The Latin American and Latine Studies minor offers the opportunity for students to explore the histories and cultures of Latin American and Latine peoples through an interdisciplinary approach of language, history, social institutions, literature, and the arts. By critically engaging with the ethnic and geopolitical experience of the Latin American and Latine population in the Americas, students will expand their knowledge about the transnational and transcultural complexity and richness of their worlds. The minor provides an academic experience that complements the students' majors by strengthening their cultural and historical literacy with a multicultural perspective that helps students become better informed global citizens.

As a result of successfully completing program requirements, students should be able to:

• reflect on and enrich their understanding of the specificities of Latin American and Latine societies and cultures in regards to politics, religion, ethnicity, race, class, gender, sex and sexuality through historical documents and the cultural and artistic production in the Americas of these populations;
• engage with issues of cultural and national identity, cultural change, resistance, and political agency in the historical and geopolitical context of colonialism, modernity and globalization, from a variety of perspectives; and
• complement their majors by strengthening their cultural and historical literacy in a decidedly globalized world, and enhance their ability to comprehend cultural difference in a complex and nuanced manner.