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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

Willamette University

Latin American Studies