About the Program

Our Master of Arts in Latin American Studies is a dynamic, one-year program designed to develop your regional expertise and prepare you for professional careers or doctoral study. Through a customized course of study, you can specialize in the humanities, environment and health, or social sciences. The interdisciplinary curriculum integrates methodologies, advanced language training, and regional coursework, including history, politics, and ecology.. In consultation with faculty advisors, students build the analytical skills needed to lead in careers in higher education, government, business, and the nonprofit sector, among others.

What You’ll Study

Our program allows students to pursue a course of study that reflects their degree pathway, intellectual interests, and career objectives.

Key features of our program offerings include:

• Core courses that establish a broad foundation in the region’s historical, political, social, cultural, and environmental contexts.

• An integrated, cross-disciplinary framework for analyzing contemporary and enduring regional challenges.

• An individualized curriculum that students can shape around their academic and professional priorities.

• Focused research opportunities that support the development of expertise in a selected topic or area.

• Advanced language training, either in Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, Nahuatl, or Haitian Creole, enabling engagement with primary sources and communities in those languages.