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Core Course

Required core course.

• LATSTY 201L - Imagining Latinidad: Historical Trajectories and Everyday Lives 3 Credit(s)

Required Courses:

Two additional courses from Latino Studies course offerings.

Electives: Group A (6-9 credits)

At least 6 credits (3-4 courses) and up to 9 credits (3-5 courses) from Latino Studies course offerings and the list below. Students may petition the Latino Studies Program to have an alternate course that focuses extensively on Latina/o/x communities count as an elective, including internships and practicums.

• AFRSTY 200 - Living While Black: Contemporary Issues in the African Diaspora 3 Credit(s)
• AFRSTY 210 - The Making of the African Diaspora 3 Credit(s)
• AFRSTY 308 - Africana Feminisms in the Black Diaspora 3 Credit(s)
• AMST 201L - Imagining Latinidad: Historical Trajectories and Everyday Lives 3 Credit(s)
• AMST 344 - From Bus Boycott to Black Lives Matter: The Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S. and Beyond 3 Credit(s)
• AMST 350L - Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity 3 Credit(s)
• AMST 353L - Borderlands, Diasporas, and Transnational Identities 3 Credit(s)
• AMST 355L - Black Popular Culture 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 250L - The Hands that Feed Us: Food, Labor, Race, and Migration in the U.S. 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 277 - US Immigration: Contemporary Issues and Debates 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 477L - LLOP Research Seminar 3 Credit(s)
• ASAMST 353L - Community Economic Development in the U.S.: Class, Race, Ethnicity 3 Credit(s)
• ENGL 223L - Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature 3 Credit(s)
• ENGL 349 - Topics in Latina/o/x Literature 3 Credit(s)
• HIST 186 - Road to Black Lives Matter: History of Violence Towards African Americans 3 Credit(s)
• LABOR 222G - Labor and Migration 3 Credit(s)
• LABOR 330 - Race, Class, and Gender at Work: Divisions in Labor 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 360 - Language and Power in the Americas 3 Credit(s)
• NAIS 278L - Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies 3 Credit(s)
• NAIS 347L - Indigenous Research Methodologies 3 Credit(s)
• PHILLAW 260L - Latina/nos and the Law 3 Credit(s)
• PSYCH 235 - Psychology and the Black Experience 3 Credit(s)
• SPAN 320 - Varieties of Spanish in the Americas 3 Credit(s)
• UPCD 353L - Community Economic Development in the U.S.: Class, Race, Ethnicity 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 225L - Latinas in the United States 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 229L - Latinx Sexualities 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 376L - Women of Color 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 394L - Radical Voices of Resistance: Gender, Race and US Social Movements 3 Credit(s)

Electives: Group B (0-3 credits)

No more than 3 credits (1 course) from the list of courses below. NOTE: Students do not need to take any courses from this group of electives. Students may take all elective credits from Electives Group A.

• AFRSTY 204 - Afro-Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• AFRSTY 225 - The Origins of Caribbean Civilizations 3 Credit(s)
• AFRSTY 292G - African Caribbean Literature 3 Credit(s)
• AFRSTY 310 - Modern Caribbean Society 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 220G - Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Change in Amazonia 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 223G - Afro-Caribbean Religions 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 224G - The Rise and Fall of the Maya 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 240L - Work, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 273 - Peoples and Cultures of Mesoamerica (Mexico and Guatemala) 3 Credit(s)
• ANTH 274 - Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean 3 Credit(s)
• CINE 205L - Latin American Film 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 338 - The Latin American Economy 3 Credit(s)
• HIST 256L - Skyscrapers and Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800 3 Credit(s)
• LABOR 240L - Work, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 101 - Latin America: Contemporary Society and Culture 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 160 - Building Language Justice: Translation, Migration, and Linguistic Human Rights 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 205L - Latin American Film 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 210G - Food, Culture, and Society in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 240L - Work, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 255L - Gods and Slaves: Latin America before 1800 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 256L - Skyscrapers and Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 270 - Human Rights in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 303 - Reform and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 305 - The Caribbean: Culture and Society 3 Credit(s)
• MUSIC 268 - Music of Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 371 - Latin American Poltc 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 372 - Central American Politics (C) 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 407 - US-Latin American Relations 3 Credit(s)
• SPAN 160G - Exile: The Latin American Experience 4 Credit(s)

For more information on curriculum, including course descriptions and degree requirements, visit the Academic Catalog.

Complete 18 credits from 6-8 courses, including 1 core course; 2 additional courses in Latino Studies; and 3 electives.

GPA: A minimum GPA of 2.5 is required from all courses used for the minor.

Pass/fail: No more than 1 elective may be taken pass/fail.

Residency: At least five courses for the minor must be completed at UMass Boston

Marisol Negrón, Latino Studies Program Director
Wheatley Hall, 5th Floor, Room 56    
617.287.6673
Marisol.Negron [@] umb.edu