HFS493 Youth and Family Practicum: The Global Workplace (Fall, Spring)

HFS493 Youth and Family Practicum: The Global Workplace (Fall, Spring)

Open only to Human Development and Family Science majors and minors who have committed to an internship by the published deadline. This course is designed to guide students’ professional development during experience in the London workforce. Participation in the course will equip students with the practical skills needed to thrive in a globalised world of work—as well as the theoretical background and critical thinking abilities necessary to reflect on their position in that interconnected system.

This course must be taken for a letter grade. Internship placements typically require a commitment of two days per week. Students initially registered for BPS400 and update their registration following the Add Deadline once abroad.

Course Restriction: Open only to Human Development and Family Science majors and minors who have committed to an internship by the published deadline.

ECN336 Healthcare in Europe: A Comparative Approach (Fall, Spring)

A fierce academic, social, political, and economic debate is raging about how healthcare systems should be organized. Policy experts want to learn from international best practices and apply ideas at home that have worked effectively elsewhere. This course will give you a firsthand understanding of how healthcare systems function throughout the world. We will study systems in the European countries, comparing and contrasting them with the US model. examining each from economic, financial, and national and local public policy perspectives.

We will link our findings with theories and empirical evidence to assess the quality of the healthcare systems from the point of view of efficiency and equity. Economic principles will be used to demonstrate why healthcare reforms may reach or fall short of the governments’ stated goals. We’ll analyze in depth the concept of universality, short- and long-term challenges, successful and unsuccessful health policies, and why many systems are unsustainable—and then develop possible solutions.

Prereq: ECN 101 or ECN 203, or equivalent background in microeconomics

PSC436 Healthcare in Europe: A Comparative Approach (Fall, Spring)

A fierce academic, social, political, and economic debate is raging about how healthcare systems should be organized. Policy experts want to learn from international best practices and apply ideas at home that have worked effectively elsewhere. This course will give you a firsthand understanding of how healthcare systems function throughout the world. We will study systems in the European countries, comparing and contrasting them with the US model. examining each from economic, financial, and national and local public policy perspectives.

We will link our findings with theories and empirical evidence to assess the quality of the healthcare systems from the point of view of efficiency and equity. Economic principles will be used to demonstrate why healthcare reforms may reach or fall short of the governments’ stated goals. We’ll analyze in depth the concept of universality, short- and long-term challenges, successful and unsuccessful health policies, and why many systems are unsustainable—and then develop possible solutions.

This course may also be registered as ECN 336. Please note prerequisite below. 

Prereq: ECN 101 or ECN 203, or equivalent background in microeconomics

ARC500.1 Genealogies of the City (Fall, Spring)

In this course, we will examine and compare the development of London in relation to three European cities, paradigmatic of the radical transformations of urban environment from the 17th century onwards: Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Through notions of biopolitics, political economy and architectural and urban history, we will explore the genealogies of the public in the city and of the private in the house. The content will address the role of planning in the formation of the public realm, and as a response by public and private authorities and entities to the emerging problematics of population.

The classes will be organised around a series of weekly seminars, and a number of site visits in London. The seminars will include the facilitation of readings by the students of a series of texts that explore both the theoretical framework and the history of the city, from authors that include John Summerson, Elizabeth Mckellar, Michel Foucault, Hanna Arendt, Leonardo Benevolo, David Harvey, and Pier Vitorio Aurelli. The assignments consist of a series of drawings—maps, axonometrics, sections—that critically explore the formation and transformation of each city.

Enrollment priority is given to students admitted to the London architecture program , then Architecture minors if space allows.

DES322 Made in Italy: Business, Craftsmanship, and Branding Success (Spring)

Registration priority to Design Program students. Developments and marketing trends in the Italian design industry and the production of luxury accessories. Special attention devoted to different aspects of traditional artisanship and specific marketing strategies to achieve success.

Italy provides models of design excellence in various business industries. Made, styled, and designed in Italy has become synonymous with high-quality products and processes. This course will take you on a journey through Italian excellence to examine how Italian products combine beauty and functionality for global commercial success. Through a series of conceptual frameworks, case studies, guest speakers, field study and site visits, you have an opportunity to compare and contrast the Italian business model (“Italian Creative Entrepreneurial Craftsmanship”) with prevalent models in the U.S., Europe and Asia. You will then integrate and critically evaluate these different approaches in case analysis and marketing projects.

Meets with INB322.

This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.

SPA424 Dictatorships, Human Rights and Historical Memory in Chile and the Southern Cone (Fall, Spring)

This course is taught in Spanish, with optional tutorials offered in English for students who need extra language support. Students who attend English tutorials or complete assignments in English are not eligible for SPA credit.
This course focuses on the military coup of 1973 and the systematic implementation of violence and fear as an effective method of control over society and as a formula for stability during the military government of Augusto Pinochet. Within this context, marked by the pain and suffering of certain sectors of Chilean society, this course aims to study this time period and evaluate its significances and contributions to the configuration of social, political and economic aspects of Chile today, highlighting the role of U.S. foreign policy in the installation of the Pinochet government as well as the U.S. role in the issue of human rights in Chile. Includes site visits to a former public prison for political detainees and other historical memory sites and institutions in Santiago (these visits are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays).

Cross-listed with HST/IRP/LAS/PSC 424/PAI 624. Additional work is required of graduate students who register at the 600-level.

Prereq: SPA 202, four semesters of college-level Spanish, or the equivalent

Counts as an IDEA course requirement for Syracuse students. 

LAS380.36 History of Colonial Latin America

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. Students will analyze and interpret the social, economic, political and cultural processes that were key in the historical configuration of Latin America during the colonial period in the preferential viceregal regions Mexico and Peru) during the period from the end of the 16th century until the beginning of the 19th century. The course will pay special attention to the processes of constructing colonial societies, from rural to urban, and will review:

  • Material conditions (agriculture, mining, and trade) and economic and demographic dynamics
  • Spanish, indigenous, and African actors
  • Social and interethnic relations
  • Biological and cultural interbreeding
  • Forms of life
  • The introduction of Catholicism, its relationship to indigenous cults, and the forms and practices that religiousness acquired
  • The experiences of spatial and social mobility
  • The administrative order and the impact of the Bourbon reforms during the eighteenth century.

Attention will also be given to the forms and practices of power, at both the imperial and viceregal levels. Along with acquainting students with the historical development of colonial Latin America, the course seeks to understand the various historiographic approaches to the period, to apply current conceptual tools to the study of the colonial history of the continent, and to analyze the sources of the era. (PUC #IHI0222)

May also be registered as HST 380.36.

(PUC #IHI0222)

HST380.36 History of Colonial Latin America

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. Students will analyze and interpret the social, economic, political and cultural processes that were key in the historical configuration of Latin America during the colonial period in the preferential viceregal regions Mexico and Peru) during the period from the end of the 16th century until the beginning of the 19th century. The course will pay special attention to the processes of constructing colonial societies, from rural to urban, and will review:

  • Material conditions (agriculture, mining, and trade) and economic and demographic dynamics
  • Spanish, indigenous, and African actors
  • Social and interethnic relations
  • Biological and cultural interbreeding
  • Forms of life
  • The introduction of Catholicism, its relationship to indigenous cults, and the forms and practices that religiousness acquired
  • The experiences of spatial and social mobility
  • The administrative order and the impact of the Bourbon reforms during the eighteenth century.

Attention will also be given to the forms and practices of power, at both the imperial and viceregal levels. Along with acquainting students with the historical development of colonial Latin America, the course seeks to understand the various historiographic approaches to the period, to apply current conceptual tools to the study of the colonial history of the continent, and to analyze the sources of the era. (PUC #IHI0222)

May also be registered as LAS 380.36.

BIO380.5 Native Chilean Flora

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester.  In this course you’ll learn the main characteristics of the native flora of Chile, their biology, taxonomic classification, geographic distribution and economic and phytogeographic importance.

The goals of the course are to:

  1. Differentiate the vegetative and reproductive cycles of the main species of the native communities.
  2. Recognize vegetative and vegetative morphological characteristics, that allow the identification of the main native species.
  3. Compare the phenomorphology of the main native species.
  4. Differentiate the taxonomic groups to which the most important species belong in Chile.
  5. Phylogenetically classify the main taxonomic groups present in the flora of Chile.
  6. Characterize the main families of native vascular plants.
  7. Construct dichotomous keys to identify the main native species.
  8. Acquire a suitable scientific language that facilitates the study of the subject matter of the course.
  9. Explain the origin and factors that have determined the current composition and distribution of the main plant communities of the country.
  10. Recognize the structure and classification of the forest communities of Chile.
  11. Describe the main plant communities of Chile.
  12. Identify the main morph-physiological adaptations of the woody species of the Chilean forests.
  13. Indicate the main climatic, topographical, flowering, fruiting, and disturbance patterns of Chile’s temperate forests.
  14. Know the importance and location of wild protected areas by the state in Chile.
  15. Study mechanisms for the use, commercialization and sustainable use of native species used by humanity.

(PUC #AGC220)