Université Catholique de Louvain - COURSES DESCRIPTION FOR 2016-2017 - LDVLP2631
LDVLP2631
2016-2017
5.0 credits
Socio-political analysis of Latin America
30.0 h
2q
Teacher(s) :
;
Language :
Français
Place of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Main themes :
- Get an insight of Latin-American political problems through a global analysis of the contemporary stages of political processes
in relation with socio-economic evolutions.
- The course will be centered around the issue: Which democracies do we find in Latin America? It raises the issue of the existence
and the nature of democracies in Latin America as well as the potential (of sur-vival, of deepening) of these democracies. Answering
to this issue would mean to analyse the caracteristics and dynamics of the political regime, but also to take into account the main
historical aspects of Latin-American societies.
Aims :
- Ability to understand the complexity and the diversity of Latin-American realities and political proc-esses.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s)
can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Other infos :
A written exam with questions on the themes developed in the course and on the portfolio readings.
The course material will be made of :
- portfolio readings gathering articles on the different themes
- a copy of the powerpoint slides used by the professor in the course (available on icam-pus).
Faculty or entity in
PSAD
charge:
UCL - LDVLP2631 - page 1/2
Université Catholique de Louvain - COURSES DESCRIPTION FOR 2016-2017 - LDVLP2631
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Intitulé du programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequis
SPRI2M
5
-
Master [120] in Anthropology
ANTR2M
5
-
Master [120] in Sociology
SOC2M
5
-
SPED2M
5
-
ADPU2M
5
-
SPOL2M
5
-
SPOL2M1
5
-
INTP2M
5
-
MULT2M
5
-
Master [120] in Political
Sciences: International
Relations
Master [120] in Population and
Development Studies
Master [120] in Public
Administration
Master [120] in Political
Sciences: General
Master [60] in Political Sciences:
General
Master [120] in Interpreting
Master [120] in Multilingual
Communication
UCL - LDVLP2631 - page 2/2
Acquis d'apprentissage