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General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) three units of the minor be taken in residence at the University of Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for the minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.
Students may count only two courses taken to fulfill requirements in their major or another minor towards the LAS minor.
ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
LAS 380 Around Macondo in Eighty Days
LAS 399 Latin America Travel Seminar
PHIL 312 Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
SPAN 212 Introduction to Latin American Cultures
SPAN 300 Literature, Theory, and Practice when Latin American content
SPAN 301 Literature of the Americas
SPAN 303 Hispanic Short Story
SPAN 304 Hispanic Poetry
SPAN 306 Latin American Film
SPAN 308 Survey of Twentieth Century Latin-American/Latine Theatre
SPAN 310 Special Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies when Latin American content
SPAN 311 Migration Narratives
SPAN 312 Visual Culture and Modernity in Latin America
SPAN 402 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
SPAN 405 Seminar in Twentieth and/or Twenty-First Century Latin America
SPAN 410 Special Topics in Hispanic Studies when Latin American content
BUS 472 Business in Latin America
CONN 395 China and Latin America: A New Era of Transpacific Relations
PG 311 Politics of Detention: Criminal Justice, Immigration, and the War on Terror
PG 330 Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation in Latin America
PG 380 Latin American Politics
SOAN 315 Identity Politics in Latin America
SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development when Latin American emphasis
SOAN 350 Border Crossings: Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies LAS credit only when taught by Professor DeHart
HIST 280 Colonial Latin America
HIST 281 Modern Latin America
HIST 367 Immigration in the U.S.
HIST 376 Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora
HIST 380 Modern Mexico: From Revolution to NAFTA
HIST 381 Film and History: Latin America
HIST 382 Comparative Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America
HIST 384 Transnational Latin America
LAS 387 Art and Revolution in Latin America
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