SENATE 

PROPOSED CHANGES. LATIN AMERICAN 

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November 14, 1974 

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"That Senate approve - and recommend approval to the 

Board - the proposed changes, as set forth in S.74-I4 

for the Latin American Studies Program, including 

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Changes to the list of approved courses for 

the LAS. 

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Change In prerequisite for 

LAS. 402-5, LAS. 403-5, LAS. 404-5" 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

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At its meeting of 12th November, the Senate Committee 

on Undergraduate Studies considered the attached proposal for 

changes inthe Latin American Studies Program. 

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This proposal is 

now forwarded to Senate with the Committee's recommendation that 

It be approved. 

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Dr. R.C. Brownr Dean,. Faculty ° ............ 

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The attached calendar changes for the Latin American Studies Program have been 

considered by the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary 

Studies and are approved. 

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This is to explain and clarify some minor substantive changes that we are 

requesting in our forthcoming calendar entry for 1974-75. 

(1) First, we seek several additions to our list of approved courses 

which may receive credit for the Latin American Studies Minor. Those 

courses, in general, reflect incorporation of new curricula of several 

departments into the Latin American Studies Program. To summarize the 

specific new additions (and assuming that the new and revised courses 

will be approved): 

Sociolo q 

'j and Anthropolo 

Peasant Society 

Ethnography of Latin America 

Urban Anthropology 

Specialized Regional Studies: 

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Central and 

South America 

Specific Regions I 

Specialized Regional Studies: 

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Central and South America 

Specific 

Regions II 

Political Science 

Government and Politics of Selected Latin American Nations, I 

Government and Politics of Selected Latin American Nations, II 

Regional Studies in Politics: Latin America 

History 

fIST 208-3 Latin America: The Colonial Period 

HIST 209-3 Latin 

America: The National Period 

fIST 458-5 Problems in Latin America Regional History 

fIST 459-5 Problems in the Political and Social History of Latin 

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Archaeology 

ARC, 330-5 Prehistory of Latin America 

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A second matter which might be construed as more than an editorial change 

is the removal of the prerequisite (LAS 200 or an upper. levels, course with 

full Latin American content) for the 400 level courses in Latin American 

Studies. The new calendar entry reads: "recommended preparation-' LAS 200". 

The feeling of the Latin American Studies Steering Committee is that 

students interested and qualified to participate in the upper levels 

interdisciplinary seminar should not necessarily have to have taken previous 

work in Latin American area studies. On the other hand, students working 

for a minor in the program must take LAS 200 in any case and for them 

therefore, the prerequiste is meaningless and redundant. 

(3)

All other changes in the opinion of the Latin American Studies Steering 

Committee are editorial in nature. 

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