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• Institute for the Study of International Development
• Peterson Hall, Room 126
• 3460 McTavish Street
• Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E6

• Telephone: 514-398-4804
• Fax: 514-398-2786
• Email: ids [at] mcgill.ca
• Website: www.mcgill.ca/isid

• Adviser: Lisa Stanischewski

Established in 1971, the interdisciplinary program in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies offers a comprehensive array of courses on the peoples, cultures, history, literature, politics, economy, and geography of Latin America and the Caribbean, providing students with a broad-based understanding of this geographic region, and with the language and research skills required for advanced scholarship. The program in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies encourages the free exchange of ideas and perspectives in order to foster an environment suitable for serious reflection and critical analysis.

Students in the program in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies are encouraged to consider the opportunities for foreign study and research made available by bilateral exchange agreements with leading universities in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. These exchanges are open to all members of the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ community. Further information may be obtained from the Student Exchange and Study Abroad Office, Service Point, 3415 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C8.

An agreement of cooperation with the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) permits Honours students in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ to count a portion of their undergraduate coursework toward the degree requirements for Georgetown's M.A. in Latin American Studies, thus permitting completion of the M.A. in one calendar year. See the Program Adviser for additional information.

The program in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies offers an interdisciplinary Honours degree and an interdisciplinary Major concentration as part of the Multi-track B.A. in Arts. Given the constraints of the Multi-track B.A. and our belief that an interdisciplinary program of area studies must include within it the language(s) used by the peoples and cultures under examination, there is at present no interdisciplinary Minor concentration in Latin-American and Caribbean Studies.