Latin American Studies - B.A. Program Requirements

Admission to the program is temporarily suspended and will resume by fall 2013 contingent on university approval procedures.

Type Legend: DD Diversity-Domestic; DG Diversity-Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

I.	DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	US	10097	Destination Kent State: First Year Experience	1
II.	MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (44 credits)*  Courses count in major GPA
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	MCLS	28404	The Latin American Experience	3
	Choose from the following:			3
	GEOG	37084	Geography of South America
		37085	Geography of Central American and Mexico (3)
	Choose from the following:			3
WIC	HIST	45697	Colloquium of South America (3)
WIC		45797	Colloquium: Comparative Latin American Revolutions (3)
	Choose from the following:			3
	PAS	33508	Caribbean Social and Political Directions (3)
		37143	African-Brazilian Experience in Culture and Literature (3)
	Choose from the following:			3
	POL	30550	Latin American Politics (3)
		30551	U.S. - Latin America Relations (3)
	Choose from the following: Language Requirement**			14
	PORT	17201	Elementary Portuguese I (4)
		17202	Elementary Portuguese II (4)
		27210	Intensive Portuguese (5)
		xxxxx	General Elective (1)
	OR
	SPAN	18201	Elementary Spanish I (4)
		18202	Elementary Spanish II (4)
		28201	Intermediate Spanish I (3)
		28202	Intermediate Spanish II (3)
	Choose from the following: Latin American Electives (minimum of 12 upper-division credit hours)***			15
	ANTH	38250	Religion: A Search for Meaning (3)
		48230	Socio-Cultural Change (3)
		48420	Archaeology of north America (3)
		48425	Ancient Mesoamerica (3)
	ECON	32083	Economics of Poverty (3)
		42075	International Economic Relations (3)
	ENG	21001	Introduction to Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (3)
	GEOG	22061	Human Geography (3)
	HIST	31140	Modern Latin America (3)
		31141	Early Latin America (3)
		41056	History of Colonial America: 1492-1714 (3)
	JUS	37311	Minorities in Crime and Justice (3)
	MCLS	28403	Hispanics in the United States (3)
	PAS	24407	Caribbean Studies (3)
		42095	Special Topics in the Literature of Pan-Africa (3)
	POL	30820	International Organization an Law (3)
		40840	Comparative Foreign Policy (3)
		40930	U.S. Foreign Policy (3)
	PORT	37330	Early Brazilian Literature (3)
		37331	Recent Brazilian Literature (3)
		37421	Luso-Brazilian Situation (3)
	SOC	32569	Minorities in America (3)
		32610	Birth, Death and Migration (3)
	SPAN	38334	Early Spanish American Literature (3)
		38335	Recent Spanish American Literature (3)
		38424	Culture and Civilization of Latin America (3)
		48216	Contemporary Hispanic Culture (3)
		48372	Spanish American Novel I (3)
		48373	Spanish American Novel II (3)
		48374	Modern Spanish American Drama (3)
		48376	Contemporary Spanish American Short Story (3)
		48378	U.S. Latina/o Writers (3)
III.	ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS (76 credits)
Type	Title			Credits
	Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories)			6
	Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory)			6-7
	Kent Core Composition			6-8
	Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one course from each)			9
	Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning			3-5
	Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines)			6
	College General Requirement (must be from Kent Core Basic Sciences)****			3
	College General Requirement (must be from Kent Core Social Sciences)*****			3
	General Electives (upper division)			34
TOTAL				121

* All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.

** Student majoring in Latin American Studies must complete either Intermediate Spanish II or Intensive Portuguese. Students who have completed Intensive Portuguese do not need to take Intermediate Spanish II in Semester 4; however, they must take a general elective course of at least 1 credit hour in order to meet the required 121 credit hours required for graduation.

*** Latin American Studies elective courses. Student take any five courses. Students who choose a lower-division course as an LAS elective must make sure that they take sufficient upper-division courses (42 credits) to graduate. Students may also choose from any approved special topics course. Courses listed as core option that are not chosen to satisfy the core requirement may be taken to satisfy the elective course requirement. At least three of the five courses in the elective courses requirement must have different prefixes.

****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Basic Science courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Biological Sciences (BSCI), Chemistry (CHEM), Geography (GEOG), Geology (GEOL) or Physics (PHY). Students may take the courses listed in the "introductory" sequences with the restrictions noted above in the Kent Core Basic Science section. The course may not be from the student's major.

*****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Social Sciences courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Applied Conflict Management (CACM), Geography (GEOG), Criminology and Justice Studies (JUS), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOC). The course may not be from the student's major.