FYEC 145 – 146 - Crossing Frontiers: Culture and International Economic Issues in Latin America - Literature offers a reflection of human experience, an experience conditioned by a myriad of social, political and economic circumstances.

Crossing Frontiers: Culture and International Ecnomic Issues in Latin America will introduce students to the cultural expressions of contemporary human experience in Latin American and to the underlying economic foundations that connect Latin American nations to each other, the United States and the rest of the world.

Crossing Frontiers: Issues in International Economics, the economics portion of this first-year colloquium, will introduce the central tools of economic analysis and then apply those tools to international issues with special emphasis on Latin America. Topics to be explored will include free trade agreements, the Cuban embargo, tariff policy and immigration, among others.

Crossing Frontiers: The Culture of Latin America, the literature portion of this first-year colloquium, will introduce students to the expression of the Latin American experience through literature and related art forms. Readings will include works reflecting international exchange in its cultural and economic forms.

Professor Andrea Hamos, Department of Romance Languages, and Professor Barry Pfitzner, Department of Economics/Business. Four hours each semester. [Area of Knowledge requirements met: one literature course under the Arts and Literature area and one economics course under the Social Sciences area. Open to all students.]