Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies Minor

The Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Minor (LACIS) is an interdisciplinary minor that allows students to gain a global, intercultural understanding of Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian cultures, histories, politics, economies, and the multicultural populations that comprise them. The LACIS minor can be completed by bilingual Spanish-speakers as well as by those who do not speak Spanish.

Required Courses (21 credits)

 

All of the following courses, taught in English: (12 credits)

SPAN 215	Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies	3
SPAN 262	Words, Ideas, and Cultures	3
HIST 215	Latin America to 1898	3
HIST 216	Latin America since 1898	3

Interdisciplinary Distribution (9 credits)

Three courses that cultivate interdisciplinary learning and breadth, distributed in at least two different disciplines. Below is an example of courses that meet the distribution criteria.

ARTH 247	Intro Visual Culture	3
ARTH 346	Medieval Art & Architecture	3
CLAS 262	Words, Ideas, and Cultures	3
EDSL 371	Cross-Cultural Education	3
EDUC 323	Foreign Language Methods (K-12)	3
ECON 321	History of Economic Thought	3
HIST 202	History through Film	0
HIST 204	The Novel as History	2
HIST 209	Medieval and Renaissance Europe	3
HIST 210	Rise and Fall of European Empires	3
HIST 220	World War II	3
HIST 326	Special Topics in History	3
HIST 350	Global Colonialisms	3
HIST 355	European Culture Since the Enlightenment	3
PHIL 262	Words, Ideas, and Cultures	3
PHIL 311	Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy	3
PHIL 314	Contemporary European Philosophy	3
POLS 202	Politics through Film	2
POLS 345	Topics in European Politics	3
PSYC 280	Cross-Cultural Interaction	3
RELG 262	Words, Ideas, and Cultures	3
SPAN 206	Spanish for Business Communication	3
SPAN 279	Hispanic Cultural Topics	3
SPAN 308	Advanced Translation Theory and Practice	3
SPAN 309	History of Spanish Language/Phonetics	3
SPAN 320	Advanced Composition and Conversation	3
SPAN 379	Literary and Cultural Topics in Spanish	3