Spanish

The course focuses on five prominent Chilean authors who write fiction based on historical Chilean women. It explores the relationship between literature and historical reality, with writers assuming very different ways of understanding that relationship. Topics include: the new historical novel in Chilean literature; representation of the female historical subject in the current Chilean novel; the concepts of popular consciousness, memory, and transtextuality; the relationship between history and memory.

The course discusses the main theoretical aspects and empirical findings on learning and memory processes in humans. It examines human memory and learning from a behavioral, cognitive, and neuroscientific perspective with a special emphasis on current research trends and topics. 

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic User, Breakthrough Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course examines characteristics of Mexican literature in the first half of the 19th century, between the beginning of Independence to the Restored Republic, relating literary discourse and trends with political events and the cultural panorama. Topics covered include: "encyclopedist thinking" and neoclassical rhetoric; the neoclassicists and romanticists (origins, characteristics of nationalistic poetry, the Academy of Letran); life in Mexico; prose. Authors covered may include: J. J. Fernández de Lizardi, Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza, Ignacio Rodríguez Galván and Fernando Calderón; Guillermo Prieto; Vicente Riva Palacio; Luis G. Inclán; Manuel Payno; Ignacio Manuel Altamirano; José Joaquín Pesado; José Justo Gómez.