Spanish

This course explores the history and operation of international financial markets, international investment, and the international monetary system. It traces the development of global financial systems from the gold standard through Bretton Woods, and trends in the current economic and financial globalization. Other topics include public and private credit and debt; currency exchange and balance of payments; different markets and investment theory; and analysis and administration of risk.

This course analyzes family dynamics in occidental societies with particular emphasis on Latin America and Chile. Students explore families as institutions, considering the traditional notion of family and its cultural changes due to immigration, inequality, and technological advances, among other aspects. Students examine the relation between gender roles/familial structure and the political atmosphere that helps to shape this structure.

This course provides an epistemological and methodological analysis of the foundations of the main traditions of contemporary thought in psychology, based on the basic principles of scientific knowledge. Topics are divided into three sections: psychology and science; psychological paradigms and their foundations in philosophy; subject and knowledge.

This course explores the representation of power as manifested in Hispanic literature and culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Through a detailed reading of a series of primary texts belonging to different genres and media (novel, short story, theater, cinema), the focus is on different strategies of representation of power and counterpower. Some of the questions that are addressed in the course are the following: What is the relationship between the political and the literary in the Hispanic world? By what strategies do the authors manage to dismantle or mock the established power? What is the healing power and the revolutionary, transforming role of literature, particularly under dictatorships? The course examines the institutions that embody power (the Army, the Dictator, etc.), and more diffused mechanisms of the exercise of power through discourse. For this purpose, the focus is on some historical figures or regimes in particular (e.g. Facundo Quiroga, Porfirio Díaz, Perón, Pinochet, Batista, Franco), as well as in the authoritarian and propagandistic language and the parodic deformation of East. At the same time, the case studies are related to broader theoretical debates about the representation of violence, the cult of personality, censorship, trauma, or the relationship between authority and literature. The corpus of texts analyzed varies each year. The course is taught in Spanish, but is open to students who have a passive command of Spanish (as a receptive language). These students may participate in English, and may be tested in that language. Students must make this request with the instructor directly.

This course provides a study of the traits, functions and characteristics of international organizations. Topics covered include: origins and evolution of international organizations; proliferation and features of international organizations; the United Nations; specialized agencies of the UN; European organizations; the European Union; American organizations; African and Asian organizations. This elective version of "Organizaciones Internacionales" offers similar content to POL S/INTL 128.

This class reviews the relevance of play for human beings through distinct theoretical perspectives and discipline. It examines practical applications of play and its role in the development, learning and mental health are examined.

Students develop the four fundamental skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in this course. Additional grammar points and vocabulary are introduced and students expand their awareness of Hispanic cultures.