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The information here may reflect program requirements for future academic years. If you are a current student and would like to see the current or prior years’ requirements for this program, please see the University Catalog.


Requirements for the Latin American Studies Minor (20 semester hours)

Twelve semester hours from Society and Culture:

  • ANTH235 Cultures of Mexico and Ecuador (4)

  • HIST256 Colonial Latin America (4)

  • HIST258 Modern Latin America (4)

  • GCS250W Narratives of Migration: From Islamic Spain to the US/Mexico Border (4)

  • SPAN380 Latin American Cinema (4)

  • REL334 Liberation Theology and Social Change (4)

  • SPAN333 Hispanic Civilization (4)

  • SPAN352 Peninsular Literature I: Medieval, Early Modern, and American Colonial (4)

Also, every semester please check the LAS Course Schedule on the web for possible additional offerings under this category.

No double counting a Society and Culture course under the Language and Literature category, or vice versa.

Four semester hours from Language and Literature:

  • SPAN355 Latin American Literature I: Conquest to Independence (4)

  • SPAN356 Latin American Literature II: Modernismo to the Present (4)

  • SPAN427 Topics in Latin American Literature (4)

  • SPAN428 Contemporary Mexican Literature (4)

  • SPAN430 History of Hispanic Thought (4)

  • SPAN431 Contemporary Latin American Novel and Short Story (4)

  • SPAN435 Contemporary Latin American Women Writers (4)

Also, every semester please check the LAS Course Schedule on the web for possible additional offerings under this category.

No double counting a Language and Literature course under the Society and Culture category, or vice versa.

Four semester hours from Society and Culture or from Language and Literature

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Latin American Studies