Trinity´s
Global Learning Site in Santiago de Chile offers students a unique urban
context in which to explore the theories, histories, and the practice
of human rights. The theme of human rights provides the primary framework
within which students can articulate their study away experience in
Chile. Although often perceived as simply an ethical concept, in fact
human rights serves as an all-encompassing framework that provides a
context for a wide-ranging study of politics, economics, law, medicine,
society, history, culture, technology, artistic expression, and communication.
Students
enroll at the Universidad de Chile-the premier national university of
Chile and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the
Americas. Founded in 1842, it is the key research institution in the
country, with projects in all areas of academic inquiry. It enrolls
about 21.000 undergraduate and 2.500 graduate students. Following in
the European tradition, the Universidad de Chile comprises 13 faculties,
three interdisciplinary Institutes, and three National Centers. Given
its stature in Chilean higher education, the university also attracts
a significant number of foreign students (approximately 1.100) from
all over the world. Students can choose from a broad range of courses
in all disciplines as well as from a variety of interdisciplinary offerings.
The semester includes 18 weeks of classes. The first semester begins
at the beginning of March and the second semester begins at the end
of July. Foreign students have about two weeks from the start of classes
to add or drop courses. The University has a special computer room where
students can register for their courses on line, access e-mail and do
research.
In
addition, Trinity's program features a core course on human rights and
an internship with an organization active in the field of human rights.
Chile has witnessed the struggle for human rights first hand over the
past 30 years. Students are able to explore, both in the course work
and their internship, the theories, histories, and the practice of this
more extensive notion of human rights as it plays out in a society that
has suffered extreme violations of these rights.
| Campus
Coordinator: |
Professor
Dario A. Euraque |
| Faculty
Sponsors: |
Associate
Professors
Janet Bauer (International Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality),
Dario Euraque (History)
Michael Niemann (International Studies), and
Gustavo Remedi (Modern Languages and Literature) |
| On
Site Director in Santiago: |
Pedro
Matta |
| Student
Life Coordinators in Santiago: |
Saul
Havilio Bajic and Roxana Donoso |
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