Graduate Certificate
Any student already enrolled in a Georgetown University graduate program is eligible to pursue the graduate certificate in Latin American Studies. Students must declare candidacy for the graduate certificate as soon as possible, and no later than the end of the first year of their graduate program.
Language Proficiency
All students pursuing the graduate certificate are required to take the oral language proficiency examination in Spanish or Portuguese (administered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese) in the semester in which they begin to pursue the graduate certificate. Students must pass the exam with a grade of good or better (on a rating scale of poor, fair, good, very good, excellent) in order to receive the graduate certificate.