Latin American Studies Program

The Latin American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary academic program offered at Knox. It offers one minor.

Program Committee

Current

• Karen Kampwirth, Program Chair, Associate Professor of Political Science
• Catherine Denial, Assistant Professor of History
• Jessie Dixon, Associate Professor of Spanish
• Tim Foster, Associate Professor of Spanish
• Greg Gilbert, Associate Professor of Art History
• Fernando Gomez, Assistant Professor of Spanish
• Konrad Hamilton, Associate Professor of History
• Fred Hord, Professor of Black Studies
• Jerome Miner, Associate Professor of Spanish
• Antonio Prado, Visiting Instructor of Spanish
• Robin Ragan, Assistant Professor of Spanish
• Magali Roy-Féquière, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Jill Wightman, Visiting Instructor of Anthropology and Sociology

Latin American Studies

See main page at Latin American Studies.

The program offers one Latin American Studies minor.

Latin American Studies (minor)

This minor allows intermediate study in Latin American Studies.

Courses Required for the Latin American Studies minor

5 credits:

• One of the following:
  • SPAN 201 (Intermediate Spanish)
  • SPAN 210 (Conversation and Composition)
  • Equivalent
• Two social science electives from two different departments in Latin American topics
• One Latin American Studies literature credit
• Two additional elective credits in Latin American Studies
• One of the following:
  • An Honors Project
  • An Independent Study culminating in a paper or project
  • An approved paper or project created through coursework outside the department