ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2015

Language immersion (summer): February 2 to March 13.

Semester Courses March-July 2015: March 16 to July 3.

Language immersion (winter): July 1 to August 7.

Semester courses August-November 2015: August 10 to November 27.


LANGUAGE IMMERSION (SUMMER)
February 2 to March 13, 2015
The Intensive Spanish Language program is designed with courses at the beginning, intermediate and advanced language levels, and offers a combination of Spanish grammar, conversation and Argentine culture. During this period students will cover two levels of Spanish. An on-line level test will be offered upon request during the month of December 2014.

  • SPANISH I
It is a basic language class designed for students who enter with some or no previous knowledge of Spanish.

  • SPANISH II
It is an intensive language class designed for students with good basic knowledge of Spanish.

  • SPANISH III
It is designed for students who enter with good intermediate knowledge of Spanish.


SEMESTER COURSES MARCH-JULY
March 16 to July 3, 2015

  • SPANISH I

  • SPANISH II

  • SPANISH III

  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
The course program has been conceived as an intensive approach to the literary and nonliterary origins of the selected masterpieces, their aesthetic features and their national contexts.

  • LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
A comprehensive course examining major political/geographical/social/economic features of Latin American past and present. Key issues which may divide or unite the distinctive Latin American countries will be highlighted.

  • LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
The aim of the course is to identify and appraise the origins and outcomes of successive ῾models of development’ in Latin America since the late nineteenth century.

  • HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
History of Economic Thought is essential for the understanding the development of market economies since the different paradigms developed in the past are useful for anyone trying to interpret contemporary economic phenomena, even for those tackling questions of immediate relevance.

  • ANTHROPOLY OF POLITICS
This course focuses on the relations among politics, violence and resistance. Using different approaches, it explores new forms of political control and governance, such as the refugee camps, new forms of activism and mobilizations, such as victim’s collective movements and humanitarian civil associations, transnational forms of activism such as human rights activism, violence in extraordinary moments and in everyday life and the place of compassion in currently politics.

  • MEMORY, CHILDHOOD AND DICTATORSHIP
What is a “normal” childhood under a dictatorship? Focusing on the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976 – 83), the seminar examines the memory of childhood experience in sociocultural, historiographic and cinematographic approaches. Topics include childhood as political subject, public policy aimed at children, children of the disappeared and everyday life.

  • ARGENTINE POLITICS
This course will deal with Argentine politics from the generation of the 37 up to these days.

  • LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS
This course will analyze the following topics: Politics and economics under the conservative order, the rise of mass politics - its various forms, industrialization by import substitution and state intervention in the economy, modernization, authoritarianism and democracy, revolution, guerrillas and the left, debt crisis and adjustment policies, emergency and functioning of new democracies.

  • CLASSICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
The colonial setting and the origins of modern Anthropology. Central and peripheral anthropologies. Evolutionism in the UK, the USA, continental Europe and Argentina. Franz Boas and the rise of cultural anthropology. Ethnography and the methodological revolution of the turn of the century.




OTHER COURSES THAT CAN BE OFFERED IN FUTURE SEMESTERS

  • ARGENTINEAN & LATIN AMERICAN ART – XX CENTURY
  • NARRATIVE AND POSTMODERN SHORT FICTION
  • MAGIC REALISM IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ARTS
  • ANALIZING ARGENTINE CINEMA
  • BORGES Y LA LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA
  • LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM I
  • MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTROPOLOGY
  • ARGENTINE HISTORY
  • HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
  • ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE: READINGS IN THE CONTEMPORARY
  • REFLECTION ON LANGUAGE
  • SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
  • INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN SOUTH AMERICA: A VIEW FROM ANTROPOLOGY
  • CONSTRUCTION OF FAMILY AND CHILD WELFARE IN LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL POLICIES
  • VIOLENCE, VICTIMS AND JUSTICE: AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF HUMANITARIAN ACTIVISM AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY PRODUCTION
  • METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
  • QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
  • ARGENTINE POLITICS
  • COMPARATIVE POLITICS
  • CARIBBEAN HISTORY: FROM COLUMBUS TO FIDEL CASTRO