Latin American and Latino Studies
LALS 219 Central America: Intellectuals, Histories, and Futures
Provides students in LALS and related fields with an opportunity to engage theoretical frameworks and examine a range of intellectual currents that have shaped economic, social, and cultural processes in Central America from the late 1800s to the present. Readings include a range of scholarship and critical studies in order to analyze the roles of intellectuals and how their ideas circulated in the isthmus and beyond. Evaluates the roles of institutions, political ideologies, media, and modernity in the constitution and propagation of intellectual networks, how these shape popular attitudes in everyday life, and the futures of the Central American isthmus.