Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Conversation and Chilean Culture)
The conversation and culture module, beginning level, integrates language and culture starting with small pieces of Chilean movies, documentaries, TV shows, and short articles from local press to enhance the immersion program.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Beginner
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Gramática, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Spanish Grammar)
["This grammar course is designed to introduce students to the rules of the Spanish language and teach students how to communicate basic needs. Specific areas to be covered include: word order","indicative, subjunctive and imperative verbs","simple and compound tenses","the use of the subjunctive in simple sentences","use of ser and estar","commonly-used prepositions (of, with, por vs para)","simple, compound and complex sentences."]
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Beginner
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Human Rights in Latin America
This course will examine the evolution, approaches, and debates regarding Human Rights in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries, paying particular attention to the Chilean case. Students will focus on the interdisciplinary study of human rights as a concept, as a set of laws and institutions, and as a set of political and cultural practices.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Identity Issues in Contemporary Latin American History: An Intercultural approach
This course will work with a limited number of texts of primary as well as secondary nature that displays central problems in the identity traditions in the 20th century in Latin American thought. The modules will be based on different themes related to identity throughout contemporary Latin American History and each theme will be centered on the questions and the problems that have sparked its existence. Themes will include discussions on race, name, origin, authority as well as ideas on dependency and liberation.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Latino Studies
This course is designed to acquaint students with Hispanic American literary works. Students will explore the contemporary experience of Hispanic Americans through readings and how these works represent not only an intersection between cultures but also a culture in itself. The course will examine how issues of sex, race, class, and education have an impact on Latino(a) self-definition and community identity.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Conversation and Chilean Culture)
The Conversation and Cultures module, intermediate level, integrates language and culture from diverse and various texts to enhance the total immersion program.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Gramática, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Grammar)
This intermediate-level grammar course seeks to improve conversational skills and knowledge of grammar rules. Specific areas to be covered include: pronouns, interrogative pronouns, direct and indirect objects, the reflexive “se”, uses of ser and estar, the ‘preterite’ tense, subjunctive mood, value of time, adverbial clauses and prepositions.
NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Cine y literature latinoamericanos (Latin American Film and Literature)
This course allows students to understand and problematize the idea of Latin America through literary and filmic texts produced in the region. Foreign students get informed about the multiple realities of Latin America and gain a different perspectic of the art, literary and cinematographic world we live in.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Conversation and Chilean Culture)
The Conversation and Culture module, advanced level, integrates language and culture from various types of Chilean texts: Chilean films, documentaries, press articles, stories, short films.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Gramática, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Grammar)
This course will help students to analyze more complex grammar rules and apply them in daily communication. Specific topics to be covered include: determinants, adjectives, pronouns, verbal phrases, auxiliary verbs (haber, ser, estar), the passive tense, composite forms, indicative vs subjective, and code-switching.
NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Historia sociopolítica de América Latina, siglos XX-XXI (Sociopolitical History of Latin America, 19th-20th Centuries)
This course uncovers the search for Latin America political stability from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty- first century. Students observe the system's relationship with the State as well as the individual.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea (Contemporary Hispanic American Literature)
This course is designed for visiting international students and seeks to explore the historical, social and cultural perspectives that influence contemporary Hispanic American literature by studying its principle characters, works and issues.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Negocios (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Business)
This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of business in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to business.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Salud (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Health)
This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of health. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to health in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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