Competence aims:

• ability to comprehend modernity in its plurality and fragmentation
• ability to examine the complex mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of Latin American modernity with special consideration for relevant methodological and theoretical approaches
• development of competence in management and decision-making

Learning content:

• examination of various forms of modernity in their individual creations and fragmentations in Latin America in the past and in the present
• comprehension of the structural heterogeneousness of Latin American economies (family, monetary and state economy; informal sector)
• analysis of the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of Latin American modernity, such as violence, limited state or absent rule of law, gender and ethnic-based discrimination, social inequality, etc.
• critical consideration of institutional approaches to the solutions (e.g. social policies, microfinance) to the problems of Latin American modernity