Les infos clés
En résumé
This course seeks to interest students in the Latin American culture by studying it from multiple perspectives.
Le programme
1. The birth of Latin American culture
1.1 An idea of culture
1.2 Encounter, confrontation or unification?
2. The political dimension.
2.1 Political systems and their development over time.
2.2 The struggle for democracy.
2.3 The leader in Latin America.
2.4 Sudden and dramatic events during the 20th century.
3. The characteristics of the economic 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 Latin America.
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 Latin America.
4.3 Proposals for development.
5. Art in Latin America 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.
Les intervenants
- Enrique Tamés
Le concepteur

La plateforme

Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.