PSC380.33 Water in Chile: Use, Management and Conflicts

PSC380.33 Water in Chile: Use, Management and Conflicts

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Católica; may not be offered every semester. 

Syracuse Political Science majors: This course may count toward the Comparative Politics or Public Policy concentration.

(PUC #DER107)

GEO380.22 Urban-Territorial Problematization and Intervention

This course will formulate an urban-territorial project using adequate arguments for undergraduate students regarding the habitable territory applying contemporary concepts of sustainability and socioecological resilience, legal tools, and methodological techniques to pursue the understanding of the importance of this knowledge in Urbanism, conceiving the city and the city development plan as social and individual rights, and the understanding of urban planning difficulties in a radicalized neoliberal development model as is the Chilean case.
The course problem study will be formulated from a critical view of the territorial reality, with consciousness of its complexity (dynamic and multisystemic reality), and with reference to contemporary concepts in an adequate level for undergraduate students. Students will formulate a creative, integrative, and sustainable synthesis, that will be socioecologically resilient and feasible from the urban-territorial problem perspective, that will be expressed through legal, pertinent, and understandable urban-architectural media.

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Study contemporary concepts for problematization and resolutory intervention work.
  • Formulate a complex urban-territorial problem, identifying its relevant variables using interdisciplinary methods, to develop probable scenarios with their positive and negative aspects, and concluding intervention strategies.
  • Evaluate the impact and implications of the intervention, to understand the scopes of the proposed changes in short, medium, and long term, in the framework of climate change and its effects.

 

PHI380.1 Descartes

This course is taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course studies the philosophy of Rene Descartes from his very first works. The class will emphasize his philosophy of mind, and his ideas of epistemology and moral philosophy. We will analyze in what sense the philosophy of Descartes is opposed to the scholastic philosophy and marks a post-Aristotelian cognitive turn. We will discuss why the metaphysics of Descartes is considered rationalist, and his postulates about physics and physiology, both empiricist and mechanistic. In addition, we will address the topic of the ideal of rationality among thinkers and intellectuals of the 17th century.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to

  • Distinguish the main doctrines of the rationalist system in the 17th century
  • Describe how Descartes retains an interest in Metaphysics or primordial Philosophy
  • Show that the metaphysics of substance of Aristotle and the scholastic philosophy are treated by Descartes in a programmatic way
  • Reflect on the idea of morality in the Cartesian system.

Matriculated Syracuse students: You may not earn credit for both this course and PHI 311. Counts as elective for Philosophy minors; elective or history requirement for Philosophy majors.

(PUC #FIL004)

ECN380.9 Latin American Economics (Spring)

Taught in English at Universidad Diego Portales. This course is primarily designed for undergraduate students with basic knowledge of micro and macroeconomics, but no previous exposition to empirical or theoretical approaches to Latin American countries, economic growth models, or the economics of emerging and less developed economies. The course starts with some historical and current facts about growth and development in Latin America, setting the stage for asking relevant theoretical and policy questions. After that, an interplay between mainstream, universalist growth theories on one hand and locally-focused structuralist models on the other, will shed light on how to productively approach those questions. Texts from David Weil, Ocampo and Ros, and Cimoli and Porcile serve as the basis for this course, supplemented by other readings.

Course restriction: Matriculated Syracuse students may not earn credit for both this course and ECN 310, Latin America Economic Development.

LIT380.1 Latin American Literature (Spring)

This course is taught in English at Universidad Diego Portales.  The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the creation of Hispano-American texts from a panoramic perspective by examining a selection of representative texts from different periods of history. Throughout the four units, we will analyze texts considered foundational to the Latin American imaginary, such as the Cartas de Relación by written by Hernan Cortés to Emperor Charles V and the chronicles of the 16th and 17th centuries, the narratives typical of the independence period (essays and fiction), Spanish-American literature of the 20th century, focusing on the so-called Boom, and finishing by studying current Chilean literature.

Upon completing this course, you will

  • Learn about some key milestones in Hispanic American cultural history.
  • Analyze a selection of texts produced in Latin America in the 16th-21st centuries.
  • Understand a series of theoretical-critical approaches to approach the main problems
    that it presents.