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Latin American Studies



This program allows you to explore the cultural, institutional, and structural realities of Latin America in depth and is designed to expand your expertise regarding this important world region.

You are required to complete a minimum of 53 quarter hours of coursework. A minimum of 25 credit hours in the major (Latin American content courses selected from three disciplines) and 20 credit hours in the minor are required. The minor is defined as a professional skills development area. The major and minor fields of study are chosen primarily from among the liberal arts disciplines which offer specialized courses on Latin America at Ohio University: anthropology, economics, geography, history, literature, political science, and sociology. You may, however, study one professional or vocational component selected from a variety of technical fields, including international business, international education, food and nutrition, journalism, teaching English as a foreign language, telecommunications, etc.

Core Courses

ANTH 566 Cultures of the Americas
ANTH 568 Latin American Prehistory
AH 531 Pre-Columbian Art
ECON 554 Latin American Economic History
ECON 574 Economics of Latin America
GEOG 535 Geography of Latin America
GEOG 684A Seminar in Regional Geography: Latin America
HIST 523A Latin America: The Colonial Era
HIST 523B Latin America: The 19th Century
HIST 523C Latin America: The 20th Century
HIST 524 Seminar U.S./Latin America Relations
HIST 525 Lecture U.S./Latin America Relations
HIST 526 Dictatorship in Latin America
INST 601 Seminar in Development
INST 610B Seminar on Latin America
INST 690 Readings in Latin America
POLS 534 Government & Politics of Latin America
POLS 535 Revolution in Latin America
POLS 579 Latin American Political Thought
POLS 590 Studies in Government: U.S. Policy in Latin America
SOC 508 Latin American Society
SOC 518 Third-World Development
SPAN 539 Modern Spanish Usage
SPAN 543 Survey of Spanish American Literature
SPAN 547 Themes from Spanish American Prose
SPAN 548 Contemporary Spanish American Literature
SPAN 560 Spanish American Civilization and Culture
TCOM 765 Communication and National Development


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University Publications and the Computer Services Center revised this file (http://www.ohiou.edu/~gcat/95-97/areas/inst/latin.html) April 13, 1998.

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