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From 1900 to the present, Chile and Mexico experienced vast transformations, including votes for women, legalisation of divorce, earthquakes, revolution, dictatorship and women presidents. This course examines these changes, and others, by putting women's lives at the centre of the story, while also recognising the diversity of women’s experiences. Putting women’s experiences at the heart of discussion offers a new approach to well-known histories and raises new questions about the past.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course examines women’s histories in Mexico and Chile across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing aspects of women's lives, in the 'public' and 'private' spheres, such as struggles for suffrage, state reforms targeting mothers, the changing nature of women's work, multiple forms of feminism and women’s diverse political activism. This course takes an intersectional approach, recognising that class, race, region, ethnicity, sexuality, educational opportunity and myriad other factors contributed to the diversity of women’s experiences. It also recognises that big events, like the 1910 Mexican Revolution or the 1973 Coup in Chile, were not just important political and social moments but also gendered events which women experienced as such. Focus on women allows us to ask new questions about historical experience, such as how the agrarian reform policies in Mexico and Chile changed family dynamics or why the sexuality of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral has mattered in national conversation. Finally, the histories written about women in Chile and Mexico are amongst the richest in Latin America. Using this literature, the course also questions why Mexico and Chile, in particular, have such a strong tradition of women's history.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 45 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
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Weekly reading log. Students will write a brief report each week responding to the week’s readings, including personal reflection. Written feedback on each entry, within two weeks of each entry’s submission |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Acquire/develop a broad introductory knowledge of the history, culture and politics of Latin America, esp. Chile and Mexico, and selected theoretical and methodological issues arising from their study |
| Procedural | Apply | Demonstrate a detailed familiarity with the texts studied and their various contexts, and a capacity to engage in nuanced well-prepared analysis of issues germane to their study. |
| Procedural | Apply | Assessments develop time-management skills, and group presentations demand teamwork. Students will use library facilities, and develop and improve IT skills. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Through participation in classes, and through reading, analysis, and essay writing, students will develop skills in independent thinking and in oral and written argument and presentation. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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1,000 word count for the reflection |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Acquire/develop a broad introductory knowledge of the history, culture and politics of Latin America, esp. Chile and Mexico, and selected theoretical and methodological issues arising from their study |
| Procedural | Apply | Demonstrate a detailed familiarity with the texts studied and their various contexts, and a capacity to engage in nuanced well-prepared analysis of issues germane to their study. |
| Procedural | Apply | Assessments develop time-management skills, and group presentations demand teamwork. Students will use library facilities, and develop and improve IT skills. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Through participation in classes, and through reading, analysis, and essay writing, students will develop skills in independent thinking and in oral and written argument and presentation. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 15 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Reflection | Evaluate | Through participation in classes, and through reading, analysis, and essay writing, students will develop skills in independent thinking and in oral and written argument and presentation. |
| Procedural | Apply | Demonstrate a detailed familiarity with the texts studied and their various contexts, and a capacity to engage in nuanced well-prepared analysis of issues germane to their study. |
| Procedural | Apply | Assessments develop time-management skills, and group presentations demand teamwork. Students will use library facilities, and develop and improve IT skills. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Acquire/develop a broad introductory knowledge of the history, culture and politics of Latin America, esp. Chile and Mexico, and selected theoretical and methodological issues arising from their study |
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