Directors: Associate Professor Alfred P. Montero
Latin American Studies Concentration (LTAMc)
The Latin American Studies Concentration provides students with a framework for developing a deeper understanding of Latin American history, society, and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, and is intended to complement a disciplinary major. Concentrators pursue a program of study combining language training with courses in the humanities and social sciences, culminating in a capstone experience, the Latin American Forum.
Requirements for the Concentration
HIST 170 Modern Latin America, 1810-present
LTAM 200 Issues in Latin American Studies
LTAM 398 Latin American Forum
One additional survey course, selected from:
POSC 221 Latin American Politics (Not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 250 Ethnography of Latin America (Not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature
And 30 credits in electives
Concentrators must also complete Spanish 204 or equivalent. Electives may be chosen from the following list, with at least 12 credits drawn from arts and literature and twelve from social sciences and history. No more than three courses from the student’s major may apply to the concentration, and no more than three in the same discipline. Up to twelve credits may be comparative or Latino in focus (AMST 226, ECON 240, 241, POSC 233, RELG 227, SOAN 234, 259, 302). Up to 18 credits from approved off-campus programs may be counted as electives.
Elective Courses:
Group I: Arts and Literature
AMST 226 Latinas in Hollywood
MUSC 243 Music of the Caribbean (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 207 Exploring Hispanic Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 238 Images of the Indian in Spanish American Literature (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature
SPAN 243 Latin American Theater in Translation: Nation, Power, Gender (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 252 Love Stories in Latin American Prose (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 259 Mexico Program: Images of Mexico in Literature and Popular Culture
SPAN 260 Forces of Nature
SPAN 262 Myth and History in Central American Literature
SPAN 263 History of Human Rights
SPAN 326 Writers in Exile (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 336 Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America
SPAN 340 Latin American Prose: Dictatorships and Revolution in the Latin American Narrative (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 342 Latin American Theater: Nation, Power, Gender
SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 350 Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 353 History and Subjectivity in Latin American Poetry
SPAN 356 The Cuban Revolution and the Revolution of Literature
SPAN 358 Topics in Hispanic Literature: The Spanish Civil War
Group II: Social Sciences and Humanities
ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development
ECON 241 Growth and Development (not offered in 2009-2010)
HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 1492-1810
HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present
HIST 272 The Emergence of Modern Mexico (not offered in 2009-2010)
HIST 273 Go-Betweens and Rebels in the Andean World
HIST 276 The African Diaspora in Latin America
POSC 221 Latin American Politics (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 233 Corruption, Authoritarianism, and Democracy
POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America*
RELG 227 Liberation Theologies (not offered in 2009-2010)
RELG 282 The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival in Cross-Cultural Perspective (not offered in 2009-2010)
RELG 284 The Virgin of Guadalupe (not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 250 Ethnography of Latin America (not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights