Our students often complete a second major in a discipline such as International Relations, Economics, Biology, History, Psychology, Fine Arts, I.L.V.S., or another branch of the Humanities or social sciences. Plan of Study Majors in Latin American Studies or other combinations are possible.

Students graduating with a major in a Romance language will have developed:

• a capacity for critical thinking through literary and cultural analysis;
• an understanding of the aesthetic and intellectual complexities of literary and cultural texts from one or more countries where a Romance language is spoken;
• an ability to engage in scholarly research and/or creative work, and to develop the necessary skills to carry out those tasks with rigor and originality;

They will have learned:

• the linguistic and rhetorical skills to communicate in a Romance language in written and oral form;
• the historical contexts in which to position important texts of the Romance literatures;
• the variety of aesthetic movements that have shaped textual and cultural production over time;
• the different critical approaches that enrich the reading of these texts while taking into account their fundamental and complex cultural context/s.
• the basic elements of the ongoing dialogue about the importance of the humanities in a globalized world.