Major and Minor Requirements
Latin American studies provides a framework of study in the humanities and social sciences that fosters an integrated approach to understanding Latin American cultures and peoples as well as the important role of Latin America in our 21st-century global system.
Within this framework, students examine the rich chronicle of traditions and historical experience and are encouraged to pose questions on a wide range of essential issues from topics related to race, ethnicity, class, culture, religion, and gender to economic and social struggles, human rights, literature and art, environment, resource management, globalization, regional integration, militarization, democracy, social movements, and theories and approaches to development and sustainability. Courses in Latin American studies challenge students to formulate international and cross-cultural ethical and moral standards and to structure comparative and alternative perspectives to the study of Latin American nations and societies as well as to their own cultures and countries.
