www.shu.edu/academics/academics/ba-latin-american-studies.cfm
Faculty and Committee Members: Alvarez-Amell (Chair, Languages, Literatures and Cultures & Co-director of LALS); Goldfrank (Diplomacy); López (Political Science); Medina (Philosophy); Pennington (Languages, Literatures and Cultures); Prieto (Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Director of LALS); Schultz (History; Co-director of LALS); Zalacaín (Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Leading to a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree, the major in Latin American and Latino/Latina Studies (LALS) at Seton Hall University provides students with an interdisciplinary path to study the diversity of Latin American and Latino culture from several angles while mastering essential skills for the business world and public sphere. Students study the Spanish language as well as take courses that explore the breadth and depth of a rich cultural heritage and history of a population whose presence is increasingly being felt throughout the United States. This major is designed to offer students both the analytical and writing skills they need to perform professionally world and the cultural knowledge to better understand our society and be an asset to any business whose focus is Latino or Latin American culture. Our majors are well prepared to compete in the private and public sectors, in which a deep understanding of cultural diversity is an asset in our increasingly multicultural society.
The program in Latin American and Latino/Latina Studies (LALS) builds from a core of Spanish language, Latin American history and politics, as well as courses that focus on different aspects of Latin American and Latino culture. All LALS majors may take relevant electives in Africana Studies, philosophy, anthropology, history, Catholic Studies, religion, political science and sociology that have been designed to explore both Latin American cultural paradigms and Latino immigration and culture in the United States.
Link to College Core requirement.
Course List
Code |
Title |
Hours |
LALS 1001 & LALS 1002 | Intro Latin American Studies and Intro to Latino-Latina Studies | 6 |
| 6 |
| Adv Spanish I and Adv Spanish II | |
| Conversational Span. | |
| Bus Span - Correspond | |
SPAN 3101 & SPAN 3102 | and | |
| Span-Amer. Civilization | |
SPAN 3311 | | |
| Spec. Top - Hisp. Civilization | |
| Intro Hispanic Lit Studies | |
| Church, State, and Politics in Latin America | |
| Span-Amer Narrative I | |
SPAN 4462 | | |
| Span-Amer Theater | |
| Span-Amer Essay | |
| Span-Amer Poetry | |
| Span Lit of the Caribbean | |
| 6 |
| History of Latin America I | |
| History of Latin America II | |
LALS/SPAN 3319 | | |
| US Latino Literature | |
| 18 |
| 6 |
LALS 5011 | | |
| Internship | |
LALS 5013 | | |
| Captstone Seminar (required for all students) | |
| 6 |
| 12 |
| |
| |
** | 3 |
| 15 |
Total Hours | 39 |