Latin American Affairs Certificate
Juan A. Trujillo, Director
36 Kidder Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4603
541-737-3956
Email: jtrujillo@oregonstate.edu
Students earning a Latin American Affairs certificate will have gained a broad knowledge and understanding of the history and current situation in Latin America. The program allows students with majors in any discipline to complement their professional studies; certificates are awarded concurrently with the undergraduate or graduate degree.
Course work is drawn from several departments and schools, primarily in the College of Liberal Arts. Interested students should contact the program director early in their academic careers in order to plan their schedules.
The course of study consists of a minimum of 30 credits: 9 credits of required core courses, and 21 credits of appropriate electives. In addition, the student must have proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese equivalent to that attained by the end of the third-year language sequence, as certified by the School of Language, Culture, and Society, or by placement scores.
The minimum of 30 credits of approved courses must include:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirement | ||
| HST 350 & HST 351 | *MODERN LATIN AMERICA and *MODERN LATIN AMERICA | 8 |
| SPAN 336 | *LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select a minimum of 21 credits of approved Latin American courses outside the major from at least two departments/schools of the following: | 21 | |
| *PEOPLES OF THE WORLD-LATIN AMERICA | ||
| NARRATIVES OF LATINO MIGRATIONS | ||
| *GEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AMERICA | ||
| MODERN MEXICO | ||
| PROBLEMS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY | ||
| INTELLECTUAL ISSUES OF MEXICO AND MEXICAN AMERICANS | ||
| *LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS | ||
| ADVANCED SPANISH GRAMMAR | ||
| INTERMEDIATE WRITING SKILLS | ||
| SPANISH LANGUAGE THROUGH CULTURE | ||
or SPAN 314 | THIRD-YEAR SPANISH FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS | |
or SPAN 315 | THIRD-YEAR SPANISH FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS | |
or SPAN 316 | THIRD-YEAR SPANISH FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS | |
| *LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE | ||
| *LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE | ||
| ^SELECTED TOPICS IN LUSO-HISPANIC CULTURE | ||
| SELECTED TOPICS IN THE LITERATURE OF LATIN AMERICA | ||
| * | Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC) |
| ^ | Writing Intensive Course (WIC) |
Appropriate open-ended courses (402, 405, 407) through participating departments/schools, as well as transfer credits, may also be used to satisfy requirements when approved in advance by the program director.
Major Code: C810