Unit name | From Frontiers to Football: South American History 1850-1950 |
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Unit code | HISP20102 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Brown |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit explores South American history during the period known to historians as ‘the birth of the modern world’. It explores the profound changes in South American culture and society in the hundred years before 1950, focusing in particular on popular culture, sports, and nation-building. The unit includes the formation of the first modern sporting clubs in the continent, the organization of the first football World Cup in Uruguay, and ends with consideration of the 1950 World Cup in Brazil and the legendary Maracanazo. Students will explore several texts in detail and will analyse them within their political and historical contexts. Students will be expected to be proficient in Spanish as some source material will be in Spanish.
Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:
1. a high level of understanding of the global, international, national and local historical processes that shaped the course of South American history;
2. ability to analyse cultural texts and historical events through a historical approach that privileges close reading and historical contextualisation;
3. ability to draw out major themes from South American sports history, comparing these chronologically and across the continent.
4. ability to express their knowledge and understanding of the subject in written form to a standard appropriate to level I.
1 weekly lecture and 1 seminar per week.
Two summative 2,000 word essays (50% each) testing ILOs 1-4.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983)
Matthew Brown, From Frontiers to Football: Latin American History from 1800 to the present (Reaktion, 2014)
José Moya, ed., Oxford Handbook of Latin American History (OUP, 2012)