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, Portuguese or Haitian Creole.
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 6292/3 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 for fall or spring, or 2 credit hours for summer
Courses in the Specialization
Required Courses
SYD 6635 Latin American Societies
SYD 6636 Latin American Development
STA 6126 Statistical Methods in Social Research
Optional Courses
SYD 6045 Seminar in Population
SYD 6135 Demographic Processes & Methods
SYD 6145 Population Policy
SYD 6436 Metropolitan Growth & Development
SYD 6506 Urban Ecology
SYD 6705 Minorities
SYO 6107 The American Family
SYO 6126 Family Theories
SYO 6135 Comparative Family Systems
SYO 6175 Family Research
SYO 6305 Sociology of Politics
SYO 6375 Occupations & Professions
SYO 6405 Medical Sociology
SYO 6406 Social Factors in Health & Illness
SYO 6415 Sociology of Mental Health
SYO 6425 Health Service Organizations
SYO 6535 Social Inequality
SYO 6545 Complex Organizations
SYO 6556 Comparative Sociology: Theory & Methods
SYP 6355 Collective Behavior & Social Movements
SYP 6515 Deviance
SYP 6517 Theories of Crime & Deviance
SYP 6525 Criminology
SYP 6535 Juvenile Delinquency
SYP 6545 Sociology of Law
SYP 6735 Sociology of Aging
SYP 6736 Sociology of the Aged
SYP 6745 Sociology of Death & Survivorship
Faculty
Milagros Peña (Social movements, gender, race & ethnicity, religion; Peru, Mexico)
Stephen Perz (Environment, population, development, quantitative methods; Brazil)
Charles H. Wood (Sociology, population & the environment, demography; Brazil)
Barbara A. Zsembik (Latino sociology, demography; Mexico, Caribbean)
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
Charles Wood