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Catalog Year: 2025 - 2026

College/School: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Plan Code: ASLASMIN

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Requirement	Minimum Grade	Credit Hours

Requirement	Minimum Grade	Credit Hours
The minor in Latin American studies consists of 18 credit hours of coursework, of which a minimum of 12 hours must be upper division. A minimum of six upper-division credit hours must be earned through courses offered by the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Credit hours may not be shared between major and minor requirements. All courses used to satisfy requirements for the minor must be completed with a grade of "C" (2.00 on a 4.00 scale) or better.
LAS 205 Introduction to Latin America (GCSI) 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
LAS 206 Approaches to Latin America 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
AMS 428 / ETH 428 / LAS 428 Peoples and Cultures of the American West, to 1848 AMS 450 / ETH 450 / LAS 450 Latina/os, Schooling and Social Inequality ASB 342 / SBS 342 / SOC 342 Mexico-U.S. Borderlands ENG 363 / TCL 363 Transborder Mexican and Chicano/a Literature of Southwest North America (HUAD) ETH 430 / LAS 430 / WST 430 Gender on the Borderlands (HUAD) ETH 473 / LAS 473 / WST 473 Indigenous and Latina/Chicana Representation FMS 475 Latin American Film FOR 449 Latin American Cinema: The Dead and the Disappeared (GCSI) or LAS 499 Individualized Instruction or SPA 449 Latin American Cinema: The Dead and the Disappeared (GCSI) GCU 323 Geography of Latin America (GCSI) HST 305 Studies in Latin American History HST 324 / LAS 324 Food in Latin America (GCSI) HST 375 / LAS 375 Colonial Latin America HST 376 / LAS 376 Modern Latin America HST 378 / LAS 378 / JHR 378 Inequality and Living Wages in Latin America (CIVI) HST 404 / LAS 404 Conquest and Encounters in Colonial Latin America (GCSI) HST 419 / LAS 419 20th Century Chicano/a History HST 441 / LAS 441 Latin America and the World Economy HST 444 Latin American Independence HST 447 Modern Mexico JHR 394 Topic: Human Rights in the Global South JHR 494 Topic: Political Representation in Latin America JUS 475 / SPA 470 Law, Societies and Justice in Latino-America LAS 330 From the Inside: The Latin American Journey LAS 340 / WST 341 Latin American Women Writers (HUAD) LAS 350 The Construction of a Nation: Chile in the 20th/21st Century LAS 351 Cityscapes: Urban Mexican Literature and Culture LAS 355 Contemporary Mexican Cinema: Changing Cartographies LAS 394 Topic: Latin America and the Global South LAS 394 Special Topics LAS 471 Treaties and Cultural Production in Spain and the Americas LAS 480 Current Trends in Theatre and New Media in Latin America and Spain LAS 481 / SPA 481 Dictatorships and Dirty Wars: Latin American Cinema from Resistance to Reconciliation LAS 494 Special Topics NEW 300 International Cities NEW 300 International Cities can be used as an Upper-Division Latin American Studies Elective for Latin American cities only. POR 394 Special Topics POR 460 Brazilian Society Through Music (HUAD) POR 494 Special Topics POS 453 Latin America POS 454 Mexico POS 456 Latin American Cities SLC 394 Special Topics SLC 494 Special Topics SPA 325 Introduction to Hispanic Literature (HUAD) SPA 394 Special Topics SPA 427 Colonial and Postcolonial Latin American Literature (HUAD) SPA 428 Foundational Texts of Latin American Literature Since Modernismo SPA 429 Writing Mexico: Major Texts SPA 456 20th-Century Spanish American Fiction SPA 459 Latin American Jewish Culture SPA 472 Latin American Society: Five Case Studies SPA 474 Revolutionary Mexico and Postmodern Revisions SPA 494 Special Topics 12 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	12

Notes

Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this minor.

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