Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Minor

(21 Credits)

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.

 

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

SPAN 215Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies

3

SPAN 262Words, Ideas, and Cultures

3

HIST 215Latin America to 1898

3

HIST 216Latin America since 1898

3

Total Credit Hours:12

Interdisciplinary Distribution (9 credits)

Three of the following courses, distributed in at least two different disciplines. Below is an example of courses that meet the distribution criteria.

ARTH 247Intro Visual Culture

3

ARTH 346Medieval Art & Architecture

3

CLAS 262Words, Ideas, and Cultures

3

EDSL 371Cross-Cultural Education

3

EDUC 323Foreign Language Methods (PK-12)

3

ECON 321History of Economic Thought

3

HIST 202History through Film

0

HIST 204The Novel as History

2

HIST 209Medieval and Renaissance Europe

3

HIST 210Rise and Fall of European Empires

3

HIST 220World War II

3

HIST 326Special Topics in History

3

HIST 350Global Colonialisms

3

HIST 355European Culture Since the Enlightenment

3

PHIL 262Words, Ideas, and Cultures

3

PHIL 311Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy

3

PHIL 314Contemporary European Philosophy

3

POLS 202Politics through Film

2

POLS 345Topics in European Politics

3

PSYC 280Cross-Cultural Interaction

3

RELG 262Words, Ideas, and Cultures

3

SPAN 206Spanish for Business Communication

3

SPAN 279Hispanic Cultural Topics

3

SPAN 308Advanced Translation Theory and Practice

3

SPAN 309History of Spanish Language and Phonetics

3

SPAN 320Advanced Composition and Conversation

3

SPAN 379Literary and Cultural Topics in Spanish

3

Total Credit Hours:9

Total Credit Hours: 21