UC Chile was founded on June 21, 1888, by Monsignor Mariano Casanova, Archbishop of Santiago. His goal was to create an institution capable of blending academic excellence and training based on Christian doctrine. The local and international historical context the Church faced when the university was founded inspired the institution to train professionals who led Christian lives and could renew energies for the coming generations. The first Rector was Monsignor Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas, and the first two faculties were Law, Physical Sciences, and Math. Despite the changes, the university has always aimed at achieving a solid education founded on the sciences, arts, humanities, and Catholic morals. Thus, the university aims for its students to be not only technically and scientifically prepared but also to be open to different human realities and the social and personal responsibilities involved in the complete development of society. Throughout the university’s history, this first aim has been continuously fulfilled. UC Chile is the best university in the country, the first university in Latin America, and number 103 according to the QS world ranking (2024). One of our strengths is the Literature and Modern Languages courses taught in English. Engineering is ranked as high as 34th in the world, Law and Legal Studies is in the 38th position, Modern Languages is 29th, Arts and Humanities is 28th, and Business Management is 59 according to the QS world ranking (2023).
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.0
– TOEFL iBT: 78
– Duolingo English Test: 100
05 August 2024 – 17 December 2024
Applicants 2022
Applicants : 12 students
GPA : 3.47-4.00
TOEFL iBT Score : 56-94
IELTS Score : 6-7.5
Duolingo English Test Score : 125-160
Awardees 2023
Awardees : 4 students
GPA : 3.58-3.94
TOEFL iBT Score : 94
IELTS Score : 6.5
Duolingo English Test Score : –
Applicants 2023
Applicants : 165 students
GPA : 3.04-4.00
TOEFL iBT Score : 92-120
IELTS Score : 6-7.5
Duolingo English Test Score : 40-150
Awardees 2023
Awardees : 5 students
GPA : 3.63-3.93
TOEFL iBT Score : –
IELTS Score : –
Duolingo English Test Score : 115 – 150
Available Courses
Theoretical and practical subject, focused on the presentation and use of rhetorical strategies commonly used in academic contexts that aim to achieve effective and persuasive communication in English. These strategies will be applied through oral and written production at the CEFR B1+/B2 levels. The appropriate development of persuasive communication will allow students to actively participate within the academic community, performance that will be evidenced through the effective production and interaction via oral and written discourse, which will correspond to their disciplinary areas.
In the course, students will analyze how new technologies create value in the financial industry, increase competition, take advantage of economies of scale, and reduce information asymmetries.
It is hardly possible to find an area of the law that develops as quickly as international dispute resolution. International courts, arbitral tribunals, human rights regional courts, and national courts provide thousands of judgments or arbitral awards each year. In today’s world, knowledge of national laws and jurisprudence is no longer sufficient to be a well-prepared lawyer in the globalized world of the XXIst Century. This course drives students to analyze public international law from a jurisprudential perspective and aims to teach them how to present cases in a concise and meaningful manner before an international forum. The course will also provide students with oral and written legal skills that would eventually allow them to participate in Moot Court Competitions more proficiently.
After the course, the students will be able to apply key legal and business considerations in their professional interactions with China and make use of technology trends in them. Following a methodology that emphasizes the active participation of students through the analysis and discussion of cases, articles, book chapters, videos, and podcasts, and assessing the course’s content by means of individual assignments, group presentations, class participation, and a final paper. The course is intended for students from all study backgrounds.
Throughout this course, students will be able to analyze the method, language, and main issues of comparative constitutional law. Also, they will apply the functionalist method to study constitutional law concerning the most pressing problems in our contemporary time guided by the methodology of comparative law. The course considers methodologies like problem-based learning, debates, and written reports. The assessment considers reports, essays, and an exam.
This course introduces pre-service teachers to the principles and ethics of classroom research in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. Teacher students will analyze issues and trends in their particular contexts to find solutions for concrete problems that learners face when learning an additional language. This will enable teacher candidates to explore the importance of seeing their pedagogic role as research producers for their ongoing professional development.
This course analyses a selection of poems written by authors in English, with special emphasis on the literary and linguistic aspects of the language. It also involves the analysis of poems, the theories that feed poetic creation, and its critical reception.
Analyze material damage from the point of view of its origin and magnitude produced by the environment to determine the appropriate prevention and protection procedures to apply in each case.
The course develops a novel vision of engineering inside food and meals. They are studied as structures that make up our diet and not as a homogeneous group of nutrients, addressing how processing and culinary techniques produce and transform food structures. The emphasis will be on how these transformations are based on scientific and engineering principles, which will be explained using food and its production and transformation processes.
This course promotes appreciation of literature as an artistic, cultural and educational manifestation which is fundamental for teen development. It provides the prospective teacher with an understanding of literature written by English speaking communities and in various multicultural settings that allow them to select, analyze, interpret and produce literary and non-literary works meant to be read and listened by students at this level. The course explores the subgenres within teens? literature focusing on perspectives of genre, theme, teen identity, and representations of adolescence from a pedagogical perspective.
Students will learn the principles underpinning language as a main channel through which the patterns of living are transmitted to human beings. Therefore, learners will be involved in activities such as readings and discussions that help them understand the relevant bond between language, cognition, and culture. The evaluation of students? learning requires oral and written analysis of various oral, written, and multimodal texts.
“This course immerses students in the reality of science and technology-based entrepreneurship, where they will be exposed to techniques and strategies to discover and launch a high-impact, scalable business opportunity with great potential to create societal value.
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In the course, students will examine some regional and social varieties of English spoken currently in the world. They will be able to describe the various mechanisms involved in the emergence of dialects with an emphasis on the socio-cultural aspects of language variation. Different varieties of English will also be described and analyzed phonologically, morphosyntactically, and lexically. Perceptions on language varieties will also be discussed during the course, along with social implications.
The focus of this course will be the discussion and comparative analysis of English language narrative and film within the domain of the Strange, Fantastic, Sci-fi, Slipstream, and New Weird sub-genres. The lectures and discussions will cover the cross-medium experience, adaptation, film theory, and literary “readings” of film. An interdisciplinary approach involving literary theory, film theory, philosophy, pop culture, and psychoanalysis will be employed in these analyses.
The course presents a general view of the current scientific understanding of the Universe with its components, including basic notions on its physical and observational fundaments.
The course proposes to analyze and understand the various ways of thinking that are typical of people and how these ways of thinking influence the language and forms of communication that cultures privilege.
This course corresponds to an elementary level A1 of Spanish according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In this course, the student will be able to understand and use everyday expressions and simple phrases aimed at satisfying immediate type needs. The student will learn how to establish basic interaction in Spanish while learning relevant aspects of Chilean culture, which will be discussed during the class from an intercultural perspective.
This course corresponds to a basic level A2 of Spanish according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In this course, the student will be able to understand frequently used phrases and expressions related to especially relevant areas of expertise. The student will learn structures and vocabulary to communicate in simple and direct exchanges on familiar or familiar issues. S/he will learn to describe aspects of their past and their environment in simple terms through the discussion of relevant aspects of Chilean culture.
In this course, students put into practice the tools to conceptualize a scientific research question and formulate research hypotheses and research objectives. In addition, they will begin the collection of information necessary to define the topic of their future Master’s Thesis together with a guiding professor.
This course focuses on facilitating the transformation process of the disciplinary knowledge of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) into teaching competencies in the future teacher. Based on the knowledge on current national policies, understanding of the different teaching approaches, and educational communication, the course fosters the development of competences in the future teacher being able to design, implement, and develop teaching-learning instances with the aid of technological resources. In addition, there are instances to promote a creative attitude by reflecting on the teaching process that derives from in-class observation. This is expected to lead to contextualised teaching-learning situations and focus on communication in order to support students? progress. Bearing this ultimate purpose in mind, the pre-service teacher will set out to learning contextualised opportunities based on deep comprehension on the underlying background of the teaching of English as a Foreign Language.