SPA480.79 History of Chile and Continental America – 15th and 16th Centuries

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course gives a vision of the process of European overseas expansion between 12th and 16th centuries, starting with a background of the Middle Ages, as an introduction, and focusing on the discovery and conquest of Continental America with special attention to Spain. Cross-listed with HST 380.10 (IHV 0100)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. Study the poetry of Pablo Neruda in three areas: formal, intertextual and thought. These areas are applied to various points in the production of the author: juvenile romanticism, impure poetry, didacticism and neoclassicism. Each student must develop and communicate their own readings of poems in the context of language and culture in general. (LET 273E)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. The course reviews recent Chilean autobiographies discussing their fictional budgets and identity formulations while paying attention to the transformations in the notion of self that one suffers in the new Chilean socio-cultural context that is linked to globalization. (LET 250E)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course looks at the historical development of the documentary film in Chile to the current day, identifies common themes in different times, and looks at critical theory on the Chilean documentary. Cross-listed with LAS 380.27. (ESO 246D)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course looks at the evolution of cinema as an artistic language and examines genres, trends and the most significant directors of world cinema. (ESO 2192)

Estudio de la realidad hispanoamericana a fines del siglo XVII y principios del XIX?las reformas borbónicas, el estado imperial español, y las guerras de independencia. Students will study the history of Latin America at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th, including the Bourbon reforms, the fragmentation of the Spanish empire, and the wars of independence.

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course provides a look at the fundamentals of Chilean and Latin American narrative from the 19th and 20th centuries. We will study foundational texts starting with naturalism and leading to post-avant-garde literature (fantasy, magical realism, the historical novel, the postmodern novel). Representative authors include Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges and Jose Donoso. (UC code: LET105H)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. This course offers a solid foundation in phonetics and phonology, with a special emphasis on Castilian Spanish. Students will learn to analyze and produce the sounds of Chilean Spanish, break down and synthesize key phonological phenomena, processes, and relationships, and explore how society interacts with phonetic-phonological phenomena. Learning will take place through independent reading, lectures, practical exercises, solo projects, and interactive class discussions. Assessment includes reading checks, tests, and hands-on assignments.

Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll be able to:

1. Conduct auditory and computer-assisted analysis of the linguistic sounds of Chilean Spanish, breaking down their distinctive features and producing them orally.
2. Phonetically transcribe the sounds of Chilean Spanish.
3. Examine the main phonological phenomena, processes, and relationships in Chilean Spanish.
4. Assess the connection between phonetic-phonological phenomena and society.

Course contents:

• Core Principles of Phonetics and Phonology
• Consonants
• Vowels
• Prosody and phonological processes
• Socio-phonetic variation

(PUC #LET0123)

Taught in Spanish at the Universidad de Chile and may not be offered every semester. Course objectives include: to analyze the formation of Hispanic society from the beginning of a growing process of mixing and adapting from European customs to those of the American world; to analytically reconstruct the process of disciplining and integrating into the popular castes to the production models of colonial America; to study the reaction of the castes to the process of monarchical conformation.

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica; may not be offered every semester. This course develops an overview of Chilean poetry from the second half of the twentieth century to the early 21st century. This involves establishing the characteristics of poets from 1938, the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and postmodernism and analyzing the work of representative authors. (UC code: ESE 4036)