Based in Santiago at the Universidad Diego Portales, this seminar explores the connections between Chilean art and politics since the military coup of 1973 against President Salvador Allende, focusing on responses to censorship and repression by visual artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, and collectives, and considers the complex negotiations of the later democratic transition, the contemporary Chilean art and literary scenes, the implementation of neoliberalism, the feminist turn, the rise of recent political movements and the creation of a new constitution.

An intensive, four-week immersion course in Spanish language and culture. This course is designed for students who have completed their Spanish language requirement and wish to improve their fluency and accuracy in spoken and written Spanish. By examining in detail the work of Spanish artists and current social and political issues, the course also seeks to enable students to understand and interpret Spanish culture and society.

An intensive, full immersion course in Spanish language and Argentine history, culture, and art. Students develop advanced language skills while studying language in context, through the exploration of the city of Buenos Aires, its architecture, museums, and cultural and political life. Through a variety of materials, including short stories, films, journalistic pieces, blogs, guided visits, etc., students engage in critical discussions on cultural meanings and social relations, Writing assignments enhance students' ability to convey complex ideas in Spanish. Oral skills are developed by means of collaborative research projects.

This course offers an overview of Spanish culture, history, art and society while developing students' ability to do research in Spanish contexts. By examining the works of Spanish artists, writers, and filmmakers in their context of production, the course presents basic knowledge of the history and culture of Spanish society. Materials will connect the history of Spain and Toledo to national and global phenomena.

This course studies the role of culture in Argentina's modernity and the social, literary, and artistic traditions it produced from 1810 to the present. The course is divided into 5 units, each of them organized around an artist, a filmmaker, a writer, or an art form. Topics include gaucho culture and national identity, the birth of tango, the artistic avant-gardes, the politics of memory, commodity culture, and gender and environmental politics. In addition to class discussions, the course includes class visits by local scholars and artists.