University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

This course examines both philosophical topics in human rights and the history and politics of human rights in Argentina, specifically during the military dictatorship and the democratic transition. Philosophical topics include: analysis of human rights, genocide, and torture; competing philosophical justifications; feminist theory and women's human rights. Historical topics include: a survey of Argentine political history; Argentine state violence; other social actors in the violation of human rights; the lexicon and discourse of violence and how they shaped the body politic; transitional justice; the role and morphology of collective memory; gender in human rights violations.

This course offers a study of the history of migration in Argentina. It examines the various historical contexts in which immigrant communities arrived in Argentina and how they were integrated into, or marginalized by, a larger national community. This course discusses how migratory phenomena affect the position and relationship of Argentina with other countries in the region and on a global scale.

This abbreviated language course provides students without prior course work or those who have basic knowledge of the language with an introduction to Spanish language skills; students with prior language experience are provided the opportunity to improve upon their oral, written, and reading comprehension skills. All students begin with an intensive week covering basic forms of grammar and vocabulary specific to topics discussed in the program. Students are then organized into similar levels for the subsequent review classes that continue grammar and vocabulary instruction, and also incorporate readings from texts focused on human rights topics.

This course examines the impact of recent developments in the political and economic relations of Latin American countries-- especially Argentina, Peru, and Brazil-- with East Asian countries-- China, Japan, and South Korea.

This course examines the Asian diaspora in Latin America. It explores issues of immigration and cultural hybridity as related to descendants and national identity. This course discusses the intertwined relationships among power, representation, and cultural production. It engages visual culture, popular culture and film, and other media, as a means to underscore the role that cultural production has played in transforming, adapting, and sustaining normative ideas regarding ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in relation to citizenship.

This abbreviated language course provides students without prior course work, or those who have basic knowledge of the language, with an introduction to Spanish language skills; students with prior language experience are provided the opportunity to improve upon their oral, written, and reading comprehension skills. All students begin with an intensive week covering basic forms of grammar and vocabulary specific to topics discussed in the program.

This course explores the history of race, ethnicity, nationalism, nation-building processes, and migration in Latin American countries. It offers a study of the influences of Asian immigrant communities on Latin American populations. This course discusses the dynamics and demographics of Asian migration to Latin American and migrants' integration processes into the education system, labor market, and social, political, and cultural life. It focuses on the responses of host societies to Asian immigrant groups such as racism, xenophobia, and other forms of exclusion.

This course discusses state terrorism during the military dictatorship and issues in the quest for truth and justice. It explores the concept of human rights as encompassing issues related not only to political repression but also ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic inequality, and gender. This course studies different cultural products that represent aspects of human rights including: literature; photography; painting; theater; film.