The Center for the Americas, in conjunction with faculty across campus who teach courses that fall within the category of Caribbean Studies, sponsors a Caribbean Studies minor. The Director of the Center for the Americas serves as the administrator for minor certification.
The site of Columbus’s first landing and the hemisphere’s first Iberian settlement, what we now call the Caribbean is temporally, geographically, and historically at the center of the Americas. Colonized by Spain, France, England, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States, populated by streams of labor from Africa and Asia, as well as by peoples from Europe and the Middle East, the Caribbean has extraordinary diversity in its people, languages, and cultures. It is a microcosm of contemporary global problematics: immigrant, indigenous, settler and diasporic communities negotiating their current status as polities while preserving individual pasts and identities.
The Caribbean Studies minor at Wesleyan focus upon aspects of this region. It draws upon faculty and curricula from many departments and programs at Wesleyan: American Studies, Latin American Studies, African American Studies, College of Letters, Anthropology, English, Religious Studies, and Music among them. It is by its diverse nature constituted as always multidisciplinary
The minor in Caribbean Studies consists of five credits.
More information can be found here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/americas/caribbean.html