Chilean Culture, Democracy, and Social Change

3 Credits

Short term education abroad course offered in Summer term, in Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile. An exploration of both the conditions that led to the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile, and the complex legacy left by the following dictatorship, including competing economic philosophies that are underpinned by religious, historical, and ideological components. This course focuses on how the arts and literature continued to flourish during the dictatorship, and how they have played a continuing role in the country's recovery from its traumatic past.