Prof. Cynthia Stone, Associate Professor of Spanish, is the Program Director. Please direct all questions to her.

The aim of this program is to introduce students to Latin America's multiplicity of peoples and cultures as they are situated in historical and international context, including their new and centuries-old immigrant and migrant diasporas or pre-Anglo enclaves within the United States.  Students select from an interdisciplinary array of courses that explore the diversity of the Hispanic- and Portuguese-speaking peoples of the Americas as well as their common cultural and historical roots.  Courses in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, music, political science, religion, and sociology explore the events and processes that have shaped the region and the lives of its people.  The topics addressed in the classroom and at co-curricular events sponsored by LALS reflect themes pertinent to an understanding of the interplay between individual, national and global phenomena. Courses are listed in the College Catalog in the following departments: Economics, Education, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures/Spanish, Music, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology & Anthropology. The research and teaching interests of LALS faculty include Afro-Caribbean history and culture, Chicano studies, development theory, environmentalism, human rights, international activism, landscape studies, Latino autobiography, literature of dictatorship, music composition, narratives of exile, immigration and ethnicity, indigenous peoples of the Americas, oral and pictorial narratives, poetry, property rights analysis, second-language acquisition, sociolinguistics, theology of liberation, translation studies, and urban education.  Latin American and Latino Studies faculty have conducted research in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America and have published critical studies both in the U.S. and abroad.