UNIVERSIDAD DE ARTES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES

The Latin American School of Postgraduate Studies of the ARCIS University was inaugurated in 2008. In its creation, various academic experiences and intellectual currents converge, as well as academic programs that began in 1991. The purposes of the Latin American School of Postgraduate Studies, since its creation, have been to constitute an academic reference of a critical, transdisciplinary and Latin American nature, to contribute to the training of professionals in different fields of social... sciences and humanities, to develop a solid tradition of intellectual production, teaching and publications, and an inclusive perspective. The denomination Latin American School not only refers to an academic unit of an international character, but particularly points to the formation and development of a Latin Americanist center of thought, with its own language, which reflects Latin America from certain theoretical-epistemic, cultural and political assumptions , embodied in the programs and shared by your academic body. The Latin American School of Postgraduate Studies has built its own academic culture, a seal and intellectual tradition from different currents of thought. Academic transdisciplinarity, theoretical rigor, emancipatory restlessness and social commitment are the horizon of meaning of ELAP, which allow it to become an intellectual reference in the regional contemporary debate.More