Latino Studies Minor

Degree Requirements (21-24 credits)

Core courses (all required):

SPA 265	Adv Grammar & Composition	3
	or
SPA 302	Spanish: Heritage Spkrs	3
SPA 309	Hisapnic Culture in US	3
SPA 494	Internship	1 -6

Students must take four courses from the following categories, with a minimum of one course from each of the three content areas:

Examination of regions from which Latinos emigrate to the United States

HIS 155	Gender in Latin America
HIS 249	Latin Amer Colonialism	4
HIS 250	Origins and Development of Modern Latin America	3

Examination of minority and immigrant cultures in the United States

AMS 250	Introduction to American Studies:Theory/Practice	4
AMS 251	Urban American Studies	4

Manifestation of Latino culture through literature and the arts

SPA 307	Surv Spa-Amer Lit	3
SPA 345	Latin American Film	3
SPA 400	Contemporary Latin American Novelists	3
HIS 150	Latin America through Film and Novels	3
ART 376	Latin American Art since Independence

Additional courses will be considered on an individual basis as fulfilling the content areas above, and subject to approval by the Chair of the Department of World Language & Cultures.