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Liberal Arts, Language and Argentine Culture - Year 6 2010
History of Argentina

56
Language Level: Advanced
Placement Exam Required
History of Argentina
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: International Students
University of El Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Course Description

Hours & Credits

56

Hours of Instruction

3

Semester Credit Units

5

Quarter Credit Units

Prerequisites and Language Level

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced
This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Overview

Historic antecedents of the colonial epoch. The exploit of the Mayan and sanmartiniana, the civil war. The social structure and politics prior to 1850. The emergency of the republican process. Cultural and social transformations. Stabilization and mutation of the republican process. The generation of the eighties. The Argentine economy at the beginning of century. The crisis of the prevailing state and the rise of the radicalism. The crisis of the '30s. Weakening of radicalism. The ideological social processes of the decade of the '30s, its consequences and projections in the decade of the '40s. The importings replacement process. Peronism. Economic alternatives and politics in the period 1955-1976. Military government and the re-establishment of democratic life (1976-1983).

Antecedentes históricos de la época colonial. La gesta maya y sanmartiniana, las luchas civiles. La estructura social y política previa a 1850. La emergencia del proceso republicano. Las transformaciones sociales y culturales. Estabilización y mutación del proceso republicano. La generación del ochenta. La economía argentina a principios de siglo. La crisis del régimen imperante y el surgimiento del radicalismo. La crisis del '30. Debilitamiento del radicalismo. Los procesos sociales ideológicos de la década del '30, sus consecuencias y proyecciones en la década del '40. El proceso sustitución de importaciones. El peronismo. Alternativas económicas y políticas en el período 1955-1976. Gobierno militar y restablecimiento de la vida democrática (1976-1983).