Major program: The major consists of a minimum of 12 courses, six in each of two Romance cultures (option A), or four in each of three cultures (option B), as defined below:

Option A: Any two of the following:

Either 3 FREN courses and 3 other courses whose content is devoted to the study of French or Francophone literature, history, culture, or society
Or 3 ITAL courses and 3 other courses whose content is devoted to the study of Italian literature, history, art history, culture, or society
And 6 literature courses in Spanish

Option B: All of the following:

Both 2 FREN courses and 2 other courses whose content is devoted to the study of French or Francophone literature, history, culture, or society
And 2 ITAL courses and 2 other courses whose content is devoted to the study of Italian literature, history, art history, culture, or society
And 4 literature courses in Spanish

Sample Courses: Libertines and Libertinage; Autobiography and Photography; Contemporary Italian Culture; Dante and Medieval Culture; Pathological Citizens: The Politics and Poetics of Disease in Latin American Literature; Sex, Violence, and (Poetic) Justice: Spanish and New World Classical Theater

Number of Professors: 12

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Fhatima Paulino

Psychology and Romance Studies (Italian and Spanish) Major, Class of '10

Outside Wesleyan: "Every summer when I go home, I volunteer for Oakland Community Organizations, and have taken construction and psychology courses. I'm thinking of teaching or doing construction and accomplishing one of my dreams, which is to learn how to build a house and eventually build my own home from scratch."