The Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (MALAS) specialization in Gender Studies focuses on the intersection of gender with other social vectors including race and ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and nationality. As a multi- and inter-disciplinary plan of study, courses in this specialization are drawn from such diverse fields as Anthropology, Linguistics, Sociology, Religion, Women’s Studies, Law, Urban and Regional Planning. The goal of the specialization is to deepen students’ knowledge of the ways in which gender figures in such arenas as family, work, religion, politics, economy, and society, as well as in history, culture, arts, and literature throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Requirements
MALAS students must complete 30 credit hours of approved courses, write a thesis on a topic related to the specialization, and demonstrate intermediate-high proficiency in Spanish. The course requirements are distributed as follows:
- 6 hours of gateway seminars (preferably in the first semester):
LAS 6220 Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies
LAS 6938 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.
In addition, students must register for LAS 6971, Master’s Research, in the semester of graduation—at least 3 credit hours in fall or spring, 2 credit hours in summer
Courses in the Specialization
Required Courses (three required)
AEE 5073 Agriculture, Resources, People and the Environment
ANG 5303 Women and Development
ANG 6303 Gender and International Development
ANG 6930 Gender and Change in the African Diaspora
LAW 6930 International Human Rights
LIN 5657 Gender and Language
SOC 7933 Sociology of Latinos
WST 6348 EcoFeminism
WST 6508 Advanced Feminist Theory
WST 6935 Feminist Ethnography
WST 6935 Gender and Cultural Politics in Latin America
WST 6935 Sex, Love and Globalization
WST 6935 Human Rights: Women in the Americas
Optional Courses
(In these courses, the student must write a paper related to gender issues in Latin America)
ANG 5702 Anthropology and Development
ANG 6930 Seminar on Transnational Development
ANG 5255 Rural Peoples in a Modern World
ANG 5266 Economic Anthropology
ANG 6930 Seminar on Crisis and Change
SUR 6427 Land Tenure and Administration
AEB 5167 Economic Analysis of Small Farm Livelihoods
AEB 6651 Latin American Agricultural Development
AEB 5232 Farming Systems Research and Extension Methods
FYC 6932 International Perspectives on Aging and Caregiving
HSC 6625 Trends in International Health
PHC 6937 International Health
LAS 6938 Challenges to Development in Latin America
LAS 6938 Immigration, Politics and Religion
LAS 6938 Trade and Human Rights in the Americas
MMC 5306 International Communications
MMC 6936 Intercultural Communications
CPO 6077 Comparative Social Movements
CPO 6091 Introduction to Comparative Policy Analysis
LEI 6834 Ecotourism
REL 6387 Religion in Latin America
REL 5195 Religion and Social Change
SYA 7933 Environment and Society
URP 6905 Urban Formation and Development in the Americas
Faculty
Florence Babb (Women’s Studies; gender and sexuality, culture and political economy; Andes, Central America, Cuba)
Carmen Diana Deere (LAS and Food and Resource Economics; agricultural development, gender and development, political economy; Brazil, Andes, Central America, Caribbean)
Lillian Guerra (History; Cuba and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean)
Faye Harrison (Anthropology; African diaspora, social inequality, human rights, political economy; Caribbean)
Tace Hedrick (English; Chicana/o and Latino/a literature and culture; feminist theory)
Berta Hernández-Truyol (Law; human rights, gender and race; general)
Milagros Peña (Women’s Studies and Sociology; religion, social movements, gender, race and ethnicity; Peru, Mexico)
Marianne Schmink (LAS and Anthropology; sustainable development, regional development, women and development; Brazil)
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
Specialization Coordinator
Florence Babb