Term 3
SPAN 395IP: Culture Internet and Society
Course Description
El curso aborda los principales aspectos de la multirepresentación (multimodalidad) que las TICs implican (imagen, audio, texto, video, hipervínculos, etc.) focalizado en la perspectiva humana y teniendo como eje principal la búsqueda de un mejor proceso de reflexión y transferencia del análisis de los productos culturales. El estudio de este fenómeno aborda la interacción y diálogo entre la cultura, los seres humanos, el lenguaje con el fin de modelar y comprender cómo es que las personas entienden y se relacionan con su medio (cultura), que es eminentemente multimodal. De este modo, el curso se propone la entrega de herramientas para el análisis y la generación de competencias para abordar de forma interdisciplinaria estos nuevos ámbitos del conocimiento, donde confluyen la información y los sistemas de representación cultural y la transformación del concepto de mundo y conocimiento.
Homework
Jorge Luis Borges
Course Reflective Narrative
In Culture, Internet and Society, I progressed in completing MLO 3 and MLO 5. Studying abroad was the best decision of my life, and this being one of the classes i took abroad it helped fulfill my MLO 5 pathway.
The underlying theme of this class was that there is always more than 2 ways to look at one situation. Various in class exercises forced people from different cultures together to work on problems designed for critical thinking. Culturally this class expanded my knowledge not only abut how Chileans function in groups, but the difference in gender roles, humanity as a whole, and Latin American ideals in general. MLO 3 gets support from this class due to its cultural emphasize through various mediums: images, audio, text, video, and hyperlinks.
My biggest AHA-moment in this class was during our final project. After reading and analyzing Jorge Luis Borges' El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan", individually we were instructed to put together a powerpoint with only pictures to explain the story. Then we could add one quote to explain every picture. It was an AHA-moment, because I absolutely loved reading that story. The project brings out the cultural fact that humans no longer only are reading texts, but images provide just as much, if not more, information than words do. I loved how the professor was able to intertwine classic cultural works with modern day cultures and tools. It was by far one of my favorite classes in Chile.
SPAN 395IP: Chilean Culture
Course Description
Homework
Cultura Chilena 1930s, Cultura Study Guide
Course Reflective Narrative
Being another class taken abroad this class fulfilled MLO 5, and fulfilled MLO 3 due to its Chilean culture content. It was by far one of the harder classes I took in Chile; every week there was a new lecture, and there was only one final test at the end that covered the entire semester's worth of information. That said, I passed and got a great overview of the historical, social, and sometimes brutal events that took place throughout Chile's interesting story.
The first main topic covered in this course, and one that I found most interesting, was the identity of the Mapuche. We learned that when asked if one identifies them self as Mapuche, Chiliean, or mixed 47% say mixed in an urban population while 64% say Mapuche in a rural population. 38% of Mapuches consider themselves just Mapuche, 15% identify as Mapuche then Chilean, and 37% say both. I also found it extremely interesting that the Mapuche people were the only ones never to be conquered throughout various efforts made by the Incans, Spaniards, and present day Chileans. My biggest AHA-moment was when I learned that Mapuche means "Man of the land" in their language.
Another thing I really enjoyed learning about was the military coup of 1973. It has been documented in various forms (movies, books, poems, etc...) but learning about it in a classroom setting with a professor from Chile was very interesting. While sitting in what is known as a "rich kid" school, hearing about the coup and thinking about the history of Chile seemed a little ironic. So many people's lives were destroyed due to class discrimination and inequality; still today this plagues the country as students protest almost on a weekly schedule.
I would love to continue learning about Chilean culture by living there in the future. I have hopes that a job soon will offer me an opportunity to live abroad productively.
Course Description
El curso aborda los principales aspectos de la multirepresentación (multimodalidad) que las TICs implican (imagen, audio, texto, video, hipervínculos, etc.) focalizado en la perspectiva humana y teniendo como eje principal la búsqueda de un mejor proceso de reflexión y transferencia del análisis de los productos culturales. El estudio de este fenómeno aborda la interacción y diálogo entre la cultura, los seres humanos, el lenguaje con el fin de modelar y comprender cómo es que las personas entienden y se relacionan con su medio (cultura), que es eminentemente multimodal. De este modo, el curso se propone la entrega de herramientas para el análisis y la generación de competencias para abordar de forma interdisciplinaria estos nuevos ámbitos del conocimiento, donde confluyen la información y los sistemas de representación cultural y la transformación del concepto de mundo y conocimiento.
Homework
Jorge Luis Borges
Course Reflective Narrative
In Culture, Internet and Society, I progressed in completing MLO 3 and MLO 5. Studying abroad was the best decision of my life, and this being one of the classes i took abroad it helped fulfill my MLO 5 pathway.
The underlying theme of this class was that there is always more than 2 ways to look at one situation. Various in class exercises forced people from different cultures together to work on problems designed for critical thinking. Culturally this class expanded my knowledge not only abut how Chileans function in groups, but the difference in gender roles, humanity as a whole, and Latin American ideals in general. MLO 3 gets support from this class due to its cultural emphasize through various mediums: images, audio, text, video, and hyperlinks.
My biggest AHA-moment in this class was during our final project. After reading and analyzing Jorge Luis Borges' El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan", individually we were instructed to put together a powerpoint with only pictures to explain the story. Then we could add one quote to explain every picture. It was an AHA-moment, because I absolutely loved reading that story. The project brings out the cultural fact that humans no longer only are reading texts, but images provide just as much, if not more, information than words do. I loved how the professor was able to intertwine classic cultural works with modern day cultures and tools. It was by far one of my favorite classes in Chile.
SPAN 395IP: Chilean Culture
Course Description
Homework
Cultura Chilena 1930s, Cultura Study Guide
Course Reflective Narrative
Being another class taken abroad this class fulfilled MLO 5, and fulfilled MLO 3 due to its Chilean culture content. It was by far one of the harder classes I took in Chile; every week there was a new lecture, and there was only one final test at the end that covered the entire semester's worth of information. That said, I passed and got a great overview of the historical, social, and sometimes brutal events that took place throughout Chile's interesting story.
The first main topic covered in this course, and one that I found most interesting, was the identity of the Mapuche. We learned that when asked if one identifies them self as Mapuche, Chiliean, or mixed 47% say mixed in an urban population while 64% say Mapuche in a rural population. 38% of Mapuches consider themselves just Mapuche, 15% identify as Mapuche then Chilean, and 37% say both. I also found it extremely interesting that the Mapuche people were the only ones never to be conquered throughout various efforts made by the Incans, Spaniards, and present day Chileans. My biggest AHA-moment was when I learned that Mapuche means "Man of the land" in their language.
Another thing I really enjoyed learning about was the military coup of 1973. It has been documented in various forms (movies, books, poems, etc...) but learning about it in a classroom setting with a professor from Chile was very interesting. While sitting in what is known as a "rich kid" school, hearing about the coup and thinking about the history of Chile seemed a little ironic. So many people's lives were destroyed due to class discrimination and inequality; still today this plagues the country as students protest almost on a weekly schedule.
I would love to continue learning about Chilean culture by living there in the future. I have hopes that a job soon will offer me an opportunity to live abroad productively.