Forum Conversations: Latin America

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Explore Latin America

Explore Latin America with all your senses taking one (or two) of these
courses on Latin America offered in the Fall 09:

- "Drums and Dreams of Liberation: Latin American Music as Text"

To experience this class before you take it go to:

http://www.tangoingreen.tucampus.org
Username: student 09
Password: honors09

And/Or

- The Magic and the "Reel": Literature and History in Latin American
Cinema, with student teacher Katya Hafich

More about this class at:

http://www.unm.edu%2F%7Ehonors%2Fseminars_llevel.html

Welcome

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