Department office: 1205 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5561
Full-time Faculty
Professor(s): Aja, Pérez y González
Associate Professor(s): Mitchell
Assistant Professor(s): España, Mena, SantamarÃa
The Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, formerly the Department of Puerto Rican Studies, was established in 1970. Engendered by the civil rights movements and student activism, it is an academic unit committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship focusing on to Latinxs*, Puerto Ricans, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The Department promotes transformative education encompassing active citizenship and leadership, providing students with the interdisciplinary knowledge and critical skills to live in a rapidly changing and globally interdependent 21st century.
The department offers courses in conjunction with other College departments and programs, including Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Archival Studies (Brooklyn College Library), Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Caribbean Studies, Children and Youth Studies, Comparative Literature (English), History, Interdisciplinary Studies (Communications), Studies in Religion, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies as well as the Conservatory of Music. Our department also participates in the graduate programs of the Brooklyn College School of Education.
Students are encouraged to utilize the research resources of the Brooklyn College Center for Latino Studies as well as the CUNY Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, and the CUNY Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at Lehman College.
Courses
The following inactive course(s) will only be offered if there is sufficient demand:
PRLS. 7140X Schools and Language Communities
PRLS. 7345X Puerto Rican Narrative and Drama
PRLS. 7350X Puerto Rican Poetry and Essay
PRLS. 7415X Puerto Rican Society
PRLS. 7420X Puerto Rican and Latinx/a Communities in Urban Areas
PRLS. 7450X Summer Seminar