Unit name | Contemporary Latin American History |
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Unit code | HISP30069 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
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 examines the principal challenges faced by Latin American states at the beginning of the twenty-first century: Climate Change, Social Inequality, Drug Trafficking and the development of Democracy. Students will explore the ways in which these subjects affect the different Latin American states, adopting a comparative framework in all cases. We will employ a range of primary sources to assist our analysis of the four main themes: from newspapers and online media, novels and films, through to the speeches of politicians, institutional documents, political manifestos and economic statistics.
Aims:
Successful students will:
Lectures and seminars, use of e-resources through blackboard, Latin American newspapers online, films in the Multimedia Centre.
Two 3000 word essays equality weighted 50/50, testing ILO's 1-4.
All students should read Alexander Dawson, Latin America: A New Interpretation (2011) and
John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire (2001). Other more detailed reading lists will be made available tailored to the four distinct areas of subject material.