Spanish

The course addresses the modern and contemporary history of Palestine and the Arab world with a focus on thought, literature and the arts. The purpose is that they not only understand the political and historical dynamics from an internal perspective, but that the students get closer to the feelings of the protagonists of the history studied from what they themselves are thinking and expressing from their sensations and imagination (art).

Theoretical-practical course whose purpose is for students to acquire fundamental knowledge of evolutionary development during the school stage, adolescence, adulthood and senior citizen, based on active participatory methodologies.

This advanced course is designed for students who are preparing to study Spanish extensively or enter a major. Students learn about grammar and writing styles and then develop their writing skills through writing practice and academic essay editing practice, and receive editing feedback from the instructor during this process. Presentations and various activities will be conducted in Spanish. 

This course is intended for students who have taken Intermediate Spanish 1 or have equivalent Spanish skills. 

Students will study and analyze the dictatorships of the southern cone (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay) from a comparative and regional perspective, using sources especially appropriate for the study of recent history and memories, such as cinema, literature and music. 

Through the review and viewing of various documentaries and works of art, the aim is for students to recognize some of the impacts generated by the 1973 Coup d'état in Chilean society, emphasizing how it has affected the subjective constitution of societal impunity and the problems in the articulation of a social memory.

The course addresses current problems related to social, political, environmental and technological transformations, using as a common thread the production of dystopian series broadcasted in recent years on Internet audiovisual platforms. 

The purpose of this course is that the student can identify and understand the basic questions, positions and problems of metaphysics. Likewise, the aim is for the student to problematize metaphysical questions and approaches, integrating the relevance of this area of ​​study to their systematic understanding of philosophy.

In this course students are exposed to reading the work of poets and narrators of the 15th century in their historical and cultural context. Provides analytical tools to recognize and identify the topics of melancholy and nostalgia in the poets of the Late Middle Ages. The course looks at the relationship between the medieval authors and the romantic artistic and literary movements of the 19th century.

Theoretical-practical course of the basic cycle whose purpose is for students to understand and explain the relationship between the functioning of the nervous system and human cognition, understanding it as a result of the interaction of widely distributed neural networks. 

The course aims to reflect on the construction of Otherness as a political theoretical problem, through interdisciplinary readings that involve the fields of political philosophy, Latin American studies and feminist theory. We will pay special attention to analyzing the production of different figures of Otherness whose historicity shows a turning point in the rise of nineteenth-century racial and sexual theories about the body and nature.