Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ausrotas and other Cambridge alumni stress the fact that getting a good education at the huge Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the city's only public high school, takes both motivation and hard work...
Some students have called the Latin American certificate "meaningless" and administrators at other universities say it has limited value for people applying to graduate school, but professors defend its worth. "I am thoroughly against the proliferation of area studies departments," says SueCline, assistant professor in Latin American history. "The Latin American program has always been fairly loose and has always afforded a lot of flexibility...
Establishing an interdisciplinary concentration would necessitate a radical change in the administration's philosophy concerning Latin American studies, "a development which I don't see happening. Harvard has had a strong reputation as a bastion of Anglo-Saxon history with a bias in European studies," says James Brennan, a Latin American history graduate student...
Second-year law student Raul M. Sanchez, who has Latin American studies degrees from Princeton and Stanford, agrees that, "it's useful to be anchored in one type of methodology...
There may also be some resistance among the CLAIS members to switch to an interdisciplinary concentration, as such a move might take them away from their current departments. "The members of the committee don't want Latin American studies to be a department because I think they feel that their own disciplines are pretty well taken care of," says Lili Wadsworth, assistant to the chairman of the committee...