ESPAÑOL BÁSICO (Basic Spanish)
The course is intended to introduce students to the basic knowledge of Spanish language, in order to achieve a satisfactory performance in their academic and social activities in Argentina. In line with this objective, we will deal with diverse lexical and grammatical contents and carry out didactic activities so that the students can perform properly in communicative situations at a beginning level.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Beginner
Course Level: Lower Division
Course Level: Lower Division
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Español Nivel Intermedio 1 (Intermediate Spanish Level 1)
This course is designed for students who have a general knowledge of the language and are able to communicate in familar everday situations. The objective of this course is for students to be able to perform in a wider spectrum of communication with minimum effort in everyday life.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Español Nivel Intermedio 2 (Intermediate Spanish Level 2)
This course is desinged for students who have already acquired the main lingusitic sturctures of the langugae and use them in everyday life. The objective of this course is for students to acquire independence in the use of Spanish so that they are able to express themselves in a variety of subjects.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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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 Básico (Elementary Spanish)
The course introduces students systematically to the grammatical and lexical features of the language in its social context.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate A
The objective of this course is to expand the knowledge base of the student so that they can reach an acceptable elvel of understanding and productivity of Spanish in diverse communicative situations.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - Intermediate B
The objective of this course is for the student to consolidate their compeptence and knowledge of the Spanish language and acquire other grammatical knowledge to strenghten their performance linguistically.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced A
The objective of this course if for studetns to achieve a general knowledge of the language in a variety of communicative contexts. This will allow students to suceed in using Spanish in thier academic and social lives.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - Advanced B
The objective of this course if for the student to reflect certain aspects of Spanish grammar as well as deepen their linguistic knowledge and perfect their idiomatic competence.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Producción Oral Intermedia (Intermediate Oral Production)
The objective of this course is for students to be able to incorporate their oral discourse in the elements of the linguistic system of Spanish. The goal is to use what students have acquired so that they can develop a satisfactory level of the language with greater fluidity in their communicative exchanges in their academic and social life.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Beginner
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 1.5
Course Level: Lower Division
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Producción Oral Avanzada (Advanced Oral Production)
The objective of this course is for students to incorporate their oral language skills in the elements of the linguistic system of Spanish that they have acquired. This is so that they can develop a satisfactory level of Spanish and have great fluidity in their communicative exchanges in their academic and social lives.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 1.5
Course Level: Upper Division
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Sociolinguistísica (Sociolinguistics)
This course offers an insightful introduction to the study of the Spanish language in its social and cultural context. The 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 for the study of language and society.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Argentine Economy
Once one of the richest and fastest growing economies in the world, Argentina is now entrenched in the rankings of the less developed countries. The course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable the students to analyze and understand the process experienced by the Argentine economy from the late 19th Century until the present days, focusing on the processes that led to the economic crisis at the turn of this century and the measures implemented to overcome it.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Economic Integration in Latin America
Informed by knowledge economy, this course will study how Latin American countries individually and as a region have adapted quickly and wisely to external changes in order to compete in the globalized world. This course will provide a truly comprehensive perspective that will enable the students to analyze and understand the integration processes in the Southern Cone and how it is helping regional economies to compete globally.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Gender History in Latin America
The course will provide a brief introduction to the history of gender in Latin America by focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood has been constructed and experienced from the Conquest up to the twentieth century. By using a variety of primary sources the course will seek to explore and understand some of the challenges that women have faced over time and the manners in which they have actively contributed to shape Latin American history.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Human Rights and Cultural Representations
This course will focus on the cultural and human responses to the violence of genocide politics in the Holocaust will serve as an excellent start point to analyze political repression in Latin America (focus on 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
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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International Business in the Southern Cone
The goal of this course is to raise critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that companies and entrepreneurs encounter when doing business with countries from the Southern Cone such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Throughout the course students are expected to develop basic interdisciplinary skills for business decision-making. By the end of the course, students gain valuable insight on the opportunities that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay offer and are ready to conduct research and access first hand information about Southern markets.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Latin American Cultures and Civilizations
The course exploresdistinctive 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. The purpose of the course is threefold: to introduce students to problems central to Latin America, to familiarize students with a variety of non-fictional writings in Spanish, such as essay, chronicle, journalism and documentary films, and to sharpen student’s skills as analytical readers.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Latin America in Global Economy
This course will study the development patterns of Latin America since colonial times to present days. Dependency from external factors has underpinned Latin America ́s economic development. This course will focus on the specific issues that determined the economic development of the region as a whole, as well as that of individual countries.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Political and Social Change
This course focuses on political and social change and its instrumental role in the formation of national identity. The course will also address the role citizenship and institutions play in democracy nowadays and the effect the succession of repressive military dictatorships had in relation to memory.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Popular Culture in Argentina
This course will examine Latin American Culture and History through the lens of popular culture. The focus will be on cultural identitity, Nation Building , and social and political conflicts and class struggle. We will examine issues such as democracy, myths, public festivals, religion, sports, music, food, fashion, print media, television and film, paying particular attention to the art and politics that havve influenced (and continue to influence) the lives of ordinaty people in Argentina.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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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.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 on the labouring classes this course will demonstrate how they contributed to the development and construction of the Argentine nation.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Social Economy in Latin America
This course will examine the relationship between the economic system and environmental and social policies that add values, such as transparency and mutual agreements, on the business, public and social sector in Latin America. Students will become familiar with literature about sustainable development and social inclusion. By the end of the semester the students will come up with their own projects based on challenging innovation as high-value for companies.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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U.S. – Latin America
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
Portugués Básico (Beginning Level Portuguese)
The course is intended to introduce students to the basic knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese, in order to achieve a satisfactory performance both orally and writing. In line with this objective, the course will deal with diverse lexical and grammatical contents and carry out didactic activities so that the students can perform properly in communicative situations at a beginning level.
Language of Instruction: Portuguese
Language Level Required: Beginner
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Producción Oral Portuguese
The objective of this course is that studetns are able to incorporate their oral discourse in the elements of the linguistic system of Portguese. The goal is to use what students have acquired so that they can develop a satisfactory level of the langugae with greater fulidity in thier communicative exhancges in their academic and social life.
Language of Instruction: Portuguese
Language Level Required: Beginner
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 1.5
Course Level: Lower Division
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Arte argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentine Art)
The course presents the evolution of Argentine art from the independent period. The course aims to awaken personal curiosity towards art, promoting the opening of windows to the world of sensitivity.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Cine latinoamericano (Latin American Cinema)
This course focuses on aspects of culture and history represented in the Argentine and Latin American cinema of the previous decades. Students will refine their oral and written skills and deepen their reading comprehension and enrich their understanding of contemporary culture represented in Latin American cinematography.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
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Estudios de género en Latinoamérica (Gender Studies in Latin America)
This course focuses on the critical and analytical thinking of social representations of gender and sexual identity, as well as their symbolic effects in Latin American culutres. This course also encourages students to think critically about narratives, images, symbols, and practices that perpetuate, negotiate and politically confront the norms of gender and sexuality both in Buenos Aires and in the rest of Latin America.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Historia económica de Latinoamérica (Economic History of Latin America)
This course analyzes the development of Latin American economics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The course focus is chosen to compare the privileged countries that make up the economies of the North Cone (Venezuela) and the Southern Cone (Brazil, Chile, and Argentina)
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Historia latinoamericana siglo XX (20th Century Latin American History)
The themes of this course are developed in groups according to certain historical processes that had specific characteristics. This allows the analysis of the processes without forgetting their natural and fundamental problems. To understand a contemporary history of Latin America, students need an understanding that unites the past and the present with the contribution of character explanations that evolved which allows students to understand current problems.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Literatura argentina (Argentine Literature)
The purpose of this course is to approach the figure of reading in Argetine literature in the twentieth century. The objective is to trace a route between teh classic and through a non-chronological order by reading a set of novels, poems and stories that link relationships with each other.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Literatura latinoamericana (Latin American Literature)
The purpose of this course is to approach the figure of reading in Argetine literature in the twentieth century. The objective is to trace a route between teh classic and through a non-chronological order by reading a set of novels, poems and stories that link relationships with each other.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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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.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Sociedades latinoamericanas: los movimientos sociales (Latin American Societies: Social Movements) (Special topics course)
Starting from a theroretical framework, the course reflects on the social power in Latin America. Latin America has a long tradition in social and revolutionary movements that will be studied thorughout the course so that students can understand the present. The course will also integreate students discussions convering the current social movements in developing countries.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Tango Danza (Tango Dance)
This course offers the systematic learning of dance, with all the steps and characteristics so that students acquire technique of improvisation which defines this popular dance. In addition this course will analyze the evolution of dance. The objective of the course will help develop student's audio-musical perception to deepen thier auditory, oral skills as well as expand their reading comprehension and appreciate and recongize the different styles and instrument characteristics.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Course Level: Lower Division
Recommended US semester credits: 1.5
Course Level: Lower Division
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Administración general (General Management)
Provide the students who start the different careers, the foundations of the administration as a discipline and its evolution over time. From there, students will have the elements to understand the functioning of organizations and in particular of companies, as well as the main aspects of administrative behavior.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Administración de recursos humanos (Human Resource Management)
The objectives of this course are to know and understand basic problems and the functions of human resources. Students will learn to develop positive attitudes towards the improvement of the quality of work life and the ethical principles in human relations.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Marketing
The general objectives of the subject are: (i) to train students about the modern marketing theories that govern competitive markets and (ii) integrate the commercial management of the company with the rest of the functions of the organization, from the approach of the advertising professional.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
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Comercialización (Merchandising)
This course deals with marketing and sales from the point of view of the marketing technician. Following the concept of the great authors of the specialty, the subject is organized in four moments or parts: (i) interpretation of the marketing process, (ii) analysis of marketing strategies, (iii) development of the marketing mix (or "marketing mix"), (iv) marketing management. The subject is the marketing process, consumer behavior analysis, research and segmentation of product and service markets, knowledge of the functioning of distribution channels and commercial logistics, sales techniques and force management sales, and communication strategies in marketing.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Expresión oral y escrita (Oral and Written Expression)
Course offered with local Argentine students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Introducción a las relaciones públicas (Introduction to Public Relations)
This course aims to know what public relations are and thier interference in society currently as in the orgainizatinal world. Students should be able to discriminate the different related disciplines that interact with relationships publicly.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Teoría de la comunicación (Communication Theory)
Course offered with local Argentine students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Teoría de la traducción (Translation Theory)
Course offered with local Argentine students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Evolución del pensamiento filosófico y político (Evolution of philosophic and political thought)
The subject aims to establish a historical basis of Western political thought, from its origins in Greece around the fifth century BC, to modernity, granting temporary location and relationship of events.
This will allow the students to enable them to carry out the political analysis of a given conjuncture by establishing, at the same time, the eventual development of the proposed situation.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Historia política y social contemporánea I (Contemporary Political and Social History)
In this matter, the student will know and reflect from the political and social phenomenon of the French Revolution, creator of a series of concepts that profoundly renewed the schemes of thought and that have given rise to what we know as the contemporary age. The student will articulate the new political concepts with the historical facts in Europe, Asia and the rest of the planet: the appearance of new currents of political philosophy, of the national States, the expansions and retractions of empires, until the Second World War.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Introducción a las relaciones internacionales I (Introduction to International Relations I)
This subject aims to bring students to the main concepts and topics of the discipline of international relations. It is expected that after completing the course of the subject the students have a deep knowledge of those theoretical concepts that allow them to face the subjects in later semesters of their career. That's why this introduction has an importance that goes beyond its specific contents.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course Level: Upper Division
Course Level: Upper Division
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Sociología (Sociology)
Course offered with local Argentine students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
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Cultural popular argentina (Argentine Popular Culture)
This course will examine Latin American Culture and History through the lens of popular culture. The focus will be on cultural identitity, Nation Building, and social and political conflicts and class struggle.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division