Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto (LAS@UofT) is a program for students in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences who seek a deeper understanding of the Latin American regions, their histories, cultures, and societies. LAS@UofT seeks to inspire knowledge and experience across the University’s three-campus community and beyond. The program’s courses encourage students to complement special interests in fields such as Anthropology, Political Science, Geography, History, or Sociology, with a broader interdisciplinary framework, while at the same time committing themselves to an emphasis upon the languages, and the historical and cultural experiences of Spanish and Portuguese America.
LAS@UofT exists to bring together the energy and insights of a multi-disciplinary collection of individuals and units, to develop innovative courses and to stimulate exchange. The program’s research and pedagogical mission encompasses everything from the ancient American civilizations, and the ideas, peoples, and commodities that came together and emerged within a wide Iberian world, through the archaeology, geography, history, languages, literatures, politics, societies, and cultures of the Latin American regions and countries, to the natural sciences, and transnational investigation of Latin Americans and their descendants in Canada and elsewhere.