Department Chair: Milagros Ricourt
Department Faculty: Professors: Laird Bergad, Forrest Colburn; Associate Professors: David A. Badillo, Licia Fiol-Matta, Milagros Ricourt; Assistant Professors: Alyshia Gálvez, Teresita Levy, Kathleen Lopez; Lecturers: Anna Lervold, Xavier Totti
The Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies offers courses designed to meet the needs of: (1) qualified students who wish to take individual courses, (2) students who seek graduate credit in the field of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, and (3) those who are teachers in bilingual programs (Spanish-English) and wish to study the history and culture of Latin America and Puerto Rico.
*Courses preceded by an asterisk are not expected to be offered in 2009-2011.
*PRS 500: Seminar on the Cultural History of Puerto Rico I. 3 hours, 3 credits. The cultural history of Puerto Rico, with special emphasis on the period 1800-1898.
*PRS 501: Seminar on the Cultural History of Puerto Rico II. 3 hours, 3 credits. The cultural history of Puerto Rico, with special emphasis on the period from 1898 to the present.
*PRS (ANT) 550: A Comparative Study of Puerto Rican Culture. 3 hours, 3 credits. Ethnographic analysis of modern communities in Puerto Rico and the effects of urbanization, industrialization, and tourism. Comparative analysis of Puerto Rican culture in New York, and evaluation of the educational process within each of the two cultures.