Latino Studies

The interdisciplinary minor in Latino Studies requires six credits, which includes required coursework in Latin America as well as key areas of inquiry concerning race within the U.S. social context. This minor allows students to emphasize either Latinos' connections with Latin America or their location within the U.S. racial and sociopolitical context. Students may also draw from offerings listed under Ethnic Studies if their interest is the study of Latinos in relation to other ethnic and minority groups in the U.S. All students must take an introductory Latino Studies survey course and participate in a capstone experience involving work in one of Boston’s Latino communities.

One introductory survey course:
Anthropology 116 Introduction to Latino Cultures
or equivalent

One Latin American survey course:
Spanish 50/150 Latin American Civilization
History 75 Americas

One survey course in comparative race relations in the U.S. context from the list below or an approved equivalent:
American Studies 12 Race in America
English 291A Race in American Literature
Philosophy 125 Racism and Social Inequality
Political Science 104 Race, Sex, Class, and the Law
Sociology 110 Racial and Ethnic Minorities

One core course with at least 50% Latino content (see list below). This course can support an analytic perspective (courses on race/ethnicity) or an area perspective (Latin America or U.S.-centered courses). With approval of Latino Studies faculty, this requirement can be met by taking a Latino Studies course from one of Tufts’ consortium partners.

One elective course relevant to Latino Studies with substantial and/or relevant Latino content (from list of courses below or approved by Latino Studies faculty), in which student must do project/paper on Latino topic. An independent study course with a Latino Studies faculty on a Latino Studies topic may also count. 

One capstone experience:
The experience must follow the guidelines of the Interdisciplinary Minor Program by including a project, thesis, performance, or an oral presentation, which integrates the knowledge and methodologies of the disciplines involved.  The integrative project will be given one course credit under a CIS (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies) designation (CIS 0135) and will receive a letter grade. The capstone can also be fulfilled by taking Anthropology 183 (Urban Borderlands), a community-based research course; by doing a supervised internship in a Latino-oriented organization and a final paper analyzing the experience (CIS 99-LST) supervised by Latino Studies faculty; or an approved equivalent community-based research course in which the research focuses on Latinos (e.g. an internship with the Mystic View Project researching the impact of pollution on working class Latino communities in the watershed). Humanities majors may fulfill this requirement by interning at an approved arts agency that works with Latino artists and/or serves Latino communities and then producing a project analyzing the experience. Spanish majors and others interested in improving their Spanish will be encouraged to seek a project/internship where they can strengthen their Spanish proficiency.

Core courses
(classes with 50% or more Latino content)
Anthropology 116 Introduction to Latino Cultures
Anthropology 146 Latino Popular Music, Migration and Identity
Anthropology 149-03 Identity Politics
Anthropology 149-06 Growing Up Latino
Anthropology 183 Urban Borderlands
Anthropology 185B or Soc 183 Transnational Communities
Art History 197B Latin American/Latino Art in Exhibitions and Collections
Education 177 Bilingual Children in US Schools
Education 164 Cultural Diversity in Children and Family Services
English 92A Writing from the Border: Latino/a Literature 
History 97 The U.S. Mexican Border Region since 1920
History 97 Latino/a History Survey
History 97 "La Causa"
History 88D Introduction to Latino History:  1845 to the Present
History 186D Latina/Latino Political Activism, 1945 to the Present
PS 109 The Politics of Ethnicity and American Identity
Spanish 22XD  El espíritu de Puerto Rico: Un seminario
Spanish 23 Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Spanish 92 U.S. Mexico Borderlands
Spanish 192 Chicano Cultures, Communities and Identities
Sociology 183 Transnational Communities
Sociology 187 Immigrant Children, Children of Immigrants
 

Electives
(classes with less than 50% Latino content)
American Studies 12 Race in America
Art and Art History 7 Introduction to Latin American Art
Art and Art History 64/164 Latin American Cinema
Art History 81/181 Twentieth-Century Mexican Art
Art and Art History 83/183 Women in Latin American Art
Child Development 153 Culture and Learning: Issues for Education
Community Health188 Politics of Health Disparities
Community Health 55 Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Economics 127 Urban Economics
Economics 62 Economics of International Migration
Education 1 School and Society
Education 11 Observing Theory in Action
Education 162 Class, Race, and Gender in History of US Education
English 91 Multiracial literature since 1860
English 192 Studies in Ethnic Literature
English 291A Race in American Literature
History 75 Americas
History 88 History of the West
History 98 Immigration in the United States
History 190 Worlds in Motion
MUS69   Jazz Big Band
MUS48  Jazz Theory 
Music 111 Jazz Composition and Arranging
Philosophy 125 Racism and Social Inequality
Political Science 90PC Politics in the City
Political Science 104 Race, Sex, Class, and Law
Political Science 121 Seminar: Political Culture in Comparative Perspective
Political Science 163 Ethnic Groups and US Foreign Policy
Spanish 34 Survey of Latin American Literature from Pre-Conquest to Post-Independence
Spanish 35 Survey of Contemporary Latin American Literature
Spanish 92 Special Topics in Cuban Culture and Society
Spanish 101 Latin American Popular Theatre
Spanish 107 Testimonial Literature of Latin America
Spanish 108 Latin American Women Writers
Spanish 192 Latin American Literature and Film
Spanish192F Literature of Migration in Latin America
Sociology 110 Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Sociology 130 Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
Sociology 149 People on the Move: Tourists, Refugees, and Migrants
UEP 240 Social Welfare Policy in the United States
UEP 242 Race, Class, and Public Policy in the United States
UEP261 Community Development, Planning and Politics*
 

For more detailed information, please visit the website http://ase.tufts.edu/cis/LatinoStudies.htm.

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