ITSF Y5012y Culture & Society in Caribbean 3 pts. This is a Teachers College course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Teachers College Schedule of Classes at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tc-schedule/schdsearch.cgi SIPA: Latin America. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Electives.

INAF U4409x Political, Social & Economic Development in Brazil 1.5 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course is a practicum, which has been designed to enable you to discuss major problems of contemporary Brazil with important political figures, business representatives, activists and analysts. Normally the guest speaker will make an opening statement of approximately 40 minutes and the rest of the time will be devoted to a discussion. Guest speakers may recommend one or two articles or documents they have written, or that they think are particularly relevant, for the policy issues they will discuss. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Latin America. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U4410y Political, Social & Economic Development in Brazil 1.5 pts. This course is set-up in a form of a practicum where major activists concerned with Brazilian political, social and economic development will be asked to address a policy problem and discuss their proposals for effective changes. Other speakers will analyze the government's policies but will also discuss major new reports or studies, and bring to our attention key issues that are not yet on the policy agenda. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Latin America. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U4656y Latin America Poverty Laboratory 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The Latin America Poverty Lab is an experimental course being offered for the first time in Spring 2011. It is led by an economist, but it is truly multi-disciplinary at its core, reliant as it is on insights from numerous disciplinary approaches to be contributed by a stream of eight invited lecturers. As much of this research is occurring in such multilateral institutions as the UNDP, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, researchers from these institutions will occasionally be invited to the Laboratory to share their methods and insights with the participants in the seminar. A number of the Columbia faculty researchers will be organizing workshops outside of scheduled class meeting times during the Spring semester on specialized poverty-related topics. The core mission of the Poverty Laboratory is to create a platform for an exchange of ideas between experts and students on the state of poverty and poverty alleviation research in Latin America. The platform is expected to contribute to the training of graduate students at Columbia by exposing them to ongoing research and research methods, acquainting them with data sources, and helping them to create durable contacts with academic research and multilateral institutions engaged in poverty agendas. The intense interaction with scholars and practitioners from inside and outside Columbia will help students prepare for practical careers in global development or for further academic studies at the M.A. or Ph.D. levels in poverty and poverty alleviation. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Latin America.

INAF U6085y The Economic Development of Latin America This course aims at familiarizing students with historical and contemporary debates on Latin American economic development and its social repercussions. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Latin America.

INAF U6575y The New (and Old) Foreign Policy Challenges in the Americas in the XXI Century This course will be taught as a seminar to collectively explore changes in inter-state relations in Latin America and the foreign policy implications of those changes, for the U.S., for larger powers such as Brazil and multilaterally. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Latin America.

INAF U6625y History of the Brazilian Economy Not offered in 2012-2013. This course aims to provide an analysis of the Brazilian economic trajetory in the last 60 years.The creation of stability and growth in the Brazilian economy should be viewedfrom the perspective of the development of an industrial complex that has managed to reconcile agricultural and industrial production. During the process Brazil united its established position as a major producer of commodities with the creationof a technologically robust industrial complex.The economic crisis in the eighties put this model at risk. Paradoxically, in the 21st century Brazil has seen the emergence and consolidation of truly global players, the S&T based companies. Understanding the evolution of this process is the challenge of this course. SIPA: Latin America.

INAF U6636y Financial Services in Brazil: A Comparative Examination 3 pts. This course seeks to provide a solid understanding of the workings of the Brazilian financial services industry through an in-depth examination of its evolution over the past three decades and comparison with the financial services industries of the U.S., Mexico - the second largest economy in Latin America - and of India and China - the two largest emerging economies in Asia. Specific aspects to be examined include the role of commercial banks in the financing of consumption and of capital investment, the workings of domestic fixed income and equity capital markets, the impact of sovereign risk on access to international capital markets, bank regulation and supervision, and the roles of private sector banks - domestic and foreign - and public sector banks. At the end of the course students are expected to have managed to achieve not only a thorough understanding of the workings of the financial services industry in Brazil but feel also equipped to conduct similar exercises for the financial services industries of other countries. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Latin America.

INAF U8415x US-Latin American Relations: WWII to Present 3 pts. The course seeks to analyze the dynamics and issues that describe relations between the United States and Latin America since the end of World War II. A complete picture of the current state of affairs in the hemisphere and the reasons that led to it require an analysis in three different - but related - dimensions. To cover the first one, the course analyzes historical benchmarks that contextualize particular overt American interventions in the region, dissecting their causes, operation and consequences. In a second dimension, the course looks at topics that have permeated the relationship between the United States and Latin America over this period. Because of their typically cross-national nature, they illustrate a different set of dynamics and concerns that have fueled tensions in the relationship. A third and final dimension concerns recent developments in Latin America that affect and have been affected by American foreign policy. Their novelty suggests that these issues will remain relevant at least in the immediate future. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Latin America. SIPA: United States.

INAF U8675x and y Emerging Capital Markets: Theory & Practice 3 pts.Prerequisites for this course: SIPA U6401, PEPM U4612 or EMPA U8216: The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Latin America.

REGN U6330x Post Neoliberal Policies in the Andes The purpose of the course is to examine the origins and the scope of the post neoliberal policies adopted in the Andean region, particularly in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. SIPA: Latin America. SIPA: Short Courses.

REGN U6423x Problems of Economic Growth in Latin America 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The course is organized around the most important question in Latin America today: Why have the lives of most people in Latin America failed to improve economically despite the region's adoption of the most ambitious reforms in its history? We will examine this growth puzzle from as many points of view as possible, drawing insights from various disciplines and calling upon expert practitioners in various fields of finance and business. We will do this in an attempt to learn the key strengths that sustained economic growth in Latin America for decades, the factors that led to a weakening of this growth after 1980, and the rationale for and results of the great economic reforms of the 1990s. Most importantly of all, we will focus on what lies ahead - on case studies of successful and failed strategies, on what seems to be working in terms of economic policies and what needs to be changed. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Latin America.

SIPA U0030x and y (Section 5) Regional Specialization: Latin America

All SIPA candidates are required to register for one of the specializations in each semester of matriculation at SIPA. The regional specialization registration will be for zero academic credits and will not affect or be affected by fees or financial charges. SIPA: Latin America.

LAW L8079x Latin American Law 3 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: Latin America. SIPA: Electives.