| Doctoral Concentration in Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Cultural Studies
(LACS Ph.D. Concentration - Code 013107)
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List of Supporting Courses
Culture, History, and Society
LCS 506 Caribbean Leaders & Societies
LCS 507 Three Island Revolutions
LCS 508 Seminar: U.S. Latinos
LCS 509 International Migration
LCS 510 Workers and Globalization
LCS ( SPN ) 511 Introduction to Cultural Studies
LCS 515 U.S. Latino Culture & Literature
LCS (WSS) 551 Gender & Class in Lat. Am. Dev.
LCS ( POS ) 556 Authoritarian & Comp. /Rep. Regimes in L.A.
LCS ( POS ) 560 Urban Poverty in Latin America
LCS (GOG) 572 Issues in Lat. Am. Geography
LCS (GOG) 573 Comp. Metro. Planning
LCS 575 Caribbean Migration
LCS ( ECO ) 585 Land & Labor in Latin America
LCS 592 Transnationalism, Culture & Power
LCS ( POS ) 593 International Relations of Lat. Am.
LCS 599 Special Topics in LACS (as advised.)
LCS 695 Ind. Study and Res. (as advised)
ANT 533 Mesoamerican Archaeology
ANT 641 Seminar in Mesoamerican Ethnology
ANT 643 Seminar in the Native Mesoamerican Texts & Literature
ANT 648 Seminar in South American Ethnology
ANT 666* Seminar in Ethnohistory
ANT 667/PLN 672 Housing Problems & Policies in Third World Cities
HIS 569 History of Mexico
HIS 570 History of West Indies & Central America
HIS 572 History of Brazil
HIS 665 Readings in Lat. Am. History
HIS 667 Seminar in Lat. Am. History
SOC 640 Gender Inequality
Language, Literature, and Fine Arts
LCS 514/ SPN 519 Lit. of Hispanic Caribbean
LCS 515 U.S. Latino Culture & Literature
LCS 517/ SPN 513 Cultural Foundations of Latin American Literature
SPN 500 a/b Intensive Intro. in Spanish
SPN 502 Linguistic Structure of Modern Spanish
SPN 505 History of the Spanish Language
SPN 507 Spanish Scholarly Writing
SPN 508 Advanced Spanish Communication
SPN 509 Spanish for Teachers
SPN 510 Topics in Spanish Language
SPN 512 Cultural Foundations of Latin Am. Literature: Colonial Age
SPN 514 Cultural Foundations of Spanish Lit.: To the Catholic Kings
SPN 515 Cultural Foundations of Spanish Literature: Golden Age
SPN 516 Cultural Foundations of Spanish Literature: Since 1700
SPN 517 Spanish American Theatre
SPN 518 Spanish American Short Story
SPN 521 Span. Lit. for High School Teachers
SPN 522 20th Century Span. Am. Essay
SPN 523 Spanish American Colonial Prose
SPN 525 Spanish American Colonial Poetry
SPN 526 Span. Am. Poetry Modernist Period
SPN 527 Span. Am. Poetry Since Modernism
SPN 528 Spanish American Romanticism
SPN 529 Span. Am. Narrative Prose 19th C.
SPN 586 Span. Am. Novel from 1910 to 1950
SPN 587 Contemporary Span. Am. Novel
SPN 605 Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism.
SPN 606 Applied Critical Theory
SPN 680 Introduction to Literary Research
SPN 681 Seminar: Novel
SPN 684 Seminar: Literary Themes
SPN 685 Topics in Hispanic Linguistics
SPN 694 Directed Readings in Spanish
SPN 695 Topics in Hispanic Literature
SPN 721 Studies in Hispanic Literature
SPN 793 College Teaching of Span. Lang.
POR 502 Ling. Structure Modern Portuguese
POR 505 History. of the Portuguese Language
POR 512 Survey of Brazilian Literature
ANT 528 Mesoamerican Linguistics
ANT 533 Mesoamerican Writing Systems
ANT 571 Mesoamerican Language Instruction
Advanced Methods Courses
Students enrolled in the LACS track of the Spanish Ph.D. program should take LCS 511, Introduction to Cultural Studies, or an advanced methods course in a field related to the dissertation topic. Choosing this course should be made in consultation and with the approval of the student's LACS graduate advisor.
The following are some of the methods courses accepted by the Department to satisfy this requirement:
ANT 508 Proseminar in Ethnology
ANT 600 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
ANT 608 Field Methods in Ethnology
HIS 590 Quantitative Methods in History
HIS 591 Research & Writing in History
HIS 594 Readings & Practicum in Oral & Video History
SOC 509 Research Methods
SOC 535 Qualitative Research Techniques
SPN 605 Intro. Literary Theory & Crit.
SPN 606 Applied Critical Theory
SPN 685 Methods in Research
ENG 642 Trends in Critical Theory
WWS 565 Feminist Theory
In order to receive credit for this course toward the Ph.D. degree, students must work on Latin American, Caribbean , or U.S. Latino related topic
NOTE:
- Students with an MA in LACS from SUNY Albany will only need 27 credits as advised beyond the MA.
Students with an appropriate MA degree from another institution will need to complete 30 additional credits as advised.
Explanation of course prefixes:
AAS - Africana Studies
PLN - Planning
AOS - Administration & Policy Studies
POR - Portuguese
POS - Political Science
ANT - Anthropology
SOC - Sociology
ECO - Economics
SPN - Spanish
GOG - Geography
ESOC - Educational Sociology
HIS - History
TBI - Languages and Cultures Education
LCS - Latin American and Caribbean Studies
WSS - Women’s Studies
LACS Course Descriptions
Ph.D. Requirements Degree Guidelines
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