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This archived information is dated to the 2010-11 academic year only and may no longer be current.
For currently applicable policies and information, see the current Stanford Bulletin.
Latin American Studies Cognate Courses
The following courses may be used to satisfy requirements for the M.A degree, honors certification, or minor in Latin American Studies. Consult the Stanford Bulletin's Explore Courses web site for full course descriptions and class schedules.
When selecting courses from this list, please be aware of the following:
- Overseas Studies courses, denoted by the subject codes OSPMADRD or OSPSANTG, apply only to the undergraduate minor or honors programs and are not options for M.A. students.
- Courses with numbers ending in the letter N or Q are Introductory Seminars for undergraduates and are not options for M.A. students. Courses ending in N give preference to freshmen; courses ending in Q give preference to sophomores.
- All courses to be counted toward the M.A., minor, or honors in Latin American Studies must be taken at the 100-level or higher, with the exception of Overseas Studies courses included on this list (see also note 1, above).
- All courses to be counted toward the M.A., minor, or honors in Latin American Studies must be taken for a letter grade.
- For the M.A. degree, cognate courses must be taken for 5 units each. M.A. elective courses may be taken for 3-5 units each.
- Some courses have prerequisites or special enrollment requirements. Students are responsible for making sure they have completed any prerequisites and/or secured an instructor's permission, as needed.
CULTURE AND SOCIETY
- ANTHRO 100C. Chavín de Huántar Research Seminar
- ANTHRO 101. Aztecs and their Ancestors: Intro to Mesoamerican Archaeology
- ANTHRO 105/205. Ancient Cities in the New World
- ANTHRO 106/206A. Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology
- ANTHRO 122B/222B. Research in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
- ANTHRO 164B. Anthropology of Tourism
- ARTHIST 293. Latin American Avant Garde
- ARTHIST 396. African Visual Art and Graphic Communication in the Americas
- COMPLIT 121. Poems, Poetry, Worlds: An Introductory Course
- COMPLIT 134. The Poetry of History in the Americas
- COMPLIT 142. The Literature of the Americas (same as ENGLISH 172E)
- COMPLIT 242. The Global South: Faulkner, García Márquez, Morrison, and Cisneros
- EDUC 177/277. Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives
- HISTORY 106B. Global Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
- HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America (minor/honors survey course)
- HISTORY 306G. Colonial Law
- HISTORY 370. Graduate Colloquium on Colonial Latin American History
- HISTORY 371. Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American Social History (M.A. core course and honors core course)
- HISTORY 406. Graduate Research Seminar on Colonial Law
- HISTORY 470A. Graduate Research Seminar: Latin American Social History
- ILAC 114N. Lyric Poetry
- ILAC 117N. Film, Nation, Latinidad
- ILAC 131. Cultural Perspectives in the Luso-Hispanic Americas
- ILAC 141. The Spanish American Short Story as Cultural and Political Artifact
- ILAC 142. Modernismo and the World Interior
- ILAC 161. Survey of Modern Latin American Literature
- ILAC 193Q. Spaces and Voices of Brazil through Films (same as PORTLANG 193Q)
- ILAC 194E. Black Brazil
- ILAC 211. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
- ILAC 241. Fiction Workshop in Spanish
- ILAC 256. Drug Wars: Narcos in Media and Literature
- ILAC 260. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the Cinema
- ILAC 265. Museums and Novels in Argentina
- ILAC 273. Brazilian Resonances: Poems, Lyrics, Songs
- ILAC 278A. Senior Seminar: Amazonia-Manhattan: Visions of El Dorado
- ILAC 280. Latina/o Literature
- ILAC 343. García Márquez
- ILAC 357. Juan Carlos Onetti: The Creation of Urban Narratives
- ILAC 365. Anthropological Fictions in Latin America: Alejo Carpentier and Guimarães Rosa
- ILAC 380E. Critical Concepts in Chicana/o Literature
- INTNLREL 141A. Camera as Witness: International Human Rights Documentaries
- LAW 455. Law and Society in International Perspective
- OSPMADRD 40. Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis in the Spanish World
- OSPMADRD 50. Flirting with Spanish Metafiction: Cervantes, Velázquez, Fuentes, Almodóvar
- OSPSANTG 10. Borges and Argentina
- OSPSANTG 14. Women Writers of Latin America in the 20th Century
- OSPSANTG 66. Latin American Current Affairs
- OSPSANTG 67. 21st Century Chilean Literature
- OSPSANTG 68. Emergence of Nations in Latin America
- OSPSANTG 104X. Modernization and Culture in Latin America
- OSPSANTG 118X. Artistic Expression in Latin America
- OSPSANTG 141X. Politics and Culture in Chile
- SOC 164/264. Immigration and the Changing United States
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
- ANTHRO 162/262. Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems (M.A. core course)
- ANTHRO 166/266. Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness
- ANTHRO 177/277. Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (same as HUMBIO 114)
- BIO 175. Tropical Ecology and Conservation
- CEE 265A. Sustainable Water Resources Development
- CEE 265D. Water & Sanitation in Developing Countries
- EARTHSYS 132/232. Energy and Climate Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere (same as IPS 263, INTNLREL 146A)
- HRP 240. Rethinking International Health (same as MED 230)
- HUMBIO 119C. Demography and Measurement of the Effects of Armed Conflict
- OSPSANTG 58. Living Chile: A Land of Extremes
- OSPSANTG 85. Marine Ecology of Chile and the South Pacific
- PEDS 220. Latin America's Millennium Development Goals and Children's Health
POLITICAL ECONOMY
- ANTHRO 166/266. Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness
- EARTHSYS 132/232. Energy and Climate Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere (same as IPS 263/INTNLREL 146A)
- ECON 127. Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (same as MED 262)
- EDUC 306A. Economics of Education in the Global Economy
- INTNLREL 147. The Political Economy of the Southern Cone of South America
- INTNLREL 148. Economic Integration of the Americas
- OSPSANTG 68. Emergence of Nations in Latin America
- OSPSANTG 116X. Modernization and its Discontents: Chilean Politics at the Turn of the Century
- OSPSANTG 119X. The Chilean Economy: History, International Relations, and Development Strategies
- OSPSANTG 129X. Latin America in the International System
- OSPSANTG 130X. The Chilean Economy in Comparative Perspective
- OSPSANTG 141X. Politics and Culture in Chile
- OSPSANTG 221X. Political Transition and Democratic Consolidation: Chile in Comparative Perspective
- POLISCI 125S. Chicano/Latino Politics
- POLISCI 240. The Politics of Wealth Redistribution
- POLISCI 240P. Trials, Truth, and Mentality
- POLISCI 242D. Political Economy of Property Rights (same as HISTORY 278A)
- POLISCI 248S. Latin American Politics (M.A. core course)