Latin American Studies is an interdisciplinary minor at UNCW in the College of Arts and Sciences. If you have any questions about this Minor please contact the coordinator, Dr. Patricia Lerch. Her office is located in the Social & Beavioral Sciences building, room 204-C. You may call her at 910-962-3705 or send her an email at lerchATuncw.edu

See our list of Faculty for the Latin American Studies Minor!

Latin-American FILMS!!

Monday February 09, 2009

"Letters from the Other Side"

Sponsored by Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

"How many more deaths does it take for the U.S. government to do something? Let it be on their conscience that since our tragedy many more have died and many more will die!"

So says Laura in a video letter to the U.S. government, speaking about her husband who died trying to cross the U.S./Mexico border to search for work. LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE interweaves video letters carried across the U.S./Mexico border with the intimate stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico. By focusing on a side of the immigration story rarely told by the media or touched upon in our national debate, LETTERS paints a complex portrait of families torn apart by economics, communities dying at the hands of globalization, and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it.

http://www.sidestreetfilms.com/

Letters from the Other Side (2006) USA; Dir. Heather Courtney; 74 min; DVD. ocumentary.

Location: Lumina Theater. 7 p.m. FREE.

Sprin2009 LAS courses:

• ANT 310: The Ancient Maya
• HST 485: Seminar: Modern Mexico
• SPN 304: Business Spanish
• SPN 308: Hispanic Linguistics
• SPN 307: Spanish Pronunciation
• SPN 312: Spanish-American Civilization
• SPN 322: Intro to Spanish-American Literature
• SPN 422: Topics in Spanish-American Literature

Requirements for a Minor in Latin American Studies:

Students need a total of 21 hours, which needs to include: 1 course from each of the 5 out of 6 categories below.  

At least one course from each of five out of six areas: 

ANT 304, 307, 310, 315, 317

GGY 383, 384, 386

HST 367, 368, 369, 370, 485

PLS 331, 332, 333

PRT 210, 312, 322, 422

SPN 210, 212, 304, 307, 308, 312, 322, 412, 422

Students must also complete a Spanish or Portuguese course at the 300 level or higher.

Substitutions will be approved for topic courses, seminars, field work, and/or study abroad that focuses primarily on Latin American issues.  Students must have a “C” (2.00) average in all courses counted towards the minor.