To receive the Master of Arts degree in Latin American Studies with a concentration in Gender Studies, a student must:

1. Demonstrate foreign language competence in Spanish or Portuguese.
2. Maintain a 3.0 grade point average in 40 units of course work (about ten courses), to be completed as follows:
   1. Latin American Studies Basic Seminar Sequence: Like all other LAS MA students, those students in the cultural studies concentration must take 12 units in the three required graduate seminars (LATI 200, methodology seminar, and theory seminar).
   2. Gender Studies Concentration: 16 additional units must be taken in the Gender Studies thematic concentration, as follows:
      1. One general theoretical course in Gender Studies (4 units)
      2. One course in Feminist Theory (4 units)
      3. One course focused on Gender Studies in Latin America (4 units)
      4. One course of Directed Reading (298, 4 units), taken with a faculty member affiliated with the CGS Program, focused on a topic relevant to Latin American Gender Studies.
   3. General Electives: The remaining 12 units must be taken as follows: one course from the Approved List of Courses on Latin America (4 units), 4 units of Directed Reading (298) and 4 units of Independent Research (299).
3. Successfully complete a master's thesis on a topic relevant to gender issues in Latin America.

All of the concentration specific units, and at least 50 percent of the General Elective units must be taken at graduate level (200 level). Within a concentration, a maximum of two undergraduate level courses (100 level) may be upgraded to graduate level 298 courses. To convert an undergraduate level course (100 level) into a 298 graduate-level course, a student must attend all of the course meetings and incorporate a component of additional, graduate-level research work, upon arrangement with the faculty member teaching the course (a special form describing the supplementary work must be filled by the student and approved by the instructor and CILAS' Academic Coordinator). In all such cases, the supplementary work should, (a) increase the amount of reading to match the regular reading expectations of a graduate seminar, (b) include additional meeting time with the professor for a graduate-level discussion of the material, and (c) require the student to write a research paper (which would generally be approximately 15-20 pages).

M.A. students who were previously enrolled as undergraduates at UCSD will not be allowed to repeat courses for credit toward the concentration. In all cases there are alternatives, and those students will be expected to take other classes to fulfill the requirements.