Latin American Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Professor Beverly Nagel
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 an integrative seminar.
Requirements for the Concentration:
Concentrators must complete Spanish 204 or equivalent. In addition, students must complete two of the four core courses; a senior seminar; and five courses (30 credits) in electives, 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 may be in the same discipline. No more than two of the electives may be comparative or Latino in focus (indicated by an asterisk on the list below). Up to 18 credits from approved off-campus programs may be counted as electives.
Core Courses:
Two of the following:
HIST 170: Modern Latin America
POSC 221: Latin American Politics (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SOAN 250: Ethnography of Latin America (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 242: Introduction to Latin American Literature (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
Senior Seminar:
Elective Courses:
Group I: Arts and Literature
MUSC 243: Music of the Caribbean
SPAN 207: Exploring Hispanic Culture
SPAN 242: Introduction to Latin American Literature (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 246: Introduction to Mexican Literature (Morelia)(Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 248: Drama and Performance in Latin America (Morelia)
SPAN 252: Telling Stories: The Short Story in Latin America
SPAN 255: Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflict (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 260: The Artist and the City*
SPAN 334: Texts and Nations: Nineteenth Century Latin America (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 336: Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 340: Latin American Prose: Dictatorships and Revolution in Latin American Narrative (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 344: Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SPAN 350: Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony
SPAN 360: Topics in Hispanic Literature: Difference, Identity and Representation in Latin America*
SPAN 360: Sex With God: Mystic Writers in Spain and Latin America*
Group II: Social Sciences and Humanities
ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries*
HIST 170: Modern Latin America
HIST 171: Spain and Its Empire, 1492-1820
HIST 209: Colonial Cultures in the Modern World*
HIST 271: 1898: "The Spanish American War" and the Transition From Spanish to U.S. Empires
HIST 272: Mexico in Historical Perspective (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
HIST 273: The Caribbean: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anthropology, and History
HIST 274: Brazil From Colonial to Modern Times (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
HIST 275: Twentieth Century Cuba (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
POSC 221: Latin American Politics (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
POSC 233: The Global Resurgence of Democracy* (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
POSC 322: Political Economy of Latin America
POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China* (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
RELG 227: Liberation Theologies*
SOAN 130: Population and Food in the Global System*
SOAN 234: Ecology, Economy, and Culture*
SOAN 250: Ethnography of Latin America (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SOAN 259: Comparative Issues in Native North America*
SOAN 302: Anthropology and Indigenous Rights*(Not offered in 2001-2002.)
SOAN 312: Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World Development*