Associate Professors—Bourgois, Cordova
Assistant Professors—Baron, Ońate, Rivera
The minor will be useful to students planning careers in education, the foreign service, international organizations, overseas corporations and banking, as well as for those who simply desire a better understanding of Latin America. The multidisciplinary nature of the program also prepares the student for further study in any number of academic fields at the graduate level.
The Latin American Area Studies Minor consists of a core curriculum of three courses which deal with the region as a whole from a variety of disciplinary perspectives plus fifteen or sixteen units of upper division courses taken from the following list, upon advisement.
MINOR IN LATIN AMERICAN AREA STUDIES
Courses for this program are listed in alphabetical sequence (see course listing in the Announcement of Courses section).
Core Courses Units The Latin American Past 3 ANTH/HIST/SS 501 The Latin American Past to 1929 Modern Latin America (one of the following) 3-4 IBUS 591 Doing Business in Latin America IR 322 Latin American Rela- tions (4) PLSI 403 Latin American Politics (4) PLSI 409 Central American Politics (4) SS/HIST 550 Social Change in Modern Latin America Cultures of Latin America (one of the following) 3 LARA 450 Indigenismo: Indigenous Culture and Personality MUS 532 Music of Latin America SPAN 405 Culture and Civilization of Spanish America Total for core 9-10 Electives Select at least one course from each group, with no more than nine units from one disci- pline. Courses taken in the core may not be used to meet this part of the requirement. 15-16 Group I: Latin American Past ANTH 471 The Ancient Maya ANTH 475 Ancient South America HIST 510 Colonial Latin America HIST 520 Central America and the Caribbean HIST 524 History of Mexico HIST 528 History of Brazil HIST 652 Proseminar in World History: Reform & Revolu- tion in Latin America LARA 460 Central Americans of the U.S.: History & Heritage Group II: Modern Latin America ANTH 315 Regional Ethnography [Topic: Peoples and Cultures of Central America] IBUS 591 Doing Business in Latin America IR 306 U.S.-Central American Relations (4) IR 322 Latin American Relations (4) LARA 660 Contemporary Movements in La Raza PLSI 403 Latin American Politics (4) PLSI 409 Central American Politics (4) SS/HIST 550 Social Change in Modern Latin America Group III: Cultures of Latin America ANTH 470 Archaeology of Mexico HUM/LARA 520 North and South American Cultural Expression LARA 320 Art History of La Raza LARA 410 La Raza Women LARA 425 Comparative Music Folklore LARA 450 Indigenismo: Indigenous Culture and Personality LARA 560 Contemporary Literature of La Raza LARA 570 Philosophy of La Raza MUS 532 Music of Latin America SPAN 405 Culture & Civilization of Spanish America SPAN 541 Spanish American Litera- ture: Discovery to Early Romanticism [all topics] SPAN 543 Spanish American Litera- ture: Romanticism to Modernism [all topics] SPAN 545 Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature [all topics] SPAN 595 Senior Survey in Spanish or Spanish American Lit- erature [all Spanish American topics] Total for electives 15-16 Total for minor 24-26
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