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Chile: Education and Social Change

Coursework

The interdisciplinary coursework in the Chile: Education and Social Change program explores the political, social, and economic factors affecting educational systems and social change in Chile and Argentina. Students examine these effects firsthand through field studies and interactions with urban and rural communities throughout Chile and in Buenos Aires. During the final month of the semester, students leverage their accumulated knowledge and research experience to complete their ISPs or participate in an educational practicum.

The Chile: Education and Social Change program offers the following courses. These course descriptions can be useful for students, faculty, and study abroad offices in assessing credit transfer. Read more about credit transfer.

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Themtic Seminar
Education and Social Change Seminar
LACB-3000 / 6 credits / 90 class hours

Course description:
This is an interdisciplinary course conducted in Spanish with required readings, field trips, and school placements. Lectures and discussions generally include:

• Education and its role in promoting equity and social justice
  Education and equity; educational policy and its impact on social indicators; human rights in the school system; education, gender, and sexuality; special education in Chile: its limits and its challenges; education and religion; rural education university reform; education and ideology.
• Educational Systems and Reforms in Chile and Argentina
  Education in the Americas; history of education in Chile, history of education in Argentina; governmental policymaking and education; public versus private primary and secondary education; contemporary educational reforms; education and democracy in the Southern Cone; the impact of globalization on education and schooling.
• Intercultural Education in the Global Context
  Questions of ethnicity and diversity in educational systems; differing concepts of education; indigenous/Mapuche cosmovision; indigenous educational alternatives and possibilities; local and global intercultural education; bilingual education; educational realities of Native Americans; human rights and indigenous education.
• Popular Education and Critical Pedagogy
  What is popular education?; history and development of popular education in Latin America; Paulo Freire and concientización; popular education in the 21st century; critical pedagogy; non-formal education and delivery; organizing around popular education; popular education and labor unions; popular education and piquetero and Barrios de Pie movements in Argentina.

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Intensive Language Study
Intensive Language Study: Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN-2000 / 4 credits / 60 class hours
Intensive Language Study: Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN-2500 / 4 credits / 60 class hours
Intensive Language Study: Advanced Spanish I
SPAN-3000 / 4 credits / 60 class hours

Course description:
This class emphasizes speaking, reading, and writing skills through classroom and field instruction. Based on in-country evaluation, including oral proficiency testing, students are placed in intensive intermediate or advanced classes, with further language practice in homestays, lectures, and field visits.

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Field Study Seminar
Field Study Seminar
ANTH-3500 / 2 Credits / 30 class hours

Course description:
This course teaches students concepts of learning across cultures and from field experience. It also serves as an introduction to the Independent Study Project. Material includes cross-cultural adaptation and skills building, project selection and refinement, appropriate methodologies, field study ethics and the World Learning/SIT Human Subjects Review Policy, developing contacts and finding resources, developing skills in observation and interviewing, gathering, organizing, and communicating data, and maintaining a work journal.

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Independent Study/Practicum Project
Independent Study / Practicum Project
ISPR-3000 / 4 credits / 120 class hours

Course description:
Students can choose to conduct an Independent Study Project on a topic of their choice related to the program theme, or they can participate in a guided, month-long educational practicum experience in a primary school in either Chile or the Buenos Aires area of Argentina. In both cases, the local director must approve the project and the student must produce a written paper.