| ANT 322 | Anthropology of Globalization | 3 |
| ANT 385 | Inkas, Mayas, Aztecs | 3 |
| ANT 451 | Ancient Maya Culture | 3 |
| ANT 456 | Pyramids and Politics: Exploring Peru's Historic Past | 3 |
| ECO 322 | Post-Revolutionary Cuba: Then and Now | 3 |
| ENS 251 | Human Ecology in the Yucatan | 3 |
| HIS 371/REL 376 | Religion in Latin America | 3 |
| HIS 377 | Modern Latin America | 3 |
| HIS 379 | History of Cuba | 3 |
| HIS 464 | History of American Slavery | 3 |
| PHI 353 | Philosophical Discussions on Ethnicity and Race: Blackness and Latinidad | 3 |
| POL 341 | Latin American Politics | 3 |
| REL 347 | Liberation Theologies | 3 |
| SPA 270 | Latin American Culture | 3 |
| SPA 271 | Latin American Culture Abroad | 3 |
| SPA 357 | U.S.-Latino/a Literature | 3 |
| SPA 360 | 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literature | 3 |
| SPA 362 | Afro-Caribbean Literature | 3 |
| SPA 363 | The Latin American Short Novel | 3 |
| SPA 364 | Afro-Hispanic Identity: Race, Nation and the American African Diaspora | 3 |
| SPA 370 | Latin American Colonial Literature | 3 |
| SPA 385 | Latin American Crime and Detective Fiction | 3 |
| SPA 463 | Violence in Latin America | 3 |
| SPA 467 | Latin American Film | 3 |
| SPA 476 | The U.S.-Mexico Border on Film | 3 |
(a project consisting of one of the following, subject to approval by the LAS committee: an internship, an independent study, or a Latin American focus in the junior or senior project of the major) with a product presented at the annual RICE symposium or other venue for student presentations and at a yearly Latin American Studies Senior Workshop. This capstone need not be a separate course. It may be fulfilled by courses in the student’s major provided the course is not used to fulfill the five-course requirement above.
In addition to the above requirements, study abroad (semester, summer, or CentreTerm) in a Latin American or Caribbean country is strongly recommended.