LALACS faculty unanimously urged President Hanlon to reaffirm this institutional commitment to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Students, regardless of whatever changes in immigration policy might come about.
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Jade McLaughlin ’17 and Madellena Thornton ’17 spent this past summer as Global Health Initiative interns at Hospital Cayetano Heredia (HCH) in Lima, Peru. Their work on emergency preparedness focused on the willingness of healthcare workers to respond in a disaster.
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Abraham F. Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Southern California, discusses whether & how Latin America matters to the U.S. today.
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Adventurers who want to take full advantage of Dartmouth might want to bring their passports: More than half the students study abroad before they graduate. And as demand for international learning grows, so does the list of Foreign Study (FSP), Language Study Abroad (LSA), and other programs spreading across the globe.
[more]In 2008 I joined the U.S. Navy. Today I am a Lieutenant pursuing a master’s degree in Mexico. Upon entering Dartmouth I knew that I wanted to study in the LALACS department. Everything about Latin America intrigues me: the history, culture, politics, geography, and people. As an interdisciplinary program, I was able to satisfy my interest in all these areas. Additionally, with the flexibility of the D-plan and the encouragement of the LALACS department, I was able to spend three terms of my Dartmouth experience in Brazil.
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