Socio-political analysis of Latin America

Teacher(s)

Yépez Del Castillo Isabel;

Language

French

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.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- Ability to understand the complexity and the diversity of Latin-American realities and political proc-esses.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Other information

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).

Faculty or entity

PSAD