LATIN AMERICA IN A GLOBAL MARKET
WINTER SESSION 2004

 

Faculty: Jorge Gilbert
Office: Seminar II # 2108
Phone: 867-6740
E-mail: gilbertj@evergreen.edu

SCHEDULE

Monday: 10.00 - 1.00 p.m. Lecture Library 1308
Monday 6.00 - 8.00 p.m. Spanish Library 2103
Tuesday 11.00 - 12.30 p.m. Seminar Library 2204
Tuesday 2.30 - 5.00 p.m. Screening and Seminar Library 1308
Wednesday 6.00 - 8.00 p.m. Spanish Library 2103
Friday 1.00 - 5.00 p.m. Panorama Latino Americano TCTV - 22.


TEXTS:

Moema Viezzer: Let Me Speak: Domitila Barrios de Chungara
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America
Davis S. Landes, The Wealth & Poverty of Nations: Why Some are Rich & Some So Poor
Jorge Gilbert: Dependency & Underdevelopment in Latin America: Five Centuries of Capitalist Accumulation.
Jorge Gilbert: The Military State and the Chilean Dictatorship
Jorge Gilbert: The New World Order and Latin America

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

WEEK 1: Introduction to Latin America
Text: Syllabus and Covenant
Lecture: Politics and Ideologies in the Americas

WEEK 2: Primitive Accumulation of Capital
Text: The Open Veins of Latin America
Film: The Buried Mirror

WEEK 3: Colonial Structure and Capitalism
Text: The Open Veins of Latin America
Film: The Last Supper

WEEK 4: Dependent State and Capitalism
Text: Dependency & Underdevelopment in Latin America
Film: Burn

WEEK 5: National States, Populism and Capitalism
Text: Dependency & Underdevelopment in Latin America
Film:
Final Projects Proposals are Due

WEEK 6: Revolutions, US Hegemony and Capitalism
Text: Let Me Speak
Film: Children In Debt

WEEK 7: The Military State and Neoliberalism
Text: The Military State and the Chilean Dictatorship
Film: The Battle of Chile

WEEK 8: The New World Order and Neoliberalism
Text: The New World Order and Latin America
Film: TBA

WEEK 9: Globalization and Free Market
Texts: The Wealth & Poverty of Nations
Films: TBA

WEEK 10: Student Presentations (Final Projects)
Evaluations