LAS Graduate Issue Areas

Listed below are the courses for each of the Issue Areas for the LAS MA.  Click on the links below to go the appropriate group.

These course lists are subject to change due to fluctuations in teaching schedules.  Additionally, not all classes are taught every year.

Globalization & Development	Politics & Civil Society	U.S. Policy & Inter-American Relations
History & Archaeology	Literature, Art & Culture

Globalization & Development

CAS HI 582 Social Movements in 20th Century Latin America
CAS HI 587 U.S. – Mexico Borders
CAS HI 886 Modern Latin American History

CAS IR 566 (PO 580) Democracy in Latin America and its Challenges
CAS IR 567 (PO 567) Latin American Politics
CAS IR 568 (PO 568) U.S. – Latin American Relations
CAS IR 575 (PO 553) Political Economy of Mexico & NAFTA
CAS IR 590 (PO 550) Political Economy of Latin America
CAS IR 597 (GE 597) Sustainable Development in Latin America
GRS IR 767 (PO 767) Latin American Comparative Politics
GRS IR 768 Democratic Reforms in Latin America
GRS IR 789 Globalization and Development
GRS IR 825 (SO 820) Women and Social Change in the Developing World

GRS SO 720 Development and Underdevelopment

MET UA 590 International Comparative Urbanization & Planning

Politics & Civil Society

CAS AA 514 (HI 584) Comparative Slavery

CAS HI 582 Social Movements in 20th Century Latin America

CAS IR 502 (PO 509) Latin American Political Parties
CAS IR 566 (PO 580) Democracy in Latin America and its Challenges
CAS IR 567 (PO 567) Latin American Politics
CAS IR 572 The Latin American Military
CAS IR 575 (PO 553) Political Economy of Mexico and NAFTA
CAS IR 590 (PO 550) Political Economy of Latin America
CAS IR 597 (GE 597) Development and Environment in Latin America
GRS IR 767 (PO 767) Latin American Comparative Politics
GRS IR 768 Democratic Reform in Latin America
GRS IR 825 (SO 820) Women and Social Change in the Developing World

GRS SO 720 Development and Underdevelopment

MET UA 590 Comparative Development

U.S. Policy & Inter-American Relations

CAS HI 587 U.S. – Mexico Borders

CAS IR 568 (PO 568) U.S. – Latin American Relations
CAS IR 572 The Latin American Military
CAS IR 575 (PO 553) Political Economy of Mexico and NAFTA
CAS IR 597 (GE 597) Development and Environment in Latin America
GRS IR 787 (PO 787) Latin American Policies of the United States

History & Archaeology

CAS AA 514 (HI 584) Comparative Slavery

CAS AH (AR 528) Mesoamerican Art

CAS AR 551 Studies in Mesoamerican Archaeology
CAS AR 552 South American Archaeology
GRS AR 751 New World Prehistoric Archaeology: Mesoamerica

CAS HI 582 Social Movements in 20th Century Latin America
CAS HI 587 U.S. – Mexico Borders
GRS HI 886 Modern Latin American History

CAS IR 524 Cold War in Latin America
CAS IR 567 (PO 567) Latin American Politics
GRS IR 787 (PO 787) Latin American Policies of the United States

CAS LS 572 Spanish – American Colonial Experience
CAS LS 577 Topics in Hispanic Thought and Criticism
CAS LS 580 Mexican Cinema, Literature, and Film
GRS LS 850 Epic and Satire in the Spanish Colonies
GRS LS 850 Under the Foreign Eyes: Cinematic Representations of Mexico
GRS LS 850 Ruben Dario Trasatlantico

Literature, Art & Culture

CAS AH (AR 528) Mesoamerican Art

CAS LS 554 Borges
CAS LS 569 19th Century Spanish-American Literature
CAS LS 572 Spanish – American Colonial Experience
CAS LS 573 Spanish American Literary Modernismo and Modernization
CAS LS 576 Topics in Spanish-American Literature
CAS LS 577 Topics in Hispanic Thought and Criticism
CAS LS 580 Mexican Cinema, Literature, and Film
GRS LS 850 Seminar:  Topics in Hispanic Literature
GRS LS 850 Epic and Satire in the Spanish Colonies
GRS LS 850 Under the Foreign Eyes: Cinematic Representations of Mexico
GRS LS 850 Ruben Dario Trasatlantico
GRS LS 851 Writing in the Americas I
GRS LS 852 Writing in the Americas II