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Partial Course List for the CAS in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA)

Partial Course List for the CAS in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA)

Feb 15, 2022

Graduate students in any discipline can receive a Certificate of Advanced Study in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is recognized by the State of New York. Students must complete 12 credits of coursework in: 

  • Any of the suggested courses below from list I.

  • Any courses below from list II should be accompanied by some research focus on Latin America/Caribbean (Example - some of course syllabus dedicated to Latin America and main paper written on a Latin American country).

For a course to be eligible for use toward the certificate, the Director of the Certificate Program, Professor Gail Bulman (gabulman@syr.edu), must agree that its Latin American and/or Caribbean content, composed of the syllabus and accompanying research, is at least 33% of overall course content.

This list is by no means comprehensive  

I. ILLUSTRATIVE LIST OF COURSES VALID FOR PLACA CERTIFICATE, WITH 33% OR MORE LATIN AMERICAN AND/OR CARIBBEAN CONTENT

  • ANT 623 Effects of Globalization in Latin America*

  • ANT 627 Brazil: Anthropological Perspectives

  • ANT 627 Caribbean Archaeology 

  • ANT 657 Anthropology of Race in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • EFB 500 Brazilian Amazon

  • EFB 522 Environment, Resources and Development 

  • EFB 796 Ecology and Conservation in the Tropics 

  • FOR 523 Tropical Ecology

  • FOR 796 Agroforestry

  • GEO 500 Topics in Geography: Development and Sustenance in Latin America 

  • GEO 720 Seminar in Latin America

  • HST 700 Selected Topics: Latin America Studies Seminar 

  • HST 725 Readings and Research in Latin American History 

  • LAS 520 Research on Latin America 

  • LAS 523 Culture Change in Latin America 

  • PAI 600 Selected Topics: Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Relations**

  • PAI 700 Current Issues in US-Latin American Relations 

  • PSC 780 Latin American Politics 

  • SOC 645 / WGS 645/ AAS 645 The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital, and Tourism 

  • SPA 600 Selected Topics: Latinos in Literature and Film*

  • SPA 601 Literary Theory and Research Methods

  • SPA 655 Caribbean Spaces*

  • SPA 662 Latin American Colonial Culture 

  • SPA 663 Latin American Theater 

  • SPA 664 19th Century Latin American Literature 

  • SPA 665 Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America 

  • SPA 672 Gay and Lesbian Hispanic Caribbean Literature 

  • SPA 673 Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean 

  • SPA 674 Cuban Neo-Baroque 

  • SPA 678 Latin American Literature in the New Millennium* 

  • SPA 679 The Literature of Postmodernism in Latin America 

  • SPA 685 Contemporary Spanish-American Literature 

  • WGS 671 Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory 



II. REFERENTIAL LIST OF COURSES VALID FOR PLACA CERTIFICATE

These courses should be accompanied by some research focus on Latin American/Caribbean issues to make sure that they have at least 33% Latin American/Caribbean content.

  • AAS 600 Race and Gender in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives 

  • AAS 611 Arts, Cultures, and Literature of the Pan African World 

  • AAS 612 Histories, Societies, and Political Economies of the Pan African World 

  • AAS 620 Black Women Writers: African American/Caribbean/African 

  • ANT 614 Cities, Spaces and Power* 

  • ANT 616 Political Anthropology 

  • ANT 641 Anthropological Archaeology 

  • ANT 645 Public Policy and Archaeology 

  • ANT 647 Archaeology of North America 

  • ANT 655 Culture and AIDS

  • ANT 672 Language, Culture, and Society 

  • ANT 679 Anthropology of Global Transformations 

  • ANT 683 Social Movement Theory 

  • ANT 707 Culture in World Affairs 

  • ANT 741 Archaeological Theory 

  • ANT 756 Development Anthropology 

  • BUA 555 World Business Systems: Trade and Investments 

  • BUA 556 International Human Resource Management 

  • CAS 611 Living in a Global Environment 

  • ECN 556 Comparative Medical Care Economics 

  • ECN 655 Economics of Health and Medical Care 

  • ECN 661 Economics of Development 

  • ECN 662 Public Finance in Developing Areas 

  • ENS 696 Selected Topics: Wetlands Policy 

  • ENS 707 Environmental Science Seminar

  • ENS 797 Reading in Urban Ecology 

  • GEO 561 Global Economic Geography 

  • GEO 563 The Urban Condition 

  • GEO 606 Development and Sustainability 

  • GEO 772 Seminar: Cultural Geography*

  • GEO 755 Seminar in Political Ecology 

  • GEO 815 Seminar in Urban Geography 

  • GEO 870 Seminar in Population Geography 

  • EAR 603 Geomorphology 

  • HST 645 History of International Relations

  • LIN 671 Dimensions of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism 

  • PAI  632 International Public and Non-Government Organization Management 

  • PAI  715 Topics in Global Development

  • PAI  788 Global Issues: Drugs, Crime and Terrorism 

  • PAI 730 Problems in Public Administration: Global Issues in Modern Diplomacy 

  • PAI 756 International Development Policy and Administration

  • PAI 765 Humanitarian Action: Challenges, Responses, Results 

  • PSC 651 Theories on International Relations 

  • PSC 753 International Political Economy

  • PSC 757 Non-State Actors in World Affairs 

  • PSC 760 Foreign Policy Seminars: Comparative Foreign Policy 

  • PSC 781 Politics of the Developing World 

  • PSC 783 Comparative Foreign Policy 

  • PSC 787 Democracy and Democratization 

  • SOC 571 Topics in Sociolinguistics 

  • SOC 605 Theories of Development 

  • SPA 600 Selected Topics: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics 

  • SPA 600 Selected Topics: Second Language Acquisition 

  • SPA 600 Selected Topics: New Identities/Mis-Identities**

  • SPA 620 Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Spanish 

  • SPA 635 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 

  • SPA 636 The Structure of Spanish 

  • SPA 637 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics 

  • SPA 638 History of the Spanish Language 

  • WGS 553 Women and Social Change 

  • WGS 764 Gender and Globalization 

  • WGS 876 Feminist Geography 

* Courses added in 2018 

** Courses added in 2020