The center has helped develop exchange relationships with universities in Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Brazil. Up to 12 graduate hours from UCR may be applied to the M.A. in Latin American Studies. To be eligible, students must have completed one semester's course work on the KU campus and obtain the graduate adviser's prior approval of the UCR courses to be taken. As an extension of this exchange program, KU and UCR have a research station in the seaport town of Golfito, Costa Rica, where KU students may conduct research and participate in field courses. Fellowships and Scholarships P ositions are often available for graduate teaching assistants in Spanish and Portuguese.
Teaching assistants conduct elementary language classes and discussion sections.
Loans, work-study funds, National Resource Center fellowships, and other financial aid may be available. Consult the director of the Center of Latin American Studies. Please, go to this page . The University T he University of Kansas is a major educational and research institution with more than 28,000 students and 1,900 faculty members. Library collections in Lawrence contain more than 3 million volumes and many microforms, manuscripts, maps, and photographs.