To minor in Latin American Studies, students must fulfill the College's language distribution requirement in Spanish or one of the other principal languages spoken in Latin America. Students on the alternate-language track may also minor in Latin America Studies.

Requirements:

• To minor in Latin American Studies, students must fulfill the College's language distribution requirement in Spanish, or one of the other principal languages spoken in Latin America.
• Students must take six courses from the combined major course offerings:
  • No more than two may be at the 100 level
  • At least one must be a 300 or 400-level LAS course taken at the College.
• Minors are strongly encouraged to take LAS 140 or LAS 147.
• Courses must be in at least two of the College's divisions -- i.e., the courses must draw on both humanities and the social sciences.
• Students on the alternate-language track may also minor in Latin America Studies.

Study Abroad:

• A maximum of two courses taken on a study abroad program in Latin America may be substituted for any course except the 300 or 400-level LAS course.

Latin American Studies Course Options:

Core Courses (required of all LAS/Spanish majors):

• One 100-level course chosen from the following:
  • LAS 140 Introduction to Latin America: Social Sciences
  • LAS 147 Introduction to Latin America: Cultural Studies
  • One of the LAS First-Year Seminars: FYS 133-2, FYS 195, FYS 199-2, FYS 199-3
• One 200-level course chosen from LAS 220, LAS/Hist 261, LAS/Soc 262, LAS 263/Hist 262, or LAS/Pol 275
• One 300- or 400-level course chosen from LAS 300, LAS 322, LAS/SOC 331, LAS/Hist 361, or LAS/Pol 412

Elective Courses (select three of the following): 

• FYS 133-2 Gender and Politics in Latin America
• FYS 163-3 The 2012 US Presidential Election in Latin American Media
• FYS 195 Tales of Torture and Terror
• FYS 199-2 On the Road in Latin American Film
• FYS 199-3 Film, Fabrication, and Latin America
• LAS 140 Introduction to Latin America: Social Sciences
• LAS 147 Introduction to Latin America: Cultural Studies
• LAS/Econ 214 Latin American Economic History and Development
• LAS 220 Topics in Latin American Literature
• LAS 222/WGS 221 Bridging the Borders: Latina and Latin American Women Writers
• LAS 223/AFS 236 Mapping Caribbean Identities
• LAS 231/WGS 231/ANTH 231 Gender and Change in Africa and Afro-Latin America
• LAS/Anth 232 Precolumbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica
• LAS/Anth 236 Precolumbian Civilizations of South America
• LAS/MUS/AFS 251 Topics in Musicology: Global-Music of the Caribbean
• LAS/Hist 261 Colonial Latin American History
• LAS/Soc 262 Social Development of Latin America
• LAS 263/Hist 262 Modern Latin American History
• LAS/Hist 264 Brazil: Earthly Paradise to Industrial Giant
• LAS/ENG 265 U.S. Latino Voices
• LAS/Soc 267 Society and Politics in Latin America
• LAS/Pol 275 Latin American Politics
• LAS 276/SOC 276 Contemporary Mexican State and Society
• LAS 300 Special Topics in Latin American Studies
• LAS 304 Film and Revolution in Latin America
• LAS 322 The Hispanic Heritage in the United States
• LAS 331/Soc 331 Reinventing Latin American Societies
• LAS/Hist 361 The Mexican Revolution
• LAS 362/Hist 362 The U.S. and Latin America since 1898
• LAS/Hist 364 Social Difference in Brazilian History
• LAS/Pol 412 Women and the Political Economy of Development
• LAS 460 Individualized Study
• Pol 252 North-South Dialogue (only when course includes travel to Latin America)

Spanish Department Course Options

Core Courses  (required of all LAS/Spanish majors):

• Span 301 Spanish Composition and Conversation
  • Students who demonstrate an exceptional command of the Spanish language may petition the department to be exempted from this requirement.
• Span 320 Topics Literature Course (two different sections required)
  • Students must take two different sections of Span 320. Students must make sure the titles of the two courses differ each time they take the course.
  • Students can request to replace one of the SPAN 320 courses with SPAN 345.

Elective Courses  (select three of the following):

• Span 307 Cultural Topics: Latin America
• Span 309 Current Events in the Hispanic World
• Span 351 Poetry and Song in the Hispanic World
• Span 353 Hispanic Film and Society
• Span 354 The Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World
• Span 355 Hispanic Theater
• Span 376 Latin American Contemporary Prose
• Span 378 Contemporary Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean
• Span 379 Colonialism, the Atlantic World and Latin America