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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 Mench¿. 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.

Chile is in the advanced stages of demographic and epidemiologic transition, and has the longest life expectancy of any South American country. This course will discuss the social impact of an aging society as well as factors that support or hinder health in an aging population. We will use the socio-ecologic model of public health to better understand the complex factors that support health and longevity. Additionally, students will learn epidemiologic methods for measurement and investigation and gain applied experience analyzing data. Language of instruction: English.

Energy and environmental challenges resulting from the growing size and complexity in Latin American cities. Key issues: way in which public authorities deal with the dynamics of urban growth and complexity; related environmental and energy issues, particularly related to different public transportation models. Systemic approach as seen in Curtiba, Bogota, Santiago, and Medellin. Analysis centering on different approaches used to tackle these related issues; different institutional strategies.

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

May be repeated for credit.

The course, taught in Spanish and welcoming of speakers intermediate and above, will be an exploration into the phenomenology of the 1973 Chilean coup and its aftermath. How has this event been experienced, constructed, and passed on? We will examine literary, artistic, and media representations to understand its layered, diffracted, haunting presence in Chilean politics and daily life across distinct periods: 1973-1989 (return to democracy); 1989-2006 (death of Pinochet); 2006-2019 (widespread protests); 2019-present (constitutional reform movement and fiftieth anniversary). Authors include Diamela Eltit, Willy Thays, Alejandro Zambra, Michael Lazzara, Pedro Lemebel, Patricio Guzmán, and Nona Fernández. With local guests and extracurricular activities available. Primary language: Spanish

This course aims to provide an overview of the relationship between public policies, sexual and reproductive health, gender and social determinants of health within the framework of people's rights in Chile, a country has only recently taken on the issues. Projects include group projects, reading controls and a final paper.nInstructor: Claudia Dides

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.

The course will explore the cultures and histories of Patagonia through literature and film, including historical documents, travel literature, poetry, historical and contemporary short stories and novels, narrative and documentary films to help students become acquainted with the unique geography, heritage and contemporary life of the region. The familiarization with ¿and open discussions around¿ these materials will complement instruction in situ during an extensive visit to Patagonia.

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.

This course will examine the design and evaluation of energy and climate policies in the context of Chile, a developing country that faces various significant environmental, economic and social challenges. The course will explore the dynamics of an effective strategy to reduce the impacts of climate change through development of an energy system that meets both global and local pollution standards, and properly addresses social, political and cultural challenges. Topics include the development of the Chilean energy industry, leading global energy trends, local and global environmental challenges associated with energy, socio-economic challenges such as energy poverty and inequality, and the current challenges Chile faces with its energy and climate policies. A field trip to a local power plant will complement the course's assigned readings and discussions. Primary: Spanish

In this course, taught in Spanish, we will study Chilean theater, both on the page and on stage. Approaching contemporary society through dramatic literature provides us with an opportunity to consider language as both an immediate object of study as well as a medium for analyzing how Chilean society is reflected and refracted on stage. The course will be comprised of class meetings addressing the skills of reading and analyzing theater, two field trips to attend theater performances (exact titles and shows TBD), and the study of Dorfman's La muerte y la doncella/Death and the Maiden. We will read and analyze Dorfman's play and then prepare a staged reading, incorporating the skills honed around theater analysis, voice, and language. Suggested pre-req: Spanish 3 or equivalent.

Chile's strides towards becoming a developed country have engendered high levels of alienation and disaffection among significant sectors of the population. The roots of this apparent paradox of modernization, focusing on newly emerging actors in the Chilean political scene: Mapuche organizations, women's groups, the environmental movement, and new features of the established ones like trade unions and human rights activists.

Elite, mass-media, and popular cultural changes in Chile under conditions of economic and political liberalization. The reception of cultural meanings from the center of the world social system (U.S., EU, and Japan), reformulation to respond to local conditions, and export in the shape of cultural artifacts. Innovative elements rooted in the regional and local culture.

The Chilean economy in five stages, taking into account: the international economic position of Chile; internal economic structures closely related to the inherited historical conditions and to the changing international economic position of the country; and the economic strategies prevalent during the period and the concrete development policies conducted by government authorities. Language of Instruction: Primary: English