Advanced Diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The changing times we are experiencing in Latin America and the Caribbean have highlighted the need to better understand and explain the complexity of the processes unfolding today, as well as the categories and the set of discursive premises with which we think about them.

However, we must exercise caution. The new socio-historical conditions in the region are not defined solely by their singularity and novelty. Various long-standing economic, political, social, and cultural processes coexist with newly emerging problems and many other phenomena that were thought to have been historically overcome. The diversity and complexity of these processes pose new challenges to critical humanistic and scientific perspectives in their attempt to account for them in a politically engaged manner.

Latin American and Caribbean studies, specific to our region, have a deep tradition that, at various times and with enormous discursive richness, has critically addressed this complexity. They are sustained by interdisciplinary work and, above all, by a political trajectory directly involved in the problems, tensions, and contradictions of the present.

Therefore, reclaiming the work of Latin Americanists as an interdisciplinary dialogue implies creatively transcending the barriers between the perspectives and methods of the social sciences and the humanities. Thus, in addition to understanding and characterizing economic dependency, the exercise of power by the old oligarchies, institutions, the constitution of the multiple identities of our peoples, and the crisis, we must also consider the proposals stemming from their cultural, literary, and philosophical production.

GENERAL PURPOSE:

1. To offer a general overview of the main theoretical and conceptual proposals developed by Latin American scholars that allow us to understand the complex and diverse Latin American and Caribbean reality shaped throughout history.
2. To highlight the critical capacity of Latin American and Caribbean studies for the study of the region, both in its interpretive and explanatory aspects, as well as in its concrete links with the various social forces.
3. To study the different social phenomena that, due to their current condition, imprint a unique dynamic on the present time of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Higher Diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of trade union organizations, social movements and political parties; public officials; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in the subject.

• Efraín León Hernández (UNAM, Mexico)
• Ana Laura Rivoir Cabrera (UDELAR, Uruguay)
• Félix Valdés García (IF, Cuba)
• Alberto Riella (UDELAR, Uruguay)
• Fabricio Pereira (UNIRIO, Brazil)
• Raúl Fornet Betancourt (Germany)
• Pablo Manuel Guadarrama González (UCLV, Cuba)
• Yohanka León del Río (UH, Cuba)
• Camila Valdés León (UH, Cuba)
• Haydee Arango (UH, Cuba)
• Gabriela Ramos (UH, Cuba)
• Gerónimo De Sierra (UDELAR, Uruguay)
• Francisca Viviana Fonseca Prieto (UFRO, Chile)
• Martín Puchet Anyul (UNAM, Mexico)
• Karina Batthyany (CLACSO and UDELAR, Uruguay)
• Paola Mascheroni (UDELAR, Uruguay)
• Federico Schuster (UBA, Argentina)
• Andrés Rivarola (NILAS, Sweden)
• Patrick Illmer (UNAM, Mexico)
• Georgette Ramírez Kuri (UNAM, Mexico)

The program consists of 6 modules of 3/4 classes per week, each taught consecutively and linked to the others.
Total workload of 128 hours.

The modules that comprise the advanced diploma are: