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Latin American Culture
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Free certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
1. The birth of LatinAmerican culture
1.1 An idea of culture
1.2 Encounter, confrontation or unification?
2. The politicaldimension.
2.1 Political systems and their development overtime.
2.2 The struggle for democracy.
2.3 The leader in Latin America.
2.4 Sudden and dramatic events during the 20thcentury.
3. The characteristics of theeconomic processes in contemporary Latin America.
3.1 Economic models: from socialism to neoliberalism.
a) Globalization;
b) Treaties and economic alliances;
c) The end of the welfare state;
d) The search for successful economic models.
4. Development and sustainability in LatinAmerica.
4.1 Poverty and the environment: quality of life, environment, violence,poverty, gender, drug trafficking, corruption, and religious fanaticism.
4.2 Consequences, implications and possibilities of modernity in LatinAmerica.
4.3 Proposals for development.
5. Art in LatinAmerica I
5.1 What makes Latin America Art unique.
5.2 Understanding Latin America through art.
5.3 Literature.
6. Art in Latin America II
6.1 Visual Arts.
6.2 Music.
Prerequisite
Instructors
- Enrique Tamés
Editor
The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies, better known as Tecnológico de Monterrey, is a private university based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
It is currently one of the schools with the highest academic recognition in Latin America and enjoys a high reputation among Latin American employers1,2. It is characterised by the active presence of its engineers in the fields of business and technological innovation.
It has the best business school in Mexico and Latin America. What's more, it is one of only 45 universities in the world with a 5-star QS rating.
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