2018-2019 Academic Catalog

Latin American Studies Minor

I. Minor Program Requirements

Nineteen to twenty-one semester credits, including:

MLAS 200Gateway Course in Latin Am Studies (GD)

3

HI 271History of Modern Latin America (GD)

3

SP 303Intro to Spanish & Lat Am Civ & Culture

3

MLAS 495Capstone Semnr in Latin American Studies

1

Plus 9 additional credits from the following list, only 6 credits of which can be SP courses:

AN 204/SO 204Cultural Anthropology (GD)

3

AN 317/SO 317Ethnic and Racial Relations (ND)

3

ENLT 489Special Topic

1.00 - 3.00

ES 121Environmental Science

4

ES 300Environmental Field Studies

3

PO 102Intr Comparative Politics(GD)

3

PO 348International Negotiation Simulation-GD

3

SP 150Intensive Spanish Immersion Abroad

2

SP 250Intensive Spanish Immersion Abroad

2

SP 350Intensive Spanish Immersion Abroad

3

SP 305Intro to Spanish & Latin American Lit

3

SP 306Adv Spanish Grammar & Composition (WI)

3

SP 320Spanish for the Professions

3

SP 403Topics in Latin Am Culture & Lit I (GD)

3

SP 404Latin Am Lit & Culture II(GD)or (ND)

3

SP 410GTopics in Spanish & Latin American Film

3

TH 264Theologies of Liberation(GD)

3

or completion of a course approved by an MLAS faculty advisor

ENLT 489: US Latino/a Literature only

ES 300: Tropical Ecology only

PO 348: Argentina, Chile, Mexico only

II. Other Program Requirement

Completion of language acquisition through the intermediate level; approved languages include Spanish, French, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, or Latin American native languages such as Nahuatl, Quechua, Maya-Quiché, Aymará, Guaraní or another approved language.