UvA students
Students of the University of Amsterdam can register for our courses in SIS. For more information on registration for courses at the UvA, check here.

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Other students
Bachelor students that are enrolled at other Dutch universities can participate in our courses for free. These students should first register themselves as ‘elective course student Spanish Language and Culture’ at Studielink. For more information on registering for electives, please check here.

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Others
Others interested to participate in our Bachelor courses may attend the lectures of the course as auditor under certain provisions. Those interested should send an email to secretariat@cedla.nl, indicating their special interest in the course and a brief account of their academic background. Please note that students are given priority to register for our Bachelor courses. Any remaining spaces are available for others on a first come, first served basis. Those who have indicated their interest in the above mentioned way, will be informed of their registration two weeks before the start of the course. The cost for attending a Bachelor course is €150,- in total. Payment details will be made available once the student has been accepted to the course.

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If you have any questions, feel free to contact the CEDLA secretariat. We are open on weekdays from 10.00 to 17.00 h. 
For the class schedule and examination dates please consult the timetable on rooster.uva.nl.

Telephone: +31 20 525 3498
Email: secretariat@cedla.nl

Course lecturer: dr. B.B. Hogenboom (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 1
Course load: 6 EC

In this course we deal with the causes and consequences of political turmoil and change in Latin America, with an emphasis on democratization and democratic backsliding, economic development policy, and mobilization around 'old' and 'new' social and political issues, such as participation, (human) rights, (social) justice and violence. We look into top-down processes as well as the revolutionary idea(l)s, emancipatory movements and confrontational and creative bottom-up strategies that have influenced society and politics in different countries. In order to understand recent events, we also review key historical elements that continue to shape politics and protest: social inequality, authoritarianism, elitism, populism, politicized state institutions and economic dependency on commodity exports and foreign capital.

Course lecturer: dr. C. Klaufus (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 1
Course load: 6 EC

This course has the format of a literature tutorial, in which participants study selected readings from Latin American studies. The sessions are based on a discussion of common debates, notions and approaches in Latin American Studies as well as on developing skills in academic reading and writing. The plenary sessions give a kaleidoscopic overview of common debates and theories in the study of the Latin American region. The course prepares and trains students to set up a literature research or write a thesis and might therefore be relevant in a pre-master trajectory.

Course lecturer: dr. C. Klaufus (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 2
Course load: 6 EC

In this course students will explore the workings of urban identity formation and its roots, making use of geographical, sociological and anthropological studies. In the introductory part an overview will be given of Latin American urban studies and the history of urban development in the region. The attention will subsequently shift towards contemporary social movements, socio-spatial segregation, violence, urban policies and urban governance. 

Course lecturer: dr. F. de Castro (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 2
Course load: 6 EC

The course prepares students to independently study and write about current development issues in Latin America. It will address major academic debates on development models in Latin America, and will stimulate students to debate on multiple challenges and proposed solutions for development in the region. Multiples perspectives for of development at local, national, regional and global levels will be discussed. The lectures, discussions, and assignments will focus on how policy-makers, corporations, NGOs and other societal actors are engaged in these debates.

Course lecturer: dr. JHJ Weegels (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 2 and 4
Course load: 6 EC

Gender, class and ethnic relations in Latin America are being reshuffled and rapidly changing in the context of globalization, social transformations and political turmoil. The women’s movement received a new impetus as millions of women took to the streets to protest gendered violence. Restructuring labour markets, economic challenges and increasing (re)migration flows have produced additional effects and demands in the daily lives of women and men, but have also offered new opportunities. The last decades, from an intergenerational perspective, many families have experienced upward social mobility, while more recently they have had to adjust their life styles to the new realities of their societies, not least due to the Corona outbreak.

Course lecturer: dr. F. de Castro (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 4
Course load: 6 EC
 

The aim of the course is to promote a thorough knowledge on current debates around societal transformation in Brazil, in regards to politics, culture and sustainability. The course will address political transformations, social and environmental struggles and cultural diversity such as class, ethnicity, race/colour, religion, and gender. 

As the fifth largest country in the world and one of the tenth largest economies, Brazil plays a major role in economic and social processes in Latin America and is an increasingly prominent player in regional and global politics. 

Course lecturer: dr. JHJ Weegels (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 5
Course load: 6 EC

In this course students learn about doing social science research, through learning by doing. You will learn about research design and methodology, but also conduct a small research of your own. The course can be seen as a preparation for your internship and/or field research in Latin America. It will start with a theoretical introduction in the form of lectures based on knowledge-transfer and -building. Then, the focus will increasingly switch to the research practice in the form of a research lab in which we train our research skills. During the research lab students will work in a team, set up a small research project (in Amsterdam or the Netherlands and related to Latin American Studies), execute all stages of the research, and write a small report on it. Throughout the course, attention will also be devoted to interdisciplinarity, ethics, reflexivity and particular challenges to Latin American research.

Course lecturer: L.F. Gonzalez Valencia
dr. A. Ouweneel (co-ordinator)
BLOCK 5
Course load: 6 EC

The course explores the storyworlds produced by filmmakers in fiction films and a documentary made in Spain, Mexico, Peru and the Cono Sur (Argentina, Chile). It does so from one particular format: the Anchored Narrative Theory (ANT) of cognitive cultural criminology. Over the past decades, the cognitive sciences have gained considerable ground in the study of moving images. Instead of identifying “discourses” or “texts,” it proved more fruitful to investigate cognitive simulations encoded in memory. The moving images function as a kind of the mind’s flight simulator. What simulations have been created by the filmmaker in a particular film, character by character? How should we look at the storyworld of the victims? Of the perpetrators? Of side characters? Minor characters? Of the films as a whole?