How Latin America Works

This course helps students interested in careers in journalism, communications, or public policy learn the structure, role, and function of media in Latin America. Students learn about Latin American journalism—its strong nonfiction narrative culture, the role of investigative reporting in the region, and the complicated issues of reporter safety and freedom of the press—through reading work by Latin American journalists and through reporting and writing of their own. Over the course of the semester, students produce a profile, news story, feature story, opinion piece, and a longer narrative or investigative piece—all on subjects based in, or related to, Latin America.