Course Brief description

At the beginning of the semester, students will take the Intensive Spanish Language in Context Class to enhance their Spanish skills and immerse themselves in the local language variety of the Rio de la Plata. The course will introduce students to the local culture and language of the region through the development of both indoor and outdoor activities. It includes museum visits, city tours, tango master classes, candombe drumming, and Argentine cooking classes. Through activities, students will reflect on Argentine cultural experiences and compare them with their local setting. Students can also interview cultural representatives from the Rio de la Plata region to enhance their intercultural perspective and language acquisition. During classes, students will do various activities, such as oral and written presentations, guided practices to reflect on their main learnings, and communicative tasks, such as interacting with local people or visiting different places; as a final evaluation, students will do an oral presentation and will complete a written assessment.

Course brief description

This course addresses critical contemporary issues that have international scope from theoretical and political perspectives rooted in the Global South. Among these topics, it is proposed to address human rights, global health, food sovereignty, social justice, political collective action, racism, and human mobility within the framework of relations between the Global South and the North. These classes will go through theoretical questions about politics, culture, cultural identity, the politics of culture, and the politics of identity, providing a conceptual framework for students’ experiences in the following weeks. This approach will help students understand the contemporary global and local scenario and reinforce their conceptual background by working on authors from the Global South. Through this journey, we seek to illustrate and discuss the different registers opened by the debate about “culture,” “identity,” and “politics” in recent years in the Social Sciences. The course is organized in weekly encounters that combine expository classes, discussion in the form of a seminar, guest presentations, and debate of bibliographic and audiovisual materials. Meeting local researchers and writers will strengthen the student’s process of the research practicum.