Spanish

This course proposes a critical approach to the political geography of Mexico: a political, analytical and denouncing position, which understands that neither geography univocally conditions the political nor is the political foreign to spatialization. It provides theoretical and methodological tools to understand how power is exercised in and from space, and how that exercise has configured Mexican political geography in its historical, corporal and structural dimension. In this framework, the traditional categories of analysis - such as the State, territory, sovereignty or scale - are questioned from an analysis of power that allows to problematize its constitution, its contingency and its spatial production. This course invites one to think about the geographies of power in Mexico not as fixed and neutral expressions, but as fields crossed by violence, desire, inequality and resistance. The analysis starts from the spatial, products of power relations in constant (re)production, tense by daily struggles that seek to dispute the very meaning of what we call geography.

This course offers a study of Spanish language at the A2 level. Topics may include: grammar, reading and writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary development, written composition.

This course offers a study of Spanish language at the B2 level. Topics may include: grammar, reading and writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary development, written composition.

The course examines the history of Chile from its foundation until present times. It focuses on the history from the social angle and with a feminist, intersectional and decolonial approaches. It identifies three historical periods: Creation of Chile, Welfare and Neoliberal states. The course proposes students to reflect on the role of the social worker in relation to the history of Chile and the importance of knowing this history for working in this profession.

In this course, students detect and enhance the creative resources that contribute to the writing process, and acquire from the reading and writing practice, the basic methodological skills of written narration, from the short story to dramatic writing. Students link the abstract world, ideas and concepts, with concrete reality.

This course is an introduction to the development of the economic ideas from the Ancient until modern times. It portrays the relevance of these ideas and how, and why these ideas were brought about and changed over time. It examines how the characteristics of the economy changed, from the verbal explanations of the political economy and moral philosophy of the 18th century to the formal social science of the late 20th century.

This course discusses the theoretical tools to understand the history of the processes of artistic development in Latin America, specifically during the 19th century.  The course integrates a concept of Latin American art based on a historical, aesthetic, and formal understanding of its transformations and offers students a set of resources for critically analyzing and evaluating contemporary Latin American art in accordance with regional development and the specific characteristics of each country.  It also reviews the necessary tools to learn how to view and analyze a work of art—whether painting, architecture, or sculpture—in terms of its formal qualities and to be able to describe it and formulate the most appropriate questions for a better understanding.

The course covers the following topics: the Age of Enlightenment and Neoclassicism; history of the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in New Spain; the foundation of other art academies in Latin America; the origins of the French Artistic Mission in Paris and its arrival in Brazil in 1816; the independence movements and historical painting; traveling artists in the Americas: Alexander von Humboldt and Mauricio Rugendas, and Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Europe and their repercussions in Latin America.

This course examines the main phyla of marine invertebrates, including their diversity, phylogenetic relationships, morphofunctional characteristics, habitat, and main lines of research in Chile. Practices methodologies used for studying,  including lab sessions and field work, of marine invertebrate in the plancton, in sand and rocky beaches.

Students analyze and evaluate the environmental impacts of human activity on the land in general, and of urban and architectural interventions in particular. The course focuses on architectural and urban planning, taking into account urban and environmental planning criteria.