listening and articulation practice.

The course offers a critical and historical perspectives of the Chilean theater in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the dramatic dimension. In particular, the course goes over the relationships between the production of drama in the region and the circumstances of cultural rearticulation in which this belongs to.

This course discusses the wide variety of materials and manufacturing processes in product design. Topics include: configuration; dimensions; normalization; costs; semantic value. 

This course examines some of the main philosophical debates that have arisen in Latin American and Chile. It analyzes the works of five Chilean thinkers (Luis Oyarzún, Gabriela Mistral, Patricio Marchant, Juan Rivano, and Humberto Giannini) and two Latin American feminist intellectuals (Rosario Castellanos and Silvia Rivera Cuiscanqui).

The course relates the abstract field of architecture with the built works of prominent architects who explain, firsthand, the details of their design and the corresponding construction process. It discusses the connection between the preliminary architectural idea and the resulting space, as well as the relationship between construction detail and process in order to understand the various stages and strategies required to create a building.