Program: Latino Studies Minor - Whittier College

Apr 14, 2025

College Catalog 2020-2021

Requirements

A minimum of 21 units

Transfer courses, courses taken abroad, and additional course offerings not on this list must meet the approval of the Latino Studies Faculty Committee.

Required courses:

SPAN 100 - Introduction to U.S. Latino Studies 3 credits
SPAN 225 - Latino Literature & Cultural Production 3 credits
SPAN 221 - Intermediate Spanish II 3 credits or above
HIST 348 - US/Mexico Border Studies 3 credits
SPAN 355 - Introduction to Peninsular/Latin American Literature I 3 credits

Fine Arts/Humanities

Complete one from the following

ART 381 - Art of Mexico 3 credits
ART 382 - Art of Colonial Spanish America 3 credits
ENGL 375 - Chicano/Chicana Literature 3 credits
MUS 074 - Music of Latin America 3 credits
REL 255 - Women and U.S. Liberation Theologies 3 credits
THEA 260 - Chicano/Latino Theatre 3 credits

Social Sciences

Complete one from the following

ANTH 214 - Peoples & Cultures of Latin America 3 credits
PLSC 252 - Latin American Politics 3 credits
PLSC 253 - Political Diversity in Latin America: Race, Religion & Gender 4 credits
SOC 360 - Latin American Social Movements 3 credits
SOC 386 - Racial and Ethnic Relations 3 credits

Highly Recommended

One additional course in History

HIST 242 - Introduction to Colonial Latin America 3 credits
HIST 245 - Introduction to Modern Central America 3 credits
HIST 246 - Introduction to Modern Latin America 3 credits
HIST 347 - Modern Mexico 3 credits