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Graduate Certificate program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University

Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies
The Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, established in 2012, offers graduate students the opportunity to expand their level of academic inquiry while at Princeton. By situating students within an engaged community of Latin American scholars, and participating in special seminars that take a deep-dive into the region, new insights and opportunities emerge.
Many such students prepare a generals field in Latin America, but that is not a requirement for the certificate.
Note: Students cannot be admitted to Princeton University through the Latin American Studies graduate certificate program since it is not a degree program.
The program is open to all Princeton University graduate students currently enrolled in any doctoral program in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, math or natural sciences.
Language: Advanced proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese, or French (for students working on the Caribbean). Students can satisfy this requirement by completing a 200-level course taught in Spanish, Portuguese, or French, or taking a placement test at the relevant department or language program. Proficiency in an Indigenous language can also be used to fulfill the language requirement.
Two short-term (6-weeks each) graduate seminars may count as one full course if both have significant Latin American content.
Works-in-Progress: Students enrolled in the graduate certificate program are required to attend the work-in-progress series for at least four semesters. Certificate students are responsible for two formal contributions to the colloquium at any time in these four semesters: 1) present a dissertation chapter or a conference paper based on dissertation research and 2) serve as discussant on another graduate student work-in-progress.
Dissertation: Ph.D. students are expected to either 1) write a dissertation on a Latin American topic, or 2) write a dissertation that includes significant research on Latin America. Since the role of Latin American Studies differs across disciplines, the program will rely on the judgment of experts in the specific discipline to certify whether the significant research on Latin America requirement has been satisfied.
So, it functions like a hub or a nexus for bringing in quite disparate kinds of people and ideas, and bringing them all together. -Max Horder (Graduate Student, Anthropology, Princeton University).
You may apply for the certificate program at your convenience by using our brief online registration form.