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Intensive sequence integrating language, culture, and sociopolitics of Chile. Emphasis is on achieving advanced proficiency in oral and written discourse including formal and informal situations, presentational language, and appropriate forms in academic and professional contexts. Prerequisite: one year of college Spanish, or 11 or 21B if taken more than two quarters prior to arriving in Santiago.

Intensive sequence integrating language, culture, and sociopolitics of Chile. Emphasis is on achieving advanced proficiency in oral and written discourse including formal and informal situations, presentational language, and appropriate forms in academic and professional contexts. Prerequisite: 11 or 21B within two quarters of arriving in Santiago, or 12 or 22B.

Key figures in poetry, narrative fiction, theater, and testimonio, such as Mistral, Garro, Lispector, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, Eltit and Menchú. Close reading technique. Issues raised in literary texts that reflect the evolution of the condition of women in Latin America during the period. Topics include gender differences and relationships, tradition versus transgression, relationship between changes in the status of women and other egalitarian transformations, and women writers and the configuration of literary canons.

History and challenges of global work as well as on the technologies that support it. Topics include strategic reasons for distributing work, challenges associated with geographic distance, time zone differences, language and cultural differences, and the implications of using various collaboration technologies to work together across national boundaries. Examination of group dynamics, interpersonal relationships, how to structure distributed work, how to work more effectively as a global team member, and how to lead more effectively in these situations. Guest speakers from and/or visits to international firms located in and around Santiago for discussions about experiences in managing and working on global teams.

Prerequisite: two years of college Spanish or equivalent placement.May be repeated for credit.

Focus on one of the following topics based on the interest of the student: 1) Team Dynamics; 2) Technology & Work; 3) Topics in Organizational Behavior. Students conduct review of relevant research on the topic selected and, for 4 units, conduct original empirical research of their own (such as interviews with relevant people).

May be repeated for credit.

Physical, ecological, and human geography of Chile. Perceptions of the Chilean territory and technologies of study. Flora, fauna, and human adaptations to regional environments. Guest lectures; field trips; workshops.

Major themes of 19th-century Latin American history, including independence from Spain, the emergence of nation states, and the development of a new social, political, and economic order.