Director: 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:
SOAN 250 Ethnography of Latin America (Not offered in 2011-2012)
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, ECON 241, POSC 233, RELG 227, SOAN 234, SOAN 259, SOAN 302). Up to 18 credits from approved off-campus programs may be counted as electives.
Elective Courses:
Group I: Arts and Literature
AMST 127 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies (not offered in 2011-2012)
AMST 226 Latinas in Hollywood
AMST 227 Beyond the Border: Latinos Across America (not offered in 2011-2012)
MUSC 141 Global Popular Music
SPAN 207 Exploring Hispanic Culture (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 220 Magical Realism in Latin American Narrative (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 238 Images of the Indian in Spanish American Literature (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature
SPAN 252 Love Stories in Latin American Prose (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 260 Forces of Nature (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 262 Myth and History in Central American Literature (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 263 History of Human Rights
SPAN 266 Postwar Central American LIterature (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 269 Peru Program: Diversity, Conflict and Culture in Peru
SPAN 277 The Poem as Artifact: Art and Work in Contemporary Spanish American Poetry
SPAN 326 Writers in Exile (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 336 Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America
SPAN 342 Latin American Theater: Nation, Power, Gender (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 350 Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 353 History and Subjectivity in Latin American Poetry (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 356 The Cuban Revolution and the Revolution of Literature (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 358 The Spanish Civil War (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 360 Race and Nation in Caribbean Literature (not offered in 2011-2012)
SPAN 366 Jorge Luis Borges: Less a Man Than a Vast and Complex Literature
Group II: Social Sciences and Humanities
ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development
ECON 241 Growth and Development
HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 1492-1810 (not offered in 2011-2012)
HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present
HIST 272 The Emergence of Modern Mexico (not offered in 2011-2012)
HIST 273 Go-Betweens and Rebels in the Andean World
HIST 276 The African Diaspora in Latin America
HIST 278 Religious Orthodoxy and Deviance in New Spain (not offered in 2011-2012)
LTAM 365 Peru Program: Current Issues in Development and Social Movements in Peru
POSC 233 Corruption, Authoritarianism, and Democracy (not offered in 2011-2012)
POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America* (not offered in 2011-2012)
POSC 323 Cuban Politics Seminar* (not offered in 2011-2012)
RELG 227 Liberation Theologies (not offered in 2011-2012)
RELG 284 The Virgin of Guadalupe (not offered in 2011-2012)
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2011-2012)
SOAN 241 Guatemala Program: Mesoamerican Cultures
SOAN 250 Ethnography of Latin America (not offered in 2011-2012)
SOAN 251 Guatemala Prog: Resource Mgmt, Community Develpmnt & Soc Change in Guatemala & Chiapas
SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2011-2012)
SOAN 295 Guatemala Program: Field Methods and Individual Research Project
SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights