Taught in Spanish at the Universidad de Chile and may not be offered every semester. Course objectives include: encouraging critical analysis of the cultural impacts of existing development processes, recognizing the need to consider the joint-space variation of sets of knowledge, values, behaviors, and activities that help explain the territory; uunderstanding the process of globalization and implications of these cultural changes on a global level, also the processes of fragmentation, homogenization, de-territorialization, and diaspora that occur in the post-modern world; facilitating the application of geographical knowledge to the solution of real problems.
Department: Geography
Location: Santiago
Credits: 4