History, Politics and Rights in Latin America

As part of the interdisciplinary program of the Master's Degree, the teaching of History of Contemporary Political Thought aims to illustrate some lines of development of political thought in the last two centuries, focusing in particular on changes in the historical understanding of market economy.

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.