COURSE SYLLABUS: LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETIES: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partner Institution: University of Belgrano

Course Title (English): Latin American Societies: Social Movements

Course Title (Spanish): Sociedades latinoamericanas: los movimientos sociales

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instructional in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4.5 quarter units

Prerequisites: Intermediate II Spanish Level if taught in Spanish

Local Department: Programa de estudios argentinos y latinoamericanos (PEAL)

Course Code: PEAL 454

Course Description

Based on a theoretical framework (Zygmunt Bauman, Noam Chomsky, Gilles Lipovesky and Karl Marx) the course reflects on the social power in Latin America. The lack of appropriate public policies, the state national model decomposition of industrial, military coups, and globalization are some of the changes that have occurred in Latin America in recent years. Provide the framework upon which urban movements have developed, peasants, ethnic, human rights, youth, environmental, political and revolutionary. Landless Workers in Brazil, Argentina's recuperated factories Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela, the Zapatistas in Chiapas, water wars in Bolivia, movements for human rights and indigenous students in Argentina and Chile are some of the social movements pressing for representation in Latin American democratic societies. However, these expressions of discontent and anger are not new. Latin America has a long tradition of revolutionary social movements and also studies to understand the present. The course also integrate discussion of current social movements in developed countries.

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