NEW OFFERING: Departmental Certificate on Multicultural Competence
by the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS)
Take and satisfactorily pass with a grade of C or higher any nine credits offered in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS) and you will be able to apply and obtain a Departmental Certificate on Multicultural Competence.
Application is easy: just pick up the declaration form that asks for your name, student ID, major, minor, and the three courses that you have taken in LHCS. By filling it out, you will be requesting the Department to consider you for the certificate. The form is located here:
http://latcar.rutgers.edu/LHCS%20certificate%20application.pdf
Students obtaining the certificate will be invited to receive it in the LHCS graduation, where they could come with their families. They will also select an alternate way to receive it. LHCS will keep a record of certificates, and will be able to confirm that you received it with any prospective employer or program.
Rationale for the certificate: The job market and entry to professional and graduate schools is becoming more and more competitive each day. Students and former students going to areas such as Law, Health, and Business, as well as students interested in pursuing graduate degrees in fields such as Anthropology, English, History, and Literature, among others, speak to the benefit of taking majors and minors in interdisciplinary areas such as Latino and Caribbean Studies. Now students can also aspire to obtain due recognition for their training and knowledge on multicultural matters by taking at least three courses with designation 01:595, which is the number that identifies the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS). Up to one course cross-listed in LHCS, but taken through a different department will count towards this departmental certificate.
Our courses: LHCS offers a variety of exciting and engaging courses that examine national and international issues, as well as questions about belonging, migration, memory, cultural practices, colonization, racism, and sexisms, among other topics, from the perspective of multiple disciplines and in light of the history, culture, and knowledges of Latina/o and Caribbean peoples, including West Indian/Caribbean diasporas. Our department specializes on understanding social diversity, its virtues, and the challenges to achieve it, in a substantial and rigorous way. It is the sort of education that will equip you to excel whenever multicultural issues are considered in your studies or profession, precisely at a moment when those issues are becoming more and more important given the accelerated rate of demographic composition in the United States. Take the discussion about social diversity and demographics in the recent presidential elections as an example.
Please see our course offerings in the link included below. Consider that our Introduction to Caribbean Studies (595:100) and our Introduction to Latino Studies (595:101) are now certified for the Core Curriculum in the area of 21st Century Challenges. Also, our History of the Caribbean Since 1898 (595:205) is certified for Historical Analysis and for Social Analysis.
http://www.yolandamartinez-sanmiguel.com/latino-and-hispanic-caribbean-studies-courses-spring-2014.html
by the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS)
Take and satisfactorily pass with a grade of C or higher any nine credits offered in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS) and you will be able to apply and obtain a Departmental Certificate on Multicultural Competence.
Application is easy: just pick up the declaration form that asks for your name, student ID, major, minor, and the three courses that you have taken in LHCS. By filling it out, you will be requesting the Department to consider you for the certificate. The form is located here:
http://latcar.rutgers.edu/LHCS%20certificate%20application.pdf
Students obtaining the certificate will be invited to receive it in the LHCS graduation, where they could come with their families. They will also select an alternate way to receive it. LHCS will keep a record of certificates, and will be able to confirm that you received it with any prospective employer or program.
Rationale for the certificate: The job market and entry to professional and graduate schools is becoming more and more competitive each day. Students and former students going to areas such as Law, Health, and Business, as well as students interested in pursuing graduate degrees in fields such as Anthropology, English, History, and Literature, among others, speak to the benefit of taking majors and minors in interdisciplinary areas such as Latino and Caribbean Studies. Now students can also aspire to obtain due recognition for their training and knowledge on multicultural matters by taking at least three courses with designation 01:595, which is the number that identifies the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS). Up to one course cross-listed in LHCS, but taken through a different department will count towards this departmental certificate.
Our courses: LHCS offers a variety of exciting and engaging courses that examine national and international issues, as well as questions about belonging, migration, memory, cultural practices, colonization, racism, and sexisms, among other topics, from the perspective of multiple disciplines and in light of the history, culture, and knowledges of Latina/o and Caribbean peoples, including West Indian/Caribbean diasporas. Our department specializes on understanding social diversity, its virtues, and the challenges to achieve it, in a substantial and rigorous way. It is the sort of education that will equip you to excel whenever multicultural issues are considered in your studies or profession, precisely at a moment when those issues are becoming more and more important given the accelerated rate of demographic composition in the United States. Take the discussion about social diversity and demographics in the recent presidential elections as an example.
Please see our course offerings in the link included below. Consider that our Introduction to Caribbean Studies (595:100) and our Introduction to Latino Studies (595:101) are now certified for the Core Curriculum in the area of 21st Century Challenges. Also, our History of the Caribbean Since 1898 (595:205) is certified for Historical Analysis and for Social Analysis.
http://www.yolandamartinez-sanmiguel.com/latino-and-hispanic-caribbean-studies-courses-spring-2014.html
