Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Through diverse course offerings, students can study Latin American and Caribbean history, languages, politics, societies, cultures, religions and geographies. The program is geared toward building an engagement with the region(s) as well as with their communities in Canada and the United States.
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Sample Courses
This course looks at the heritage of Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish dance forms.
This course examines languages recently created by means of contact between languages of different socio-economical status. Emphasis is given to the description and analysis of French-based pidgins and Creoles.
This course examines how ideas about "race" and "ethnicity" evolved and became institutionalized on a global scale, as well as systems of exploitation, exclusion and inequality that have given rise to today's patterns of racial and ethnic inequality in the world.
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