Hispanic Studies, BA

The demographic, economic and political realities of the United States, the articulation of a mainstream English culture with an ever-increasing diversity of Hispanic and Latino cultures, and the ongoing forging of strong cultural and economic ties throughout the Americas, have moved Spanish out of the bounds of the category of "foreign" language and culture in the United States. Culture is the controlling category in this field; the program is orientated to the knowledge generated by new disciplines such as cultural studies, new historicism, ethics and postcolonial studies. The major in Hispanic Studies orients itself to the types of knowledge generated by new disciplines such as cultural studies, new historicism, ethics, and postcolonial studies. In order to reflect these changing realities, the Department of Romance Languages has changed the name of its Spanish concentration from "Spanish" to "Hispanic Studies."