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The aim of this one-quarter program is to study the different
events that took place in Latin America from the Cuban Revolution until
the current neoliberal stage. Analyses of the most important events observed
from the beginning of the 1960s such as the revolutionary changes occurred
in Cuba, the development of the Alliance for Progress by the USA as a response,
the rearticulation of foreign capital and the national elites under the
hegemony of the USA, the Popular Unity experiment in Chile, the Nicaraguan
Revolution and the Central American crisis of the 1980s, the International
Monetary Fund, neoliberalism and the new international order will be carried
out.
Besides a selected bibliographic material, this program will include exclusive film and video documentaries to provide a visual understanding of the many events being studied. Discussions and workshops about the role of the mass media alongside with the use of pertinent literature will also be used to critically examine whether the media can be consider an element of social change or a preserver of the status quo in Latin America. Thus, the notion of popular and alternative communication and its multiple expressions through films, video, radio, poetry, folklore, theater, art and religion will be studied in the context of social change according to the different characteristics of the Latin American culture.
Students in this program will work in original projects related to the many issues discussed. Although individual projects can be negotiated with the faculty, small working and research groups are strongly recommended. In addition, a group of students will be trained and certified in professional television production to produce a weekly bilingual show Panorama Latino Americano aired through TCTV (Channel 3) in Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater.
Finally, this program offers the opportunity to travel to Chile during the spring quarter of 1997 to film and produce a couple of documentaries about different aspects of this country (For more information about this spring program see Field School to Chile).
Credits to be granted: [4] Latin American Studies; [4] Media Analysis or Television Production; [4] Political Economy; [4] Your project.