LAAS-BA-Minor - Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Thematic Minor

Advisors: GUERRA, MARINESCU, WOOD

The minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies offers an interdisciplinary study of a complex region. Through a broad range of courses, the minor explores diverse cultures, histories, natural environments, and geopolitical formations, while recognizing the crucial significance of Indigenous and Afro-diasporic groups in a region shaped by European colonization and US dominance. Students are encouraged to develop a hemispheric approach to relevant themes such as immigration, displacement, diasporic identities, indigeneity, gender, race, politics, and culture. The minor has a regional focus while drawing from and in conversation with Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, Southwest and Latinx Studies, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Science, and others.