Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Economic Integration in Latin America

In recent decades, Latin American countries have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. They have done so both individually and collectively. Starting from the notion of a knowledge-based economy, this course will study how highly educated and talented people and dynamic economies have crossed national borders and taken advantage of the social and cultural similarities of countries in the region as well as their geographical proximity. In 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay created Mercosur (which Venezuela joined in mid-2012) in the belief that an integration process was needed to reconfigure industries and trade, coordinate policies and promote the insertion of its productive sector to the world´s economy. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable students to analyze and understand the integration processes in Latin America and how they are helping regional economies to compete globally. In the current world crisis scenario, Mercosur’s industrial and commercial diversification through horizontal integration and cooperation can serve as a case study of sorts to re-think regional development.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Human Rights and Cultural Representations

The cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent starting point to analyzing political repression in Latin America (mainly Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile). This course discusses not only the impact of trauma, the legacy of memory and the role of the national states during dictatorships in these countries, but also how to make these experiences productive to reconstruct selves and societies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What were the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Political and Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from the political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Producción Oral Portuguese

This course helps students develop satisfactory oral communication skills with greater fluidity, contributing to their academic and social use of the Portuguese language.

Language of Instruction: Portuguese   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Cine latinoamericano (Latin American Cinema)

This course focuses on aspects of history and culture as presented in recent Argentine and Latin American cinema. Through a close study of the films themselves as well as related texts (interviews, reviews, essays, testimonials, literature, newspapers, comics), the course explores the aesthetic approaches used to reflect on society and social problems. Assignments help students to develop reading and writing skills in Spanish while class discussions help students to sharpen their oral skills.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Narrativas de lo monstruoso en Latinoamérica (Narratives of “lo monstruoso” (the monstruous) in Latin America) (Special topics in literature)

In abnormal psychology lectures at the College de France (1974-1975), Michel Foucault traces a “genealogy of the abnormal” based on the hip between knowledge, power and society and social mechanisms of identification, distance, inclusion, and exclusion. In this course, students will explore one of the most common figures of abnormality, the human monster, together with violence, a violence shaped by both social and natural laws. This course takes students on a journey through the different representations in Latin American literary and film narrative of the human monster and other marginal figures such as criminals, fallen women, rebels, and the strange and unclassifiable. Texts will include works by Sarmiento, Borges and Bioy Casares, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. There will also be movies directed by Leonardo Favio, Luis Buñuel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Héctor Babenco and Arturo Ripstein showing the hip between the monstrous “other” and social and political power as one of discipline, control, and standardization.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Administración de recursos humanos (Human Resource Management)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Comercialización (Merchandising)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introducción a las relaciones públicas (Introduction to Public Relations)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Teoría de la traducción (Translation Theory)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia política y social contemporánea I (Contemporary Political and Social History)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Sociología (Sociology)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Economic Integration in Latin America

In recent decades, Latin American countries have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. They have done so both individually and collectively. Starting from the notion of a knowledge-based economy, this course will study how highly educated and talented people and dynamic economies have crossed national borders and taken advantage of the social and cultural similarities of countries in the region as well as their geographical proximity. In 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay created Mercosur (which Venezuela joined in mid-2012) in the belief that an integration process was needed to reconfigure industries and trade, coordinate policies and promote the insertion of its productive sector to the world´s economy. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable students to analyze and understand the integration processes in Latin America and how they are helping regional economies to compete globally. In the current world crisis scenario, Mercosur’s industrial and commercial diversification through horizontal integration and cooperation can serve as a case study of sorts to re-think regional development.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Human Rights and Cultural Representations

The cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent starting point to analyzing political repression in Latin America (mainly Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile). This course discusses not only the impact of trauma, the legacy of memory and the role of the national states during dictatorships in these countries, but also how to make these experiences productive to reconstruct selves and societies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What were the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Political and Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from the political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Producción Oral Portuguese

This course helps students develop satisfactory oral communication skills with greater fluidity, contributing to their academic and social use of the Portuguese language.

Language of Instruction: Portuguese   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Cine latinoamericano (Latin American Cinema)

This course focuses on aspects of history and culture as presented in recent Argentine and Latin American cinema. Through a close study of the films themselves as well as related texts (interviews, reviews, essays, testimonials, literature, newspapers, comics), the course explores the aesthetic approaches used to reflect on society and social problems. Assignments help students to develop reading and writing skills in Spanish while class discussions help students to sharpen their oral skills.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Narrativas de lo monstruoso en Latinoamérica (Narratives of “lo monstruoso” (the monstruous) in Latin America) (Special topics in literature)

In abnormal psychology lectures at the College de France (1974-1975), Michel Foucault traces a “genealogy of the abnormal” based on the hip between knowledge, power and society and social mechanisms of identification, distance, inclusion, and exclusion. In this course, students will explore one of the most common figures of abnormality, the human monster, together with violence, a violence shaped by both social and natural laws. This course takes students on a journey through the different representations in Latin American literary and film narrative of the human monster and other marginal figures such as criminals, fallen women, rebels, and the strange and unclassifiable. Texts will include works by Sarmiento, Borges and Bioy Casares, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. There will also be movies directed by Leonardo Favio, Luis Buñuel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Héctor Babenco and Arturo Ripstein showing the hip between the monstrous “other” and social and political power as one of discipline, control, and standardization.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Administración de recursos humanos (Human Resource Management)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Comercialización (Merchandising)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introducción a las relaciones públicas (Introduction to Public Relations)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Teoría de la traducción (Translation Theory)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia política y social contemporánea I (Contemporary Political and Social History)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Sociología (Sociology)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Economic Integration in Latin America

In recent decades, Latin American countries have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. They have done so both individually and collectively. Starting from the notion of a knowledge-based economy, this course will study how highly educated and talented people and dynamic economies have crossed national borders and taken advantage of the social and cultural similarities of countries in the region as well as their geographical proximity. In 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay created Mercosur (which Venezuela joined in mid-2012) in the belief that an integration process was needed to reconfigure industries and trade, coordinate policies and promote the insertion of its productive sector to the world´s economy. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable students to analyze and understand the integration processes in Latin America and how they are helping regional economies to compete globally. In the current world crisis scenario, Mercosur’s industrial and commercial diversification through horizontal integration and cooperation can serve as a case study of sorts to re-think regional development.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Human Rights and Cultural Representations

The cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent starting point to analyzing political repression in Latin America (mainly Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile). This course discusses not only the impact of trauma, the legacy of memory and the role of the national states during dictatorships in these countries, but also how to make these experiences productive to reconstruct selves and societies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What were the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Political and Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from the political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Producción Oral Portuguese

This course helps students develop satisfactory oral communication skills with greater fluidity, contributing to their academic and social use of the Portuguese language.

Language of Instruction: Portuguese   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Cine latinoamericano (Latin American Cinema)

This course focuses on aspects of history and culture as presented in recent Argentine and Latin American cinema. Through a close study of the films themselves as well as related texts (interviews, reviews, essays, testimonials, literature, newspapers, comics), the course explores the aesthetic approaches used to reflect on society and social problems. Assignments help students to develop reading and writing skills in Spanish while class discussions help students to sharpen their oral skills.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Narrativas de lo monstruoso en Latinoamérica (Narratives of “lo monstruoso” (the monstruous) in Latin America) (Special topics in literature)

In abnormal psychology lectures at the College de France (1974-1975), Michel Foucault traces a “genealogy of the abnormal” based on the hip between knowledge, power and society and social mechanisms of identification, distance, inclusion, and exclusion. In this course, students will explore one of the most common figures of abnormality, the human monster, together with violence, a violence shaped by both social and natural laws. This course takes students on a journey through the different representations in Latin American literary and film narrative of the human monster and other marginal figures such as criminals, fallen women, rebels, and the strange and unclassifiable. Texts will include works by Sarmiento, Borges and Bioy Casares, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. There will also be movies directed by Leonardo Favio, Luis Buñuel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Héctor Babenco and Arturo Ripstein showing the hip between the monstrous “other” and social and political power as one of discipline, control, and standardization.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Administración de recursos humanos (Human Resource Management)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Comercialización (Merchandising)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introducción a las relaciones públicas (Introduction to Public Relations)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Teoría de la traducción (Translation Theory)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia política y social contemporánea I (Contemporary Political and Social History)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Sociología (Sociology)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Economic Integration in Latin America

In recent decades, Latin American countries have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. They have done so both individually and collectively. Starting from the notion of a knowledge-based economy, this course will study how highly educated and talented people and dynamic economies have crossed national borders and taken advantage of the social and cultural similarities of countries in the region as well as their geographical proximity. In 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay created Mercosur (which Venezuela joined in mid-2012) in the belief that an integration process was needed to reconfigure industries and trade, coordinate policies and promote the insertion of its productive sector to the world´s economy. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable students to analyze and understand the integration processes in Latin America and how they are helping regional economies to compete globally. In the current world crisis scenario, Mercosur’s industrial and commercial diversification through horizontal integration and cooperation can serve as a case study of sorts to re-think regional development.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Human Rights and Cultural Representations

The cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent starting point to analyzing political repression in Latin America (mainly Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile). This course discusses not only the impact of trauma, the legacy of memory and the role of the national states during dictatorships in these countries, but also how to make these experiences productive to reconstruct selves and societies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What were the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Political and Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from the political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Producción Oral Portuguese

This course helps students develop satisfactory oral communication skills with greater fluidity, contributing to their academic and social use of the Portuguese language.

Language of Instruction: Portuguese   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Cine latinoamericano (Latin American Cinema)

This course focuses on aspects of history and culture as presented in recent Argentine and Latin American cinema. Through a close study of the films themselves as well as related texts (interviews, reviews, essays, testimonials, literature, newspapers, comics), the course explores the aesthetic approaches used to reflect on society and social problems. Assignments help students to develop reading and writing skills in Spanish while class discussions help students to sharpen their oral skills.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Narrativas de lo monstruoso en Latinoamérica (Narratives of “lo monstruoso” (the monstruous) in Latin America) (Special topics in literature)

In abnormal psychology lectures at the College de France (1974-1975), Michel Foucault traces a “genealogy of the abnormal” based on the hip between knowledge, power and society and social mechanisms of identification, distance, inclusion, and exclusion. In this course, students will explore one of the most common figures of abnormality, the human monster, together with violence, a violence shaped by both social and natural laws. This course takes students on a journey through the different representations in Latin American literary and film narrative of the human monster and other marginal figures such as criminals, fallen women, rebels, and the strange and unclassifiable. Texts will include works by Sarmiento, Borges and Bioy Casares, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. There will also be movies directed by Leonardo Favio, Luis Buñuel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Héctor Babenco and Arturo Ripstein showing the hip between the monstrous “other” and social and political power as one of discipline, control, and standardization.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Administración de recursos humanos (Human Resource Management)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Comercialización (Merchandising)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introducción a las relaciones públicas (Introduction to Public Relations)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Teoría de la traducción (Translation Theory)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia política y social contemporánea I (Contemporary Political and Social History)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Sociología (Sociology)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Gender History in Latin America

The course provides a brief introduction to the history of gender in Latin America from the time of Columbus to the 20th century. Focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood has been constructed and experienced, the course explores the role that categories such as racial origins and social class play in mediating and defining the experience. The course seeks to understand the complexity of the process of finding women’s own voices. Labor, family, sexuality, religion, education, and the evolution of political and civil rights will be discussed in order to demonstrate that women have actively shaped their own destinies. The course will use case studies, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Manuela Saenz, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Eva Perón, Rigoberta Menchú, and Frida Kahlo and the weekly readings will be completed with the primary source material, such as memoirs, accounts, films, photographs, and images.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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International Business in the Southern Cone

The course raises critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that companies and entrepreneurs encounter when doing business in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We begin by introducing the general political, legal, socio-economic context in which international business takes place in the region. Once we have looked at the big picture, we focus on the controllable and uncontrollable forces in the Southern Cone business environment. A structured approach encourages well-informed discussions from which students can build their own understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of doing business in this part of the world. As the course progresses, students are expected to develop basic interdisciplinary skills for business decision making. By the end of the course, students will have gained valuable insights on the opportunities that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay offer and will be ready to conduct research and access first-hand information about Southern markets.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Latin America in Global Economy

This course outlines commercial within Latin America as well as between Latin America and the major geo-economic regions, such as the European Union, NAFTA, and ASEAN. The main aspects discussed are economic cooperation, trade, business development and sociopolitical issues. Special emphasis is placed on the role of international organizations and multinational corporations in economic development. The prospects of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) for becoming economic leaders will also be addressed.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Arte argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentine Art)

After a brief overview of the main artistic movements of the 19th century, this course goes on to consider the socio-cultural changes occurring roughly between 1900 and 1945. These were manifested both in art – the Painters of the People, the Paris Group, Cubism, Surrealism, Concrete Art – and in architecture: Art Nouveau, Neocolonialism, Art Deco, Rationalism, and Monumentalism. The euphoria and rebellion of the 1960s found their modes of expression in Pop Art and abstraction, the New Figuration Movement, Participatory Art, Brutalism, Formalism, the International Style and Casablanquismo. The return to democracy in Argentina in 1983 coincides with the advent of Postmodernism, Ecological Art, Postfiguration, Digital Art, Naive Art, Regionalism and Technological Determinism. Classes will/can be supplemented with visits to the many museums and urban spaces that Buenos Aires has to offer.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura latinoamericana (Latin American Literature)

This course explores Latin American literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The prescribed texts include letters, poems, short stories, critical articles and novels by acclaimed authors such as Ruben Dario, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Pablo Neruda, Elena Poniatowska, César Huidobro and Roberto Bolaños. Many of them belonged to the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s when the Latin American novel became known throughout the world. But the course also considers original Latin American genres, such as testimonial narrative. The course examines literary responses to complex cultural, social and historical problems: conquest, nation-building, and national identity formation; acculturation, avant-gardism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism; or populism and authoritarianism.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Introducción a las relaciones internacionales I (Introduction to International Relations I)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia Economica Argentina (Argentine Economic History)

El curso proveerá información básica en torno a los procesos económicos desarrollados históricamente en la Argentina desde la generación del 80 hasta el siglo XXI. El modelo agropecuario exportador, los ajustes que ese modelo sufre a lo largo del tiempo y el sistema nacional de bancos y la inconvertibilidad monetaria son tema de análisis. La influencia de las dos guerras mundiales en la economía argentina lleva a un proceso de sustitución de importaciones.

Se estudia la crisis mundial de 1930 y sus consecuencias económico-financieras. Se analiza el gobierno peronista (primera y segunda gestión) y el rol de Estado y el modelo desarrollista. Se señala el rol de las organizaciones internacionales de crédito en las décadas de los 60 y 70 y las características económicas durante los gobiernos militares y en el llamado “Proceso de reconstrucción nacional”. La reapertura política que trae el advenimiento de la democracia ponen en funcionamiento varios planes económicos: Austral, Primavera y Convertibilidad. Crisis del 2001. El gobierno nacional y popular. El curso concluye con el análisis de la situación actual.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Culture and Social Change in Argentina

Departing from the notion that artistic creation is the battleground where perceptions, ideologies and identity formation play a central role, this course will focus on the different ways in which social change shapes and transform the arts during the XX and XXI centuries in Argentina.This course seeks to problematize the complex relationship --be it sometimes a dialogue, some other times contested debates that could go well beyond rhetoric into bloodshed--between the arts and the conflictive history of social change in our country. The course also aims at analyzing in depth the ways in which the arts represent, contest, silence or resist the fundamental social and cultural issues of their times: populisms, dictatorships, state terrorism, revolutionary groups, avant-gardes. Our sources will be tango (visual and lyrics), melodrama, painting, artistic performances, documentaries, etc.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Traduccion al Ingles (English Translation)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Administracion estrategica (Strategic Administration)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Intrapeneuring

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Evolucion del pensamiento filosofico y politico II (Evolution of Philosophic and Political Thought II)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Comunicacion corportativa (Corporate Communication)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Gender History in Latin America

The course provides a brief introduction to the history of gender in Latin America from the time of Columbus to the 20th century. Focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood has been constructed and experienced, the course explores the role that categories such as racial origins and social class play in mediating and defining the experience. The course seeks to understand the complexity of the process of finding women’s own voices. Labor, family, sexuality, religion, education, and the evolution of political and civil rights will be discussed in order to demonstrate that women have actively shaped their own destinies. The course will use case studies, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Manuela Saenz, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Eva Perón, Rigoberta Menchú, and Frida Kahlo and the weekly readings will be completed with the primary source material, such as memoirs, accounts, films, photographs, and images.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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International Business in the Southern Cone

The course raises critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that companies and entrepreneurs encounter when doing business in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We begin by introducing the general political, legal, socio-economic context in which international business takes place in the region. Once we have looked at the big picture, we focus on the controllable and uncontrollable forces in the Southern Cone business environment. A structured approach encourages well-informed discussions from which students can build their own understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of doing business in this part of the world. As the course progresses, students are expected to develop basic interdisciplinary skills for business decision making. By the end of the course, students will have gained valuable insights on the opportunities that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay offer and will be ready to conduct research and access first-hand information about Southern markets.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Latin America in Global Economy

This course outlines commercial within Latin America as well as between Latin America and the major geo-economic regions, such as the European Union, NAFTA, and ASEAN. The main aspects discussed are economic cooperation, trade, business development and sociopolitical issues. Special emphasis is placed on the role of international organizations and multinational corporations in economic development. The prospects of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) for becoming economic leaders will also be addressed.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Arte argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentine Art)

After a brief overview of the main artistic movements of the 19th century, this course goes on to consider the socio-cultural changes occurring roughly between 1900 and 1945. These were manifested both in art – the Painters of the People, the Paris Group, Cubism, Surrealism, Concrete Art – and in architecture: Art Nouveau, Neocolonialism, Art Deco, Rationalism, and Monumentalism. The euphoria and rebellion of the 1960s found their modes of expression in Pop Art and abstraction, the New Figuration Movement, Participatory Art, Brutalism, Formalism, the International Style and Casablanquismo. The return to democracy in Argentina in 1983 coincides with the advent of Postmodernism, Ecological Art, Postfiguration, Digital Art, Naive Art, Regionalism and Technological Determinism. Classes will/can be supplemented with visits to the many museums and urban spaces that Buenos Aires has to offer.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Cultural popular argentina (Argentine Popular Culture)

El objetivo del curso es que el alumno estudie la cultura popular argentina a través de esas manifestaciones materiales, espirituales e ideológicas que “saltan a la vista” del viajero ya que representan a los argentinos y los identifican como tales. La ciudad (el centro y sus márgenes), la comida, la música, el fútbol y los mitos son manifestaciones creadas y/o consumidas preferentemente por las clases populares que estudiaremos. Además de acompañar la inmersión en la cultura argentina, el curso también intenta ser una transición con los cursos 300, de allí el lugar que se le otorga a la breve y continua participación tanto escrita como oral. A partir defragmentos televisivos, literarios y culinarios, fotografía y cine, videos y música, los alumnos discutirán los temas con el fin de mejorar sus habilidades lingüísticas en términos de comprensión y producción (escrita y oral). Durante las clases, se harán correcciones gramaticales, al tiempo que se asistirá los estudiantes con ejercicios de apoyo para mejorar su producción expresiva en español.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Historia Economica Argentina (Argentine Economic History)

El curso proveerá información básica en torno a los procesos económicos desarrollados históricamente en la Argentina desde la generación del 80 hasta el siglo XXI. El modelo agropecuario exportador, los ajustes que ese modelo sufre a lo largo del tiempo y el sistema nacional de bancos y la inconvertibilidad monetaria son tema de análisis. La influencia de las dos guerras mundiales en la economía argentina lleva a un proceso de sustitución de importaciones.

Se estudia la crisis mundial de 1930 y sus consecuencias económico-financieras. Se analiza el gobierno peronista (primera y segunda gestión) y el rol de Estado y el modelo desarrollista. Se señala el rol de las organizaciones internacionales de crédito en las décadas de los 60 y 70 y las características económicas durante los gobiernos militares y en el llamado “Proceso de reconstrucción nacional”. La reapertura política que trae el advenimiento de la democracia ponen en funcionamiento varios planes económicos: Austral, Primavera y Convertibilidad. Crisis del 2001. El gobierno nacional y popular. El curso concluye con el análisis de la situación actual.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psicologia (Psychology)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Tecnicas de las relaciones publicas (Public Relations Techniques)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Administracion II (Business Administration II)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia economica y social (Economic and Social History)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introduccion a las ciencias politicas (Introduction to Political Science)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Gender History in Latin America

The course provides a brief introduction to the history of gender in Latin America from the time of Columbus to the 20th century. Focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood has been constructed and experienced, the course explores the role that categories such as racial origins and social class play in mediating and defining the experience. The course seeks to understand the complexity of the process of finding women’s own voices. Labor, family, sexuality, religion, education, and the evolution of political and civil rights will be discussed in order to demonstrate that women have actively shaped their own destinies. The course will use case studies, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Manuela Saenz, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Eva Perón, Rigoberta Menchú, and Frida Kahlo and the weekly readings will be completed with the primary source material, such as memoirs, accounts, films, photographs, and images.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

International Business in the Southern Cone

The course raises critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that companies and entrepreneurs encounter when doing business in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We begin by introducing the general political, legal, socio-economic context in which international business takes place in the region. Once we have looked at the big picture, we focus on the controllable and uncontrollable forces in the Southern Cone business environment. A structured approach encourages well-informed discussions from which students can build their own understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of doing business in this part of the world. As the course progresses, students are expected to develop basic interdisciplinary skills for business decision making. By the end of the course, students will have gained valuable insights on the opportunities that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay offer and will be ready to conduct research and access first-hand information about Southern markets.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latin America in Global Economy

This course outlines commercial within Latin America as well as between Latin America and the major geo-economic regions, such as the European Union, NAFTA, and ASEAN. The main aspects discussed are economic cooperation, trade, business development and sociopolitical issues. Special emphasis is placed on the role of international organizations and multinational corporations in economic development. The prospects of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) for becoming economic leaders will also be addressed.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Arte argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentine Art)

After a brief overview of the main artistic movements of the 19th century, this course goes on to consider the socio-cultural changes occurring roughly between 1900 and 1945. These were manifested both in art – the Painters of the People, the Paris Group, Cubism, Surrealism, Concrete Art – and in architecture: Art Nouveau, Neocolonialism, Art Deco, Rationalism, and Monumentalism. The euphoria and rebellion of the 1960s found their modes of expression in Pop Art and abstraction, the New Figuration Movement, Participatory Art, Brutalism, Formalism, the International Style and Casablanquismo. The return to democracy in Argentina in 1983 coincides with the advent of Postmodernism, Ecological Art, Postfiguration, Digital Art, Naive Art, Regionalism and Technological Determinism. Classes will/can be supplemented with visits to the many museums and urban spaces that Buenos Aires has to offer.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Cultural popular argentina (Argentine Popular Culture)

El objetivo del curso es que el alumno estudie la cultura popular argentina a través de esas manifestaciones materiales, espirituales e ideológicas que “saltan a la vista” del viajero ya que representan a los argentinos y los identifican como tales. La ciudad (el centro y sus márgenes), la comida, la música, el fútbol y los mitos son manifestaciones creadas y/o consumidas preferentemente por las clases populares que estudiaremos. Además de acompañar la inmersión en la cultura argentina, el curso también intenta ser una transición con los cursos 300, de allí el lugar que se le otorga a la breve y continua participación tanto escrita como oral. A partir defragmentos televisivos, literarios y culinarios, fotografía y cine, videos y música, los alumnos discutirán los temas con el fin de mejorar sus habilidades lingüísticas en términos de comprensión y producción (escrita y oral). Durante las clases, se harán correcciones gramaticales, al tiempo que se asistirá los estudiantes con ejercicios de apoyo para mejorar su producción expresiva en español.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psicologia (Psychology)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Tecnicas de las relaciones publicas (Public Relations Techniques)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Administracion II (Business Administration II)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia economica y social (Economic and Social History)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introduccion a las ciencias politicas (Introduction to Political Science)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia politica y social contemporanea II (Contemporary Political and Social History II)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Gender History in Latin America

The course provides a brief introduction to the history of gender in Latin America from the time of Columbus to the 20th century. Focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood has been constructed and experienced, the course explores the role that categories such as racial origins and social class play in mediating and defining the experience. The course seeks to understand the complexity of the process of finding women’s own voices. Labor, family, sexuality, religion, education, and the evolution of political and civil rights will be discussed in order to demonstrate that women have actively shaped their own destinies. The course will use case studies, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Manuela Saenz, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Eva Perón, Rigoberta Menchú, and Frida Kahlo and the weekly readings will be completed with the primary source material, such as memoirs, accounts, films, photographs, and images.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

International Business in the Southern Cone

The course raises critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that companies and entrepreneurs encounter when doing business in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We begin by introducing the general political, legal, socio-economic context in which international business takes place in the region. Once we have looked at the big picture, we focus on the controllable and uncontrollable forces in the Southern Cone business environment. A structured approach encourages well-informed discussions from which students can build their own understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of doing business in this part of the world. As the course progresses, students are expected to develop basic interdisciplinary skills for business decision making. By the end of the course, students will have gained valuable insights on the opportunities that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay offer and will be ready to conduct research and access first-hand information about Southern markets.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latin America in Global Economy

This course outlines commercial within Latin America as well as between Latin America and the major geo-economic regions, such as the European Union, NAFTA, and ASEAN. The main aspects discussed are economic cooperation, trade, business development and sociopolitical issues. Special emphasis is placed on the role of international organizations and multinational corporations in economic development. The prospects of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) for becoming economic leaders will also be addressed.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Arte argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentine Art)

After a brief overview of the main artistic movements of the 19th century, this course goes on to consider the socio-cultural changes occurring roughly between 1900 and 1945. These were manifested both in art – the Painters of the People, the Paris Group, Cubism, Surrealism, Concrete Art – and in architecture: Art Nouveau, Neocolonialism, Art Deco, Rationalism, and Monumentalism. The euphoria and rebellion of the 1960s found their modes of expression in Pop Art and abstraction, the New Figuration Movement, Participatory Art, Brutalism, Formalism, the International Style and Casablanquismo. The return to democracy in Argentina in 1983 coincides with the advent of Postmodernism, Ecological Art, Postfiguration, Digital Art, Naive Art, Regionalism and Technological Determinism. Classes will/can be supplemented with visits to the many museums and urban spaces that Buenos Aires has to offer.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Cultural popular argentina (Argentine Popular Culture)

El objetivo del curso es que el alumno estudie la cultura popular argentina a través de esas manifestaciones materiales, espirituales e ideológicas que “saltan a la vista” del viajero ya que representan a los argentinos y los identifican como tales. La ciudad (el centro y sus márgenes), la comida, la música, el fútbol y los mitos son manifestaciones creadas y/o consumidas preferentemente por las clases populares que estudiaremos. Además de acompañar la inmersión en la cultura argentina, el curso también intenta ser una transición con los cursos 300, de allí el lugar que se le otorga a la breve y continua participación tanto escrita como oral. A partir defragmentos televisivos, literarios y culinarios, fotografía y cine, videos y música, los alumnos discutirán los temas con el fin de mejorar sus habilidades lingüísticas en términos de comprensión y producción (escrita y oral). Durante las clases, se harán correcciones gramaticales, al tiempo que se asistirá los estudiantes con ejercicios de apoyo para mejorar su producción expresiva en español.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Historia Economica Argentina (Argentine Economic History)

El curso proveerá información básica en torno a los procesos económicos desarrollados históricamente en la Argentina desde la generación del 80 hasta el siglo XXI. El modelo agropecuario exportador, los ajustes que ese modelo sufre a lo largo del tiempo y el sistema nacional de bancos y la inconvertibilidad monetaria son tema de análisis. La influencia de las dos guerras mundiales en la economía argentina lleva a un proceso de sustitución de importaciones.

Se estudia la crisis mundial de 1930 y sus consecuencias económico-financieras. Se analiza el gobierno peronista (primera y segunda gestión) y el rol de Estado y el modelo desarrollista. Se señala el rol de las organizaciones internacionales de crédito en las décadas de los 60 y 70 y las características económicas durante los gobiernos militares y en el llamado “Proceso de reconstrucción nacional”. La reapertura política que trae el advenimiento de la democracia ponen en funcionamiento varios planes económicos: Austral, Primavera y Convertibilidad. Crisis del 2001. El gobierno nacional y popular. El curso concluye con el análisis de la situación actual.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Psicologia (Psychology)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Tecnicas de las relaciones publicas (Public Relations Techniques)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Administracion II (Business Administration II)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia economica y social (Economic and Social History)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introduccion a las ciencias politicas (Introduction to Political Science)

Course offered with local Argentine students.

Course description currently unavailable.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Economic Integration in Latin America

In recent decades, Latin American countries have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. They have done so both individually and collectively. Starting from the notion of a knowledge-based economy, this course will study how highly educated and talented people and dynamic economies have crossed national borders and taken advantage of the social and cultural similarities of countries in the region as well as their geographical proximity. In 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay created Mercosur (which Venezuela joined in mid-2012) in the belief that an integration process was needed to reconfigure industries and trade, coordinate policies and promote the insertion of its productive sector to the world´s economy. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable students to analyze and understand the integration processes in Latin America and how they are helping regional economies to compete globally. In the current world crisis scenario, Mercosur’s industrial and commercial diversification through horizontal integration and cooperation can serve as a case study of sorts to re-think regional development.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Human Rights and Cultural Representations

The cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent starting point to analyzing political repression in Latin America (mainly Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile). This course discusses not only the impact of trauma, the legacy of memory and the role of the national states during dictatorships in these countries, but also how to make these experiences productive to reconstruct selves and societies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What were the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Political and Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from the political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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U.S. – Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining the U.S. and Latin American from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U.S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged as a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American and some lesser-known actors.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

Producción Oral Portuguese

This course helps students develop satisfactory oral communication skills with greater fluidity, contributing to their academic and social use of the Portuguese language.

Language of Instruction: Portuguese   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Cine latinoamericano (Latin American Cinema)

This course focuses on aspects of history and culture as presented in recent Argentine and Latin American cinema. Through a close study of the films themselves as well as related texts (interviews, reviews, essays, testimonials, literature, newspapers, comics), the course explores the aesthetic approaches used to reflect on society and social problems. Assignments help students to develop reading and writing skills in Spanish while class discussions help students to sharpen their oral skills.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America – its rural (1870-1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans in the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1900s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)

This course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story “The Slaughterhouse”, written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians, and government. However, it is josé Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all but vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its hip with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Narrativas de lo monstruoso en Latinoamérica (Narratives of “lo monstruoso” (the monstruous) in Latin America) (Special topics in literature)

In abnormal psychology lectures at the College de France (1974-1975), Michel Foucault traces a “genealogy of the abnormal” based on the hip between knowledge, power and society and social mechanisms of identification, distance, inclusion, and exclusion. In this course, students will explore one of the most common figures of abnormality, the human monster, together with violence, a violence shaped by both social and natural laws. This course takes students on a journey through the different representations in Latin American literary and film narrative of the human monster and other marginal figures such as criminals, fallen women, rebels, and the strange and unclassifiable. Texts will include works by Sarmiento, Borges and Bioy Casares, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. There will also be movies directed by Leonardo Favio, Luis Buñuel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Héctor Babenco and Arturo Ripstein showing the hip between the monstrous “other” and social and political power as one of discipline, control, and standardization.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance the tango.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

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Administración de recursos humanos (Human Resource Management)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Comercialización (Merchandising)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Introducción a las relaciones públicas (Introduction to Public Relations)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Teoría de la traducción (Translation Theory)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Historia política y social contemporánea I (Contemporary Political and Social History)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Sociología (Sociology)

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Español Intermedio I (Intermediate Spanish I) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who already have basic communication skills. The general aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to communicate on a wider range of topics. Classes emphasize the active acquisition of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Upon completing the course, students will be able to follow or give a short talk on familiar topics, keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics and write short letters and other texts on predictable subjects. Special attention is paid to classic difficulties such as ser vs. estar, para vs. por, pretérito indefinido vs pretérito imperfecto as well as the use of the subjective for expressing possibility, doubt, suggestions, and advice.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate I  

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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Early Start Option

This course is intended for students who have mastered all the major grammatical forms of the language and can communicate with relatively fluency in a wide range of formal and informal situations. Students are encouraged to consolidate and perfect their communicative strategies, both oral and written. Students are required to give oral presentations at regular intervals throughout the course in order to improve their fluency and accuracy when speaking in public. Students also learn gradually to produce increasingly complex forms of expository and argumentative prose within the established conventions of written Spanish.

Early start students complete a four-week intensive Spanish language class equivalent to 3-7 U.S. semester credits.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced  

Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A

Intended for students with a basic mastery of Spanish grammar, this intermediate level helps learners acquire a broad communicative command of the language across an increasingly rich and diverse range of contexts.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A

This course improves the student’s general knowledge of the language and puts a special emphasis on comprehensive reading and production of texts. It offers students the opportunity to improve writing skills, not only with regard to the use of appropriate forms of grammar but also an adequate organization of texts by different text types.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced A  

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Producción Oral Intermedia

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among intermediate students. The course encourages the spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate  

Recommended US semester credits: 1.5  

View Syllabus   

Sociolinguistísica

This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The course focuses on the relationship and the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language variation, language and social class, language and gender, language and age, language and context, language and identity, and language and new media. This course seeks to familiarize students with the wider macro-social phenomena and the micro-level analysis of both face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions, thus providing an opportunity for a better understanding of the interface between sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In addition, attention is also given to the various sociolinguistic approaches and the methods for collecting data of the study of language and society.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Economic Integration in Latin America

In recent decades, Latin American countries have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. They have done so both individually and collectively. Starting from the notion of a knowledge-based economy, this course will study how highly educated and talented people and dynamic economies have crossed national borders and taken advantage of the social and cultural similarities of countries in the region as well as their geographical proximity. In 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay created Mercosur (which Venezuela joined in mid-2012) in the belief that an integration process was needed to reconfigure industries and trade, coordinate policies and promote the insertion of its productive sector to the world´s economy. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable students to analyze and understand the integration processes in Latin America and how they are helping regional economies to compete globally. In the current world crisis scenario, Mercosur’s industrial and commercial diversification through horizontal integration and cooperation can serve as a case study of sorts to re-think regional development.

Language of Instruction: Spanish   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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Human Rights and Cultural Representations

The cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent starting point to analyzing political repression in Latin America (mainly Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile). This course discusses not only the impact of trauma, the legacy of memory and the role of the national states during dictatorships in these countries, but also how to make these experiences productive to reconstruct selves and societies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Since its discovery until the present, Latin America has been imagined and conceived as the “New Continent”, a place for utopia, but also as a space of uneven modernity and extreme forms of violence. The course explores distinctive cultural aspects of Latin America by looking at the ways it has been represented in readings spanning from the diaries written by Christopher Columbus to the texts of the Cuban Revolution, the iconography of Peronismo, or the recent debates on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Populism. Drawing on essays, but also on short-stories, paintings, photographs, murals and film, the course addresses a set of questions that lie at the heart of how one thinks about Latin America. What is expected from “Latin America”? What were the different “ideas” that Latin America embodied? What are the forms of “Latin American” culture? How are the different “cultures” connected?

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Political and Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from the political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Race and Nation in Argentina

This course provides a survey of the history of race in Argentina from pre-conquest times to our days. A large and geographically diverse nation, Argentina presents numerous and marked differences that have privileged certain racial constructions over others. By exploring the experiences and identities of different sectors of its heterogeneous population, the course will provide a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from the historical process. By focusing on the indigenous and black population, and the laboring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

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