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Hispanic and Italian Studies

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Majors & Minors

Hispanic Studies

Hispanic Studies

Hispanic studies prepares students for graduate work in literary, cultural and international studies, as well as entry into a wide range of professional fields.
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Italian Studies

Italian Studies

A major in Italian studies at Wheaton focuses on the language, history, socio-political landscape, people and various cultures of this Mediterranean nation.
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Transnational Cultural Studies

Transnational Cultural Studies

Transnational Cultural Studies will give you the tools to both interpret cultural texts such as language and images and to understand how meaning is created across different national communities.
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Montserrat Pérez-Toribio

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies; Chair, Hispanic and Italian Studies Department; Latin American Studies Co-coordinator

Meneely 215

(508) 286-5438

perez_montse@wheatoncollege.edu

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