Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Arts

Latin American Studies major sequence

The following is the program of study [November, 2008] for a 33-unit major sequence in Latin American Studies within a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of International Studies and should be read in conjunction with the respective course rule.

Alternative topics may be available in Spanish and students should contact the Latin American Studies program coordinator for more information. Students already undertaking Spanish as a major sequence cannot count Spanish topics towards both majors, instead they should take two non-language topics from the list of First Year options.

Students who wish to undertake the honours program in Latin American Studies must complete a minimum of 9 units of Spanish language topics, either within the Latin American Studies or Spanish major sequences, or as electives. Students who believe that they possess the equivalent of First Year Spanish may apply to the convener of Latin American Studies for an exemption.

	First Year
LAMS1001	Introduction to Latin American Studies*	4.5
	plus one of the following:
DVST1001	The Political Economy of International Development	4.5
DVST1002	Culture and Development	4.5
GEOG1001	Water Resources and Society	4.5
HIST1702	New World Nations, 1800-1918	4.5
POLI1003	Australian Politics: A Comparative Study	4.5
INTR1006	Traditional Relations: An Introduction	4.5
SPAN1121	Spanish 1: Part 1	4.5
SPAN1122	Spanish 1: Part 2	4.5
	Second and Third Years
POLI2014	The Politics of Third World States	6
	plus 18 units from the following of which one topic should be at Third Year level:
LAMS3001	Supervised Study in Latin American Studies	6
POLI2014	The Politics of World States	6
POLI3054	Power and Political Violence in Latin America	6
POLI3057	Music and Politics in the Americas	6
SPAN2121A	Spanish 2: Part 1	6
SPAN2122A	Spanish 2: Part 2	6
SPAN2509	Special Cognate in Spanish: Part 1	6
SPAN2510	Special Cognate in Spanish: Part 2	6
SPAN3121	Spanish 3: Part 1	6
SPAN3122A	Spanish 3: Part 2	6
SPAN3500	Translation	6
SPAN3511	Latin American History and Culture Through Film	6
WMST2003	Gender and Development	6

Other topics may be offered from Spanish.

* Students may not count both LAMS1001 and LAMS2001 towards their degree.