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    Universidad de Chile
    Santiago, Chile

    Located in the capital Santiago, the 175-year old Universidad de Chile is the country’s oldest and main institution of higher education. In the areas of teaching and research the Universidad de Chile develops about 30% off all scientific and technological research at the national level. It is an autonomous, public and national university.

    Since its founding in 1842, the Universidad de Chile’s faculty members and its alumni have been a key element in the development of new laws, new institutions and the frame of Chile’s social, political, economic, artistic and cultural system. The university, during this period, has had a strong influence in Latin American countries by way of training their human resources.

    Among its first Presidents, was the Venezuelan humanist and jurist Professor Andrés Bello (1843-1865), and the Polish scientist & mineralogist Professor Ignacio Domeyko (1867-1883). Located in Santiago, with 19 Chilean Presidents being distinguished alumni. Two Chilean alumni were Nobel Prize winners in Literature – Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1971). The University of Chile has an annual budget of approximately US$ 1.2 billion.

    Website: https://www.uchile.cl/english

    VSE Season 2, 2021-22: Courses offered by Universidad de Chile


    Application Deadline

    Students must submit an application to the VSE Central Office before:
    Feb 22, 2022 12:00 noon Hong Kong Time (UTC+8):


    Course Information

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    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentSchool of Philosophy and Humanities and Institute of International Studies
    Course TeacherMiguel Ángel López, Andrés Dockendorf
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassMar 2022 (TBA)
    Last Day of ClassJul 2022 (TBA)
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeTue, Wed 1800-1930
    Time ZoneUTC-3
    RestrictionsThis 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.
    Points to Note for StudentsCourse recordings are available for VSE students.
    Course OutlineDownload
    Number of Credits5
    Offering DepartmentInstitute of Public Affairs
    Course TeacherProf. Roberto Funk
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassMar 2022 (TBA)
    Last Day of ClassJul 2022 (TBA)
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous/Asynchronous
    Meeting TimeMon, Wed 1045-1215
    Time ZoneUTC-3
    RestrictionsThis course is presented as a professional development workshop, whose general objective is to work with the students the theoretical and practical skills necessary to analyze the situation policy through written documents and oral presentations. With that object ahead. The course proposes the review of key elements for a correcta política análisis of the contingente and prospectiva: conceptual clarity, analytical rigor and formal structure, deepening interest in the national and international political situation. The participants of the course will be confronted, in an essentially practical way, with the systematic analysis of political events, with the purpose of acquiring analytical skills that allow defining and interpret these events.
    Points to Note for StudentsCourse recordings are available for VSE students.
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits4
    Offering DepartmentSchool of Law
    Course TeacherAna María Moure Pino
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassMar 2022 (TBA)
    Last Day of ClassJul 2022 (TBA)
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous
    Meeting TimeTue, Thu 1110-1220
    Time ZoneUTC-3
    RestrictionsThis course adopts a multidisciplinary approach to study European and Latin-American regional integration from the beginnings, to the current situation and future challenges. This with a predominantly legal and institutional emphasis but including also political, historical and economical perspectives as to comprehensibly understand this matter. In the other hand, this course proposes to study these processes of regional integration through a comparative approach, with regards to the objectives of its creation, institutions and common policies.
    Points to Note for StudentsThere will be a recommended list of bibliography that the student is expected to read.
    Course OutlineDownload
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentSchool of Business and Economics
    Course TeacherDr. María Teresa Ruiz-Tagle
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of Class7 Mar 2022
    Last Day of ClassJul 2022 (TBA)
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous/Asynchronous
    Meeting TimeMon 1400-1520; Wed 1400-1520
    Time ZoneUTC-3
    RestrictionsThe main objective of this course is to analyse the economic and institutional causes of environmental problems. The course starts by introducing the field and its policy challenges, and by analysing the question of why do people pollute or overuse natural resources. The course then turns towards the design and assessment of environmental regulation and policy to address the previous matters. The analytical foundations of market failure and externalities, as well as the role of property rights, are at the core of the first part, together with the economic theory of environmental policy.
    Points to Note for StudentsN/A
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits5
    Offering DepartmentInstitute of Public Affairs
    Course TeacherProf. Francisco Zambrano
    Language of InstructionSpanish
    First Day of ClassMar 2022 (TBA)
    Last Day of ClassJul 2022 (TBA)
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronous/Asynchronous
    Meeting TimeTue, Fri 1500-1630
    Time ZoneUTC-3
    RestrictionsEl curso aborda las implicancias del proceso constituyente que vive Chile y la Institucionalidad que acompaña dicho proceso, así como las diversas variables que lo impulsaron.
    Points to Note for StudentsN/A
    Course OutlineTBA
    Number of Credits5
    Offering DepartmentSchool of Arts
    Course TeacherJohanna Theile B.
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassMar 2022 (TBA)
    Last Day of ClassJune 2022 (TBA)
    Course ComponentLecturePre-recorded Lecture
    Mode of TeachingSynchronousAsynchronous
    Meeting TimeTue 0930 - 1100 (on first Tuesday of every month only)New video to be available each week, self-paced
    Time ZoneUTC-3
    RestrictionsThe most important objective is to give student information about Chilean Heritage starting with the wonderful world of the Pre-Columbian art, Incas, and the arrival of the Spanish people our colonial time. The lights of art during different parts of the Chilean history., the biggest interpretation we had in art, literature, music, cinema, theater. Our heritage is tangible or intangible we have a lot to took.
    We will see the problems of heritage today in Chile what are like other parts of the world. The world is changing concepts are getting different and we see where Chile in this new system in clime change is, traffic of art, fake art and so one.
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