Romance studies
Romance studies or Romance philology (Aragonese: filolochía romanica; Catalan: filologia romànica; French: romanistique; Esperanto: latinida filologio; Italian: filologia romanza; Portuguese: filologia românica; Romanian: romanistică; Spanish: filología románica) is an academic discipline that covers the study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language. Romance studies departments usually include the study of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Additional areas of study include Romanian and Catalan, on one hand, and culture, history, and politics on the other hand. Because most places in Latin America speak a Romance language, Latin America is also studied in Romance studies departments. As a result, non-Romance languages in use in Latin America, such as Quechua and Guarani, are sometimes also taught in Romance studies departments.