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Latin American Studies Major

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Degree Requirements

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

English Literature - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 3-6

Mathematics - Total Credits: 3

Distribution Requirement Social Science

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  • Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9

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  • Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 9-10


  • and two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must be a lab.
     

Fine Arts - Total Credits: 3

Multicultural and International

(see note 2 below)

Additional Degree Requirements

Social Science - Total Credits: 9

Fine Arts - Total Credits: 3

Foreign Language/Foreign Culture - Total Credits: 6

Electives - Total Credits: 29-33

Total Credits: 124

Notes

  1. In addition to the foreign language requirements of the College of Liberal Arts, two years of Spanish language courses or the equivalent knowledge established by examination are required.
  2. A semester or year at a Latin American university or extensive field work in a Latin American country is strongly recommended.
  3. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements many simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements, except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

Committee:

John Tuman, Program Chair (Political Science)
Jorge Galindo (Foreign Languages)
Melvin H. Jameson (Finance)
Margarita Jara (Foreign Languages)
Francisco Menendez (Film)
Alicia Rico (Foreign Languages)
John Swetnam (Anthropology)
Douglas A. Unger (English)
George Urioste (Anthropology)
Thomas Wright (History)

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