Academics
Latin American Studies is a multi-disciplinary program involving more than a dozen full-time faculty from various University departments.
The Minor in Latin American Studies
Students may earn an interdisciplinary minor in Latin American Studies by completing a total of six approved courses (18 credits or more) drawn from at least three different academic departments. This list is subject to change, based on course offerings in a given year from the various departments participating in the program. In addition to the six courses the minor also requires proficiency in either Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to three years of college-level language study.
A student seeking to earn a minor in Latin American Studies must submit a proposed plan of study to the Director of the program, listing the courses they will take to fulfill the requirements. All programs of study must be approved by the Director, who will advise the student on the selection of appropriate introductory and capstone courses, as well as opportunities for studying in Latin America.
Students seeking to earn a minor in Latin American Studies must submit a proposed plan of study to the Director no later than the second semester of their sophomore year. This allows students in the minor to take advantage of the special events to which they are invited, as well as to appropriately plan their courses of study both at Boston College and/or abroad.
- Introduction to Caribbean Writers (AADS 2199) with Rhonda Federick
- Political Communication: Latin America's Public Sphere (COMM 2237) with Ernesto Livon-Grosman
- The Latin American Documentary (COMM 4437) with Ernesto Livon-Grosman
- Participatory Action Research: Gender, Race, Power (APSY 8912) with Brinton Lykes
- The Colonial Imagination: History and Identity in Latin America (SPAN 6614) with Sarah Beckjord
- Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean (SPAN 6660) with Sarah Beckjord
- Literature of the Fantastic in Latin America (SPAN 6674) with Sarah Beckjord
- Early Spanish American Women Writers (SPAN 6678) with Sarah Beckjord
- History and Identity in Spanish America (SPAN 6614) with Sarah Beckjord
- Writing and Memory in the Andean World (SPAN 6655) with Sarah Beckjord
- Latin American Short Story (SPAN 6628) with Sarah Beckjord
- Borderlines: Immigration and Borderlines (SPAN 6636) with Elizabeth Rhodes
- Spanish Short Story Since Clarin (SPAN 6647) with Irene Mizrahi
- Hispanic Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (SPAN 6652) with Irene Mizrahi
- The Poetic Generation of 1927 (SPAN 6667) with Irene Mizrahi
- Modern and Post Modern (SPAN 6689) with Irene Mizrahi
- Travelers in Latin America (HIST 4370) with Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
- Colonial Latin America (HIST 2301) with Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
- Latin America in the World I (HIST 1063) with Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
- Inquisition in Spain and Spanish America (HIST 4371) with Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
- Latin America in the World II (Spring Semester) (HIST 1064) with Genevieve Dempsey
- Modern Latin America (HIST 2302) with Maria Picone
- Borders and Frontiers in Modern Latin America (HIST 4302) with Maria Picone
- Resisting and Rebelling I (HIST183201) with Sylvia Garcia-Sellers
- Mexico between Fact and Fiction (HIST437301) with Sylvia Garcia-Sellers
- Spanish American Philosophy (PHIL 4423) with Gary Gutler
- Latin American Politics (POLI 4100) with Jennie Purnell
- Understanding Latinos: Cultural Productions (SPAN662401) with Humberto Delgado Velázquez
- Faith & Conflict: Religion & Social Change in Latin America (SOCY 3342) with Gustavo Morello
- Introduction to Latin American Societies (SOCY1036) with Gustavo Morello
Graduate Study
A formal agreement was established in 2002 between the Latin American Studies Program at Boston College and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. BC students who demonstrate excellence in Latin American Studies at the undergraduate level may pursue an accelerated course of study for the Master's degree in Latin American Studies at Georgetown.