Introduction to Latin American Studies

Course Features

• Assignments: activity (no examples)
• Assignments: written (no examples)

Course Highlights

This course features sample exams and required paper topics in the assignments section.

Course Description

This course is designed as an introduction to Latin American politics and society for undergraduates at MIT. No background on the region is required. Overall workload (reading, writing, class participation, and examinations) is similar to that of other HASS-D courses. Many of the themes raised here are covered in greater detail in other courses: 21G.020J (New World Literature), 21G.716 (Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature), 21G.730 (Twentieth and Twentyfirst-Century Spanish American Literaturere), 21G.735 (Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film), 21A.220 (The Conquest of America), 21H.802 (Modern Latin America), 3.982 (The Ancient Andean World), 3.983 (Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization), 17.507 (Democratization and Democratic Collapse), and 17.554 (Political Economy of Latin America).F

Other OCW Versions

OCW has published multiple versions of this subject.

• 17.55J Introduction to Latin American Studies (Fall 2006)

Archived versions:

• 21G.084J Introduction to Latin American Studies (Spring 2002)

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• Latin and Caribbean Studies
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• The Developing World