Minor Requirements – 42 Total Credits
Required Courses – Required 18 credits
- HIST 170: Modern Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
- LTAM 300: Issues in Latin American Studies (not offered 2025-26)
- LTAM 398: Latin American Forum
Latin American Literature Course – Required 6 credits
Spanish 219 or higher and not in translation
Elective Courses – Required 18 credits
200/300 Level ECON, POSC or SOAN Course – (6 credits)
6 credits from the list below in an advanced course in the Social Sciences
Latin American/US Latino Literature Courses – (12 credits)
12 credits focusing on Latin American (and/or US. Latino Literature) from the list below or relevant off-campus studies programs (Carleton or non-Carleton affiliated).
Electives may be chosen from the following list:
- ARCN 111: Archaeology of the Americas (not offered 2025-26)
- ARCN 211: Coercion and Exploitation: Material Histories of Labor (not offered 2025-26)
- CAMS 295: Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina — Storytelling in Context
- CAMS 296: Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina–Modes of Storytelling
- ECON 240.01: Microeconomics of Development (26/WI)
- ECON 277: History and Theory of Financial Crises
- ENGL 141: Latinx Voices in the Age of Trump
- ENGL 227: Imagining the Borderlands (not offered 2025-26)
- ENGL 241: Latinx Voices in the Age of Trump
- ENTS 250: The Socioecological Life of Corn in Oaxaca, Mexico–Food, Forests & Resilience
- ENTS 313: Conscious Nature: Towards and Anthropology of Non-Human Beings (not offered 2025-26)
- ENTS 323: Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment (not offered 2025-26)
- GWSS 275: Latina/x Feminisms (not offered 2025-26)
- GWSS 365: Black Feminist Thought
- GWSS 397: Decolonial Feminisms (not offered 2025-26)
- HIST 100.01: U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Declassified View (25/FA)
- HIST 169: Colonial Latin America
- HIST 170: Modern Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
- HIST 209: Slavery in the Atlantic World (not offered 2025-26)
- HIST 272: The Mexican Revolution: History, Myth and Art
- HIST 274: The Andes Under Inca & Spanish Rule (not offered 2025-26)
- HIST 276: In Search of Moctezuma: Reimagining Mexico’s Indigenous Past (not offered 2025-26)
- HIST 277: The Other September 11th: History & Memory in Chile (not offered 2025-26)
- HIST 278: The Aztecs and Their World
- LTAM 102: Unsettling Latin America: New Encounters
- LTAM 110: Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
- LTAM 113: Archaeology of Ancient Latin America
- LTAM 220: Eating the Americas: 5,000 Years of Food (not offered 2025-26)
- LTAM 230: Ancient People of the Andes (not offered 2025-26)
- LTAM 330: Ancient Peoples of the Andes (not offered 2025-26)
- LTAM 398: Latin American Forum
- MUSC 145: Music of Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
- MUSC 242: Tango: More Than a Dance (not offered 2025-26)
- MUSC 338: Music as Heritage: Festivals, Museums, and Tourism
- PHIL 304: Decolonial Feminisms (not offered 2025-26)
- POSC 221: Latin American Politics (not offered 2025-26)
- POSC 261: The Global Crisis of Democracy
- POSC 322: Polarization and Populism in Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
- RELG 227: Liberation Theologies (not offered 2025-26)
- SOAN 203: Anthropology of Good Intentions (not offered 2025-26)
- SOAN 233: Anthropology of Food
- SOAN 306: Food Sovereignty: On Socio-Ecological Futures (not offered 2025-26)
- SOAN 313: Conscious Nature: Towards and Anthropology of Non-Human Beings (not offered 2025-26)
- SOAN 323: Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment (not offered 2025-26)
- SOAN 343: Advanced Ethnographic Workshop
- SPAN 218: Introduction to Latin American Cinema (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 220: Racism, Immigration, and Gender in Contemporary Latin American Narrative (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 242: Introduction to Latin American Literature
- SPAN 246: Not by Blood: Family Beyond Kinship
- SPAN 266: Jorge Luis Borges: Less a Man Than a Vast and Complex Literature (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 319: Works on Work: Films and Literature on Labor in Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 330: The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes’ Don Quijote (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 356: The Political and Cultural History of the Cuban Revolution (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 360: Green Labyrinth: Storytelling and Sacred Plants
- SPAN 366: Jorge Luis Borges: Less a Man Than a Vast and Complex Literature (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 369: The Carnival Trail: Carnival Literature in Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
- SPAN 376: Mexico City: The City as Protagonist
- SPAN 385: Riots, Rebellions & Revolutions in Latin America (not offered 2025-26)
Additional Requirements
SPAN 204: Intermediate Spanish or a similar course that demonstrates competency in the language.
Additional Departmental Notes
Up to 12 credits from approved off-campus studies courses may be counted as electives.