Minor in Latino Studies
An interdisciplinary minor in Latino Studies is available through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This minor advances a critical understanding of Latinos/as as an integral social and cultural component of the U.S. society and of the American hemisphere. Since it employs interdisciplinary research methods, this minor enhances a variety of majors and fields of study.
Students must complete a minimum of fifteen 2000 level credits with a grade C or better in each of the required courses. At least six credits must be listed as PRLS or cross-listed with PRLS. No more than three courses may be taken within a single department. Classes not listed under PRLS Directory of Courses may be used to fulfill the minor requirements with the approval of the minor adviser.
At least two PRLS courses from the following list:
- PRLS 3210 Contemporary Issues in Latino Studies (3 credits)
- PRLS 3211 Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Research
- PRLS 3220 History of Latinos/as in the US (Also offered as HIST 3674)
- PRLS 3221 Latinos and Human Rights (Also offered as HIST 3575)
- PRLS 3230 Latina Narrative (Also offered as WS 3258)
- PRLS 3231 Fictions of Latino Masculinity (Also offered as WS 3259)
- PRLS 3232 Latina/o Literature (Also offered as ENGL 3605.)
- PRLS 3233 Studies in Latina/o Literature (Also offered as ENGL 3607)
- PRLS 3241 Latin American Minorities in the US (Also offered as ANTH)
- PRLS 3250 Latino Health (Also offered as HDFS 3442)
- PRLS 3251 Latino Sexuality and Gender (Also offered as HDFS 3268)
- PRLS 3264 Latinas and Media (Also offered as WS3260 & COMM3321)
- PRLS 3265 Literature of Puerto Rico & the Spanish Caribbean (Also offered as SPAN 3265)
- PRLS 3270 Latino Political Behavior (Also offered as POLS 3662)
- PRLS 3271 Immigration and Transborder Politics
- PRLS 3660W History of Migration in Las Américas (Also offered as HIST3660W/LAMS3660W)
- PRLS 3298-01 Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture and Society
- PRLS 3295 Special Topics in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. May be repeated for credit with approval from advisor.
- PRLS 3298 Variable Topics in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. May be repeated for credit with approval from advisor.
- PRLS 3299 Independent Study in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. With a change in content, this course may be repeated for credit.
- PRLS 4212 Field Internship in Latino Studies.
- PRLS 4320 Media and Special Audiences (Also offered as COMM 4320)
Additional courses. Because of its interdisciplinary and transnational framework, students in this minor may complete the total of five required courses by elections from the following list: (Seek approval from your adviser or the director of PRLS).
- ANTH 3029 Caribbean Cultures.
- ANTH 3021 Contemporary Latin America.
- ANTH 3022 Peoples and Cultures of South America.
- ANTH 3150 Migration.
- ANTH 3152 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.
- ECON 2456 Economics of Poverty.
- ENGL 3218 Ethnic Literatures in the US.
- ENGL 3265W Seminar in American Studies.
- ENGL 4203W Adv Study: Ethnic Literature.
- HIST 3554 Immigrants and Shaping American History.
- HIST 3609 Latin America in the National Period.
- HIST 3610 Latin America and the Great Powers.
- HIST 3620 Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Spanish Caribbean.
- HIST 3608W Hispanic World. Ages of Reason and Revolution.
- HIST 3621 Cuba in Local and Global Perspectives.
- HIST 3635 Mexico in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Also offered as LAMS 3635)
- HIST 4994W Senior Seminar: Human Rights in Latin America
- HDFS 3421 Low Income Families
- LAMS 3635 Mexico in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Also offered as HIST 3635)
- POLS 3218 Indigenous People, Politics, and Rights.
- POLS 3232 Comparative Politics of North America: the NAFTA Countries
- POLS 3235 Latin American Politics
- POLS 3237 Democratic Cultures and Citizenship in Latin America
- POLS 3452 Inter-American Relations
- WS 3209 Ethnicity, Sexualities, and Modernisms
- WS 3267 Women and Poverty
- COMM 4450W Global Communication
- COMM 4460 Cross-Cultural Communication
- COMM 4802 Culture and Global Diversity in Advertising
The minor is offered by the Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. For more information, contact the main office at (860) 486-3997 or email prladm02@uconn.edu.