Majors may also apply to the Five-Year Cooperative M.A. Program at Georgetown University in Latin American Studies. This program enables the student to apply upper-level Latin American Studies courses taken at Wellesley toward the Master's Degree at Georgetown. Interested students should contact the Directors of Latin American Studies or the Center for Work and Service. This seminar, held in Oaxaca, Mexico, focuses on the impact of the processes of social, economic, and political change on Mexican women. Seminar discussions, led by Wellesley faculty, will be enriched by both lectures by Mexican women academics and policy makers and by site visits to clinics, cooperatives, and other grassroots organizations.
Readings draw on the literatures of gender and ethnicity, social structure, and socialization.
Students will be immersed in Mexican culture though homestay with Mexican families. Enrollment is limited to 20 students. Knowledge of Spanish helpful, but not required. Two units of course work in Latin American Studies. Two units of course work in Latin American Studies.