Montevideo Courses – 2024 January - Montevideo & Buenos Aires

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Studying abroad can be a more meaningful and invigorating learning experience than at home—both inside and outside of the classroom. You may be more curious and alert than you usually are so use this heightened energy to enhance your studies as well as your cultural and geographical explorations. You may also encounter different teaching styles and course processes; be prepared to adapt and to learn.

Courses

You will enroll in 3 credits. Course availability is contingent upon student enrollment and is subject to change.

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Spanish Language and Literature Studies

• Intermediate Spanish I

  January - Montevideo & Buenos Aires

  Spanish 200-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course is designed to help learners of Spanish to develop basic communicative competence and critical thinking skills. It offers an intensive study and practice of the productive and receptive language skills in the oral and written modes. The main emphasis of this track is on communication.

  Prerequisite: two semesters of college Spanish, or equivalent

• Intermediate Spanish II

  January - Montevideo & Buenos Aires

  Spanish 200-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course is designed to help learners of Spanish to develop basic communicative competence and critical thinking skills. It offers an intensive study and practice of the productive and receptive language skills in the oral and written modes. The main emphasis of this track is on communication.

  Prerequisite: three semesters of college Spanish, or equivalent

Latin American Studies

• Contemporary Women's Activism

  January - Montevideo & Buenos Aires

  Sociology Women's Studies / Gender Studies 300-level 3 credits Taught in English

  This course introduces the notions of gender, women's movements, and digital activism, exploring the current strategies of feminists and women's movements to get together and fight against gender violence of all kinds, using the internet and social networks as powerful tools. The interaction with some of the leading local groups of these new ways of activism will allow the students to discuss these topics firsthand.

• Cultural History of Argentina and Uruguay

  January - Montevideo & Buenos Aires

  Anthropology History 200-level 3 credits Taught in English

  The course introduces the culture of the Rio de la Plata region, specifically Uruguay and Argentina, along with Brazil´s south.

  It examines:

  • To the 1850s: the pre-conquest native populations; the Spanish conquest and settlement; colonial institutions; Independence movement culture and native heritage in Uruguayan culture.

  • From the 1850s to the 1950s: Development of the export economies; democratization; creation of Latin America’s first social welfare state in Uruguay.

  • From the 1950s to present: the impact of dictatorship era and the cultural changes.

  The course also examines the foundation of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, along with the influences of European populations on the cultural patterns that define the culture of Rio de la Plata. World renowned regional topics such as the gauchos, the mate infusion, tango music, asado, and football (soccer) are also addressed, studied, and presented from a historical-cultural point of view.

• Latin America Today

  January - Montevideo & Buenos Aires

  Political Science Sociology 300-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course will cover topics in modern Latin American society, a region with a vast diversity of people, landscapes, nations, and ethnicities. The emphasis is placed on current challenges and milestones connected to social justice, corruption, democracy, and equality. Students will develop the ability to identify specific events that have taken place in Rio de la Plata in the last twenty years, analyze these events through various theoretical perspectives, and hypothesize its impact on future generations.

  Prerequisite: four semesters of college-level Spanish

To request a course syllabus: syllabus@usac.edu