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Prof. Isabel Alvarez-Borland of the Modern Languages and Literatures Spanish Department is the director of the program. Please direct all questions to her.
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Holy Cross
 The Latin American and Latino Studies Program offers a Concentration--an interdisciplinary academic program. Students who join this Concentration program take six Latin America or Latino Studies-related courses plus language instruction in Spanish.
The aim of this program is to introduce students to the reality of Latin America's multiplicity of peoples and cultures as they are situated in a historical and international context, and in their new and centuries-old immigrant and migrant diasporas or pre-anglo enclaves within the United States. Students have the opportunity to select an interdisciplinary array of courses that focus on Latin America and that explore the diversity of the area as well as its common cultural and historical roots. Courses in the history, sociology, culture, and literature of Latin America explore the events and processes that have shaped the region and the lives of its people. The topics addressed in the courses, and by speakers and at events sponsored by Latin American Studies reflect themes pertinent to an understanding of the interplay between individuals, nations and the international context.
Courses are available in History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Music, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Faculty research and teaching interests include Liberation theology, Central American and Caribbean Literatures, social change in Latin American, Contemporary narrative, Latin American film, and traditional medical systems in the Andes. Latin American 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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