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Course Description:
This course focuses on the five countries of the Andean region of South American (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia). It contrasts the current governance and economic policy approaches taken by the five countries as a means of analysing variables linked to the consolidation of democracy and sustained economics development.
This course explores the sociopolitical dimensions of language at the macro level in the Middle East, past and present. How have political, ideological and social forces affected the fate of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian,Turkish, Ancient Greek, and other major regional languages such as Kurdish and Berber? How does language affect and reflect heritage, ethnicity, religion and nationhood, with their linguistic ideologies? What, objectively and subjectively, are "languages" and "dialects" What are the causes of language conflict or repression? Is 'one state one language' an economically or politically rational policy? How and why might language and literacy be planned and managed? No prior knowledge of a particular language or culture is assumed.