  We present topics in the Langlands Program to graduate students and a wider
mathematically mature audience. We study both global and local aspects in
characteristic zero as well as characteristic $p$. We look at modern approaches
to the generalized Ramanujan conjecture, which is an open problem over number
fields, and present known cases over function fields. In particular, we study
automorphic $L$-functions via the Langlands-Shahidi method. Hopefully, our
approach to the Langlands Program can help guide the interested reader into an
exciting field of mathematical research.
