Spanish

The course aims to acquire skills in the management of the fundamental contents of Public International Law in Spanish. It develops the main topics of this matter, such as concept, international treaties and other sources, subjects of international law -especially the State in the international legal order and international organizations (United Nations Organization)-, law of the sea, human rights, the the international responsibility of the State and the individual, the use of force in international law and humanitarian law, among others.
 

This course offers a study of concepts, definitions, and applications of nonlinear dynamics. Topics include: dimensional systems and bifurcations; systems in two-dimensions-- analysis in phase space, limited cycles, and their bifurcations; Lorenz equations and chaos; 1-D maps and route to chaos by period doubling, renormalization; fractals and strange attractors.

This course explores the concepts of social justice, citizenship, and democracy and their relationship to the disciplinary debate and professional practice of social work. It examines contemporary debates on social justice, citizenship, and democracy as well as their implications for current social, economic, and cultural challenges.

This course analyzes the history and dialectology of Latin American Spanish, with special focus on Chilean history and linguistic documentation of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Topics include: the concept of Latin American Spanish-- unity and diversity, Latin American Spanish and Atlantic Spanish; the influence of Andalusia and genetic matrices; diastratic-diatopic variation and zoning; historical aspects-- periodization of Latin American Spanish; koineization and standardization processes; linguistic contact-- indigenous substrata and immigrant languages.

This course critically examines the topic of gender violence including historical dimensions, how and why it happens, and the diversity of social and institutional responses that have sought and seek to eradicate it. 

This course offers a study of consumer decision-making processes. Topics include: consumer behavior; external factors to consumer behavior; internal factors to consumer behavior; types of purchase and decision-making processes; consumer society.

This course offers an introduction to the techniques of locating critical points in infinite-dimensional spaces in order to understand the variational formulations of mechanics in physics, including the principles of minimum action that give rise to the Euler-Lagrange equations and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Topics include: calculation in spaces of functions; necessary conditions; change of variables-- Hamilton-Jacobi; sufficient conditions.

This class teaches female students to dance merengue, salsa, cha cha, rock and roll, and cueca. Students take the techniques learned and apply them to individual and couples dances.

This course examines transitional justice measures implemented in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to face the grave human rights violations committed during the military dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, and their relationship with the transition to democracy in these countries between 1983 and 2014.