Latin American Studies Certificate

Certificate Requirements

The minimum requirements for the certificate are 15 graduate-level hours in courses with significant content addressing Latin America or U.S. Latino/as and a grade of B or better in each course. These courses must be selected from at least two different academic departments. For those students enrolled in a master’s degree program at Georgia State University, two courses from the student’s master’s degree may be used towards the certificate.

Courses addressing significant content on Latin America or U.S. Latino/as may include those offered in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Communication, Economics, History, International Business, Political Science, World Languages and Cultures (Spanish program) and other academic units at Georgia State.

The following is a list of a few - but not all - graduate courses from affiliated departments that may be taken for credit toward the Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies. Students who are accepted into the program should contact the certificate coordinator/director of the CLALS to discuss an individual plan of study

Please note: some study abroad programs include graduate-level coursework that may count towards the Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies. Students should contact the Office of Study Abroad to learn about study abroad programs and then discuss their options with the certificate coordinator/director of the CLALS.

• AH 6630 - Pre-Colombian Art 3 Hours
• AH 6660 - Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Art in Latin America 3 Hours
• AH 6900 - Special Studies Seminar 3 Hours (when the course deals with Latin America)
• ANTH 6040 - Race, Class, and Gender in Global Perspective 3 Hours (when course deals with Latin America and/or U.S. Latino/as)
• ANTH 6060 - Environmental Anthropology 3 Hours (when course deals with Latin America, Latino/as)
• ANTH 6160 - Archaeology of South America 3 Hours
• ECON 8600 - Economics of Development 3 Hours
• FREN 8220 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture and Society 3 Hours (when the course treats Francophone cultures of the Caribbean)
• HIST 8420 - Seminar in Latin American History 4 Hours (may be repeated if topics vary)
• HIST 8660 - Case Study in International Preservation 4 Hours (when the course deals with Latin America)
• IB 8190 - Doing Business in World Regions 3 Hours (when the course deals with Latin America)
• POLS 6158 - Campaigns and Elections 3 Hours (when the course treats Latin America and/or U.S. Latino/as)
• POLS 8228 - Comparative Party System Development 3 Hours
• POLS 8250 - Latin American Politics 3 Hours
• PSYC 8200 - Introduction to Community Psychology 3 Hours
• PSYC 8060 - Issues of Human Diversity in Psychology 3 Hours
• RELS 6700 - Issues in Religious Studies 3 Hours
• SPAN 8603 - Cultural Studies 3 Hours (when the course treats Latin America and/or U.S. Latino/as) (may be repeated)
• SPAN 8885 - Special Topics in Latin American Literature and/or Culture 3 Hours (may be repeated)
• SPAN 8710 - Special Topics in Spanish Applied Linguistics 3 Hours
• WGSS 6910 - Special Topics 3 Hours (topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Ecuador)
• WGSS 8002 - Globalization and Gender 3 Hours (when the course treats Latin America and/or U.S. Latino/as)