SPA480.86 Spanish Sociolinguistics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course will introduce you to the Sociolinguistics of the Spanish language through immersion in the terms and techniques that support it. Your study will focus on the description and analysis of the language in use, in its social context, with special attention given to the Spanish of Chile and the Americas. It will also familiarize you with the methods and applications to achieve a sociolinguistic analysis of Spanish in particular.

Your goals in the course will be to

Reflect on how language works in its social context.
Acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge that allows the applicability of the discipline.
Relate the theory to the reality of spoken Spanish of Chile and the Americas.
Apply the sociolinguistic methodology to studies of spoken Spanish.

This course meets the Spanish linguistics requirement for Syracuse Spanish majors.

(PUC #LET070E)

ART380.1 Art and Politics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you will develop the ability to recognize links between the fields and contexts of the artistic and the political through a selection of works of contemporary art, audiovisual materials, and texts.

Our goals in the class are to enable you to

Describe the intersections and connections between the spheres of art and politics.
Analyze the practices, works, and genres of contemporary art and the philosophical and cultural matrixes of the political.
Identify affinities and differences between the artworks or projects analyzed in each unit of the course and those of other artists and critical texts from the same period.

(PUC #ARO116T)

MAT280.3 Statistics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course provides basic knowledge of probability to apply statistics in practical problems. In this way, you will develop a general vision of statistics, acquiring a conceptual basis for subsequent courses.

The goals of this course are to

Acquire an overview of statistics, applied to daily life.
Acquire the basic tools for the exploratory analysis of data, oriented to predetermined objectives or to the discovery of interesting patterns in the data.
Acquire basic concepts of probability, aimed at drawing conclusions or making decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
Study some methods of statistical inference applied to simple cases.
Obtain a good conceptual basis for later courses in quantitative methods.

(PUC #EYP230P)

Course Restriction: Matriculated Syracuse students may not earn credit for both this course and MAT 221.

LAT180.1 Latin I

Taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. This course will allow you to understand basic morphological and syntactic structures and become familiar with simple texts that become progressively more complex, using the much-respected text Lingua Latina. Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata, which is entirely in Latin.

(PUC #LET1035)

FST380.1 Food Culture and Security

In this course, you will learn to describe the social process of feeding, the diversity of its cultural norms, and the economic and social factors that determine food consumption and safety on a national and regional level. The course provides the fundamental elements for analysis of the problems related to food security and sovereignty in specific social contexts. The class will help provide the knowledge and tools that allow the nutritionist to implement community interventions, considering the cultural, socioeconomic and territorial dimensions of human feeding.

Our goals in the course include:

To address food-nutrition problems of individuals, groups and communities, within the framework of public health policies and other social protection policies, with a humanistic and interdisciplinary approach, considering local availability, access to food and social determinants of health, facilitating the active participation of the community, in a given territory respecting ethical and bioethical principles.
To analyze human nutrition from a historical perspective, with emphasis on social and cultural dimensions, under the food security approach, recognizing the role of food in human evolution in its biological and sociocultural aspects.
To analyze food security in Chile, its contributing economic, social and cultural factors and the policies that affect them, as well as the diversity of food practices, considering current historical conditions and their impact on populations at the individual and collective level.

(UdC #NU05029)

PSC380.26 International Migrations in Latin America

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course addresses contemporary migrations as inseparable but multidimensional processes of the political economy of globalization. We will discuss the most relevant theoretical paradigms on the subject, the impacts of these processes in the sending and receiving countries, as well as the theoretical approaches to the problem of the incorporation of migrants and their cultural implications.

This course will provide you with an understanding of the migration phenomenon from a multidimensional perspective and in close relation with the processes of accumulation and governance at a global level. Specifically, you will be able to:

Explain the main theoretical approaches that have contributed to the interpretations of the different dimensions of the contemporary migratory processes.
Evaluate the real and potential functionality of emigration in the integral development of the societies involved.
Analyze the effects of emigration on states and national policies in areas such as the emergence of transnational societies and regions, multiculturalism and the relativization of citizenship.
Evaluate the socio-economic, cultural and ethical implications of the growing role of Chile as a “receiving country” of immigration.

(PUC #ICP0337)

PSC180.2 Introduction to Comparative Politics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you will analyze various theoretical approaches used in the comparative study of political systems and the main methodological problems that they encounter. You will be introduced to the theory of groups, the elite, class systems, structural functionalism, and political culture. We will discuss the nature and dynamics of change in contemporary political regimes in the contexts of modernization and development and examine political change in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian regimes.

Course restriction: Matriculated Syracuse students may not earn credit for both this course and PSC 123.

PSC380.27 Indigenous Politics in Latin America

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. This course covers a wide range of topics related to ethnic politics in Latin America, focusing on the main theoretical and empirical debates on the political participation of Latin American indigenous peoples. Thus you will learn about topics that include political participation of indigenous peoples, domestic and international ethnic social mobilization, and the relationship between indigenous peoples and extractive industries.

After taking this course, students should be able to:

Analyze the most relevant theories and concepts in the study of ethnic diversity in Latin America.
Critically analyze the main theoretical and methodological trends in the politicization of identity in Latin America.
Express critical judgments based on the investigation of theories, empirical evidence, and methodology related to the emergence and politicization of indigenous identity in Latin America.

For matriculated Syracuse Political Science majors, students, this course may count toward the Race, Gender & Class or the Comparative Politics concentration.

(PUC #ICP0147)

PST380.1 Introduction to Public Policy

This course is taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you will study the fundamental concepts for understanding the public sphere and the analysis of social, health, educational, and environmental and energy public policy. From an interdisciplinary perspective, you will analyze the nature of the public sector, the political keys to understand public affairs, the different stages of the public policy cycle, and the keys to understanding the evaluation of policies and programs. Finally, you will analyze some of the most relevant topics and dilemmas of the current debate on public policy.

Our goals in the course are to:

Analyze the conceptual foundations for understanding public policies.
Identify the fundamental concepts that describe the public sphere.
Analyze the relationship between politics and public policies.
Identify the different phases of a policy and the central elements of each stage.
Apply the concepts and theories to the analysis of the current most relevant and challenging sectorial policies and programs.

(PUC GOB1001)

WGS 380.1 Gender, Power and Inequality

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. This course will allow you to explore issues related to gender, politics, and bodies from a broad perspective. These concepts have emerged and evolved through the theoretical development of the fields of women’s studies, gender studies, and queer theory. The course will address the various moments in their development. Students will be able to understand the phenomena presented through the concepts provided by various authors and to relate the concept of gender to its role in problems or situations that we face in our daily lives.

Our goals will include:

To examine concept of gender form the theory, applying it as a theoretical and abstract concept to contemporary and concrete problems.
To explain the concept of gender based on the emergence of gender studies, the description of its symbolic construction and current theoretical-methodological contributions in this area.
To discuss the tensions between gender, politics, and everyday life from an analytical and comprehensive perspective regarding the social phenomenon.
To apply basic rules of situation analysis in order to pose possible solutions in the areas of gender, power, and daily life.