Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Minor

To minor in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino 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 American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies.

Requirements:

  • To minor in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino 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 LAS course taken at the College.
  • Minors are strongly encouraged to take LAS 140, LAS 145, 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 American, Caribbean, and Latino 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, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Course Options:

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

  • One 100-level course chosen from the following:
    • LAS 140 Introduction to Latin America: Social Sciences
    • LAS 145 Introduction to Latinx Studies: Cultural Studies
    • LAS 147 Introduction to Latin America: Cultural Studies
    • One of the LAS First-Year Seminars: FYS 133-2, FYS 199-2, FYS 199-3
  • One 200-level course chosen from LAS 220, LAS 222, LAS 228, LAS/Hist 261, LAS/Soc 262, LAS 263/Hist 262, LAS 268
  • One 300-level course chosen from LAS 300, LAS 322, LAS/SOC 331, or LAS/Hist 361

Elective Courses (select three of the following): 

  • FYS 133-2 Gender and Politics in Latin America
  • 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 145 Introduction to Latinx Studies
  • 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 228 Latin American Cinema
  • 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 268 Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Cinema
  • 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 337 – Borderland of the Americans
  • 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 460 Individualized Study


Spanish Department Course Options

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

  • Span 301/302 (Heritage Learners) 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 305 The Pleasure of the Text

Elective Courses  (select four of the following):

  • Span 351 Poetry and Song in the Hispanic World
  • Span 354 The Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World
  • Span 355 Hispanic Theater
  • Span 370 Becoming Latino/a and Chicana/o in Latino Literature
  • Span 376 Latin American Contemporary Prose
  • Span 378 Contemporary Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean
  • Span 379 Colonialism, the Atlantic World and Latin America