{"id":295,"date":"2021-09-24T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:50:54","slug":"academic-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/academics\/academic-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"catalog-block catalog-department-listing\"><h3 class=\"catalog-program-title\">Latin American and Latinx Studies<\/h3><p><em>Professors Fra-Molinero (Hispanic Studies), Melvin (History), P\u00e9rez-Armend\u00e1riz (Politics, chair), and Pieck (Environmental Studies); Associate Professor Pridgeon (Hispanic Studies); Assistant Professor Bernardino (History and Latin American and Latinx Studies).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-7233d16e-7fff-b824-8d63-1e6a1ace983d\">The interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Latinx studies brings together different methods of inquiry to better understand the cultures, societies and environments of Latin America and its diasporas, including the many communities that historically predated the United States, people who have immigrated to the United States from various parts of Latin America, and their descendants. The program also explores the importance of Latin America and Latinx communities in a global context. For some students, Latin American and Latinx studies provides opportunities for students seeking to deepen connections with their own Latin American and\/or Latinx heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-7233d16e-7fff-b824-8d63-1e6a1ace983d\">Latin American and Latinx studies offers interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on colonialism, religion, race and ethnicity, politics, gender and sexuality, indigeneity, environments, language, cultural production, migration, and economics within the region\u2019s societies. Course offerings draw from Africana, anthropology, environmental studies, gender and sexuality studies, Hispanic studies, history, politics, and religious studies. Students learn about a diverse area of the world that includes Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. They also consider the ongoing relevance of the interactions of the region\u2019s indigenous population with people coming from Europe, Africa, and Asia for more than half a millennium. The on-campus curriculum and programming is supplemented with opportunities for off-campus study in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-7233d16e-7fff-b824-8d63-1e6a1ace983d\">More information is available on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/\">Latin American and Latinx Studies program website<\/a>.<\/p><section class=\"catalog-section_curriculumtext\"><h5>Curriculum<\/h5><div class=\"sitemap\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/latin-american-latinx-studies-major\/\">Latin American and Latinx Studies Major<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/latin-american-latinx-studies-minor\/\">Latin American and Latinx Studies Minor<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/section><section class=\"catalog-section_faculty\"><\/section><div class=\"catalog-department-overview-catalog-link\">\n\t\t <p>Our course catalog may include more information on Latin American and Latinx Studies, its programs, courses, and requirements.<\/p>\n\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/\">Full Catalog Listing<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions\/349"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/latin-american-latinx-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}