Career Opportunities Prospective majors should contact the faculty advisor or the ILAS office manager for information concerning career and graduate school opportunities. Study Abroad programs offer courses in Latin American studies and Spanish language and are available in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Spain. The Department of Romance Languages also conducts a program in Seville, Spain. Language prerequisites vary by program and intensive language courses are available so that students at any language level can study in Latin America or Spain. A Portuguese summer language program is also available in Brazil.
Students receive six hours credit.
Conversation, grammar and classical Yucatec texts are used, and students have the opportunity to focus individually on the acquisition of skills of special interest. The second part consists of a weekend workshop focusing on the structure and content of the ancient Maya writing system with comparison to Yucatec grammar and literature. Special field trips throughout the two weeks introduce participants to the area's rich pre-Hispanic and colonial heritage. The second week is spent in Valladolid with daily trips to the Mayan village of Xocen where students are placed with families in order to share in their daily lives and practice speaking Maya. This course may be used to fulfill the requirements of the major, and is often linked to undergraduate grants for summer research travel or to internships.