Degree
Requirements for Gender Studies Concentration
To
receive the Master of Arts degree in Latin American Studies
with a concentration in Gender Studies, a student must:
1.
Demonstrate foreign language competence in Spanish or Portuguese.
2. Maintain a 3.0 grade point average in 40 units of course
work (about ten courses), to be completed as follows:
a. Latin American Studies Basic Seminar Sequence: 8 units
must be taken in the required Core Seminar in Latin American
Studies (LATI 200, 4 units), and Latin American Library
Resources and Research Methodology (LATI 210A and LATI 210B,
2 units each).
b. Gender Studies Concentration: 16 additional units must
be taken in the Gender Studies thematic concentration, as
follows:
" One general theoretical course in Gender Studies
(4 units in any of the following: CGS 100, CGS 101, ETNH
256, ANGR 244, SOCC 267);
" One course in Feminist Theory (4 units in any of
the following: POLI 217, CGS 103, COCU 138, POLI 116A);
" One course focused on Gender Studies in Latin America
(4 units in any of the following: HILA 261, POLI 134P, ETHN
148, LTSP 175);
" One course of Directed Reading (298, 4 units), taken
with a faculty member affiliated with the CGS Program, focused
on a topic relevant to Latin American Gender Studies.
c. General Electives: The remaining 16 units must be taken
as follows: two courses from the Approved List of Courses
on Latin America (8 units), 4 units of Directed Reading
(298) and 4 units of Independent Research (299).
3. Successfully complete a master's thesis on a topic relevant
to gender issues in Latin America.
All
of the concentration specific units, and at least 50 percent
of the General Elective units must be taken at graduate level
(200 level). Within a concentration, a maximum of two undergraduate
level courses (100 level) may be upgraded to graduate level
298 courses. To convert an undergraduate level course (100
level) into a 298 graduate-level course, a student must attend
all of the course meetings and incorporate a component of
additional, graduate-level research work, upon arrangement
with the faculty member teaching the course (a special form
describing the supplementary work must be filled by the student
and approved by the instructor and CILAS' Academic Coordinator).
In all such cases, the supplementary work should, (a) increase
the amount of reading to match the regular reading expectations
of a graduate seminar, (b) include additional meeting time
with the professor for a graduate-level discussion of the
material, and (c) require the student to write a research
paper (which would generally be approximately 15-20 pages).
M.A.
students who were previously enrolled as undergraduates at
UCSD will not be allowed to repeat courses for credit toward
the concentration. In all cases there are alternatives, and
those students will be expected to take other classes to fulfill
the requirements.
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for Iberian and Latin American Studies ©2000
University of California, San Diego
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