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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LAS 161 - Introduction to Latin American Studies


(3 units)

Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENGL 100  or GE Composition (Area A1).

Interdisciplinary overview of history, society, and culture in Latin American - Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Examines political, economic, social and cultural conditions that have produced conflict, change, and continuity in Latin America over the last five hundred years.

Both grading options. Same course as SOC 161 . Not open for credit to students with credit in SOC 161 .