{"id":2266,"date":"2022-06-08T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:39:57","slug":"lacs-5000w-hist5713w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/2022\/lacs-5000w-hist5713w\/","title":{"rendered":"LACS 5000 W\/ HIST 5713 W\/ MGDS 5002 C: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin American and Caribbean History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        LACS 5000 W\/ HIST 5713 W\/ MGDS 5002 C: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin American and Caribbean History\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>LACS 5000 W: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin American and Caribbean History<\/strong><br>\n<em>HIST 5713 W (Crosslisted): Latin America and Caribbean History Special Topics&nbsp;<\/em><br>\n<em>MGDS 5002 C (Crosslisted): Key Issues in Migration and Diaspora Studies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winter 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong>&nbsp; Professor Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Course Description<\/em><\/strong><br>\nThis interdisciplinary graduate seminar introduces students to Latin American and Caribbean social and political thought. Its goal is to explore the ways in which <em>peoples from the region<\/em> have perceived, articulated, and responded to the challenges they faced from the eighteenth century to the current day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seminar is also designed to support students as they advance their intended Masters level research projects.&nbsp; It does this through both its content coverage content as well as by providing students with specific strategies for research and project development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seminar is organized around the following three elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u00a0It introduces students to Latin American and Caribbean social and political thought.<\/strong> Readings will explore the ways in which <em>people from the region<\/em> have perceived, articulated, and responded to the challenges they faced when confronted by the realities of colonialism and imperialism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0It explores the ways in which colonialism and imperialism have shaped the trajectory of Latin America and the Caribbean through an analysis of various case studies.<\/strong> In so doing, students will be better prepared to apply theoretical and methodological approaches that will enable critical and sophisticated analyses of discourses produced in various public arenas that are relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It guides students through the early stages of the Masters level research project development.<\/strong> The course will cover specific techniques for developing a research project and writing a Masters level research proposal on a topic addressing Latin America and the Caribbean.\u00a0 The course assignments give students an opportunity to begin the preliminary work of defining the research projects they intend to pursue during the Masters program.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students doing their <strong>MA by coursework<\/strong> will will be given essay assignments as determined by the professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students taking this course out of general interest <strong>(i.e., <em>not<\/em> specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean)<\/strong> will be given other options for the written assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Class Format<\/strong><\/em><br>\nWe will meet once a week in a three-hour block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Course Evaluation<\/em><\/strong><br>\nStudents will be evaluated based on written assignments and their participation in the weekly seminar. For students pursuing Masters projects with topics directly related to Latin America and the Caribbean, the assignments will be designed to help them advance and refine their thinking on their intended research topics. Students taking this course out of general interest (i.e., <em>not<\/em> specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean) will be given other options for the written assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further instructions, strategies, and expectations for the course will be made available on Brightspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LACS 5000 W: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin American and Caribbean History HIST 5713 W (Crosslisted): Latin America and Caribbean History Special Topics&nbsp; MGDS 5002 C (Crosslisted): Key Issues in Migration and Diaspora Studies Winter 2025 Instructor:&nbsp; Professor Audra Dipt\u00e9e Course Description This interdisciplinary graduate seminar introduces students to Latin American and Caribbean social and political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-descriptions"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}