Course Catalogs

Latino-Latin American Studies (LAS)

LAS 500  Selected Topics  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable  
LAS 520  Research on Latin America  (1-3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Reading and special work
Repeatable  
LAS 537  Environmental Policy in a Development Context  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with GEO 537  
Offered only in Santiago. Examines historical/intellectual/ material processes that transformed nature into natural resources to be exploited; ways global political process has guided global responses to environmental problems; Chilean environmental policy over the last 20 years.
LAS 590  Independent Study  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable  
LAS 600  Selected Topics  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable  
LAS 623  Effects of Globalization in Latin America  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with ANT 623  
Double-numbered with ANT 423, LAS 423  
A grassroots view of major transformations in Latin America due to globalization/global change, including adaptations to global warming, effects of and reactions to neo-liberal policies, internal and international migration, ethnic movements and social revolutions.
LAS 690  Independent Study  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable  
LAS 700  Selected Topics  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable  
LAS 800  Selected Topics  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable