Undergraduate Program

Admission

Students interested in signing up for the minor or major should contact the Department for Social and Cultural Analysis at (212) 992-9650, to learn about the program's structure and meet a faculty advisor.

Five courses are required for the minor in Latino Studies:

1. V18.0501 Approaches to Latino Studies or MAP course V55.0529, World Cultures: Contemporary Latino Cultures
2. Four additional designated Latino Studies courses

Note:  Courses counted toward the minor may not be counted toward any other major or minor.

Requirements for the Major: 

The Latino Studies major consists of introductory, elective, and research components, together comprising a total of eleven courses, as laid out below:

Two introductory courses, could be taken in any order:

V18.0001, Concepts in Social and Cultural Analysis—An introduction to key terms and analytical categories for interdisciplinary work in Latino Studies and related fields

V18.0501, Approaches to Latino Studies or MAP course V55.0529, World Cultures: Contemporary Latino Cultures

Six elective courses

Four designated Latino Studies courses:

Two upper-division courses offered by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and officially designated as “Common Electives,” which address issues pertinent to Latino Studies in relation with other allied fields

Three research courses:

V18.0040 Latino Studies-related Internship Fieldwork

V18.0020 Strategies for Social and Cultural Analysis

V18.0090 Senior Research Seminar pertinent to Latino Studies

Latino Studies courses include (check Albert for updates):

Empire for Liberty: US Culture in the Era if the Mexican War V18.0231 (Walter Johnson, American Studies)

Topics in Latino Studies: Latino Expressive Culture & Literature V18.0541 (Renato Rosaldo, Anthropology)

Rights & Resistance: Theater and Film in Latin America H28.0748 (Lara Nielsen, Tisch Drama)

World Cultures: Contemporary Latino Culture MAP V55.0529* (Juan Flores)

* Recitation required.  Fulfills Approches to Latino Studies requirement

Graduate level courses that are open to Latino Studies undergraduates upon instructor’s approval:

Social Space in Latin America and Latino/a US G10.2115 (Alyshia Gálvez, CLACS)

Latinos in Urban Schools E20.2097 (Robert Durkin, Steinhardt)

Ongoing past and proposed future Latino Studies courses:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Migration (Marcelo suarez-Orozco, Education)

Latinos and the Politics of Race (Rene Poitevain, Gallitin)

Transnational Circulation of Latino Musics (Jairo Moreno, Music)

Habana-Miami: Divided Capitals (Ada Ferrer, History; Ana Dopico, Comp. Literature)

Latino literature in the U.S. (Renato Rosaldo, Anthropology; Mary L. Pratt, Spanish)

Contemporary Latino Cultures V55.0529 (Jose Munoz, Performance Studies or new hire)

Latino/a Sexualities and Genders (Jose Munoz, Performance Studies)

Contemporary American Identities: Latinos in the.US. V18.5385 (Jose Munoz, Performance Studies)

Borderlands and Barrios: Hemispheric Latino/a Performance H42.2380 (Diana Taylor, Performance Studies)

Topics in Museum Studies: Exhibiting the "Latin Boom" in the U.S.A. (Mary Coffey, CAS)

Covering Latino and Caribbean Stories in the U.S.. (Fernando Moreno, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, CAS)

Topics in Hispanic Culture: Rock Music Latino New York H85. 1108

Topics in Hispanic Culture: Hispanic Cities: New York V95.0550

Other related courses that might be of interest for Latino students:

Race & Ethnicity V11.0135 (Ann J. Morning)

Introduction to Latin American Culture (V95.0762; to be cross listed as V18.0762) or the MAP course, World Cultures: Latin American Trans cultures.

Race, Immigration and Cities (V18.0322; currently listed as V18.3322)