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Studies Program  Courses :: CULS C701 Topic: The Promise and
Failure of Revolutionary Movements  This course's primary aim is
to aid students to research and write scholarly articles and/or
potential dissertation chapters. The course will also have a
common theme: the promise and failure of Latin American
revolutionary movements during the 1960s and 1970s.  The class
will begin with some methodological readings that will orient
the student about different approaches to historical research.
The subsequent readings will address several questions: a). What
were the key debates and what was the relationship between
scholarship and politics in the 1960s and 1970s? Are the
unresolved debates from that era still relevant? B). What were
the causes, consequences and historical significance of the
Latin American 1968? c) Since 1989, intellectuals and scholars
have attributed violence in Latin America and elsewhere to
revolutionary utopian thought. How do we e