Undergraduate Courses
Students who wish to minor in Latina/o Studies must take two (2) core courses: one in the Humanities and one in the Social Sciences. In addition, students must take three (3) electives.
If you are a full-time or adjunct faculty member or post-doc at UNC-Chapel Hill and would like to offer courses that would count toward the minor or re-design related courses you are already teaching, please email Dr. María DeGuzmán. You may want to contact the advisory board members and other relevant faculty to see what courses they are offering in the area of Latina/o Studies or that include a crucial Latina/o Studies component
The following courses in the Latina/o Studies Minor are categorized under “Humanities” and “Social Sciences” and then under their respective department. For full course descriptions, please read Latina/o Minor Courses.
Humanities
DRAMATIC ARTS
DRAMA 486: Latin American Theatre
DRAMA 488: Latina/o Theatre and Performance
ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
ENGL 164: Introduction to Latina/o Studies
ENGL 265: Literature & Race, Literature and Ethnicity: La Vida Loca
ENGL 265: Literature and Race, Literature and Ethnicity: “The Southwest as Contact Zone: Reading ‘Chicana/o’ and ‘Native American’ in Relation”
ENGL 267: Growing Up Latina/o
ENGL/Women’s Studies 363: Latina Feminisms (Feminist Literary Theory)
ENGL 364: Introduction to Latina/o Studies (See ENGL 164)
ENGL 465/465H: Difference, Aesthetics, and Affect
ENGL 467: Educating Latinas/os: Preparing SLI Mentors
ENGL 665: Queer Latina/o Literature, Performance, and Visual Art
English 666: Queer Latina/o Literature and Photography
ENGL 685: “Imagen doblada: Photography in Latina/o Short Fiction of the Americas”
ENGL 861: Seminar in Literary and Cultural Theory: Third World Feminisms (50% Latina/o content)
ENGL 864: Studies in Latina/o Literature, Culture and Criticism: Medicalizing Latinidades
English 864: Latina/o Literature, Culture & Criticisms: Latina Feminisms
ENGL 864: Studies in Latina/o Literature, Culture and Criticism: Latina/o Literary Theory
HISTORY
HIST 241: History of Latinas/os in the United States
HIST 395: Working Class History
LTAM 291-001: The Latino Experience in the United States.
HIST 574: Spain in North America. Upper-division lecture class
HIST 561: The American Colonial Experience [from a multicultural perspective]
MUSIC
Music 147: Introduction to Latin/a/o American Music
Music 258 / INTS 258: Musical Movements: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Religion 245: Creolization and Latina/o Religious Transformations
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
ROML 055H: Writing with an Accent: Latino Literature and Culture
SPAN 389: Los cubanos en la diáspora: literatura y cultura / Outside Cuba
SPAN 398: The Aesthetics of Violence in Latina/o American Fiction of the 21st Century
WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
WMST 211: Introduction to Latina Feminisms: Literature, Theory, and Activism
WMST 233: Introduction to Latina Literature
WMST 281: Gender and Global Change: Militarization and Transnational Latina/o Literature
WMST 465: Gender, (Im)migration, and Labor in Latina/o Literature
Social Sciences
ANTHROPOLOGY & AFRICAN/AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
ANTH 130: Anthropology of the Caribbean
AFAM 340: Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics
AFAM 278: Black Caribbeans in the United States
AFAM 293: The African Diaspora in the Americas
GEOGRAPHY
Geography 56: Local Places in a Globalizing World
Geography 430: Social Geography: “Global Migrations, Local Impacts: Urbanization and Migration in the United States”
Geography 452: Mobile Geographies (Migration)
Geography 814: Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
INTS 390: Latin American Migrant Perspectives: Ethnography and Action
JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
JOMC 443: Latina/o Media Studies
*Undergraduate Certificate in Latina/o Journalism and Media. Journalism majors may consider applying for the new interdisciplinary program sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Department of English & Comparative Literature through its Latina/o Studies Program. The Undergraduate Certificate in Latina/o Journalism and Media is open only to journalism majors. For more information, please visit Latijam.
The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication also sponsors Latino Journalism and Media at Carolina (Latijam) dedicated to promoting and practicing fair and competent reporting about Latina/o life in North Carolina. The project has a four-pillar strategy that addresses needs in four areas: news, research, curriculum, and engagement and public service. Its Web site offers resources that assist students, scholars, and professionals in covering local Latina/o communities in all their vitality, complexity, and potential. Please visit http://latijam.jomc.unc.edu/.
Electives
Any of the courses not taken as cores listed above may be taken as well as:
AFAM 254: Blacks in Latin America
