UCL - Socio-political analysis of Latin America

[DVLP2631]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Isabel Yépez Del Castillo

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

- Ability to understand the complexity and the diversity of Latin-American realities and political proc-esses.

Main themes

- Get an insight of Latin-American political problems through a global analysis of the contemporary stages of political processes in relation with socio-economic evolutions.
- The course will be centered around the issue: Which democracies do we find in Latin America? It raises the issue of the existence and the nature of democracies in Latin America as well as the potential (of sur-vival, of deepening) of these democracies. Answering to this issue would mean to analyse the caracteristics and dynamics of the political regime, but also to take into account the main historical aspects of Latin-American societies.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

A written exam with questions on the themes developed in the course and on the portfolio readings.

The course material will be made of :
- portfolio readings gathering articles on the different themes
- a copy of the powerpoint slides used by the professor in the course (available on icam-pus).