Caribbean Studies
Prerequisites
The Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (MALAS) specialization in Caribbean Studies draws primarily on the disciplines of anthropology, geography, history, and literature. The goal of the specialization is to study the origins, development, and contemporary problems of Caribbean societies and cultures.
Requirements
MALAS students must complete 33 credit hours of approved courses, write a thesis on a topic related to the specialization, and demonstrate intermediate-high proficiency of two of the languages spoken in the Caribbean, including English.
The course requirements are distributed as follows:
• 6 hours of gateway seminars (preferably in the
first semester):
* Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies
* Research Design and Methods in Latin American Studies
• 15 hours of courses in the specialization (see below)
• 9 hours of courses with Latin American content outside the specialization, selected in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Richmond Brown
• 3 hours of LAS 6971, Master's Research
Courses in the Specialization
The specialization in Andean studies comprises 15 credit hours. Students are required to complete three required courses (nine hours) and will select the other six hours (normally two courses) from a list of optional courses, in consultation with their faculty advisor.
Required Courses
One of the following anthropology courses:
ANT 5340 Anthropology of the Caribbean
ANT 6930 Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico
One of the following history courses
LAH 5475 The Caribbean, 19th & 20th Century
LAH 5476 Caribbean History to 1800
Optional Courses
AEB 6933 Contemporary Caribbean Agro-Economy
ANG 5303 Women and Development
ANG 5702 Gender and Development
ANG 6303 Seminar in Gender and Development
ANG 6930 The Diaspora World
ANG 6930 Gender and International Development
ANT 6930 Transnational Migration
ANT 6933 Immigration & Ethnicity
ANT 6119 Problems in Caribbean Prehistory
ANT 6387 Anthropology of Latin America (with Caribbean focus)
ANT 6930 Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico
ANT 6933 Topics in Caribbean Anthropology
ARC 6793 Architecture History: Latin America & Caribbean
ARC 6911 Architectural Research I - Preservation Institute: The Caribbean
ARC 6912 Architectural Research II - Preservation Institute: The Caribbean
ARC 6913 Architectural Research III - Preservation Institute: The Caribbean
GEA 6309 Geography of Middle America and the Caribbean
HCS 6625 Trends in International Health
HIS 5440 Slavery in the New World
INR 5935 International Politics of Latin America
LAH 5933 Topics in Caribbean History
MUH 6548 Seminar in Caribbean Music
MUN 6495 Steel Drum Ensemble
SPW 6902 Special Study in Spanish-American Literature (with Caribbean focus)
ZOO 5315C Natural History of the Caribbean Area
Faculty
Florence Babb (Gender and sexuality, culture and political economy; Cuba,
Nicaragua and Peru)
Grenville Barnes (Land tenure, cadastral and land information systems, GIS;
Caribbean and Central and South America)
Efrain Barradas (Caribbean literature, Latino studies, Mexican culture;
Caribbean and Mexico)
Mark Branham (Evolution of sexual communication in fireflies; Caribbean
and Jamaica)
Mark Brenner (Limnology, paleolimnology; Caribbean and Mesoamerica)
Kenneth Broadway (Percussion; Caribbean)
Bruce Chappell (Caribbean bibliographic resources, Caribbean and Cuba)
Carlton G. Davis (International trade/development, Caribbean agro economic
systems; Caribbean)
Kathleen Deagan (Florida Museum of Natural History, Spanish colonial archaeology)
Susan de France (Zooarchaeology; Andes and Caribbean)
Carmen Diana Deere (Agricultural development, gender, land policy, rural
labor markets; Brazil, Andes, Cuba, Central America, comparative)
James Essegbey (Descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, Creole
studies, Caribbean)
David Geggus (History, colonialism and slavery; Haiti)
Clarence Gravlee (Ethnic disparities in health, cultural dimensions of psychosocial
stress; Puerto Rico)
Benjamin Habblethwaite (Haitian Creole instruction and research; Haiti)
Faye Harrison (African diaspora, social inequality, human rights, political
economy; Caribbean)
Reynaldo Jiménez (Spanish, Cuban modern narrative)
John Kaplan (Photojournalism; Cuba, general)
William Keegan (Florida Museum of Natural History, Caribbean prehistory)
Michael Lauzardo (Tuberculosis, general pulmonary desease, mycobacterial
infections; Haiti, Dominican Republic)
Michael Leslie (Telecommunications, Cuban mass media)
Pedro Malavet (Comparative law, critical race theory, LatCrit theory; Puerto
Rico, Latino Studies)
Belio Martinez (Communication theory, international and ethnic public relations;
Dominican Republic, Colombia, Latinos)
Corene Matyas (Climatology, hurricanes, climate and change; Caribbean)
William Messina (International trade; Caribbean)
Jerald T. Milanich (Archaeology, colonial period, European-aboriginal relations
in the New World; Caribbean)
Gerald Murray (Anthropology, Haiti and Dominican Republic, agroforesty and traditional farming systems, Afro-Caribbean religions, urban microenterprise, applied anthropology, Caribbean racial systems)
Alfonso Perez-Mendez (Architecture, design; Cuba, Caribbean)
Rhonda Phillips (Technology-based economic development for communities and
regions; Caribbean)
Fred Royce (Agricultural cooperatives, international development, decision
support systems; Central America, Cuba)
James Seale (Food and Resource Economics, international trade and agriculture)
Anita Spring (Gender and development, entrepreneurs in the global market;
Caribbean)
William Tilson (Architecture, design, history, preservation, theory; Caribbean)
Olabiyi Yai (African Languages & Literatures, African Diaspora)
Contact Information
319 Grinter Hall
P.O. Box 115530
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
USA Tel: (352) 392-0375
Fax: (352) 392-7682
Graduate Advisor
Richmond F. Brown
rfbrown@latam.ufl.edu
Specialization Coordinator
Gerald Murray
murray@anthro.ufl.edu