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The Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rican Studies and an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The department also participates in the interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Program and the Women's Studies option.

New Book Published by Prof. Forrest Colburn

March 2002

Latin America at the End of Politics

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is administered by an independent director and a committee composed of faculty and representatives from participating departments.

Professional Opportunities and Graduate Study

A student majoring in Puerto Rican Studies or Latin American and Caribbean Studies will receive a solid foundation for graduate study and may look forward to a career in many areas, including business, industry, government service, and teaching at all levels, from elementary school to college. (For preparation in elementary or secondary teaching, consult the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education or the Department of Middle and High School Education.)

Professor Laird Bergad, 1999. Professor Forrest Colburn, 1994.  

recent faculty publications:

  • Laird Bergad, Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999);
  • Forrest Colburn, The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994);
  • more...

Lehman College, City University of New York / Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Carman Hall 284, Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468 / tel. 718-960-8280

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