GEO380.14 Political Geography

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. In this course we analyze the structural changes experienced by geocultures from the last century. We will study different cultural spaces through the main global actors and also the regional and local actors. Prerequisite: world geography course. (UC code: GEO 2001)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course will help students to understand the spatial aspects of productive activity and how economic events are related to the intervention of men as transforming agents and to geographic spaces which may facilitate or impede the developments of human activity. Prerequisite: introductory economics course. (UC code: GEO 2012)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course provides an overview of Latin America, much of its geographical location and its natural environment with its contrasts. We will analyze the evolution of the population, economic development, and finally the process of integration (UC code: GEO 2900)

The course provides a theoretical framework for the study of the environment and sustainable development. It also provides methodological tools for the integrated study of the environment and sustainable development (e.g. environmental inventory, ecological planning, territorial indicators of sustainability, human development index, pressure-state-response indicator, and etcetera.) El curso provee un marco teórico para facilitar el estudio del ambiente y el desarrollo sostenible. También se proveerán instrumentos metodológicos para un estudio integrado del ambiente y del desarrollo sostenible (e.g., inventario ambiental, planificación ecológica, indicadores territoriales de la sostenibilidad, índice del desarrollo humano, indicador de presión-estado-reacción, etc.) Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

This course is an introductory study of the urban problem, from the point of view of geography. Topics include: spatial and temporal connotations of a city, urbanization and historical evolution of the cities, the formation of cities in Spain, Chile, and colonial Latin America, migration and city growth, urban geography, contemporary problems. El curso es una introducción al estudio del problema urbano desde el punto de vista geográfico. Los temas incluyen: las connotaciones espaciales y temporales de una ciudad, la urbanización y evolución histórica de las ciudades, la formación de las ciudades de España, Chile y de la Latinoamérica colonial, la migración y el auge de la ciudad, la geografía urbana, y los problemas contemporáneos. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.