Minor in Latin American & Caribbean Studies

This minor enables students to develop an integrated understanding of the history, culture, and politics of Latin America and the Caribbean area. The minor requires 21 semester hours, including one Latin American course each from political science, history, geography, and anthropology, plus 9 additional semester credit hours of elective courses dealing with Latin America or with the Spanish language. All students pursuing this minor should acquire some competence in Spanish.

Required courses (6 hours)

PSC 335 - Politics of Latin America
GEO 406 - Geography of Latin America

Select one of the following (3 hours):

ANT 245 - Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean
ANT 352 - Archaeology of Mesoamerica
ANT 360 - Mesoamerican Indians

Select either of the following (3 hours):

HIS 325 - Early Latin American History
HIS 326 - Modern Latin American History

Select three of the following (9 hours):

SOC 245 - Latin American Societies
SPI 101 - Elementary Spanish I
SPI 102 - Elementary Spanish II
SPI 201 - Intermediate Spanish I
SPI 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
SPI 340 - Business Spanish
SPI 311 - Spanish-American Culture and Civilization
SPI 321 - Survey of Spanish-American Literature
SPI 499 - Independent Study: Spanish

TOTAL HOURS: 21