Director of Graduate Studies: Joseph L. Love
Correspondence and Information: Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign, IL 61820
GRADUATE FACULTY
Professors: L. Alston, C. Augspurger, W. Baer, W. Blaylock, F. Boyle, C.
Deal, J. Garcia, E. Garfield, N. Gonzalez, D. Grove, M. Lewis, S. Lo, J. Love,
E. Mayer, T. Meehan, M. Palencia-Roth, R. Reisner, L. Reynolds, S.Schmidt, I.
Schulman, D. Seigler, J. Thompson, J. van Es, J. Warfield, N. Whitten, R.
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Associate Professors: A. Aiex, T. Bassett, P. Borgeson, S. Brown, P. Garber, N. Jacobsen, J. Lee, K. Manthorne, E. McClure, P. Sharpe, M. Solaun, T. Turino, W. VanPatten, J. Wilcox
Assistant Professors: B. Aten, L. Delgado, A. Escobar, R. Garcia, S. Gillespie, D. Grynspan, J. Hualde, W. Maloney, G. Munck, M. Roy-Fequiere, H. Silverman, A. Torres, M. van de Guchte
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Graduate minors in Latin American and Caribbean studies are administered by the
director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Candidates for the master's degree who elect a minor in Latin American and Caribbean studies must complete 2 units from the courses prescribed by the center. Doctoral candidates who elect a minor in this area must complete 4 units for one minor or 2 units for a split minor. Courses must be taken in at least two departments; lists of courses fulfilling the minor are available from the center. A combined graduate program in agricultural economics and foreign area studies (in this case, Latin American and Caribbean Studies) is also available.
Students in technical and professional colleges and schools of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who seek knowledge of the Latin American and Caribbean region and languages are invited to consult with the director of the center or with their advisers in order to develop programs suited to their individual needs. Such a program may often be adopted as a special minor under existing regulations if the student so desires. These courses are of particular value to students who intend to carry on technical or professional work in the Latin American and Caribbean area for government, private business, publishing, or religious organizations.
A high level of proficiency in one or more languages of the region (Spanish, Portuguese, and Indian languages) is required. For course information, requirements, and methods used to establish the level of proficiency, contact the student adviser or center director.
LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
The center offers Quechua, the native language spoken by 13 million people in
the Andean republics.
FINANCIAL AID
The center is a recipient of Federal Government Title VI Foreign Language and
Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for Graduate Studies in any discipline that
includes a minor in Latin American studies and an intensive program of language
instruction. Summer fellowships for intensive language courses abroad or in the
United States are available. Small travel grants for graduate students wishing
to do research during the summer are also available on a competitive basis.
Both of these programs depend on outside funding and, thus, cannot be
guaranteed in any given year.
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