1) Patterns of urbanization in Latin America by region or country (impetus, challenges, etc)
2) History of an historically important industry in Latin America (e.g. mining, sugarcane, bananas, coffee, cattle, maquiladora) or emerging industry (e.g. soy, biofuels)
3) Changing Development Models (ISI, growth poles, structural adjustment and neoliberal reforms, etc) – focus on one on phase or patterns emerging from one to the next
4) The economic geography of migration and the US – Mexico Border Region
5) Patterns and outcomes of land reform in a single country or from a comparative approach