Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This workshop addresses the theme of “quality” from the point of view of the user. The workshop is divided into sections addressing each of these specific topics of thematic lines and professional profiles covered in the Design School. The objective of this workshop is to address the projection tools associated with friendliness and accessibility. Pre-requisite: previous design courses. (UC code: DNO 0314)
IND380.2 Quality Control for International Markets 1
IND380.1 Design and Digital Creation
Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course will address the process of creation in project design through the use of specific software and computer operated machines and tools. Our goal is to have the students learn the use of digital technology in interaction with traditional tools, thus ensuring an advanced level in their capacities of creating forms at the modeling level, prototyping and manufacturing. (UC code: DNO 016)
INB380.1 Business Modeling: Latin America
Taught in English at the Universidad de Chile and may not be available every semester. This course aims to provide a general understanding of the link between macroeconomics policies and the microeconomics agents, the enterprises and their competitive strategies, from the perspective of growth and competitiveness. It will provide a detailed picture of the development achieved by different countries in Latin America from the perspective and vision of ECLAC and their main structural changes to close the gap with more developed countries. Pre-requisites: upper-level business strategy course and micro- and/or macro-economics courses. (NEG 411)
HST424 Dictatorships, Human Rights and Historical Memory in Chile and the Southern Cone
This course is taught in Spanish, with optional tutorials offered in English for students who need extra language support. Students who attend English tutorials or complete assignments in English are not eligible for SPA credit.
This course focuses on the military coup of 1973 and the systematic implementation of violence and fear as an effective method of control over society and as a formula for stability during the military government of Augusto Pinochet. Within this context, marked by the pain and suffering of certain sectors of Chilean society, this course aims to study this time period and evaluate its significances and contributions to the configuration of social, political and economic aspects of Chile today, highlighting the role of U.S. foreign policy in the installation of the Pinochet government as well as the U.S. role in the issue of human rights in Chile. Includes site visits to a former public prison for political detainees and other historical memory sites and institutions in Santiago (these visits are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays).
Cross-listed with IRP/LAS/PSC/SPA 424/PAI 624. Additional work is required of graduate students who register at the 600-level.
Prereq: SPA 202 or equivalent
HST406 Contemporary Issues in Chile and Latin America (Signature Seminar; Fall, Spring)
This traveling* Signature Seminar features on-site lectures and activities (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay comprise a typical itinerary) 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 who attend English tutorials or complete assignments in English are not eligible for SPA credit.
May also be registered as IRP/LAS/SPA 334/PSC 428. It may be taken at the graduate level, with additional work required, under PAI 600.1.
This is a required Signature Seminar for all fall-semester undergraduate students in the Spanish language Syracuse Santiago program.
* Note that the itinerary is subject to any official travel restrictions issued by local and/or national authorities.
HST380.9 History of Chile: 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries
Taught in Spanish at the Universidad de Chile and may not be offered every semester. This course aims to introduce students to historical periods that are key to understanding America and Chile from a cultural and political perspective. It includes fundamental concepts such as culture, absolute state, tradition and modernity, the Church, and increasing secularization processes so students can internalize some current historic-sociological discussions on our politico-cultural identity.
HST380.5 America and Chile in the 19th Century (América y Chile en el siglo XIX)
The course analyzes the Republican period, starting with the formation of Latin American nations until the crisis of the liberal state in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. The course will cover main economic, political, social and cultural processes in Chile within the historical development of Latin America. El curso analiza el periodo republicano, comenzando con la formación de las naciones latinoamericanas hasta la crisis del estado liberal en la transición del siglo XIX al XX. El curso cubrirá los procesos económicos, sociales y culturales en Chile dentro del desarrollo histórico de Latinoamérica. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (IHT 0105)
HST380.4 20th Century Chilean History (Historía de Chile del Siglo XX)
El curso comienza con el estudio de la historia del siglo XX chileno?decadencia oligárquica; crisis de 1930 y la aparición de nuevos movimientos sociales?y concluye con la discusión de los problemas sociales del siglo XXI?globalización, capital financiero, transformaciones políticas y sociales. The course begins with the study of 20th century Chilean history?including the downfall of the oligarchy, the 1930s crisis, and the evolution of new social movements?and ends with the discussion of social and political problems of the 21st century?globalization, financial capital, social and political transformations, etc.
HST380.3 Contemporary Chilean History (FH36023-1 Historia Chilena Contemporánea)
This course will provide students with an overview of the principal tensions in Chilean socio-political history during the 20th century. Students will be familiar with the primary historical interpretations of this era. Students will analyze the electoral system, the amplification of democratic participation, social mobility, and lower society representation leading up to the coup d’état of 1973.
HST380.2 18th Century Chilean History and the Independence Revolution
Estudio de las transformaciones sociales, políticas y económicas que experimentó el Reyno de Chile durante el siglo XVIII—contexto imperial, crisis colonial, independencia y consolidación del orden oligárquico. Engaging in the study of the social, political, and economic transformations that occurred during the Realm of Chile in the 18th Century, this course will look at imperial context, colonial crisis, independence, and consolidation of an oligarchic order.