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Aug 01, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Academic Catalog
Global and Regional Studies: Latin America Concentration, BA
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Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the Global and Regional Studies Program will:
- DEFINE their place as citizens in global society.
- UNDERSTAND the political, economic, and cultural interconnectedness that constitutes our world today.
- ANALYZE specific social aspects of a geographical region employing in a competent and creative way the appropriate conceptual and theoretical tools of the following disciplines: anthropology, economics, history, literature and art, and politics.
- INVESTIGATE the increasing interdependent nature and complexity of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social processes that constitute the global experience, and to examine those processes from a global justice perspective.
- COMMUNICATE at a basic functional level of proficiency in a language other than English specific to their geographical region of study.
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Language Study
The interdisciplinary and language courses taken by students will prepare them for critically engaged learning experience. For the major, students must reach the equivalent of intermediate level proficiency (appropriate to the region if selected). Language study should correspond with the country where students wish to spend their study abroad. Students can meet the requirement by taking and successfully passing a proficiency exam or taking and successfully passing one of the following courses: Lower Division
The following lower-division course is required for all GRS majors Lower Division Elective
Take two from the following lower division courses: Upper Division
All GRS majors take the following UD courses: Concentration: Latin America
Within their concentration students take three courses covering the region selected, from three of the four interdisciplinary areas: History, Anthropology, Politics, and Literature and Art. Students MUST take 8 upper-division units within the concentration. |
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