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Latin American Studies Major

 

The Latin American Studies major requires a minimum of 30 credit hours in 10 Latin American content courses. Courses are selected from the various departments offering classes in the field as well as from Latin American Studies.

Required Courses

Additional Information

Six of the remaining seven Latin American content electives must be at the 2000-level or higher. Finally, three must be at the 6000-level. Students who take at least 20 college credits in 7 courses with Latin American content while on academic programs in Latin America approved by Tulane are required to take only two courses at the 6000-level. All 6000-level coursework for the major must be taken in residence at Tulane University; courses taken abroad will not count toward this requirement.

Concentrations

Five elective courses must concentrate on one of the themes that are the foundation of the interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program at Tulane. The concentration system serves to focus the coursework of Latin American Studies majors and minors. Working with the Undergraduate Adviser, students may choose one of the following:

  1. Creativity
  2. Encounter
  3. Exchange
  4. Identity
  5. Land
  6. Nation
  7. People
  8. Welfare

Students will work closely with the undergraduate adviser to construct a coherent concentration of coursework, as Latin American content electives include a wide variety taught in several disciplines.

Language Requirement

Latin American Studies majors must demonstrate linguistic competency in either Spanish or Portuguese. This can be done in one of three ways:

  1. complete with a passing grade at least one course at the 4000-level or higher in Spanish or Portuguese
  2. complete with passing grades at least one semester of coursework in Spanish or Portuguese on a study abroad program

  3. place into the 6000-level on the language test administered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Note that, with the exception of SPAN 3130, language classes below the 4000-level do not count as electives for the Latin American Studies major or minor programs.

Sample Courses by Concentration

Note that these lists are not comprehensive and do not account for all of the courses offered in each department nor those that might be offered as special topics in the departments or Latin American Studies. Courses taken abroad and on Tulane summer programs can also count toward the concentrations.

Creativity:

Encounter:

  • ARHS 3860 - Arts of the African Diaspora
  • EBIO 3180 - Plants and Human Affairs
  • ANTH 3700 - Environmental Anthropology
  • IDEV 4100 - Information Technology and International Development
  • ARHS 6730 - Seminar in Mexican Manuscript Painting

Exchange:

  • ECON 3590 - Economic Development of Latin America
  • HISL 6850 - United States-Latin American Relations
  • SPAN 6220 - Chronicles and Epics of Spanish Conquest
  • EBIO 3180 - Plants and Human Affairs

Identity:

Land:

Nation:

  • POLC 3350 - Politics of Latin America
  • LAST 6950 - Special Offerings in Latin American Studies
  • HISL 3910 - Special Topics in Latin American History
  • POLC 3410 - Politics and Nationalism

Peoples:

Welfare:

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