Contemporary Issues in South AmericaUniversity of Denver, CTIR, 2004 - 450 pages Five separate units introduce students to the study of international relations and the continent of South America. The units take complex issues (such as analyzing the state of democracy, demographic trends, or levels of economic development) and address them in an easy to understand manner. Other topics include urbanization, development of the Amazon Rainforest, struggles of indigenous groups, the drug trade, and U.S. foreign policy toward the region.Each unit is based on national standards and features multiple classroom activities to encourage participatory learning. |
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... Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ) : Yea or Nay ? ........ 175 LESSON 2 Who Should Get the Aid in South America ? .... .189 · · LESSON 3 South America's International Debt . .203 LESSON 4 A Burger in Brazil - Exchange Rates 215 ...
... Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ) : Yea or Nay ? ........ 175 LESSON 2 Who Should Get the Aid in South America ? .... .189 · · LESSON 3 South America's International Debt . .203 LESSON 4 A Burger in Brazil - Exchange Rates 215 ...
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Contents
LESSON | 1 |
International Economics | 71 |
LESSON 2 | 77 |
LESSON 3 | 101 |
Women and Development in South America | 121 |
Indigenous Peoples Conference | 129 |
Indigenous Struggles in Ecuador | 139 |
LESSON 1 | 150 |
LESSON 2 | 189 |
Argentinas Financial Collapse | 223 |
Performance Assessment | 243 |
U S Foreign Policy South America | 255 |
Common terms and phrases
Allende Amazon Rainforest Amazon Rainforest Game Argentina Ask students Bolivia Brazil capita GDP Chile Choice Card coca Colombia country’s crisis CTIR Publications culture currency Decision Card defend positions deforestation democracy Democratic Institutions Discuss Distribute economic Ecuador European Evaluate farmers favelas Flowers or Cocaine foreign policy FTAA gain 10 points GINI Index global Graphic Organizer Guyana handout human rights Immigration impact indigenous groups Indigenous Peoples Conference Indigenous Struggles international law Issues in South land Latin America live loans Luis Macas military million move 2 spaces national interests NGOs Objectives Students OCTIR Performance Assessment Pinochet political poor population pyramids poverty President problems region Rights Reserved Roosevelt Corollary Saramaka South America Lesson South America Procedure South American countries Standards Addressed trade agreement U.S. Trade Policy understand United Nations University of Denver urban Venezuela Women and Development www.du.edu/ctir Contemporary Issues www.du.edu/ctir Lesson