Semester program

FEBRUARY – MAY / JULY – NOVEMBER

Campus: tbc

Professor: Graciela Abarca

Credits: 3.0 /ECTS: 6.0

Language of instruction: English

Level of Study: Undergraduate

Format: 14 synchronic sessions, 1,5h each ,once a week. Remaining hours : Asynchronic

Course Description

This course considers artistic developments in Latin America, from early twentieth-century avant-garde movements to recent contemporary projects. With the understanding that the modern construct of “Latin America” encompasses an area of tre-mendous ethnic, racial, and linguistic diversity, we will survey a broad range of art practices throughout the Americas as well as major modern architectural projects in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. Particular attention will be paid to cases in which artists and architects worked in the service of governmental regimes, as in Mexican muralism in the 1920s and the construc-tion of Brasília, a new national capital for Brazil, in the 1950s. We will also examine those cases in which artworks and artistic networks offered a means of challenging or subverting repressive policies. Beyond politics, this course focuses on the ten-sions—indigenous vs. cosmopolitan, urban vs. rural, rich vs. poor—and the international dialogues that have informed the production and reception of art and architecture in the region. Group and individual visits to museums are integral aspects of this course, so that we may consider the contributions of artists from Latin America to global modern and contemporary art.

Course aims

While honing the careful looking, critical reading, clear writing, and effective public speaking skills that the history of art and architecture teaches, participants will:
• gain accurate knowledge of the great diversity and richness of artistic and architectural traditions in modern and contemporary Latin America, and learn to identify broad patterns of historical and regional categorization within the field of study.
• develop insights into how the production and reception of art in the region has been affected by processes of transnational and transatlantic movement and exchange.
• evaluate the ways in which artists have both articulated and challenged national and regional histories, identities, and stereotypes over time through their choices of subjects, mediums, styles, and modes of diffusion.
• analyze the complex interrelations among agents, institutions, publics, and markets in the production and recep-tion of works of modern art and architecture.
• assess the mechanisms by which “Latin American Art” came to be a category within the history of modern and contemporary art in the 1980s, and the limitations of this model.

FEBRUARY – MAY 

Campus: Pilar

Professor: Marcelo Cancelliere

Credits: 3.0 /ECTS: 6.0

Language of instruction: English

Level of Study: Undergraduate

Format: 14 in person sessions, 1,5h each ,once a week. Remaining hours : Asynchronic

Course Description

Business planning is an integral tool for any business to evaluate its potential and map out a desired future for the short and mid term.
Being the students’ first approach to this topic, the course will address two areas: the regular process and conventional format of a BP, and the key concepts and tools of the several disciplines that it involves, such as Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc.
Throughout the course, students will work in groups on their own business plans. They will have the chance to experience the full process and practice improving the plan in iterative cycles, based on feedback and discussion in class.

Learning Objectives:
● To know what are the key components, format and style of a BP.
● To understand the purpose of Business Planning.
● To learn and apply analysis tools commonly used to evaluate the business potential, products and services positioning and strategic stand.
● To be able to put together an organizational plan and a marketing plan.
● To understand the financial documents that constitute a BP and be able to produce a 3 years P&L projection.
● To understand the specific aspects of business planning for nonprofit organizations.