Spanish

This course offers a study of Spanish language at the B1 level. Topics may include: grammar, reading and writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary development, written composition.

This course provides a historical-conceptual understanding of campesino movements in Latin America and the contexts of the geographies in which they arise. The course is guided by three key units including land, territory, and life, each of which provides a sophisticated understanding through reading theory, lecture, group work,
presentations, as well as through hands-on learning in the field with campesinos in Mexico City. 

This course offers a study of Spanish language at the A1 level. Topics may include: grammar, reading and writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary development, written composition.

This course prepares students to write academic texts (reading reports, commentaries, text analyses, and essays) in Spanish that are coherent, cohesive, and grammatically correct, allowing them to express their ideas and knowledge in subsequent courses in the degree.

This course familiarizes students with 20th-century English-language literature through analyzing texts belonging to diverse literary genres: poetry, drama, and prose. It covers works by Joseph Conrad; Henry James; W.B. Yeats; James Joyce; T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett; W.H. Auden; Seamus Heaney, and Moya Cannon.

This course examines the urbanization context, the modalities of development of cities, and the role of change agents. Topics include the theoretical and conceptual foundations that support urban geography as a subdiscipline of human geography. Students analyze different urban theories, the origin of cities, and the global context of urbanization.

This course questions the most generalized binary oppositions (State versus indigenous people, government versus community, etc.) that are loaded with moral values ​​(“bad” State versus “good” people) through readings and reflections that provide a complex understanding of the relationships between law, right, State, indigeneity and anthropology. The class becomes familiar with the history and institutionalisation of the rights of indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants by analyzing case studies that show the possibilities and limitations of new legislation at national and international level.  The course also examines the difference between multiculturalism and interculturality through different intercultural projects. 

The course covers the fundamental concepts of the social geography with the purpose of analyzing the relation between society and the space. Students examine the theoretical and epistemological foundations that support social geography as a sub-discipline of human geography and apply these concepts in empirical studies.

In this course, students analyze the main physical and human characteristics of the continent and of contemporary Chile. Students gain a critical understanding of the changes and permanences in the geographical and physical and humane spaces of the continent and the conceptual grounds of the geographical spaces (landscape, territory, place, region, localization and scale) for its application into interdisciplinary research. Topics includes the physical geographical space of the Americas, regional synthesis of Chile, and the regional development of the country.