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For a course to be eligible for use toward the certificate, the Director of the Certificate Program, Professor Gail Bulman (gabulman@syr.edu), must agree that its Latin American and/or Caribbean content, composed of the syllabus and accompanying research, is at least 50% 33% of overall course content.
This list is by no means comprehensive
I. ILLUSTRATIVE LIST OF COURSES VALID FOR PLACA CERTIFICATE, WITH
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33% OR MORE LATIN AMERICAN AND/OR CARIBBEAN CONTENT
- ANT 623 Effects of Globalization in Latin America*
- ANT 627 Brazil: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT 627 Caribbean Archaeology
- ANT 657 Anthropology of Race in Latin America and the Caribbean
- EFB 500 Brazilian Amazon
- EFB 522 Environment, Resources and Development
- EFB 796 Ecology and Conservation in the Tropics
- FOR 523 Tropical Ecology
- FOR 796 Agroforestry
- GEO 500 Topics in Geography: Development and Sustenance in Latin America
- GEO 720 Seminar in Latin America
- HST 700 Selected Topics: Latin America Studies Seminar
- HST 725 Readings and Research in Latin American History
- LAS 520 Research on Latin America
- LAS 523 Culture Change in Latin America
- PAI 600 Selected Topics: Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Relations**
- PAI 700 Current Issues in US-Latin American Relations
- PSC 780 Latin American Politics
- SOC 645 / WGS 645/ AAS 645 The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital, and Tourism
- SPA 600 Selected Topics: Latinos in Literature and Film*
- SPA 601 Literary Theory and Research Methods
- SPA 655 Caribbean Spaces*
- SPA 662 Latin American Colonial Culture
- SPA 663 Latin American Theater
- SPA 664 19th Century Latin American Literature
- SPA 665 Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America
- SPA 672 Gay and Lesbian Hispanic Caribbean Literature
- SPA 673 Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean
- SPA 674 Cuban Neo-Baroque
- SPA 678 Latin American Literature in the New Millennium*
- SPA 679 The Literature of Postmodernism in Latin America
- SPA 685 Contemporary Spanish-American Literature
- WGS 671 Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory
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These courses should be accompanied by some research focus on Latin American/Caribbean issues to make sure that they have at least 50% 33% Latin American/Caribbean content.
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