这种集中关注于政治，经济和社会文化变革，这些变革深刻地塑造了20世纪和21世纪的美洲。这种集中的课程涉及诸如专制和民主的统治制度，国家干预主义和新自由主义经济，国家和跨国所有权形式以及制度排斥和社会文化形成的新模式等问题。在选择这种集中度时，学生将努力解决美洲的关键人物，事件和动向。拉丁美洲和拉丁美洲研究计划探讨了拉丁美洲人对全球社会的文化贡献，并强调了该地区发展起来的观点和传统。检查包括土著，欧洲，犹太人，阿拉伯，亚洲和非洲社会在内的拉丁美洲人民与文化之间的多元文化关系，并探索拉丁美洲和美国之间已经形成
This concentration focuses on the political, economic, and socio-cultural transformations that have profoundly shaped the Americas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Courses in this concentration address issues such as authoritarian and democratic regimes of governance, state-interventionist and neoliberal economies, national and transnational forms of belonging, as well as the new modes of institutional exclusion and socio-cultural formation. In choosing this concentration, students will grapple with key figures, events, and movements in the Americas. ?The Latin American and Latino Studies Program explores the cultural contributions of Latin Americans to the global community and highlights perspectives and traditions that have developed in the region. Examine the multicultural relationship between peoples and cultures of Latin America, including indigenous, European, Semitic, Arab, Asian and African societies, and explore the profound linkage that has emerged between Latin America and the United States, particularly through the construction of Latino communities in the U.S. The Latin American and Latino Studies Program explores the cultural contributions of Latin Americans to the global community and highlights perspectives and traditions that have developed in the region.