Latin American Studies

Academic Year:

2019-20

Address:

Aaron Burr Hall

Phone:

609-258-4148

Website:

Program in Latin American Studies

Program offerings:

Certificate

Director of Graduate Studies

Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles

Graduate Program Administrator

Eneida Toner

Academic department detail

Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies is open to all Princeton University graduate students currently enrolled in any Ph.D. program in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, math or natural sciences. Students enrolled in the Master's in Public Administration Degree Program at the Woodrow Wilson School may also enroll in the certificate if they write a research paper on a Latin American topic in consultation with the program director.

The graduate certificate is designed to allow students who are taking seminars in the program, working closely with our faculty, and writing dissertations on a Latin American topic to receive a formal credential in the field. Many such students prepare a generals field in Latin America, but that is not a requirement for the certificate. Upon fulfilling all of the requirements, a student will receive a certificate from the Program in Latin American Studies and is entitled to list the credential on his or her curriculum vitae. The certificate does not appear on a student’s official transcript.

The director of the Program in Latin American Studies oversees the graduate certificate program.

Students cannot be admitted to Princeton University through the Latin American Studies graduate certificate program since it is not a degree program.

Certificate

Certificate Requirements:

Courses:

Students should complete at least four full-term approved graduate courses on a Latin American topic or substitutes approved by the program director. At least one course should be outside the student’s home department.

In addition, the program director may approve other graduate courses, on a case-by-case basis, for which the student has written a final paper focusing on a Latin American topic.

Students enrolled in the graduate certificate program will be required to participate in the program’s Graduate Works-in-Progress series at least once during their course of study, during which the student presents research to an audience of faculty and graduate students and obtains feedback.

Language(s):

Advanced proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese, or French (for students working on the Caribbean). Students can satisfy this requirement by completing a course taught in Spanish, Portuguese, or French.

Dissertation and FPO:

Ph.D. students are expected to either 1) write a dissertation on a Latin American topic, or 2) write a dissertation that includes significant research on Latin America. Normally the dissertation should be directed by a faculty member affiliated with the program.

Additional Requirements:

Faculty

Director

Gabriela Nouzeilles

Executive Committee

MJoão G. Biehl
Eduardo L. Cadava
Beatriz Colomina
Javier Guerrero
Douglas S. Massey
Gabriela Nouzeilles
Rachel L. Price
Christina Riehl
Irene Small
Deborah J. Yashar

Sits with Committee

Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
Ines Ter Horst
Bryan Just
Stanley Katz
Magaly Sanchez-R

Courses

Permanent Courses

Courses listed below are graduate-level courses that have been approved by the program’s faculty as well as the Curriculum Subcommittee of the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School as permanent course offerings. Permanent courses may be offered by the department or program on an ongoing basis, depending on curricular needs, scheduling requirements, and student interest. Not listed below are undergraduate courses and one-time-only graduate courses, which may be found for a specific term through the Registrar’s website. Also not listed are graduate-level independent reading and research courses, which may be approved by the Graduate School for individual students.

HIS 504 Colonial Latin America to 1810 (also

LAS 524

) An examination of selected subjects in early Latin American history from the apogees of the great Amerindian civilizations, through the years of Spanish and Portuguese imperial control to the rebellions preceding independence. The course emphasizes social and cultural change, explores developments in historiography, and treats a variety of major problems in the field.

HIS 506 Modern Latin American History Since 1810 (also

LAS 526

) This course covers some of the major themes in Latin American historiography. It centers on the formation and contestation of different levels of community, from the local to the national, and gives additional consideration to Latin America's integration into global economic and political processes.

POR 562 Luso-Brazilian Seminar (also

LAS 562

ANT 562

) To suit the particular interests of the students and the instructor, an intensive study of a subject chosen from either Portuguese or Brazilian literature, such as the Cancioneiros and the origins of lyric poetry in Galicia and Portugal, the theater of Gil Vicente, Camões and Os Lusiadas, the fiction of Eça de Queiroz, the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, the novel of the Brazilian Northeast, or recent trends in Brazilian poetry, culminating in the concretistas of São Paulo.

SPA 547 Narrative Prose in Latin America (also

LAS 547

) Literary and extraliterary contexts of prose fiction in Latin America over the past hundred years through a study of representative writers, including Machado de Assis, Cambaceres, Borges, Onetti, García Márquez, Felisberto Hernández, Rulfo, and Cabrera Infante.

SPA 550 Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literature (also

LAS 550

) Intensive study of topics such as Bartolomé de las Casas and the conquest of the Indies; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Neoplatonism and history in El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; criollo letters and culture (1690-1824); and research methods and literary criticism pertinent to colonial literary studies.