- Latino Studies Program
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- Program Director: Prof. Francisco Rivera-Batiz
- 660 Schermerhorn Extension
- 854-0506
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- Program Curriculum Committee
- Douglas Chalmers,
Political Science and Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies
- Consuelo Cruz,
Political Science and Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies
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- The Latino Studies Program was established to survey and
study the history, culture and social fabric of the Latino populations of the United
States. Courses in the program offer students an interdisciplinary perspective on the
various Latino communities in the country. The curriculum includes courses placing the
Latino experience in the context of U.S., Caribbean and Latin American history, discussing
the key socioeconomic and political issues facing Latinos in the U.S., and presenting the
Latino expression in literature, music, and art. Students can pursue an undergraduate
major or a concentration in Latino Studies. The program also sponsors research projects
and academic conferences.
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- Located in New York City, Columbia University is at the
center of one of the most diverse concentrations of Latinos in the United States,
including growing populations of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Mexican and other Latino
groups. Indeed, one out of every four New Yorkers currently identifies himself or herself
as Latino/a. The list of distinguished Latinos who have lived in the City is a long and
rich one, including many cultural icons, from Jose Martí, Lola Rodriguez de Tió and
Pedro Henriquez Ureña to Oscar Hijuelos, Tato Laviera and Nicholasa Mohr, among many
others. Building on this intellectual tradition, the Latino Studies Program seeks to pull
together teaching and research that connects to the daily life of Latinos and others in
New York City and in the rest of the nation. The proximity of El Barrio in East Harlem and
Washington Heights in the Upper West Side of Manhattan commit the program to actively
pursuing an agenda that deals with the major social, political and economic problems that
confront ethnic and race relations not only in New York but also in the nation.
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- The offices of the Latino Studies Program are located at
660 Schermerhorn Extension Hall at Columbia's Morningside Heights Campus. We can be
reached either by phone at 212-854-0507 or via email at lsp@columbia.edu . Our fax number is 854-0700.
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