| source Georgetown (X) |
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department Latin American Studies (X) |
This course develops elementary communication skills in Quechua. Speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills will develop through combining a content-based language instruction with an interactive task-based approach, embraced by the appropriate understanding of Quechua culture based on situation and context.
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This course is designed to provide the student with competing explanations of the economic development of Latin America, principally during the 20th century (and early 21st). Topics to be discussed include the following: the effects of the Great Depression, import substitution industrialization and its effects, the debt crisis, episodes of high inflation, hyperinflation and stabilization programs, structural adjustment programs and recent experiences with state reform. Particular emphasis will be placed on the examination of the major theories that justify the adoption in the region of particular economic policies, emphasizing the role and the limits of both the state and the market in addressing persistent economic problems. Country-case studies where the student is expected to be deeply involved will be discussed on a weekly basis. Additional short readings will be distributed throughout the semester.
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This course develops elementary communication skills in Quechua. Speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills will develop through combining a content-based language instruction with an interactive task-based approach, embraced by the appropriate understanding of Quechua culture based on situation and context.
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Credits: 3
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This course is designed to enhance the studentsâ understanding of population growth and the environmental consequences in Latin America. The seminar will present an overview of gender analysis in order to understand patterns of land use and conservation strategies, both individually and collectively. The course will also explore the relationship between agricultural expansion and natural habitat reduction, as well as the decisive role played by the growing population component in specific hot spots in Latin America and the Caribbean. Current population trends will be analyzed, including rural and urban migration, the current urbanization phenomenon, along with the main issues to attain sustainable development and social wellbeing that characterize and shape the region today. Selected sub-regions, landscapes and geo-physical systems will be analyzed (The Andes âthe Cotacachi-Capayas Ecological Reserve in Ecuador;- The Mesoamerican Corridor -Central America and parts of Mexico- and The Selva Maya; The Caribbean Basin, the Brazilian Amazon, etc.) along with patterns of land use (sustainable agriculture, ecoagriculture and commercial agriculture or cash crops) and proposed management strategies to conserve resources in the region.
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Over the last three decades, Brazil has emerged from a long dictatorship to embark on an enduring democratic experiment, has urbanized at breakneck speed, and has become a global leader in tech and industry sectors, as well as export commodities. The left wing has risen to political power, the myth of racial democracy has been buried (perhaps prematurely) and neo-pentecostal sects have blossomed across a previously Catholic country. Despite these changes, profound inequality remains a defining characteristic of Brazilian life. Which factors have driven and shaped Brazil's rapid transformation, and why have patterns of inequality remained consistent? Readings and discussion in Portuguese. Intermediate Portuguese skills required.
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Credits: 3
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La crónica, el testimonio y el documentalismo tienen en América Latina raÃces profundas, desde las primeras noticias del padre Las Casas hasta los actuales diarios de secuestrados en la selva colombiana. La vitalidad y recurrencia de estos géneros son, por otra parte, indicios claros de la dimensión identitaria de los problemas que tratan. Este conjunto de materiales de no ficción tienen un denominador común: son entregados a la conciencia del lector para dar noticia de una realidad no revelada o mal conocida, y exigen un juicio de sentido. El curso se propone el ejercicio de este juicio en la forma de un seminario de análisis y discusión de los materiales y las narrativas testimoniales de América Latina, centrando la discusión en algunas de sus manifestaciones contemporáneas más relevantes. El visionado de un número restringido de materiales documentales formará también parte del curso. Asimismo, el seminario incorporará a la discusión crónicas y piezas periodÃsticias que dan cuenta de determinadas coyunturas traumáticas en la experiencia latinoamericana.
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Credits: 3
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This is an interdisciplinary course that analyzes the socio-political advances that modern Andean Original Citizens have achieved since the 1950s. This course will use diverse and prolific sources of information coming from politics, anthropology, archeology, sociology, literature, history, physics, ethnomusicology, indigenous medicine, and modern medicine.
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Score: 9.84895 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Score: 9.84895 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 9.84895 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 9.84895 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Score: 9.84895 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
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This course is for undergraduate students writing the Latin American Thesis. All students enrolled in this course meet during their senior spring semester to discuss the research they are conducting, to learn about the projects that other students are carrying out, and to share ideas and research techniques. Students work on set assignments that lead to the completion of their thesis (proposal, annotated bibliography, drafts, oral presentations etc.). Each stage of the thesis is to be prepared in consultation with and approval of the thesis advisor, presented in class, and submitted to the advisor and the professor of the pro-seminar.
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