This elective course presents a general overview of the main issues on Latin American political development and its current global engagement. The main question we hope to answer is: why have democracy and economic development been so difficult to accomplish in the region? We will focus mainly on Chile, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

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Starting with the pre-Columbian time and the Colonial time in South America. We will speak about Chilean heritage: art, literature, and music from yesterday to today.  The most important objective is to give international student information about Chilean Heritage starting with the wonderful world of Pre-Columbian art, Incas, and the arrival of the Spanish people in our colonial time. The lights of art during different parts of Chilean history., the biggest interpretation we had in art, literature, music, cinema, and theater. Our heritage is tangible or intangible we have a lot to take. We will see the problems of heritage today in Chile that are similar to other parts of the world. The world is changing concepts are getting different and we see where is Chile in this new system in clime change, traffic of art, fake art and so on.

CMG471-370

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Online classes on the first Wednesday of each month, and the rest of each month the teacher sends pre-recorded material, readings, and homework to students (self-paced work).

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The American Culture Through Literature and Film course offers an overview of US history and culture by looking at examples of major fiction and documentary films, as well as literature (American short stories).  It seeks to give students a sense of how the US came into being, and how it changed over time.  The course provides cultural snapshots in time, with the aid of film and literature, so that students can explore the different cultural periods of US history.  Students discuss major themes and topics, and in the process come to appreciate the way cultural texts, in general, can be employed to analyze key cultural and/or social phenomena that are relevant and insightful.  Students become familiar with and understand the major figures, movements, and events that have come to define US history; they will also be able to ask and answer questions concerning processes of cultural and social control (i.e. controlling processes) within the context of US history and society.

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Culture and Power: Mechanisms of Social and Cultural Control is an interdisciplinary course about how we are controlled and dominated by increasingly sophisticated, and often invisible, cultural and social mechanisms that work to influence or subvert the way we see, understand, and act in the world.  In Anthropology, these mechanisms are known as controlling processes.  It is also a course about resisting, inventing counter-controls, and fighting back.  This is a course that draws from different anthropologies, philosophy, linguistics, and from literature, and film.  After learning the fundamental theories and concepts related to controlling processes, students explore and compare different cultural and institutional mechanisms of control in different areas of society (economy, science, technology, the media, the state, etc.).  The course is also designed for students to apply the concepts and ideas developed throughout the semester to the contemporary situation unfolding in Chile.  Furthermore, students identify, analyze and write an essay about a specific controlling process that affects their own lives. 

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Con este curso se busca a través del pensamiento crítico, que los alumnos puedan comprender, apreciar y familiarizarse con el pensamiento judío moderno y contemporáneo, a través de un proceso de investigación que recorre el diagnóstico de la crisis de la modernidad y el tránsito hacia una ética de la responsabilidad en autores del siglo XX.

Se pretende que los alumnos aprecien los valores y enseñanzas de la filosofía y cómo ésta influye en sus propias vidas y carrera profesional.

VA-01-0310

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Este curso busca facilitar a los y las estudiantes una reflexión interdisciplinaria sobre cómo aproximarnos al estudio de las capacidades requeridas por las personas para conseguir aquello que valoran ser y hacer, es decir, las oportunidades con que cuentan. Mediante el examen de estudios de caso, presentados por distintos profesores invitados, se procederá a analizar las dimensiones del Enfoque de Capacidades, las cuales permitirán a los y las estudiantes contar con un marco analítico para el estudio empírico de la Justicia Social en distintos escenarios en los que emergen algunas de las más importantes formas de vulnerabilidad en nuestro país en la actualidad, a saber: cambio climático, discapacidades, género, infancia, vejez, anomia y falta de sentido. Conceptos cómo: “capacidad”, “libertad”, “agencia”, “funcionamiento”, “oportunidad” serán enlazados en una teoría y pragmática orientada a la Justicia Social. Por ello, el curso se sustenta en una mirada ética a problemas complejos que ponen en cuestión nuestros sistemas de valores, proponiendo que cada estudiante pueda escoger un tema de Justicia Social para investigar a lo largo del curso.

A través de un proceso de facilitación de aprendizajes basado en metodologías como el diálogo y la pregunta, se busca activar los saberes y conocimientos previos de los y las estudiantes, para que puedan realizar una síntesis personal que les permita aproximarse a temáticas sociales desde un enfoque filosófico sólidamente basado en evidencia, que ha producido los cimientos de iniciativas como el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, y la medición de la pobreza multidimensional en Chile, a partir del año 2015. Para conseguir dichos aprendizajes el curso sitúa a la persona desde una perspectiva integral, que “supone tomar en consideración su multidimensionalidad, la cual incluye aspectos cognitivos, afectivos, sociales, políticos y comunitarios” (Friz, 2016, pp.19. en: Modelo Educativo de la Universidad de Chile, 2018).

VA-01-0327-129

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El curso aborda la actualidad del mundo árabe, partiendo de una perspectiva crítica del orden colonial impuesto en la zona desde mediados del siglo XIX, y concentrándose particularmente en dos casos que hoy son de gran visibilidad en la prensa internacional, Túnez y Palestina. Su contribución a la formación integral de los estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile está en aportar conocimiento sobre la política de una región sobre la cual se sabe muy poco y que es vista como lejana en términos geográficos y culturales. La actual crisis sanitaria, ha impactado en todo el mundo y se verá cómo los países que se analizan como casos, han debido compatibilizar una gestión sanitaria de la pandemia con sus conflictos políticos históricos.

VA-01-0327-156

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Chilean History and Culture through Literature and Film is a course that provides an overview of Chile's recent history, utilizing literary texts and films to explore different themes and topics related to Chilean culture and politics. Students discuss Chilean films and literary texts from the late 1960s to the early 2020s in order to better understand and contextualize some of the main events and discourses that have characterized Chilean society during the past fifty years. The course analyzes several key periods of Chile's recent history, including the Unidad Popular era, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, the anti-dictatorial social protests of the 1980s, the Transition/Concertación era, the post-Concertación era (the rise of anti-neoliberalism movements), and the social uprising of 2019 (and the process for a new constitution). Students apply critical thinking skills to analyze the recent past and will improve their understanding of a highly complex society undergoing rapid change.

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