Core Requirement (15 units)

Upper Division General Electives (15 units)

Complete a minimum of 3 units in each of the three focus areas listed below. The selection must include at least 12 units of 4000-level courses. With advisor approval students may also complete additional courses related to Latin America in other fields and disciplines as part of their program. LAS and their cross-listing courses taken to satisfy the Core, Upper-Division Latin American Studies Electives cannot be repeated and be double-counted for general elective credits.

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  Focus Area 1: History, Culture, and Resistance

• LAS 3420 - Cultural Impact of Development (also listed as PAS 3420) [3]
• LAS 3600 - Dynamics of Change in the Developing World (also listed as PAS 3600, POLS 3600) [3]
• LAS 3700 - Introduction to Central America (also listed as CLS 3700) [3]
• LAS 4450 - Indigenous Experiences in Contemporary Mexico and Latin America (also listed as CLS 4450) [3]
• LAS 4750 - Power, Knowledge, Community and the University (also listed as HIST 4920, SOC 4750) [3]
• ART 4460 - Art of Latin America [3]
• ART 4470 - The Art of Mesoamerica and the Southwest [3]
• ART 4500 - The Colonial Art of Mexico and Guatemala [3]
• ART 4530 - Aztec Art and Culture [3]
• ART 4541 - Special Topics in Art [1-3] *
• ART 4560 - Art of the Ancient Andes [3]
• ART 4570 - Mexican Muralists and Frida Kahlo [3]
• HIST 4090 - Sexuality in the Americas [3]
• HIST 4610 - Early Latin America: Conquest to 1850s [3]
• HIST 4620 - Modern Latin America: 1860s to the present [3]
• HIST 4630 - Mapping the Recent History of Latin America: From the 1990s to the present [3]
• HIST 4640 - History of Central America and the Caribbean [3]
• HIST 4650 - Brazil [3]
• HIST 4660 - Colonial Mexico (also listed as CLS 4660) [3]
• HIST 4665 - Modern Mexico (also listed as CLS 4665) [3]
• HIST 4670 - Modern Mexico and the Chicano People (also listed as CLS 4670) [3]
• HIST 4690 - Indigenous Peoples of the Americas [3]
• MUS 3580 - Music of the Oppressed in Latin America [3]
• MUS 4580 - Music of Latin America [3]
• SPAN 4441 - Masterworks of Spanish American Literature [3]
• SPAN 4541 - Special Topics - Latin America [1-3]
• SPAN 4830 - Intellectuals and Ideas in Latin America [3]
• SPAN 4850 - Southern Cone Fiction [3]

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  Focus Area 2: Race, Class, Gender, and Social Movements

• LAS 3000 - Immigrant Experiences and Social Justice in the Americas (also listed as ANTH 3000) [3]
• LAS 3020 - Black and Latino and Latin American Relations (also listed as PAS 3020) [3]
• LAS 3350 - Race and Culture in the Americas (also listed as PAS 3350) [3]
• LAS 3500 - Movements for Social Justice in the Americas, Soc Justice Americas [3]
• LAS 4400 - Indigenous Movements in Latin America [3]
• LAS 4490 - Anthropology of Race and Racism (also listed as AAAS 4491, ANTH 4490, CLS 4490) [3]
• LAS 4600 - Food Justice in Latin America [3]
• LAS 4700 - Labor and Social Movements in the Americas [3]
• LAS 4800 - Afro-Latin America (also listed as PAS 4800) [3]
• LAS 4820 - Latin American Women’s Movements (also listed as WGSS 4820) [3]
• CLS 4250 - Chicanas & Latinas: Social Movements in the Americas [3]
• PAS 4120 - Third World Women and Development [3]
• WGSS 4290 - Chicana Feminism: History, Theory, Praxis (also listed as CLS 4290) [3]
• WGSS 4840 - Chicana/Latina Narratives and Community History [3]

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  Focus Area 3: Transnational Perspectives 

• LAS 4250 - Latin American Responses to Imperialism and Globalization [3]
• LAS 4300 - Cuba and the World [3]
• LAS 4850 - Anti-colonial Movements (also listed as AAAS 4850, PAS 4850) [3]
• LAS 4650 - Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration (also listed as WGSS 4650) [3]
• AAAS 4080 - Comparative Diaspora Studies [3]
• CLS 4100 - Latina/o/x Communities in U.S. Society [3]
• CLS 4110 - Latina/o/x Immigration, History and Politics [3]
• CLS 4300 - Community-Engaged Research in Chicanx and Latinx Communities [3]
• PAS 4560 - Politics of the Caribbean and Central America [3]
• POLS 4510 - Latin American Politics [3]
• POLS 4540 - Selected Topics in Global Politics [3] *
• SOC 4230 - Sociology of Globalization and Resistance [3]
• SOC 4830 - Sociology of Human Rights [3]
• WGSS 4860 - Gender-Based Violence from a Transnational Perspective (also listed as SOC 4860) [3]

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  Note: * When the topic is Latin America.