LATI 50 Syllabus
LATI 50 Syllabus (revised)
Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Why History?
Session 3: Confronting the USA
Session 4: Reading Modern Latin America
Session 5: Writers and Society
Session 6: A Death Foretold
Session 7: From Export-Import Development to ISI/Argentina
Session 8: Neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus/Chile
Session 9: Authoritarianism and Democracy
Session 10: Revolution: Why Then and Not Now?
Session 11: Race in the Andes (Bolivia)
Session 12: Race in the Caribbean (DR)
Session 13. Women, Gender, and Empowerment
Session 14. Mid-Term Exam
Session 15. Religion, the Church, and Liberation Theology
Session 16. Culture and the Arts
Session 17. The Political Economy of Drug Trafficking
Session 18. Immigration Policy
Session 19: Obama and Latin America