Expected Outcome 2 Acquisition of the means necessary to successfully study and understand Latin America and its diverse peoples. To place Latin America in a comparative perspective. Expected Outcome 3 To be able to meaningfully compare Latin America with other world areas and for students to be able to empathize with Latin Americans. All course work focusing on Latin America implicitly and sometimes explicitly, stresses comparisons between different Latin American nations and subcultures, and between these and other national or world cultures. In particular, LAAS 3000 does so.
Students invariably move from an ethnocentric position to varying degrees of empathy.
Evidence for the comparative and empathetic is in LAAS 3000 journals and instructor s observations of student s progress in LAAS 3000 which employs the Socratic approach.