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Congrats to our LALACS 2023 Graduates!
LALACS majors and minors are known for their leadership, interdisciplinarity and creative thinking. This graduating class is no different! Minors Brian Contreras’23 Major in Psychological Science; Minor in LALACS; Diversity Leadership Council Representative; OLAS. Plans after graduation: I plan to attend graduate school in Neuropsychology. Margaret Lucas’23 Majors in Spanish and Classical Languages; […]
LALACS 2023 Senior Symposium
You’re Invited! May 17th 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Three Crowns Room. Join us in celebrating our seniors as they share their Capstone Projects. Cords and Stoles will be awarded by advisors. Great food. All welcome! Sophia Artley Title: An Analysis of Latin American Student Movements Abstract: Latin America has a deep-rooted tradition of student movements […]
LALACS 2022 Senior Symposium
You’re Invited!May 11th 5:00 p.m. in the President’s Dining Room.Join us in celebrating our seniors as they share their Capstone Projects. Cords and Stoles will be awarded by advisors. MARÍA FLORES MÁRQUEZPolitical Science, Spanish, and LALACSTitle: The Legacy of U.S Interventionism: How the U.S Involvement in Central America Led to the Mass Migration of […]
Congrats to our LALACS 2021 Graduates!
Majors Carlos Balbuena Conner Cress Marisa Gustafson Ava Hanson Zachary Johnson Vanessa Ramírez-Gavilán Paige Patterson Minors Hailey Concepción Katie Orcutt Emma Lohman Gracie Willaert
LALACS Senior Symposium
AVA HANSON Majors in Psychology, Spanish and LALACS “Literature/Interview-Based Suggestions for Navigating Interpreter-Provider Dynamic during Behavioral Health Sessions with Latinx Clients.” My LALACS capstone project studies disparities in behavioral healthcare faced by the Latinx community. Originally, I reached out to a company providing behavioral health services to figure out ways that I could help them. […]
5th Gustavus Latinx Film Festival
For the 5th Gustavus Latinx Film Festival we have selected five diverse films that challenge ethnic, racial, linguistic, social and political, constructions in the Americas. We hope you will enjoy these films, and the robust conversations that will follow them. All films will be available for free streaming the week prior to the dates below. […]
The LALACS Word Cloud
After 4 years in the program, we asked our class of seniors to describe the LALACS program in 10 words. Here is a word cloud representation of what our students think of LALACS: Thanks to Nicole Pfalz for coming up with the idea and help in the making of this awesome word cloud!
Alumni News: Interview with Dr. Samantha Good ’13 on doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Good on her recently defended doctoral dissertation “Negotiated Ecologies: Indigeniety and Ecocriticism in 19th Century Bolivia and Chile”. Dr. Good graduated from Gustavus in 2013 with a double major in Environmental Studies and Spanish and a minor in LALACS. With such strong academic base and unique combination of interests, she continued […]
LALACS RESEARCH: Meet our Seniors and their Projects
Maripaz Álvarez-Tostado González-Méndez Socio-Political and Cultural Relations (Political Science, Anthropology, Communication Studies, Peace Studies) What is your capstone project about? This project studies the systematic relationships that exist between multinational corporations, international financial institutions, regional foreign policies, and indigenous communities in Latin America. It analyzes these relationships through specific practices and policies based on a […]
Witness for Peace: Human Rights and Migration in Honduras
On Wednesday, April 10, and sponsored by the LALACS and Peace Studies programs, Gustavus hosted Rosa Nelly Santos Navarro, the Honduran President and Coordinator of COFAMIPRO, in a presentation and discussion about human rights and migration in Honduras. The Committee of the Families of Disappeared Migrants of El Progreso (COFAMIPRO) is an organization whose mission […]