Latin American and Iberian Studies Certificate
15 Credit Hours
Fulfills Arts & Science Depth & Breath Requirement
The Certificate in Latin American and Iberian Studies provides a systematic program of study in English for students interested in the arts, traditions, values, histories, religions, socioeconomic systems, and mythologies of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. It combines studies on literature, history, film and cultural studies for a richer and more comprehensive understanding of the peoples and heritage of Latin America and Iberia. Its interdisciplinary nature treats issues of colonization, imperialism, race, ethnicity, class, neoliberal practices, aesthetics, popular culture and globalization as they have been played out within the Ibero-Latin context.
Requirements
Required foundation course: One of the following:
- LAIS 340 Chocolate Tales & Culinary Cultures: Latin America to Hawaiʻi
- LAIS 360-B Studies in Culture: (B) Latin America
- LAIS 360-C Studies in Culture (C) Spain and Portugal
- LAIS 380 Studies in Culture: Portugal and Brazil
Foundation courses taken in excess of the 3-credit Foundation requirement, may be counted as electives.
Four electives to choose from:
- LAIS 320 Vaqueros, Gauchos, Paniolo: Cowboy Legacies of the Americas and Hawaiʻi
- LAIS 340 Chocolate Tales & Culinary Cultures: Latin America to Hawaiʻi
- LAIS 363 US Latino Culture & Literature
- LAIS 365 Spanish Film
- LAIS 366 Latin American Film
- LAIS 368/ANTH Home, Hale, Casa
- LAIS 372/ANTH (B) Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: Mesoamerica
- LAIS 372/ANTH (C) Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: Andean Region
- LAIS 380 Studies in Culture: Portugal & Brazil
- LAIS 381 Asians & Pacific Islanders in Latin America
- HIST 386 Caribbean History
- HIST 448 Imperial Spain and Portugal
- LAIS 468/HIST478 Colonial Latin America
- LAIS 478/ANTH New World Rituals and Ideologies
- HIST 479 Latin American History since Independence
- LAIS 495 Topics in LAIS