Carleton College

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, 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

AMST 226 Latinas in Hollywood (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 220 Magical Realism in Latin American Narrative

SPAN 238 Images of the Indian in Spanish American Literature (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature

SPAN 243 Latin American Theater in Translation: Nation, Power, Gender (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 252 Love Stories in Latin American Prose (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 259 Mexico Program: Images of Mexico in Literature and Popular Culture (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 260 Forces of Nature (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 262 Myth and History in Central American Literature (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 263 History of Human Rights (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 266 Postwar Central American LIterature

SPAN 326 Writers in Exile (not offered in 2010-2011)

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 2010-2011)

SPAN 342 Latin American Theater: Nation, Power, Gender (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (not offered in 2010-2011)

SPAN 350 Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony

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 (not offered in 2010-2011)

Group II: Social Sciences and Humanities

ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development

ECON 241 Growth and Development

ENTS 246 Environmental and Agricultural Politics of the Americas

ENTS 253 Social and Environmental Movements of Latin America

HIST 100 Conquest and Survival in Indigenous Mexico

HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 1492-1810 (not offered in 2010-2011)

HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present

HIST 272 The Emergence of Modern Mexico

HIST 273 Go-Betweens and Rebels in the Andean World (not offered in 2010-2011)

HIST 276 The African Diaspora in Latin America (not offered in 2010-2011)

POSC 221 Latin American Politics (not offered in 2010-2011)

POSC 233 Corruption, Authoritarianism, and Democracy (not offered in 2010-2011)

POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America* (not offered in 2010-2011)

POSC 323 Cuban Politics Seminar

RELG 227 Liberation Theologies (not offered in 2010-2011)

RELG 284 The Virgin of Guadalupe (not offered in 2010-2011)

SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture

SOAN 250 Ethnography of Latin America (not offered in 2010-2011)

SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America

SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights (not offered in 2010-2011)