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For Distribution Requirement purposes, LAS courses are classified in different categories; check individual course descriptions.

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LAS200Y1
       Latin America: History, Civilization and Culture [52L, 26P]

An introductory course that studies the development of societies in the Latin American region from its pre-Columbian past to its heterogeneous present. Cultural, geographical, historical, literary, political and social topics will be examined combining traditional historical narratives and supporting documents with art, cinema, music and other texts from popular culture and mass media. This course is open to students in at least their second year of undergraduate study. It provides both a broad foundation, and an invitation to delve deeper in further courses and in different disciplinary concentrations.

Exclusion: IAS200Y1
This is a Humanities or Social Science course.

LAS300H1
       Topics in the Social Sciences (Latina/o Identity in Canada) [26S]

This issue-oriented seminar explores the construction of Latina/o
identity in Canada from an interdisciplinary perspective. We look to generate knowledge and understanding about: 1) the manner in which Latina/o diasporas have been constructed through historical and socio-political processes such as exile, migration, immigration, and the ways in which they are articulated within transnational processes of capital accumulation and the redefinitions of ‘authentic’ national subjecthood and, 2) the ways in which Latinidad emerges both within Latina/o communities and in relation to the Canadian nation and transnational realities.
Prerequisite: IAS200Y1/LAS200Y1
This is a Social Science Course

LAS301H1
       Topics in the Humanities (Latin America and the Caribbean Through Film) [26S]

Please see LAS@UofT web site for more details on this course.
Prerequisite: IAS200Y1/LAS200Y1
This is a Humanities course.

LAS302H1
Topics in Latin American Studies (The Hispanic Caribbean) [26S]

Note: please see LAS@UofT web site for more details on this course.

LAS400H1
Topics in Latin American Studies

Note: please see LAS@UofT web site for more details on this course.