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Latin American Studies encourages students to learn more about the importance of Latin American social, cultural, political, and economic systems. Because the faculty members belong to many departments at Niagara University, students in this minor will gain an interdisciplinary perspective on Latin American issues as well as direct cultural contact with Latin American scholars. Because Latin America is an area of growing importance to the United States, the opportunity of experiencing the culture is invaluable.

If you are taking any course at the university that includes any content of Latin America, you can receive credits toward the Latin American Studies minor. You need to contact Dr. Esteban Mayorga to talk about this specific issue.

For the Spanish majors: three courses inside the major count toward the LAS minor. Students need to take three courses outside the Spanish major; for example LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies, LAS 200 Popular Culture in Lat America, LAS 201 Latin American Art or any of the free electives for the LAS minor.

Students can also take a challenge exam for the lower levels of Spanish if you need those courses for your LAS minor. Students can take a challenge exam of SPA 101 Elem Spanish I, SPA 102 Elem Spanish II, SPA 103 Intermediate Spanish I, SPA 104 Intermediate Spanish II etc.

The LAS courses can also count toward the GENET requirements.

For other students in other majors including students of Education and Spanish emphasis: students can take three courses inside the Spanish concentration that can count toward the minor in LAS, and three outside the Spanish concentration from the LAS free electives.

Niagara University has study-abroad programs in Ecuador and the Galápagos; Córdoba, Argentina; Havana, Cuba; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Santiago, Chile; Lima and Cuzco, Perú; and Monterrey, México.

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