Partial Course List for the CAS in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA)
Graduate students in any discipline can receive a Certificate of Advanced Study in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is recognized by the State of New York. Students must complete 12 credits of coursework in:
- Any of the suggested courses below from list I.
- Any courses below from list II should be accompanied by some research focus on Latin America/Caribbean (Example - some of course syllabus dedicated to Latin America and main paper written on a Latin American country).
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 33% of overall course content.
This list is by no means comprehensive
I. ILLUSTRATIVE LIST OF COURSES VALID FOR PLACA CERTIFICATE, WITH 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
II. REFERENTIAL LIST OF COURSES VALID FOR PLACA CERTIFICATE
These courses should be accompanied by some research focus on Latin American/Caribbean issues to make sure that they have at least 33% Latin American/Caribbean content.
- AAS 600 Race and Gender in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives
- AAS 611 Arts, Cultures, and Literature of the Pan African World
- AAS 612 Histories, Societies, and Political Economies of the Pan African World
- AAS 620 Black Women Writers: African American/Caribbean/African
- ANT 614 Cities, Spaces and Power*
- ANT 616 Political Anthropology
- ANT 641 Anthropological Archaeology
- ANT 645 Public Policy and Archaeology
- ANT 647 Archaeology of North America
- ANT 655 Culture and AIDS
- ANT 672 Language, Culture, and Society
- ANT 679 Anthropology of Global Transformations
- ANT 683 Social Movement Theory
- ANT 707 Culture in World Affairs
- ANT 741 Archaeological Theory
- ANT 756 Development Anthropology
- BUA 555 World Business Systems: Trade and Investments
- BUA 556 International Human Resource Management
- CAS 611 Living in a Global Environment
- ECN 556 Comparative Medical Care Economics
- ECN 655 Economics of Health and Medical Care
- ECN 661 Economics of Development
- ECN 662 Public Finance in Developing Areas
- ENS 696 Selected Topics: Wetlands Policy
- ENS 707 Environmental Science Seminar
- ENS 797 Reading in Urban Ecology
- GEO 561 Global Economic Geography
- GEO 563 The Urban Condition
- GEO 606 Development and Sustainability
- GEO 772 Seminar: Cultural Geography*
- GEO 755 Seminar in Political Ecology
- GEO 815 Seminar in Urban Geography
- GEO 870 Seminar in Population Geography
- EAR 603 Geomorphology
- HST 645 History of International Relations
- LIN 671 Dimensions of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism
- PAI 632 International Public and Non-Government Organization Management
- PAI 715 Topics in Global Development
- PAI 788 Global Issues: Drugs, Crime and Terrorism
- PAI 730 Problems in Public Administration: Global Issues in Modern Diplomacy
- PAI 756 International Development Policy and Administration
- PAI 765 Humanitarian Action: Challenges, Responses, Results
- PSC 651 Theories on International Relations
- PSC 753 International Political Economy
- PSC 757 Non-State Actors in World Affairs
- PSC 760 Foreign Policy Seminars: Comparative Foreign Policy
- PSC 781 Politics of the Developing World
- PSC 783 Comparative Foreign Policy
- PSC 787 Democracy and Democratization
- SOC 571 Topics in Sociolinguistics
- SOC 605 Theories of Development
- SPA 600 Selected Topics: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- SPA 600 Selected Topics: Second Language Acquisition
- SPA 600 Selected Topics: New Identities/Mis-Identities**
- SPA 620 Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Spanish
- SPA 635 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
- SPA 636 The Structure of Spanish
- SPA 637 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- SPA 638 History of the Spanish Language
- WGS 553 Women and Social Change
- WGS 764 Gender and Globalization
- WGS 876 Feminist Geography
* Courses added in 2018
** Courses added in 2020