Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

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This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

General Objectives:
1. Establish the relationships that exist between the different components of the physical environment
2. Evaluate cases in which the physical environment has been used for the benefit of man

Contents:

Unit 1: The Current Situation and Projections of the Future Derived from the Location of Chile in the World

Specific Objective: Evaluate the economic relationships in the Pacific Basin and their economic and human impact.

Contents:
- Generalities of Chilean territory
- Chile’s tri-continental rights and its influences
- The Pacific Basin, new space for economic valuation

Unit 2: Formation and Characteristics of National Relief…

Specific Objective: Recognize the different units of relief, establishing the processes of formation and shaping of each unit

Contents:
- Interrelationships between the external and internal factors that have intervened in the shaping of the national relief
- The national geomorphic system

Unit 3: The Different Types of Soil; Their Formation and Degradation

Specific Objectives:
1. Identify the different processes that intervene in the formation and degradation of soil
2. Recognize the different types of soil in Chile, at different scales

Contents:
- Generalities. Formative and degrading factors of Chilean soils.
- Classifications of the soils of Chile: 7th approximation, capacity of the earth’s use, volcanic soils of Chile

Unit 4: Chile’s Climate and its Relationship with the Physical Environment

Specific Objectives:
1. Identify the Chile’s climatic types â€" their location and characteristics
2. Evaluate the potential natural risks associated with the climate in parts of the country

Contents:
- Elements and factors that intervene in the formation of distinct climates in Chile
- Natural risks associated with climate

Unit 5: Regional Hydrography

Specific Objective: Establish characteristics of the origins, nourishment, types of basins, hydrographic systems, etc. of Chilean rivers.

Contents:
- Different national hydrographic nets
- National hydrographic classification and characteristics

Unit 6: Case Studies

Specific Objective: Evaluate cases of human intervention in the Chilean physical environment.

Contents: Different cases of human intervention in the Chilean physical environment.

Basic Bibliography:

• General and Regional Geography of Chile. Editorial Universitaria
• Chilean Geography Manual. Ed. Andrés Bello
• Chilean Geography Collection. Instituto Geográfico Militar
• Geography of Valparaíso Magazine. Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso