Teaching About Latin America from an Interdisciplinary Perspective.

Latin America's history, culture, politics and geography are unique to its global niche. Any understanding of Latin America's major issues - economic development, the drug trade, political authoritarianism cycling with democracy -- requires an interdisciplinary analysis. Today's Latin American realities must take into account elements of all the major social science disciplines, from pre-Columbian history to modern neoliberal economics. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]