Program News

Congratulations to Joe Mailander, 2008 graduate and LLAS minor, on receiving the University of Minnesota’s Upper Mid-West Human Rights Fellowship!

Joe co-founded a nonprofit music organization called The Medicinal Strings that promotes the arts within underserved communities as a bluegrass band. His band has traveled the country for three summers playing folk concerts and leading educational workshops for all ages. Joe spent the summer of 2008 at Pillsbury Community’s Waite House in Minneapolis creating a youth music program.
Congratulations to LLAS minor Carliene Quist '07 on her Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship for 2007-08

Our program . . .

Latino/Latin American Studies consists of three intertwined programs: an academic minor, a co-curricular learning community, and study abroad programs in Chile and Guatemala.

View video. "The Cuban Revolution in the Context of 200 Years of U.S. -Cuban Relations." Presented by Dr. Gary Prevost, CSB/SJU Professor of Political Science. Lecture video taped Sept. 16, 2009 as part of the Fall 2009 Reading Circle Events.

View video. Ann Marie Stock: “On Location in Cuba: Young Audiovisual Artists Film an Island Nation in Transition” Oct. 22, 2009.

View video. Dr. Carlos Oliva, professor of History University of Havana, Cuba. Title "Why talk of Revolution 50 Years After the Fact." Sept. 16, 2009.

Program highlights

The program offers a variety of courses, some focusing on particular national groups or specific academic disciplines, and others organized around comparative topics or issues
The purpose is to encourage in-depth study as well as to provide guidance for a general inquiry into the problem of cultural difference and its social and political implications, within both the Americas and the Caribbean
CSB/SJU sponsors a nationally recognized Latino/Latin American Learning Community

Overview of Program

Students will take a common introductory course and will complete their program with a common capstone
The Latino/Latin American Studies minor requires Spanish-language proficiency and twenty-five (25) credits of Latino/Latin American Studies courses: seventeen credits, required; and eight credits, elective

Contact information:

Dr. Corey Shouse Tourino

Director Latino/Latin American Studies Program

Quad 257D

St. John’s University

Collegeville, MN 56321

320-363-2728