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Latin American Studies prepares students for a job market that increasingly demands keen global sensibilities and the ability to work between cultures. Introducing diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of Latin America, while providing a core interdisciplinary foundation in the humanities and social sciences, Latin American Studies prepares students to engage a broad spectrum of local and global phenomena with intellectual rigor and flexibility. Students may choose courses from twenty cooperating departments, taught by some seventy affiliated faculty specializing in the region. Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on the region offer students a depth of knowledge of hemispheric relations and build area expertise. The curriculum approaches Latin America as both a local and foreign culture, illuminating critical transnational issues such as immigration, climate change, cultural flows, security, and economic development that transcend the boundaries of the region.
Latin American Studies Major. Requires a minimum of 30 credit hours in 10 Latin American content courses.
Latin American Studies Minor. Requires a minimum of 15 credit hours in 5 courses.
To see all available courses for Latin American Studies Major and Minor and register, visit the Class Schedule and type “LAST” in the Course field.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSES - SPRING 2024
AFRS - 3400 Black Cities: Rio de Janeiro
ANTH - 2360 Ancient Trade & Commerce
ANTH - 3090 Maya Hieroglyphs
ANT - 3240 | ANTH - 7240 Anct Civilizations of Mesoamer
ANTH - 3435 | ANTH - 6435 Disasters and Past Societies
ANTH - 3735 Bioarcheology of Human Sacrifice
ANTH - 3750 Bones, Bodies and Disease
ANTH - 6092 Mesoamerican Women
ANTH - 6700 Spoken Nahuatl
ANTH - 6810 Int Mayan Hieroglyphics
APMS - 2185 Brazilian Jazz Combo
ARHS - 3760 Modern Arts Latin America
ARHS - 3910 Collecting Indigenous Amer Art
ARHS - 6430 Jesuits and the Globe
ARHS - 6811 Colonialisms
COMM - 4190 Intro to Latin American Film
COMM - 4553 Brazilian TV & Culture
DANC - 1920 Brazilian Dance
DANC - 3240 US/Caribe Social Dance
EBIO - 2110 Tropical Biology
ECON - 4660 | ECON - 6660 Sem on Lat Am Countries
ENLS - 7740-01 Latinx Debt and Colonialism
GESS - 4931 Latin Amer & Latinx Femininisms
HACR - 1020 Elementary Haitian Creole II
HACR - 2810 Haitian Culture and Society
HISB - 4250 Slave Ships & Capitalism
HISL - 2820 Modern Brazil
HISL - 2822 Latin A. Enviro History
HISL - 2911 Indigenous Resistance in Colonial Latin America
HISL - 6780 Caribbean History: Major Themes
HISU - 2640 US Foreign Relations Since WWII
INBS - 7100 Healthcare in Cent America
ISIB - 6010 Approaches to Global Dilemmas
LAST - 1010 Intro to Latin American Studies
LAST - 3000 Violence and Resistance in Latin America
LAST - 3010 Approaches Latinx
LAST - 4950 Model OAS
LAST - 7720 Pedagogy & Profession
LING - 3820 Spanish Pragmatics
MUSC - 1080 Music of the Mex-US Border
POLC - 3013 Environmental Conflicts
POLC-3350 Politics of Latin America
POLC - 4390 Poverty & Development
POLC - 6951 Violence in Latin America
POLC - 4600 Latin Am Intl Relations
POLC - 4620 Global Environment Politics
POLC - 6350 Social, Protest, Policy Change
POLC - 7951 Great Books in Comp. Politics
PORT - 2030 Intermediate Portuguese
PORT - 4160 | PORT - 6160 Afro-Brazilians
PSDV - 4561 Intl Dev Theories & Strategies
SOCI - 6013 Lat. Amer. Socialist Exp.
SOCI - 6650 Sustainable Development in Latin America
SPAN - 3130 Intro to Lat Am Cultures
SPAN - 3270 Span & Lat Amer Lit & Cultures
SPAN - 3280 Spanish & Lat Amer Lit & Film
SPAN - 4060 Pre-20th Century Reading
SPAN - 4110 Modern Span Amer Lit
SPAN - 4140 Intro Colonial Letters
SPAN - 4180 Latinx Amer Mig. And Diasporas
SPAN - 6200 Trends Rec Spn Am Novel
SPAN - 6850 Short Novel in Latin America
You can reach out to rtsclas@tulane.edu if you have any questions on course scheduling.