HOA380.12 Pre-Columbian Art

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you will analyze the processes related to the appearance and development of different visual manifestations in Pre-Columbian Continental America. We will examine pre-Columbian art of the Andes (Chavín, Olmeca, Moche, Nazca, Tiwanaku, and Inca cultures) and of Mesoamerica (Maya), as well as how pre-Columbian art has influenced contemporary artists. As a result of taking this course, you will be able to:

Distinguish various artistic forms of pre-Hispanic Continental America in its cultural-historical context,
Evaluate pre-Columbian art through the analysis of its material production,
Analyze critically or discuss possible interpretations of pre-Columbian art, and
Analyze the projections of these manifestations in some works of later Western art.

(PUC #ARO105T)

SPA380.11 Pre-Hispanic Myths and Voices

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you’ll develop competency in critical reading of pre-Hispanic texts: Mesoamerican songs and myths (Toltec-Aztec and Mayan) of the Nahuatl, Mayan-Quechua, and Maya-Yucatecan cultures; and of the Andean region (Inkanato). In accordance with this objective, you’ll study a body of pre-Hispanic texts transcribed in the Colony, as well as a set of critical texts (philological, historiographic and literary-cultural criticism). On the basis of these materials, you’ll engage in textual analysis (recognition of rhetorical and poetic codifications) and in the reconstruction of the cultural fabric of pre-Hispanic societies (orality/multimedia/writing; translation; myth/memory). Based on expository classes and classroom work, we contrast the main issues and problems raised by these texts with the contexts in which they took place and with their validity or obsolescence in today’s world.

(PUC #LET306E)

PST380.3 Economics of Energy and Climate Change

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The issues of energy and climate change have received significant attention in Chile in recent years. This attention is due to international factors, such as fluctuations in commodity prices and global climate change policy agreements, as well as national factors arising from the vulnerable energy supply of recent years due to the cuts in Chile’s natural gas supply. In this course, you’ll

Examine the role of the economy in energy policy and in climate change policy, covering the global and national aspects,
Discuss concepts such as energy market economics, as well as energy supply security, economics of climate change, efficiency, externalities and policymaking instruments,
Analyze issues such as intertemporal decisions, uncertainty, supply costs, mitigation, and adaptation, as well as problems with international cooperation, based on the application of general economic principles, and
Address policy initiatives under discussion.

(PUC #EAE215A)

Prereq: An intro to microeconomics course or the equivalent

ECN380.18 Chilean Economy in the 21st Century

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The purpose of this course is to familiarize you with key aspects of Chile’s economy. You will learn about the country’s institutions and historical development as well as distinctive aspects compared to other countries. You also will analyze the main challenges that the country is facing in order to continue to move towards reducing income gaps with developed nations and within Chilean society.

Your goals in the course will be to

Study and understand the key aspects of Chile’s economy.
Understand methodologies and approaches that allow students to analyze contemporary issues related to Chilean economics and society.
Analyze critical issues related to the country’s perspectives for development and their discussion.

(PUC #EAE207A)

SPA480.86 Spanish Sociolinguistics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course will introduce you to the Sociolinguistics of the Spanish language through immersion in the terms and techniques that support it. Your study will focus on the description and analysis of the language in use, in its social context, with special attention given to the Spanish of Chile and the Americas. It will also familiarize you with the methods and applications to achieve a sociolinguistic analysis of Spanish in particular.

Your goals in the course will be to

Reflect on how language works in its social context.
Acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge that allows the applicability of the discipline.
Relate the theory to the reality of spoken Spanish of Chile and the Americas.
Apply the sociolinguistic methodology to studies of spoken Spanish.

This course meets the Spanish linguistics requirement for Syracuse Spanish majors.

(PUC #LET070E)

ART380.1 Art and Politics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you will develop the ability to recognize links between the fields and contexts of the artistic and the political through a selection of works of contemporary art, audiovisual materials, and texts.

Our goals in the class are to enable you to

Describe the intersections and connections between the spheres of art and politics.
Analyze the practices, works, and genres of contemporary art and the philosophical and cultural matrixes of the political.
Identify affinities and differences between the artworks or projects analyzed in each unit of the course and those of other artists and critical texts from the same period.

(PUC #ARO116T)

MAT280.3 Statistics

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course provides basic knowledge of probability to apply statistics in practical problems. In this way, you will develop a general vision of statistics, acquiring a conceptual basis for subsequent courses.

The goals of this course are to

Acquire an overview of statistics, applied to daily life.
Acquire the basic tools for the exploratory analysis of data, oriented to predetermined objectives or to the discovery of interesting patterns in the data.
Acquire basic concepts of probability, aimed at drawing conclusions or making decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
Study some methods of statistical inference applied to simple cases.
Obtain a good conceptual basis for later courses in quantitative methods.

(PUC #EYP230P)

Course Restriction: Matriculated Syracuse students may not earn credit for both this course and MAT 221.

LAT180.1 Latin I

Taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. This course will allow you to understand basic morphological and syntactic structures and become familiar with simple texts that become progressively more complex, using the much-respected text Lingua Latina. Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata, which is entirely in Latin.

(PUC #LET1035)

FST380.1 Food Culture and Security

In this course, you will learn to describe the social process of feeding, the diversity of its cultural norms, and the economic and social factors that determine food consumption and safety on a national and regional level. The course provides the fundamental elements for analysis of the problems related to food security and sovereignty in specific social contexts. The class will help provide the knowledge and tools that allow the nutritionist to implement community interventions, considering the cultural, socioeconomic and territorial dimensions of human feeding.

Our goals in the course include:

To address food-nutrition problems of individuals, groups and communities, within the framework of public health policies and other social protection policies, with a humanistic and interdisciplinary approach, considering local availability, access to food and social determinants of health, facilitating the active participation of the community, in a given territory respecting ethical and bioethical principles.
To analyze human nutrition from a historical perspective, with emphasis on social and cultural dimensions, under the food security approach, recognizing the role of food in human evolution in its biological and sociocultural aspects.
To analyze food security in Chile, its contributing economic, social and cultural factors and the policies that affect them, as well as the diversity of food practices, considering current historical conditions and their impact on populations at the individual and collective level.

(UdC #NU05029)

PSC380.26 International Migrations in Latin America

Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. The course addresses contemporary migrations as inseparable but multidimensional processes of the political economy of globalization. We will discuss the most relevant theoretical paradigms on the subject, the impacts of these processes in the sending and receiving countries, as well as the theoretical approaches to the problem of the incorporation of migrants and their cultural implications.

This course will provide you with an understanding of the migration phenomenon from a multidimensional perspective and in close relation with the processes of accumulation and governance at a global level. Specifically, you will be able to:

Explain the main theoretical approaches that have contributed to the interpretations of the different dimensions of the contemporary migratory processes.
Evaluate the real and potential functionality of emigration in the integral development of the societies involved.
Analyze the effects of emigration on states and national policies in areas such as the emergence of transnational societies and regions, multiculturalism and the relativization of citizenship.
Evaluate the socio-economic, cultural and ethical implications of the growing role of Chile as a “receiving country” of immigration.