This one semester course syllabus entitled, "The Integration of Mexico and the United States: Societies in Transition," is interdisciplinary and taught by the Departments of Geography, Management, Foreign Language/Spanish, and Sociology/Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse Institute for Latin American Studies. The course focuses primarily on placing in context events and processes occurring in the United States and Mexico that are pressing social issues for both countries. The course addresses specific transitional processes and issues in both societies along with the responses to the social issues raised by the transitional processes. (EH)