History, Politics and Rights in Latin America

In the context of the interdisciplinary education of the Master's programme, the Latin America's History, Institutions, and Rights teaching aims at providing students with the instruments and means necessary to understand aspects and dynamics of the complex political-institutional and socio-economic reality of contemporary Latin America, that will be analysed in their respective historical contexts and in the framework of interregional and international relations.

Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course the student will acquire the knowledge necessary to understand the political-institutional and socio-economic dynamics of contemporary Latin America, in particular, the season of progressive presidencies and the beginning of a season of alternating conservative and progressive governments. On the matter of rights, the student will acquire the knowledge connected to the processes that brought to the surfacing of some new rights in the last decades, such as rights of victims of dictatorships and civil wars and indigenous rights in relation to territorial claims and environmental protection.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the acquired knowledge will allow the student to analyse, comprehend, study and interpret the political and institutional processes and the socio-economic dynamics of the Latin American reality.