Latin American and Latinx Studies is an interdisciplinary program that integrates courses in the social sciences and the humanities, bringing together different methods of inquiry to understand and learn about the cultures and societies that integrate Latin America. Students in the program explore the relevance of the interactions of the original native population of this area of the world with people coming from Europe, Africa, and Asia for more than half a millennium. The mutual influences have been deep and continue today, yet they also are troubling and uneven.