Programme
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The Prospectus contains information about all the courses within your study programme. Here you can find all you need to know about your programme. Via the online learning environment Brightspace you can communicate with your lecturers and submit assignments.
Programme information
The Research Master’s programme provides a comprehensive training for the acquisition of state-of-the-art research skills in the field of Latin American studies.
This programme focuses on the ideas and practices of resistance and change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Students will learn how to conduct research on the different forms through which modernity is lived out and implemented in the Latin American region. From the theoretical mindset on modernities, the programme will train students to carry out research on three main themes:
- Culture and identity: socio-symbolic constructions; everyday life; (im)material culture; social, collective and individual identities.
- State-society relations: legitimacy; authority; governance and order.
- Literature, arts and media: the produced culture circulating through the press, (audio)visual and electronic media.
The programme consists of a number of obligatory courses, which you can combine with electives in your chosen theme of interest and related research methodology.
See for more information on the programme the Prospectus.