Latin American and Latino Studies Major
The Latin American and Latino Studies program integrates a series of courses in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts designed to acquaint students with the experiences and cultural expressions of Latin America and of the Latino communities in the United States. This interdisciplinary approach aims to expose students to the methods, materials, and tools of various disciplines while addressing two of the program’s and the University’s interrelated goals: to foster understanding of New York’s local immigrant or diasporic Latino communities and to develop effective, international, global citizenship through learning and service. The major prepares students to enter the fields of law, international relations, business and finance, social and foreign service, humanitarian affairs, teaching, Hispanic media and communications, publishing, business, finance, and graduate or professional study.
CIP Code
05.0107 - Latin American Studies.
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The major consists of 10 courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| One Intro course | 3 to 4 | |
| Two Social Sciences courses | 6 to 8 | |
| Two Humanities/Arts courses | 6 to 8 | |
| One Upper-level History course | 4 | |
| One Capstone Seminar (normally taken in the senior year) | 4 | |
| Three additional electives 1 | 9 to 12 | |
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Any course with the LALS subject code or the LALS attribute code may fulfill this requirement.
Intro courses
Courses in this group have the LAIN attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 3470 | People and Cultures of Latin America | 4 |
| HIST 1400 | Understanding Historical Change: Latin America | 3 |
| LALS 1400 | Understanding Historical Change: Latin America | 3 |
| LALS 3005 | Latin American Themes | 4 |
| MLAL 3005 | Themes in Latina/o and Latin American Studies | 4 |
| PHIL 3653 | Latin American Philosophy | 4 |
| POSC 3326 | Latino Politics | 4 |
| POSC 3641 | Latin American Politics | 4 |
| SPAN 2001 | Spanish Language and Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 2301 | Spanish for Heritage Speakers | 3 |
| SPAN 3002 | Latin America: Literature and Culture Survey | 4 |
| THEO 3847 | Latinx Theology | 4 |
Social Sciences courses
Courses in this group have the LASS attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AFAM 2005 | American Pluralism | 4 |
| AFAM 2647 | Third World and the City | 4 |
| AFAM 3037 | Being and Becoming Black in the Atlantic World | 4 |
| AFAM 3130 | Racial and Ethnic Conflict | 4 |
| AFAM 3150 | Caribbean Peoples and Culture | 4 |
| AFAM 3155 | Children of Immigrants in America | 4 |
| AFAM 3633 | The Bronx: Immigration, Race, and Culture | 4 |
| AFAM 3663 | Minorities in the Media | 4 |
| AFAM 3667 | Caribbean Literature | 4 |
| AFAM 4000 | Affirmative Action and the American Dream | 4 |
| AFAM 4650 | Social Welfare and Society | 4 |
| ANTH 2619 | Magic, Science, and Religion | 4 |
| ANTH 3180 | Ethnographic Methods | 4 |
| ANTH 3333 | Seeing Race: American Visual Culture in Historical Perspective | 4 |
| ANTH 3339 | Irish and Mexican Migration: New York Focus | 4 |
| ANTH 3340 | Anthropological Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity | 4 |
| ANTH 3351 | Comparative Cultures | 4 |
| ANTH 3354 | Race, Identity, and Globalization | 4 |
| ANTH 3357 | Globalization and Migration | 4 |
| ANTH 3470 | People and Cultures of Latin America | 4 |
| ANTH 3471 | Ancient Tales of the Andes: Taki Ongoy, Tin Tin, and Enchaquirado Narratives | 4 |
| ANTH 3476 | Latin American Social Movements | 4 |
| ANTH 3510 | Museums: Representing / Engaging Culture(s) | 4 |
| COMC 3268 | Media and National Identity | 4 |
| COMC 3380 | International Communication | 4 |
| DTEM 3447 | Race, Gender, and Digital Media | 4 |
| ECON 3210 | Development Economics | 4 |
| ECON 3235 | Economy of Latin America | 4 |
| ECON 3240 | World Poverty | 4 |
| ECON 3242 | Global Economic Issues | 4 |
| ECON 3248 | Migration and Development: A Social Justice Perspective | 4 |
| ECON 3346 | International Trade | 4 |
| ECON 3563 | Labor Economics | 4 |
| ECON 3580 | Economics of Diversity | 4 |
| ECON 3971 | Urban Economics | 4 |
| ECON 4005 | Fair Trade Entrepreneurship | 4 |
| ECON 5005 | Fair Trade Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| FITV 3647 | TV, Identity, and Representation | 4 |
| FITV 3688 | Global Television | 4 |
| HIST 3962 | Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America | 4 |
| HIST 3972 | Revolution in Central America | 4 |
| HUST 4100 | Refugee and Asylum Law | 4 |
| INST 3100 | The Global Environment | 4 |
| LALS 2005 | American Pluralism | 4 |
| LALS 3343 | Crime and Minority Rights | 4 |
| LALS 3344 | Crime, Literature, and Latinos | 4 |
| LALS 3352 | Policy Issues and Procedures in Criminal Law | 4 |
| LALS 3427 | Hispanics/Latinos in the USA | 4 |
| LALS 3600 | Latin America: Current Trends | 4 |
| LALS 3601 | Latin American Archeology | 4 |
| LALS 3670 | Hispanic Women | 4 |
| LALS 3962 | Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America | 4 |
| LALS 3972 | Revolution in Central America | 4 |
| POSC 2610 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 4 |
| POSC 3310 | Racial and Ethnic Politics | 4 |
| POSC 3326 | Latino Politics | 4 |
| POSC 3610 | Political Economy of Development | 4 |
| POSC 3616 | Political Economy of Poverty | 4 |
| POSC 3641 | Latin American Politics | 4 |
| POSC 3645 | Politics of Immigration | 4 |
| POSC 4020 | Place, Space, and Immigrant Cities | 4 |
| POSC 4037 | Social Movements and Revolutions | 4 |
| POSC 4400 | Seminar: Global Justice | 4 |
| PSYC 3600 | Multicultural Psychology | 4 |
| PSYC 3640 | Cross-Cultural-Psychology | 4 |
| SOCI 2410 | Inequality: Class, Race, and Ethnicity | 4 |
| SOCI 2420 | Social Problems of Race and Ethnicity | 4 |
| SOCI 3000 | Latinx Images in Media | 4 |
| SOCI 3017 | Inequality in America | 4 |
| SOCI 3046 | International Sociology | 4 |
| SOCI 3070 | The City and Its Neighborhoods | 4 |
| SOCI 3102 | Contemporary Social Issues and Policies | 4 |
| SOCI 3110 | Global Conflict: Wars/Religion | 4 |
| SOCI 3136 | Inequality-Why/Effects | 4 |
| SOCI 3148 | Population and Economic Development Issues | 4 |
| SOCI 3149 | Economic Sociology | 4 |
| SOCI 3405 | Gender, Race, and Class | 4 |
| SOCI 3406 | Race/Social Construct | 4 |
| SOCI 3410 | Migration/Globalization | 4 |
| SOCI 3415 | Development and Globalization | 4 |
| SOCI 3418 | Contemporary Immigration in Global Perspective | 4 |
| SOCI 3419 | Living in the Shadows: Undocumented Migration | 4 |
| SOCI 3425 | Racial Segregation: An American Story | 4 |
| SOCI 3427 | Hispanics/Latinos in the USA | 4 |
| SOCI 3456 | Modern Social Movements | 4 |
| SOCI 3502 | Work, Inequality, and Society in 21st Century America | 4 |
| SOCI 3506 | Diversity in American Families | 4 |
| SOCI 3601 | Urban Poverty | 4 |
| SOCI 3670 | Hispanic Women | 4 |
| SOCI 3713 | Criminology | 4 |
| SOCI 4020 | Place, Space, and Immigrant Cities | 4 |
| SOCI 4408 | Diversity in American Society | 4 |
| SOCI 4902 | Internship Seminar: Community Organizations | 4 |
| SOCI 4961 | Urban Issues and Policies | 4 |
| SOCI 4970 | Community Service/Social Action | 4 |
| SOCI 4990 | Conflict Resolution and Justice Creation | 4 |
| UEGE 5102 | Historical, Philosophical, and Multicultural Foundations of American Education | 3 |
Certain sections of the following courses will also count toward the Social Science requirement.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AFAM 2005 | American Pluralism | 4 |
| ANTH 3351 | Comparative Cultures | 4 |
| ECON 3242 | Global Economic Issues | 4 |
| ECON 3244 | International Economic Policy | 4 |
| ECON 3346 | International Trade | 4 |
| ECON 3563 | Labor Economics | 4 |
| LALS 2005 | American Pluralism | 4 |
| POSC 2610 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 4 |
| PSYC 3600 | Multicultural Psychology | 4 |
| SOCI 2410 | Inequality: Class, Race, and Ethnicity | 4 |
| SOCI 2420 | Social Problems of Race and Ethnicity | 4 |
| SOCI 3017 | Inequality in America | 4 |
| SOCI 3102 | Contemporary Social Issues and Policies | 4 |
| SOCI 3136 | Inequality-Why/Effects | 4 |
| SOCI 3148 | Population and Economic Development Issues | 4 |
| SOCI 3405 | Gender, Race, and Class | 4 |
| SOCI 3405 | Gender, Race, and Class | 4 |
| SOCI 3415 | Development and Globalization | 4 |
| SOCI 3506 | Diversity in American Families | 4 |
| SOCI 3601 | Urban Poverty | 4 |
| SOCI 3713 | Criminology | 4 |
| SOCI 4902 | Internship Seminar: Community Organizations | 4 |
Humanities/Arts courses
Courses in this group have the LAHA attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AAST 3647 | Seeing Stories: Reading Race and Graphic Narratives | 4 |
| AFAM 3667 | Caribbean Literature | 4 |
| AFAM 4105 | Queer Caribbean and Its Diasporas | 4 |
| ARHI 1103 | Introduction to Art History: Americas | 3 |
| ARHI 2250 | Ancient American Art | 4 |
| ARHI 2257 | Modern Latin American Art | 4 |
| ARHI 4250 | Aztec Art | 4 |
| COLI 3250 | Represent Sp Civil War | 4 |
| COLI 3407 | Foreignness & Translation: Multilingual Autobio Writing in Contemp Latin-Am & Latino Lit | 4 |
| COLI 3434 | The Avant-Gardes: Europe and Latin America | 4 |
| COLI 3522 | Strange Memories, Strange Desires | 4 |
| COLI 3668 | Caribbean Identities | 4 |
| COLI 3840 | Latin American Culture Through Film | 4 |
| COLI 3910 | US Latino Film Making | 4 |
| COLI 3912 | Literature of the Americas | 4 |
| COLI 4018 | Cuba: Revolution, Literature and Film | 4 |
| ENGL 3036 | Latin American Short Story | 4 |
| ENGL 3037 | US Latinx Literature | 4 |
| ENGL 3038 | Latinx Performance Studies: Image, Fashion, and Politics | 4 |
| ENGL 3350 | Ethnic Camera: Race and Visual Media | 4 |
| ENGL 3619 | Crip, Queer and Critical Race Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 3647 | Seeing Stories: Reading Race and Graphic Narratives | 4 |
| ENGL 3652 | New Wave Immigrant Literature | 4 |
| ENGL 3658 | Migrations/Movements/Masks | 4 |
| ENGL 3664 | Queer Latinx Literature | 4 |
| ENGL 3677 | Latino/a US Literatures | 4 |
| ENGL 3841 | Contemporary Fiction | 4 |
| ENGL 4021 | Seminar: Love and Latinx Literature | 4 |
| ENGL 4108 | Seminar: Exhibiting Latinidad: Curation/Display/Intervention | 4 |
| ENGL 4185 | Caribbean Islands and Oceans | 4 |
| ENGL 4236 | Seminar: Latin American Short Story | 4 |
| HUST 4200 | Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action | 4 |
| LALS 2005 | American Pluralism | 4 |
| LALS 3005 | Latin American Themes | 4 |
| LALS 3130 | Race and Gender in Latin American Popular Music | 4 |
| LALS 3343 | Crime and Minority Rights | 4 |
| LALS 3346 | Latinos and the Media | 4 |
| LALS 3421 | Latin American Fiction | 4 |
| LALS 3670 | Hispanic Women | 4 |
| LALS 3840 | Latin America Through Film | 4 |
| LALS 4001 | Music, Text, and the Imperial Encounter | 4 |
| LALS 4100 | Speaking For/As the Other | 4 |
| LALS 4105 | Queer Caribbean and Its Diasporas | 4 |
| LALS 4192 | Rediscovering the New World | 4 |
| LALS 4620 | Oscar Romero: Faith and Politics in El Salvador | 4 |
| LALS 4855 | Fascisms, Aesthetics and the Hispanic World | 4 |
| LING 2675 | Sounds of New York | 4 |
| LING 4020 | Language and Race | 4 |
| MLAL 1010 | Spanish Colonialism Through Film | 3 |
| MLAL 3000 | Gender and Sexuality Studies | 4 |
| MLAL 3005 | Themes in Latina/o and Latin American Studies | 4 |
| MLAL 3525 | Cultures of Sexual Dissidence in Latin America | 4 |
| MLAL 4100 | Speaking For/As the Other | 4 |
| MUSC 3130 | Race and Gender in Latin American Popular Music | 4 |
| MUSC 4001 | Music, Text, and the Imperial Encounter | 4 |
| PHIL 3653 | Latin American Philosophy | 4 |
| PHIL 3713 | Human Rights and Global Justice | 4 |
| PHYS 4192 | Rediscovering the New World | 4 |
| SOCI 3670 | Hispanic Women | 4 |
| SPAN 2305 | Spanish Conversation and Composition | 4 |
| SPAN 2450 | Business Spanish | 4 |
| SPAN 2500 | Approaches to Literature | 4 |
| SPAN 2620 | Spanish Phonetics | 4 |
| SPAN 2655 | Creative Writing in Spanish | 4 |
| SPAN 2700 | Hispanic Legends | 4 |
| SPAN 3001 | Spain: Literature and Culture Survey | 4 |
| SPAN 3002 | Latin America: Literature and Culture Survey | 4 |
| SPAN 3007 | Spanish Linguistics | 4 |
| SPAN 3066 | Survey of Latin American Film | 4 |
| SPAN 3123 | Questioning Race in Mexican Film and Literature | 4 |
| SPAN 3166 | Trends in Latin American Film | 4 |
| SPAN 3210 | Transatlantic Picaresque | 4 |
| SPAN 3230 | Sinful Business | 4 |
| SPAN 3250 | God, Gold, and Glory | 4 |
| SPAN 3285 | Trends in Mexican Cinema | 4 |
| SPAN 3300 | Modern Latin American Visual Culture | 4 |
| SPAN 3310 | Latin American Science Fiction | 4 |
| SPAN 3401 | Modern Spanish Fiction | 4 |
| SPAN 3405 | Women Translators in the Spanish-Speaking World | 4 |
| SPAN 3515 | New Spanish Literature: Rewriting the Public Sphere in 21st Century Spain | 4 |
| SPAN 3525 | Cultures of Sexual Dissidence in Latin America | 4 |
| SPAN 3530 | Excess in Spanish Lit | 4 |
| SPAN 3540 | Spain and Islam | 4 |
| SPAN 3550 | Expressing the Colonies | 4 |
| SPAN 3561 | Representing the Gypsy | 4 |
| SPAN 3582 | New York in Latinx Literature and Film | 4 |
| SPAN 3610 | Children's Gaze in Latin American Literature | 4 |
| SPAN 3625 | Spanish-American Short Fiction | 4 |
| SPAN 3642 | Spanish-American Literature and Popular Music | 4 |
| SPAN 3701 | Spanish-American Women Writers | 4 |
| SPAN 3710 | Contemporary Latin American Fiction | 4 |
| SPAN 3712 | Literatures of the Latin American Boom and Post-Boom | 4 |
| SPAN 3720 | The Hispanic Transatlantic | 4 |
| SPAN 3730 | Writing Violence: Peru, 1980-2000 | 4 |
| SPAN 3800 | The Spanish Diaspora | 4 |
| SPAN 3808 | Bodies, Touch, and Affect in Argentine Film and Literature | 4 |
| SPAN 3820 | Hispanic Caribbean Literature | 4 |
| SPAN 3850 | Narrating the City | 4 |
| SPAN 3950 | The Fantastic in Spanish Literature and Film | 4 |
| SPAN 3997 | Back to Nature: New Ruralism in 21st Century Spanish Literature and Film | 4 |
| SPAN 4001 | Cervantes and Don Quixote | 4 |
| SPAN 4005 | Painting the Empire: Understanding the Spanish Empire Through Art and Literature | 4 |
| SPAN 4018 | Cuba: Revolution, Literature and Film | 4 |
| SPAN 4511 | Spanish Civil War | 4 |
| SPAN 4520 | Spain in Context | 4 |
| SPAN 4855 | Fascisms, Aesthetics and the Hispanic World | 4 |
| THEO 3130 | Bible as Migration Literature: Then and Now | 4 |
| THEO 3380 | US Latinx Spiritualities | 3 |
| THEO 3383 | Latin American Liberation Theologies | 3 |
| THEO 3546 | The Bible and Social Justice | 3 |
| THEO 3610 | Christ in World Cultures | 3 |
| THEO 3611 | Scripture and the Struggle for Racial Justice | 3 |
| THEO 3847 | Latinx Theology | 4 |
| THEO 3960 | Religion and Race in America | 4 |
| VART 3060 | Visual Justice: Enacting Change Through Image-Based Storytelling | 4 |
| VART 3333 | Art Making in Hell's Kitchen | 4 |
Certain sections of the following courses will also count toward the Humanities/Arts requirement.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| COLI 3522 | Strange Memories, Strange Desires | 4 |
| ENGL 3841 | Contemporary Fiction | 4 |
Upper-level History courses
Courses in this group have the LAUH attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AFAM 3955 | Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World | 4 |
| HIST 3806 | U.S. Immigration/Ethnicity | 4 |
| HIST 3808 | New York City Politics | 4 |
| HIST 3862 | History of New York City | 4 |
| HIST 3950 | Latino History | 4 |
| HIST 3951 | Popular Education and Social Change in the Americas | 4 |
| HIST 3955 | Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World | 4 |
| HIST 3961 | Rebellion and Revolution in Latin America and the Atlantic World | 4 |
| HIST 3962 | Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America | 4 |
| HIST 3963 | Afro-Latin America | 4 |
| HIST 3965 | Colonial Latin America | 4 |
| HIST 3967 | Modern Central America | 4 |
| HIST 3968 | Mexico | 4 |
| HIST 3969 | Latin America and the U.S. | 4 |
| HIST 3972 | Revolution in Central America | 4 |
| HIST 3974 | Spaniards and Incas | 4 |
| HIST 3975 | The Caribbean | 4 |
| HIST 3977 | Latin American History Through Film | 4 |
| HIST 4008 | Race and Gender in the Old West | 4 |
| HIST 4510 | Conquest, Conversion, Conscience | 4 |
| HIST 4591 | Seminar: Race, Sex, and Colonialism | 4 |
| HIST 4725 | Seminar: Global Histories and Stories | 4 |
| HIST 4760 | Seminar: Immigration to the U.S. | 4 |
| HIST 4772 | Seminar: Colonial Latin America | 4 |
| HIST 4905 | Seminar: History of Food | 4 |
| HIST 4998 | Study Tour: Medieval Spain | 4 |
| INST 3859 | Post-1945: A Global History | 4 |
| LALS 3950 | Latino History | 4 |
| LALS 3951 | Popular Education and Social Change in the Americas | 4 |
| LALS 3955 | Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World | 4 |
| LALS 3962 | Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America | 4 |
| LALS 3963 | Afro-Latin America | 4 |
| LALS 3967 | Modern Central America | 4 |
| LALS 3968 | Mexico | 4 |
| LALS 3972 | Revolution in Central America | 4 |
| LALS 3977 | Latin American History Through Film | 4 |
| LALS 4510 | Conquest, Conversion, Conscience | 4 |
| MVST 3501 | Between Conquest and Convivencia: The Spanish Kingdoms of the Middle Ages | 4 |
| MVST 4998 | Study Tour: Medieval Spain | 4 |
| THEO 3383 | Latin American Liberation Theologies | 3 |
Seniors may wish to write a senior essay under the guidance of one of the program’s faculty members.
Availability
The major in Latin American and Latino studies is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center.
Fordham College at Rose Hill students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum.
Fordham College at Lincoln Center students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum.
Professional and Continuing Studies students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the PCS Core Curriculum and any additional electives that may be required to earn a minimum of 124 credits.