Topics vary each semester to allow curriculum flexibility for faculty members and visiting scholars.

Basic survey course, designed as an introduction to Latin American history in the colonial period.

Continuation of History 346K and Latin American Studies 366 (Topic 2).

An introduction to recent Latin American history, with emphasis on phenomena that explain the apparent social unrest and political instability of the region.

The social, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped modern Brazil.

Comparison of the Mexican and Cuban revolutions and of their challenges to inter-American relations.

The special economic and political relationship between the United States and Cuba from 1898 to 1967; and how the 1959 revolution affected the Cold War relationships between East and West, North and South.

Overview of Caribbean history from 1492 to the present. Topics include contact between European and native cultures, piracy, slavery, colonialism and decolonization, and revolutions.

Examines causes of some of the unresolved conflicts affecting Latin America today, including the social-agrarian relationships linking landlords and campesinos; the role of the state and the impact of official ideologies involving indigenous people; religion and the Catholic Church; the history of rural institutions; and the success or failure of land reforms.

Examines objects, such as paintings, reliquaries, monstrances, and churches from colonial Latin America in order to understand colonial culture. Includes critical reading of original texts.

History of Church-state relations and religious politics in modern Latin America, with emphasis on the nineteenth to early twentieth-century periods.

Explores Cuban-United States relations from the nineteenth century to the present, including issues of empire and transnationalism, and social change engagements between Cuba and the United States before and after the Cuban Revolution.

Explores the "conquest" of Mexico and the social, cultural, political, and economic processes which were set in motion by the Spanish invasion of Mexico.

An introduction to the history of relations between the United States and Latin America. Designed to prepare each student for a potential experience in Latin America (or with Latino communities in the United States) such as study abroad, research, and/or community engagement.

An overview of principal trends and issues in Argentine history from independence to the present.

Focuses on the histories of the Catholic Church and religious devotion in colonial Latin America between 1521 and 1821.

Examines the historical experiences of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean beginning in the slavery era, and focuses on the histories of Afro-Latin Americans after emancipation.

Questions the geographical category of Latin America by examining the kinds of trends and forces of the nineteenth century that contributed to its conceptual emergence and to its growing political, economic, and cultural significance on the global stage.

Varied perspectives on the central role played by the Old Testament in the construction of colonial cultures in the Americas.

The history of Catholicism in twentieth-century Mexico, often seen as Latin America's most "Catholic" nation.

Examines urban slavery in the Americas.

An examination of the key political, social, and economic events that underpin contemporary Chilean society.

Explore the impact of the Cuban revolution in Latin American politics, gender roles, and women's participation in public life during the sixties.

Examine an overview of life and politics in contemporary Mexico.

Examine food production, food consumption, and socio-cultural identities in Latin America through comparative and multidisciplinary research.

Explore gender as a broad analytical tool to understand key problems concerning social organization, power relations, and inequality in contemporary Latin America.

Examine the role that debt has played in the formation of colonial and neocolonial practices in the Caribbean region. Take a broad approach to the concept of debt in order to explore the financial and monetary dynamics of debt, but also the political and cultural implications of debt. Focus in particular on debt as justification in the furtherance of colonialism throughout the Caribbean. Engage in a historical examination of the United States' colonial projects and military interventions in the region throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries.

Introduction to the history of modern Mexico from the close of the Mexican Revolution (1940) to the present.

Explore the initial decade of the Mexican Revolution, the first of the twentieth-century nationalist social revolutions. Examine the historical antecedents and the political, economic, social, and intellectual elements of the upheaval.

Introduction to the historical experience of Mexican-American persons in Texas.