Welcome
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that brings together faculty and students who have a common interest in Latin America and the Caribbean.
We offer Master's and Bachelor's degrees as well as undergraduate and graduate minors, in Latin American Studies. The Center itself has also offered instruction in Quechua, the most widely-spoken Native American Language, for more than 20 years.
Among our many activities, we attract speakers and visiting scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean; organize cultural and educational activities; and sponsor travel and field research. Through colleges and departments across the campus, we seek to support and enlarge an interdisciplinary faculty who maintain an active research agenda and teach courses on Latin American subjects. We support faculty and graduate student research, travel, and dissemination of research results.
We promote the presentation of Latin American art, literature, music, and scholarly research to the larger community through exhibits, performances, and lectures. We also assist the Latin American Collection at the University Library in purchasing teaching and research materials.
Finally, we sponsor conferences, symposia, colloquia, and outreach activities on current affairs and other matters of scholarly and general interest.
CLACS is a National Resource Center in consortium with the University of Chicago for Latin American Studies funded by the U.S. Department of Education, through the Title VI program.