Latin American Studies Major
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Requirements for the Major in Latin American Studies
The Latin American Studies Major requires 10 courses, plus a senior exercise. Two years of college-level Spanish or its equivalent are also required. Students are expected to spend a semester abroad in one of the Pomona study abroad programs in Latin America during their junior year. This usually follows the fourth semester of language instruction. Appropriate courses taken on one of the Pomona programs in Latin America may be counted toward the major with the permission of the Latin American Studies Steering Committee.
All Latin American studies majors are required to take the following courses:
course - Introduction to Literary Analysis.
course - Images of Latin America in Fiction and Film; or course - Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture; or course - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad.
course - Colonial Latin America.
course - Latin America Since Independence.
course - Senior Tutorial.
course - Senior Thesis or course - Senior Comprehensive Exam.
In addition to the core requirements, all Latin American studies majors must complete five courses in one of the specialized tracks listed below. Where courses within a track have a prerequisite, students are required to fulfill this before taking upper-division classes. All courses for the major (including prerequisites) must be taken for a letter grade. Core courses will not count for the selected track. Students must discuss a plan of study with a track advisor.
Economics
(Track Advisor, Fernando Lozano)
course - Principles: Macroeconomics
course - Principles: Microeconomics
course - Economic Statistics
course - International Economics
course - Economics of Latin America
course - Economic Development
Gender and Sexuality
(Track Advisors: Ms. Chávez-Silverman, Mr. Cartagena Calderón, Ms. Mayes)
course - Women of Honor, Women of Shame: Women’s Lives in Latin America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, 1300-1900
course - Introduction to Digital Humanities: Women and Politics in Latin America
course - From Borges to ‘literatura lite”: Voice Power Género in Latin American Literature
course - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
Race and Ethnicity
(Track Advisors: Ms. Mayes, Mr. Tinker Salas, Ms. Chávez Silverman)
course - Slavery and Freedom in the New World
course - Afro-Latin American (CP)
course - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
Politics and International Relations
(Track Advisor, Mr. Tinker Salas)
course - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America
course - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees
course - Introduction to Comparative Politics
course - United States Foreign Policy
course - Introduction to International Relations
course - The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture
course - Latin American Politics
History
(Track Advisors, Mr. Tinker Salas, Ms. Mayes)
course - History of Mexico
course - Women of Honor, Women of Shame: Women’s Lives in Latin America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, 1300-1900
course - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America
course - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees
course - Slavery and Freedom in the New World
Literature and Cultural Studies
(Track Advisors, Ms. Chávez-Silverman, Ms. Montenegro, Mr. Cartagena Calderón, Ms. Dávila López)
course - Images of Latin America in Fiction and Film
course - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
course - Medieval & Early Modern Literature: Licentious Laments to Life is a Dream
course - Modern Spain as Contact Zone
course - Blood & Guts: Colonial Encounters to Decadent Naturalism
course - Cisne, City, Cyborg: Fin-de-siècle Dandies to Vampiric Queers in Modern & Contemporary Latin American Literature
course - In Short: Latin American Story Telling
course - Poverty, Literature and Social Justice.
course - Latin American Narrative Boom of the 1960s
course - From Borges to ‘literatura lite”: Voice Power Género in Latin American Literature
course - “El deseo de la palabra: Slow Soundings in Latin American Poetry”
Latin American Diaspora
(Track Advisor Ms. Chávez Silverman, Mr. Tinker Salas)
course - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees