Platform for the Promotion of Postgraduate Programs
Master's Degree in Latin American Studies
School of Humanities - National University of San Martín - EHU/UNSAM - Argentina
General Information
Director: Dr. Adriana PetraTitle: Master's degree in Latin American Studies
Modality: Face-to-face with optional intensive and/or virtual seminars.
Duration: 2 years (four semesters) plus the writing of the final paper.
Registration opens: 3/11/2025
Registration deadline: 27/02/2026
Email: [email protected]
Academic program
General objectives:
To contribute to the high-level higher education of professionals, researchers and teachers specializing in the knowledge of Latin America from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities, with a good command of the disciplines involved.
To introduce students to the various approaches, perspectives, and research methodologies that have Latin America as the object, problem, and space of inquiry and reflection.
To contribute to critical knowledge about the main Latin American political, economic, social, artistic and intellectual processes, with special emphasis on the 20th century to the present.
Specific objectives
To develop among students research skills in the field of interdisciplinary, comparative, regional and global studies on Latin America.
To introduce students to current academic and intellectual debates on how to think about, understand and analyze the Latin American space and the various positions and currents of Latin Americanism as a perspective of study.
To provide the necessary conceptual and methodological elements to understand the fundamental trends of Latin American economic, social, political and cultural processes, working on the region as a whole or on specific regional areas.
To promote a training and professional development opportunity for teachers of various levels on the history, society, politics and culture of contemporary Latin America.
To contribute to the training of professionals capable of conducting studies and generating proposals on problems related to the economic, social and political development of the region.
To train for the formulation of diagnoses, strategies, policies and recommendations for actions aimed at solving issues related to fundamental problems of the region at various levels of action: supranational; governmental in its various structures; non-state public; private; etc.
To contribute to the high-level higher education of professionals, researchers and teachers specializing in the knowledge of Latin America from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities, with a good command of the disciplines involved.
To introduce students to the various approaches, perspectives, and research methodologies that have Latin America as the object, problem, and space of inquiry and reflection.
To contribute to critical knowledge about the main Latin American political, economic, social, artistic and intellectual processes, with special emphasis on the 20th century to the present.
Specific objectives
To develop among students research skills in the field of interdisciplinary, comparative, regional and global studies on Latin America.
To introduce students to current academic and intellectual debates on how to think about, understand and analyze the Latin American space and the various positions and currents of Latin Americanism as a perspective of study.
To provide the necessary conceptual and methodological elements to understand the fundamental trends of Latin American economic, social, political and cultural processes, working on the region as a whole or on specific regional areas.
To promote a training and professional development opportunity for teachers of various levels on the history, society, politics and culture of contemporary Latin America.
To contribute to the training of professionals capable of conducting studies and generating proposals on problems related to the economic, social and political development of the region.
To train for the formulation of diagnoses, strategies, policies and recommendations for actions aimed at solving issues related to fundamental problems of the region at various levels of action: supranational; governmental in its various structures; non-state public; private; etc.
Academic profile of the graduate
The Master's program in Latin American Studies will equip graduates with a critical understanding of the history, politics, economics, society, and culture of contemporary Latin America. It will provide them with broad, diverse, and fundamentally interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological training on Latin America as an object of study, a problem, and a field of study. Graduates will be able to critically and comparatively analyze different dimensions of the region's problems and contribute both to the production of scientific knowledge and to the formulation of diagnoses and alternatives within the public or private professional sphere.
The Master's program in Latin American Studies will equip graduates with a critical understanding of the history, politics, economics, society, and culture of contemporary Latin America. It will provide them with broad, diverse, and fundamentally interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological training on Latin America as an object of study, a problem, and a field of study. Graduates will be able to critically and comparatively analyze different dimensions of the region's problems and contribute both to the production of scientific knowledge and to the formulation of diagnoses and alternatives within the public or private professional sphere.
Graduates of university programs of at least four years in duration, related to the social sciences and humanities, will be eligible to enter the program.
Those individuals with relevant research or professional backgrounds, and who do not hold a degree or higher level qualification, may be admitted on an exceptional basis in accordance with the provisions of the UNSAM Postgraduate Academic Regulations (RCS No. 209/21, art. 87) and in accordance with Art. No. 39 bis of the Higher Education Law.
Those individuals with relevant research or professional backgrounds, and who do not hold a degree or higher level qualification, may be admitted on an exceptional basis in accordance with the provisions of the UNSAM Postgraduate Academic Regulations (RCS No. 209/21, art. 87) and in accordance with Art. No. 39 bis of the Higher Education Law.
