Cultura y civilización en Latinoamérica Latin American Studies Program Summer 2024 July 5-Week 2 Course - Buenos Aires

Latin America is a vast territory marked by diversity and inequality. This course will look at how social, ethnic, and gender subjectivities have been expressed and negotiated at the popular level, contributing to creating vibrant and powerful counter-hegemonic cultural productions. We will use literary texts, documentary films, and music, to approach some of the central issues and themes that have shaped Latin America?s past and present, like colonialism, exploitation, revolution, and political violence. We will further engage with some of these topics through experiential learning activities throughout the city. Music and religion have traditionally been - and still are - spaces of power that visible the needs, demands and aspirations of social actors that have been marginalized from the historical process. This course will allow us to engage with their voices to understand their importance and their contributions to the culture of Latin America.

English course title: Culture and Civilization in Latin America

The University of Belgrano utilizes a 45-minute contact hour whereas the United States higher education system utilizes a 50-minute contact hour. All University of Belgrano courses represent the 45 contact hour amount and an estimated US credit calculation based on the contact hours. Each University of Belgrano transcript will include the number of hours per week and the weeks in the semester, so US universities may calculate the appropriate number of US credits for students.