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ESG: Una Ventana Abierta a América Latina I (19BBA00808)

General information

Type:

OP

Curs:

3

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 1 Laura Guindeo Aguerri Ciencias Sociales ESP
Ed: 1 Jaume Maranges Bayó Ciencias Sociales ESP

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 2 Laura Guindeo Aguerri Ciencias Sociales ESP
Ed: 2 Jaume Maranges Bayó Ciencias Sociales ESP

Prerequisites

Students have to be enrolled in either the third year of the BBA programme or 4th year of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law programme.

Students have to enrol in this subject in order to take part in SUD¿s Solidarity Professional Internship programme.

Workload distribution

Workload distribution:

Lectures: 21 hours
Independent study: 20 hours
Tutorials/feedback: 0 hours

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

This subject serves as one more step to prepare students in the 3rd year of the BBA programme or the 4th year of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law programme who want to carry out an ESADE University Development Service (SUD) Solidarity Professional Internship (PPS) in the summer between the third and fourth years in the case of BBA students and during the fifth year in the case of Double Degree students.

This subject is also open to other students interested in learning about activist reality in Latin America and learn, in large brushstrokes, about the world of development cooperation.

Course Learning Objectives

The global objective of this course is to raise students¿ interest in collaborating professionally in Latin America as solidarity-minded consultants, working within a more global framework to highlight the transcendence of their contributions. This global framework includes the following topics:

1. Development dynamics in the impoverished world. The origins of cooperation and geopolitical trends and changes.

2. Latin America: society, culture and poverty. This topic immerses students in key Latin American issues: socio-economic disparity (unique to this region), its cultural wealth and dignity (key and highly varied depending on the sub-region), and development strategies in the poorest countries, ending with a close-up of the regions in which SUD students will be cooperating.

Competences

16. Appreciation/understanding of diversity
1. Knowledge acquisition, comprehension and structuring
4. Conveying information and/or knowledge
6. Strategic thought, systematic thought
9. Creativity and innovation
8. Corporate citizenship
7. Comprehension of the complexity of the local and global contexts

Relation between Activities and Competences

16 1 4 6 9 8 7
Final exam              
Personal reflection              
Set readings (articles)              
Class participation and attendance              

CONTENT

1. Stepping out into the wide, wide world

After this session, students will understand the course dynamics as well as how the SUD programme and its internships work. They will also become aware of the reality beyond the classroom.

2. Development cooperation: For what and for whom?

This session serves to help students to understand the framework which encompasses international development cooperation.

3. Forty Latin Americas: Conquest, inequality and unemployment

Upon finalising this session, students should be aware that Latin American countries are very different from each other, though their social problems share many of the same root causes.

4. Cultural wealth of Latin America

After this session students should have a greater appreciation for the grandeur, legacy and cultural diversity of the region, in particular, appreciating the wealth of its literature.

5. Economic Latin America: The ups and downs for an eternally promising future

After this session, students will be able to better understand the region's economic development expectations.

6. The state of the nations and their hopes

This session helps students to understand the current situation of the different countries where SUD is present, the aim being to help students to understand their role in building a fairer society in their host countries.

Relation between Activities and Contents

1 2 3 4 5 6
Final exam            
Personal reflection            
Set readings (articles)            
Class participation and attendance            

Methodology

This subject comprises three types of work:

1. Lectures on the session topics, addressing different aspects to help students to understand the immenseness, wealth and diversity of Latin America as well as its key problems and difficulties.
2. A final part in which former SUD students will talk about their own experiences carrying out their internships in Latin America the previous year.
3. Articles. Students will be required to carry out some assigned readings. These serve to further explore key issues which cannot be addressed in depth during the lecture sessions due to time constraints but which serve to help to better understand Latin America.

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

Description %
Final exam 40
Personal reflection 30
Set readings (articles) 20
Class participation and attendance 10

Assessment criteria

Exam: 40% of the final mark
A personal reflection on one of the topics addressed in class: 30% of the final mark
Tests on readings: 20% of the final mark
Attendance and participation: 10% of the final mark

In addition, students also have to achieve the following in order to pass this subject:
1. Attend at least 80% of the sessions. No additional justified absences will be accepted unless directly approved and notified by Programme Management.
2. Earn a minimum of 4 out of 10 on the exam and on personal reflection.

Bibliography


Thorp, Rosemary: Progreso, Pobreza y Exclusión. Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo XX. Washington, BID, Unión Europea, 1998.

BIDIABD, Economic and social reports on Latin America (annual reports).
https://publications.iadb.org/discover?field=type_view&filtertype=type_es&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Informes+Anuales

CEPAL, Estudio económico de América Latina y el Caribe (ediciones anuales) http://www.cepal.org/es/publicaciones/tipo/estudio-economico-de-america-latina-y-el-caribe

CEPAL, Panorama social de América Latina (ediciones anuales)
http://www.cepal.org/es/publicaciones/tipo/panorama-social-de-america-latina

FAO, El estado de la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo (Sofi), la edición anual última.
http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/es

FAOSTAT, Base estadística electrónica:
http://faostat.fao.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=291&lang=es

UNDP, Informe sobre el desarrollo humano (la edición anual más reciente).
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/es/home/librarypage/hdr.html

UNFPA, State of WorldPopulation (la edición más reciente).
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/

World Bank, "World Development Indicators" (la última edición anual).
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 1 Laura Guindeo Aguerri Ciencias Sociales
Ed: 1 Jaume Maranges Bayó Ciencias Sociales

Timetable Ed: 1

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 2 Laura Guindeo Aguerri Ciencias Sociales
Ed: 2 Jaume Maranges Bayó Ciencias Sociales

Timetable Ed: 2