COURSE SYLLABUS: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES & CIVILIZATIONS

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partner Institution: University of Belgrano

Course Title: Latin American Cultures & Civilizations

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instructional in: English

Prerequisites: None

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Local Department: Program in Argentine and Latine American Studies (PALAS)

Course Number: PALAS 362

Course Description

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What where the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

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