Spanish

This course addresses the particularities of production systems of salmonids (salmon and trout) so that students acquire the specific language, understand its biological bases and relate them to commercial production of salmonid species for human consumption. Special emphasis is placed on the activity in Chile, its requirements, characteristics and cultivation systems.

This literature course studies the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, exploring lesser-known aspects of her work. Each week of the class, selected articles or book chapters are discussed, providing critical perspectives on Sor Juana’s writings, paired with direct readings of her texts, including sonnets, romances, letters, and other poems. This course extends beyond the canonical image of Sor Juana, encouraging a deeper and more nuanced understanding of her literary legacy; it leads to the discovery that Sor Juana's literary quality permeates all her work, regardless of whether they are the object of praise or indifference. 

This course offers an overview of the main questions that drive current reflection in the area of ​​the relationships between the brain, cognitive processes, and language. Students learn to distinguish the areas of study within Psycholinguistics, particularly those related to language comprehension and production, as well as its acquisition.

The Elective Musical Practice Workshop is a practical course focused on the experience of the student in the fields of musical creation and interpretation, recognizing and developing stylistic elements that allow an analytical position and criticism.

In this course, students examine and integrate general biological and ecological concepts of marine mammals (with special emphasis on pinnipeds and cetaceans). Students characterize the different orders of marine mammals worldwide and identify the species present in Chile, identify and characterize adaptations of marine mammals to the aquatic environment, behavioral strategies, as well as the main research methodologies used in Chile. In the area of ​​conservation, the students examine the main current threats to marine mammals in Chile, measures of mitigation, institutions, and regulations related to management and administration, and become familiar with the application of methodological tools in the field of conservation of these species.

This course critically examines aesthetics from a historical perspective, focusing on the theory of both Plato and Aristotle. The course explores topics of aesthetics and form; aesthetics as a historical discipline, and aesthetics as a normative discipline. It then compares and contrasts Platonic aesthetics to Aristotelian poetics.

The course focuses on introducing students to the knowledge and application of key marketing concepts and tools used by organizations. The course emphasizes the consumer and value creation fundamentals of developing marketing strategies and tactics.

The course introduces basic elements of marine botany that allow students to recognize the diversity of algae. Combining lectures, laboratories and field trips, students are exposed to concepts and vocabulary specific to the complexity of this highly diverse group of organisms.

This course translates previous knowledge of syntactic analysis of textual and oral pragmatic applications of discourse in the Spanish language. The class analyzes how grammatical structures used in common speech can receive a distinct communicative function outside of its syntactic or semantic aspect.