LSTD 5000 - Latin American Studies

Goals: To expose the student to contemporary Latin American problems and examine how Latin America attempts to solve them, how the United States attempts to help solve them and how the two solutions often conflict.

Content: United States response to rebellion, reform and revolution in Mexico (1910), Guatemala (1954), and Cuba (1959), and in other Latin American countries striving for social change. An analysis and discussion of debts, boycotts, loans, coups, invasions, and intervention from 1910 to present.

Taught: Annually.

Credits: 4 credits