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

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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.

This class aims to promote active class discussion while increasing the student’s knowledge of the social, political and cultural life of present-day Latin America. Teaching material will include top stories from the Latin American press as well as Latin American films.

PROGRAM:
MODULE 1 (20 hours)
1. Twentieth century Latin America. General Characteristics (3 hours)
1.1 Mexico and the Carribbean (3 hours)
1.2 The Andean Area (3 hours)
1.3 South cone (3 hours lecture)
2. The Latin American press (4 hours)
3. Latin American Cinema (4 hours)
MODULE 2 (25 hours)
4. Internet practice (access Latin American press), Computer Lab (1 hour)
5. News and reality in the newspapers of Latin American countries.
5.1 Mexico (2 hours)
5.2 Cuba (2 hours)
5.3 Central America (2 hours)
5.4 Columbia (2 hours)
5.5 Venezuela (2 hours)
5.6 Brazil (2 hours)
5.7 Ecuador (2 hours)
5.8 Peru (2 hours)
5.9 Chile (2 hours)
5.10Bolivia (2 hours)
5.11 Argentina (2 hours)
5.12 Uruguay/Paraguay (2 hours)

EVALUATION
Attendance and participation in class: 25%
Homework assignments: 25%
Paper: 25%
Written test: 25%
Papers: The pupils will be required to write 8 papers (2 pages each) about news from the press of 8 different countries, chosen from the countries analyzed in class.

TEXT
“Historia Contemporánea de América latina” - "Tulio Halperin Donghi (libro de bolsillo
- Alianza Editorial, 1998)