(PALAS 360) Political and Social Change                                      

Información

Semesters: First and Second
Hours of Instruction per Week: 4
Total Weeks: 15
Total Hours of Instruction: 60
Courses transferable to ECTS
Courses transferable to U.S. System
Recommendation: Advanced written and spoken English
Professor: Dr. Claudio Chiaramonte
E-mail: claudioggch@hotmail.com

Course Description:
This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.