This program aims to stimulate high-level study of Latin American reality, from an interdisciplinary perspective, with literature as its axis of study. The MIEL field of study is organized around the semiological analysis of the various cultural traditions of Latin America and the transformations that have conditioned its contemporary reality. 

''The MIEL program seeks to account for the semanticization of the daily cultural practices of individuals and communities, of institutions, of subjectivities of movements and processes,'' said the director of the Interdisciplinary Master's Degree in Latin American Studies, Dr. Cristián Noemi.

With the purpose of contributing to this task whose main expression is constituted by dozens of theses, scientific articles, research projects, Logos magazine, dozens of prestigious visiting professors, talented candidates, among others, the anthropologist and academic from the Department of Education of the ULS, Dr. Érika Zúñiga, gave the Inaugural Class: ''The Native Peoples in the Educational Stories of the Nation'', thesis work of her Doctorate in which she addressed the indigenous contribution to the colonial economy, confronting the school texts of History of Chile (1845-2012), with the testimony of Hernando de Santillán (1557-1561). As the teacher commented, the study sought to demonstrate the existence in school textbooks of the prejudice that the indigenous people in Chile would not present the conditions to adapt to the colonizing economy, their ''laziness'' appearing strongly associated with this. In the work, the school text was conceived as a cultural tool of the republican State to promote the national ethos, the analysis focused on the economic role of the indigenous as a counterweight to the warlike image of the Conquest and sought to observe the origin, development and persistence of negative stereotypes about indigenous people. 

At the opening ceremony of the 2014 academic year of MIEL, the academic vice-rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán, representing the Rector, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, was present; the director of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Jorge Rojas; academics, Master's candidates and students from the University of La Serena.