Electives

Selecting your courses within the structure of the program allows you the opportunity to choose eligible electives that fit your area of research and interest.  These courses come from many different departments all over campus, including Anthropology, Spanish and Hispanic, Art History, Geography, Music and more.

Required:

• LAS 400 Special Topics in Latin American Studies.

Information for LAS 499

• Guidelines for LAS 499 Honours Graduating Essay
• LAS 499 Proposal Form

Eligible electives:

*All variable content courses require the permission of the program in advance to ensure they are topic and content appropriate when counting towards your degree.

• ANTH 325 Ethnology of South America
• ANTH 391 Selected Problems in Anthropology: Ethnology (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• ANTH 392 Selected Problems in Anthropology: Archaeology (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• ANTH 393 Selected Problems in Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• ANTH 394 Selected Problems in Anthropology: Physical Anthropology (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• ANTH 395 Selected Problems in Anthropology: Method and Theory (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• GEOG 347B Geographies of Development
• HSTR 370 Topics in World and Comparative History. Permission of the program if topic focuses on Latin America. *
• HSTR 376A Conquest and Rebellion in Latin America, 1492-1783 (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• HSTR 376B The Struggle for Independence in Latin America, 1767-1867 (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• HSTR 376C Revolutions and Dictators in 20th-century Latin America (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• HSTR 376D The Women of Latin America
• HSTR 385A Witchcraft and its Persecution in the Early Modern Atlantic World *
• HSTR 470 Seminar in World and Comparative History. Permission of the program if topic focuses on Latin America. *
• HSTR 476 Indigenous, Mestizo, and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest
• IED 327 Indigenous Epistemologies *
• LAS 310 Major Issues in Latin American Studies
• LAS 320 Experiential Learning
• LAS 495 Directed Reading
• LAS 499 Honours Graduating Essay
• MUS 319 Music and Culture of Cuba *
• MUS 320 Topics in World Music (if syllabus focuses on Latin America) *
• POLI 327 Political Economy in the Global South *
• POLI 372 Latin American Politics *
• POLI 381 Politics of Mass Media in Latin America *
• POLI 436 Politics of Human Rights in New Democracies (Consult with instructor to focus work on Latin America and see LAS director)
• SPAN 304 Indigenous Latin America, Social Justice, and Environment (in Enlgish) *
• SPAN 350A Advanced Composition, Translation and Stylistics I
• SPAN 390 Hispanic Literature I *
• SPAN 408B Topics in Latin American Culture
• SPAN 483B Latin American Fiction from the "Boom" to the Present
• SPAN 483C Modern Latin American Literature and the Visual Arts
• SPAN 484A Latin American Women's Writing
• SPAN 484C Colonial Spanish America 1492-1767 *
• SPAN 484D From Colony to Republic: Spanish America 1767-1867 *
• SPAN 484E Revolutions and Dictators in 20th Century Latin America (HSTR 376C)
• SPAN 485B Latin American Film
• SPAN 495 Directed Reading Course *