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Designated Emphasis in
Latin American and Latino Studies
None of these units can be used to fulfill the requirements in another masters or PhD program. Students
must be in a PhD program to participate and the requirements must be completed before they advance to
candidacy. A 3.00 overall GPA in all courses taken must be earned. Students who take an upper division
course must register for a 292 course and complete additional readings and research.
Student Name:
SID:
Graduate Program:
Date Advanced to Candidacy for PhD:
I. Students must select courses from at least two different departments or programs, one
of which must be their home department and one outside their home department. The
program requires the completion of 4 graduate courses or 16 units (with at least one of
these courses emphasizing U.S.-Latino experience and at least two with a primary axis of
Mexico, Central American, South America, or the Caribbean). These courses must be
taken in at least two different departments and will be selected from the list below.
II. The program also requires the submission of a research portfolio. The portfolio, to be
reviewed by a standing committee of LAS faculty, will demonstrate significant research
in the field, include two research papers and syllabi from the four courses accompanied
by an introductory self-statement (of no more than 1000 words) articulating the particular
research emphasis and its depth and breadth of engagement with the field along with an
explanation of specific expertise and emphases.
III. Finally, the program requires language certification through examination or
coursework in a Latin American language: Spanish, Portuguese, Kreyol, or an indigenous
language. Evidence of language certification must be included in the research portfolio
(passing of a written translation exam, a full length (15pp+) research paper written in the
language, or two or more years of language courses at the college or university level).
I. Courses: Indicate courses taken to fulfill requirements:
Course
Grade
Quarter
Units
II. Research Project: Students must complete a significant research product writing a
research paper of no less than 25 pages that applies to the field of study. List the title or
description of research product:
Date research product approved:
III. Please indicate the language and how it was fulfilled:
DE Chairperson Signature
Date
Graduate Couse work:
AHS 260 Seminar in Latin American Art
ANTH 209 Field Course in Mayan Archeology
ANTH 218, Ancient Maya History and Religion
ANTH 251 Theory and Method of Mexican Ethnography
ANTH 264 Codices of Ancient Mexico
ECON 260. Theories of Economic Development (4)
ECON 261. Contemporary Development Strategies (4)
ECON 262. Project Evaluation in Developing Countries (4)
ECON 264. Topics in Economic Development (4)
ECON 265. Agricultural and Rural Development (4)
ETST 223 Chicano Expressive Cultures
ETST 244 Borders, Borderlands, and Chicana/o Studies
ETST 245 Theories in Chicana/o Studies
ETST 246 Chicano Historiography
HIST 206A. Materials for Latin American History: Colonial Period to 1820 (4)
HIST 206B. Materials for Latin American History: 1820 to the Present (4)
HIST 285B. Seminar in Latin American History (4)
HIST 285A. Seminar in Latin American History (4)
MUS 271. Area Studies Research in Music*
MUS 263 Special Topics in Musicology*
POSC278 Seminar in Latin American Politics
PORT 201. Brazilian Literature
SOC 243 (E-Z). Special Topics in Sociology* (4)
SOC 261. World-Systems Analysis
SOC 265 (E-Z). Topics in Race and Class Inequality
I. Chicano Sociology;
J. World Inequality;
R. Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Families
SOC 282. International Migration
SPN 257. Seminar in Hispanic Civilization
SPN 258 (E-Z). Genres of Hispanic Literature
SPN 270 (E-Z). Latin American Literature
SPN 272. Seminar in the Literature of a Specific Latin American Country
SPN 273A Literatures and Cultures of Colonial Latin America
SPN 278 Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures
SPN 279 Studies in Spanish Lit and Culture