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Prof. Cynthia Stone, Associate Professor of Spanish, is the Program Director.
Please direct all questions to her.
Latin American and Latino Studies at Holy Cross
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program offers a Concentration and a student-designed multidisciplinary Major. For the Concentration, students take six Latin American or Latino Studies courses plus language instruction in Spanish. A faculty-approved template is available to assist students interested in pursuing a Major in LALS.
The aim of this program is to introduce students to Latin America's multiplicity of peoples and cultures as they are situated in historical and international context, including their new and centuries-old immigrant and migrant diasporas or pre-Anglo enclaves within the United States. Students select from an interdisciplinary array of courses that explore the diversity of the Hispanic- and Portuguese-speaking peoples of the Americas as well as their common cultural and historical roots. Courses in the arts, cultural studies, economics, education, history, linguistics, literature, political science, religion, and sociology explore the events and processes that have shaped the region and the lives of its people. The topics addressed in the classroom and at co-curricular events sponsored by LALS reflect themes pertinent to an understanding of the interplay between individual, national and global phenomena.
Courses are available in Anthropology, Economics, Education, History, Modern Languages and Literatures/Spanish, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Music, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Faculty research and teaching interests include Afro-Caribbean history and culture, development theory, environmentalism, human rights, international activism, landscape studies, Latino autobiography, literature of dictatorship, music composition, narratives of exile, immigration and ethnicity, pictorial writing systems, poetry, property rights analysis, second-language acquisition, sociolinguistics, theology of liberation, translation studies, and urban education. Latin American and Latino Studies faculty have conducted research in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America and have published critical studies both in the U.S. and abroad.
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