GEO300.2 Exploring Beijing: The Historical Geography of the Chinese Capital (Fall, Spring)

To understand China is in some sense to understand Beijing, a city that has served as China’s capital for seven hundred years. This course will help you make sense of this fascinating city by surveying the city’s formation and evolution. Few cities in the world have a historical record as long or as well-documented as Beijing’s. This course will rely on carefully selected historical materials to illustrate the changing landscape of Beijing— from Kublai Khan’s Mongol headquarters, to the home of Ming and Qing emperors; from a Republican city to the Red Capital of Communist China.

In addition to classroom time, Beijing is introduced through field trips, film screenings and fiction reading, allowing students to experience the history and geography of this ancient city at close range.

This course can also be registered as HST 300.2.

HST300.2 Exploring Beijing: The Historical Geography of the Chinese Capital (Fall, Spring)

To understand China is in some sense to understand Beijing, a city that has served as China’s capital for seven hundred years. This course will help you make sense of this fascinating city by surveying the city’s formation and evolution. Few cities in the world have a historical record as long or as well-documented as Beijing’s. This course will rely on carefully selected historical materials to illustrate the changing landscape of Beijing—from Kublai Khan’s Mongol headquarters, to the home of Ming and Qing emperors; from a Republican city to the Red Capital of Communist China.

This course can also be registered as GEO 300.2.

ECN300.1 China and the World Economy (Fall, Spring)

The course introduces basics of international economics, together with key issues in China’s foreign economic relations. It uses textbook readings as the theoretical framework to analyze Chinese foreign trade, monetary and exchange rate policies. The course aims to train students to develop their ways of economic thinking in understanding a rising China and its changing economic relations with the rest of the world.

Prereq: [ECN 101 AND ECN 102] OR ECN 203, or equivalent intro to microeconomics and macroeconomics course(s)

SPA480.83 Latin American Cinema and Literature

Taught in Spanish. The course is aimed at analyzing the relationship between cinema and literature in the Latin American context. Key objectives include incorporating both literary knowledge and theory of cinema, analyzing how literature is integrated with film and how narrative works of Chile and Latin American are transformed into visual images, and studying literary processes used in cinema. The course will focus on narratological analysis and theory of literary genres, film theory and theory of film genres, and recurring themes and figures in Latin American film and narrative. Students will reflect on the concepts of adaptation/transposition and intertextuality/intermediality. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (ESO251D)

SPA480.81 Chilean and Latin American Theater

Explore the significant dramatic works of the different periods in the history of Chilean and Latin American Theater from different critical approaches. Analyze the evolution of theater in Latin America in its wide variety of shapes and trends, from naturalism to postmodernity. (UC #LET107H)

SOC380.5 Sociology of Food

Taught in Spanish. This course aims to study human feeding in the field of Social Sciences. During the course, students will analyze different dimensions of feeding as a sociological phenomenon and its applications areas. The goals of the course are to enable the student to perceive feeding as a social phenomenon, to analyze social problems related to feeding using a critical perspective, and to become familiar with sociological research in feeding.

(PUC #SOL169S)

This class is taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

MES380.25 History of the Modern Middle East

Survey of modern Middle Eastern history from 1700 to the Arab Spring. The course will give an overview of the major transformations, challenges, conflicts, and ideas that Middle Eastern societies have encountered over the last three centuries. (GEP 0506)

MEE480.7 Acoustics and Noise Control

Introductory course on acoustics and noise control engineering. The fundamental theory behind acoustics. Each theoretical result is followed by a lecture in which practical implications of the theory is also described. (MCH 4230)

MEE480.6 Thermal Design of Electronic Equipment

Provides students with the theoretical background and analysis methods required to understand heat transfer processes in electronic equipment and to predict the thermal behavior of air and liquid-cooled electronic systems and components. (MCH 4222)

MEE480.5 Autonomous Robotics

Introduce students to the variety of mechanical, electronic and control issues raised by the design and construction of autonomous mobile robots. Each group will receive a complete robot kit consisting of a controller board, miscellaneous sensors and motors, and a variety of LEGO parts. Students will perform a series of focused exercises that will incrementally introduce them to design issues related to mechanics, sensors, motors and control of an autonomous mobile robot. (MCH 4202)