Caribbean Studies Concentration

 

 

The Doctoral Concentration in Caribbean Studies is an interdisciplinary doctoral concentration in Caribbean Studies to be earned in conjunction with the individual Ph.D. requirements for the Departments English, History, and Modern Languages and Literatures.  Ph.D. students pursuing the doctoral concentration would take a minimum of two Caribbean-focused courses (6 credit hours) within their home department, and a minimum of two Caribbean-focused courses (6 credit hours) outside of their department.

Why a Doctorial Concentration in Caribbean Studies? 

The scholarly study of the Caribbean has developed as a particularly interdisciplinary field, and Caribbean-focused faculty members in English, History, and MLL are committed to bringing interdisciplinary perspectives to bear in the training of Ph.D. students. 

 

Goals

Graduate students will gain valuable historical, literary, and social scientific perspectives on their own fields of study. In providing a more formal structure for this interdisciplinary pedagogy, the Caribbean Studies doctoral concentration aims to: 

  • Enhance the ability of participating departments to recruit strong Ph.D. students working on the Caribbean;
  • Enable participating departments to better prepare Caribbean-focused graduate students as both scholars and teachers;
  • Make participating students more competitive on both the academic and “alt-ac” job markets.

 

Curriculum

Students pursuing the doctoral concentration in Caribbean Studies must take as part of their required course credit hours a minimum of four Caribbean-focused courses (12 credit hours) as shown below.  A minimum of two courses (6 credits) selected from home department and a minimum of two courses (6 credits) selected from outside home department.  

ENG 658 Studies in Transatlantic Literature
ENG 665 Studies in African American Literature
ENG 666 Caribbean Literature
ENG 667 Caribbean Popular Culture
ENG 668 Studies in Race and Diasporic Literatures
ENG 686 Theories of Gender and Sexuality
ENG 687 Studies in Literature and Culture since 1950
ENG 688 Studies in Latino/a Literatures and Cultures
ENG 689 Comparative Americas Studies
FRE 775 Topics in Francophone Studies
HIS 602 Africa and the African Diaspora
HIS 602 Africa in Cuba / Cuba in Africa
HIS 652 Race in Latin America
HIS 652 Travels through Latin America
HIS 654 Afro-Caribbean Religion: Healing and Power
HIS 654 Haiti in History
HIS 654 Caribbean Intellectual History and Social Movements
HIS 662 Slavery and Capitalism
HIS 669 Black Protest Thought
HIS 669 Rethinking African-American Culture
HIS 669 History of Global Slavery
HIS 708 Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 708 Atlantic Histories
HIS 716 Caribbean Field Prep
MLL 702 Bilingualism
MLL 703 Topics in Critical Studies of Language
MLL 721 Atlantic Crossings: Literature and Immigration in the Age of Globalization
MLL 727 Topics in Caribbean Studies
SPA 733 Topics in Colonial Literature
SPA 735 Topics in 19th Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature
SPA 736 Topics in 20th Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature

 

 **Or other courses with advisor’s approval.**

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