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The concentration system serves to focus the coursework of Latin American Studies majors and minors in one of the interdisciplinary themes that are the foundation of the Latin American Studies programs at Tulane. Working with the Stone Center’s Director of Undergraduate Affairs students assign the most appropriate concentration to their individual course of study. Seniors submit a formal description of their major including their concentration and core coursework in the Latin American Studies capstone class LAST 4000. The eight concentrations are:

• Creativity
• Encounter
• Exchange
• Identity
• Land
• Nation
• People
• Welfare

Sample Courses

Note that these lists are not comprehensive and do not account for all of the courses offered in each department nor those that might be offered as special topics in the departments or Latin American Studies. Courses taken abroad and on Tulane summer programs can also count toward the concentrations.

Creativity:

• SPAN 4110: Latin American Literature
• ARHS 3860: Arts of the African Diaspora
• LAST 6960: Ind. & Peasant Movements
• MUSC 3300: Music Cult of the World
• DANC 1920: Brazilian Dance: Samba
• COMM 4190: Latin American Film

Encounter:

• ARHS 3860: Arts of the African Diaspora
• SOCI 6950: Sociology of Migration
• EEOB 3180: Plants and Human Affairs
• ANTH 3700: Ecological Anthropology
• INDV 4100: Info Tech and International Devt
• ARHS 6730: Seminar in Maya Manuscripts

Exchange:

• MKTG 4650: Global Marketing
• ECON 3590: Economic Devt of Latin America
• HISL 6850: US-Latin American Relations
• SOCI 6950: Sociology of Migration
• SPAN 6220: Colonial Latin American Literature
• EEOB 3180: Plants and Human Affairs

Identity:

• ARHS 3860: Arts of the African Diaspora
• LAST 3950: Performing the Caribbean
• COMM 4810: Media and Democracy in Latin America
• LAST 6950: Natational Sentiment and the Performing Arts
• MUSC 3300: Music Cultures of the World
• ANTH 6060: South American Indians

Land:

• ANTH 3700: Ecological Anthropology
• EEOB 3180: Plants and Human Affairs
• INDV 6100: Environment and Development
• SPAN 4510: Hispanic Cities
• HISE 6330: Imperial Spain: 1469-1659
• HTEL 4250: Cult in the Public Sphere

Nation:

• POLC 3350: Central American Governments
• LAST 6950: Nattional Sentiment and the Perf. Arts
• HISL 3960: Andean Rebellions
• HISL 3950: Inventing Argentina
• POLC 3410: Politics and Nationalism
• PORT 6160: Afro-Brazil

Peoples:

• SPAN 6850: Women Authors of Latin America
• SOCI 2490: Latin American Social Structures
• ECON3580: Labor and Pop of Latin America
• POLC 3350: Central American Governments
• ANTH 6830: Aztec and Maya Literature
• MUSC 3300: Music Cultures of the World

Welfare:

• SOCI 2490: Latin Am Social Structures
• ECON3580: Labor and Pop of Latin America
• INHL 6830: Intl Health Policy
• HISL 3780: Women in Latin Am History
• POLS 3010: Poverty and Development
• EEOB 3180: Plants and Human Affairs

*non LAS course; see the college SPC restrictions