1. Students will develop a comprehensive understanding of 
multiple trajectories of social, political, and cultural thought 
in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and their contributions 
to philosophy and criticism more broadly. 

2. Students will be able to apply and synthesize central 
theories and concepts in the analysis of historical and 
contemporary events and debates in Latin American and Caribbean 
Studies.

3. Students will be able to identify and evaluate the 
contributions of Latin American and Caribbean thinkers to 
broader global debates of historical and contemporary importance.

I. Centering Latin American and Caribbean thinkers in Latin 
American and Caribbean studies
II. Indigenous theories, epistemologies, and ontologies
III. Colonialism, imperialism, and the formation of regional and 
national identities in resistance
IV. Dependency theory, liberation theology, and revolution in 
the mid-20th century
V. Indigenismo, criollismo, hybridity, mestizaje, and critiques
VI. Latin American subalterneity
VII. Latin American and indigenous feminisms
VIII. The decolonial turn  
IX. Popular culture and cultural critique

tudents are expected to adhere to the UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically 
honest in all of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of 
others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and procedures for handling
cases of suspected dishonesty, can be found at www.uga.edu/ovpi.