SPA334 Contemporary Issues in Chile and Latin America (Signature Seminar; Fall, Spring)

SPA334 Contemporary Issues in Chile and Latin America (Signature Seminar; Fall, Spring)

This traveling* Signature Seminar features on-site lectures and activities in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, and introduces important political, sociological and historical issues in the Southern Cone region. This course is taught in Spanish, with optional tutorials offered in English for students who need extra language support. Students taking this course for SPA credit are not eligible to attend English tutorials or complete assignments in English.

May also be registered as HST 406/IRP/LAS/PSC 428, with the option of attending additional tutorial sessions in English and submitting some written work in English.

This is a required Signature Seminar for all undergraduate students in the Syracuse Santiago program.

SOC380.3 The Family: Continuity and Change (La familia : continuidad y cambio)

This course approaches the concept of family from a sociological perspective, with a particular analytical focus on the Chilean family and its transformations over the past few decades. Students will explore the evolution of the family in its various stages of existence, and its social importance throughout history and in different cultures. El curso se propone dar a conocer los principios políticos, económicos y culturales asociados con la formación y el desarrollo de la sociedad latinoamericana. Los estudiantes discutirán, entre otros temas, la identidad nacional y cultural de Latinoamérica, las crisis del desarrollo y de la modernización, y la aparición de una síntesis social y cultural. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

SOC380.2 Formation and Development of Latin American Culture (Formación y desarrollo de la cultura latinoamericana)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course examines the cultural and historical processes that have shaped a singular yet structurally complex Latin American culture. Topics addressed in this course include the formative cult experience of the Virgin Mary, the political experience of Populism, and the lack of Enlightenment in Latin America. El curso examina los procesos culturales e históricos que han llegado a formar una cultura latinoamericana singular y al mismo tiempo estructuralmente compleja. Los temas a discutir incluyen la experiencia formativa del culto de la Virgen María, la experiencia política del populismo, y la ausencia de la Ilustración en Latinoamérica.

(PUC #SOL127)

SOC380.1 Latin American Culture and Society (Cultura y sociedad de Latinoamérica)

This course aims to familiarize students with the principle political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena associated with the formation and development of Latin American society. Students will discuss national and cultural Latin American identity, the development crisis and modernization, and the beginnings of a new social and cultural synthesis, among other topics. El curso familiariza a los estudiantes con los principales fenómenos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales asociados con la formación y desarrollo de la sociedad latinoamericana. Los estudiantes discutirán la identidad nacional y cultural de Latinoamérica, la crisis del desarrollo, la modernización, y los comienzos de una nueva síntesis social y cultural, además de otros temas relacionados. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (PSB 408)

REL380.3 The Concept of God in Latin American Theology

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. Based on the Christian theological principle of God’s self-revelation in history, Latin American theology incorporates this affirmation and reflects upon it from the perspective of a society that aspires to its liberation. In that sense, Latin American theological thought argues that the transmission of the Christian message must not only take into account fidelity to God’s revelation, but should also consider another theological place: that of the peoples of the continent, who make possible a visible manifestation of God, both for Christians and non-Christians. (TTF060)

REL380.2 Philosophical Anthropology

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. The course is based on a reflection on the meaning of the question of man in the context of the modern cultural context, in a systematic form and at the same time in looking at problems such as the finite condition in relation to man and the anthropological dimension of language, concept of the person, freedom and transcendence. (UC code: FIL 183)

REL280.3 Anthropology of Religion – Antropología de la Religión

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course examines various classic and contemporary anthropological perspectives on religion, framing some key theories and their implications. In particular, it explores the results of the meeting between local religions and orthodoxy of traditional religions (mainly Christianity). It also offers an exploration of these issues through ethnographies in different cultural and geographical contexts. (SOL 160A)

PTG380.1 Experimental Painting Workshop (Taller Experimental de Pintura)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica. Experimental Painting Workshop is a practical course, carried out though certain notions of contemporary art relative to the processes, procedures, techniques, materials and means of abstract painting in the recent decades. The exercises will be developed through audiovisual lectures on the problems of abstract pictorial language. This workshop looks for students to do their work through reflection, research and experimentation, the means and materials that are appropriate to the creation of paintings and projects. (UC code: ART 019)

PSY380.4 Psychology of Personality

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course studies what characterizes us as individuals: our personality. It aims to understand how personality is defined, what influences it receives during its development, and how it can be measured or modified. This course will analyze the fundamentals, principles and methods of the study of personality, its first conceptions, the basic processes of its development and some theories behind it. Also, the course will cover concepts of health and normality. SU students may not earn credit for both this course and PSY 393. (PSB 118)