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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

Notion of a social structure. Processes and subjects. The social actors and social change and order. The notion of crisis. Analysis of the social structure of Argentina. Characterization of the population dynamics of the social sectors. The political structure of Argentina. Political system legitimacy. The political actors. The State and its political role. Social and political movements. The economic structure. Diagnostic and economic politics. Growth and stagnation. Investment, employment, technology, distribution of incomes. The labor market and its dominant characteristics. Culture and identity in present day Argentina. Themes and interpretations of the social structure of Argentina. The theme of modernization. The theme of dependence. The theme of the blocked company. The neoliberal, nationalist, neomarxist and Christian interpretations. Balances and perspectives.