Programs and Centers

Latin American Studies

The UNC Charlotte program leading to the B.A. in Latin American Studies is an excellent foundation for graduate study in the humanities, social sciences, and law, as well as an important qualification for individuals working with the growing Hispanic population of North Carolina.

Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights’ Studies

The Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies takes as its central mission society’s need to understand better the social, cultural, political, and economic consequences and implications of these often brutal and oppressive acts of human behavior. The Center will provide resources for both scholarly exchange and community involvement in order to promote research, education, and dialogue on the human proclivity to divide the world into an ‘us and a them’ mentality, objectifying ‘the other’ in terms of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender or class that make possible horrific episodes such as the Holocaust, genocide and gross abuses of human rights. The Center will also share its analysis of emerging conditions that would give rise to violations of rights and motivate contemporary genocidal policies. This Center will bring together the intellectual resources of faculty and students from multiple departments and from the community to address the social, behavioral, and cultural underpinnings of these pressing topics.

Center for the Study of the New South

The Center for the Study of the New South in UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts and Sciences promotes discourse and dialogue on a rich and varied constellation of topics and ideas relating to the New South. Known as the period of regional history from the end of the Civil War to the modern era, the New South offers a bold tapestry of history, culture, social movements, and political issues ripe for reflection and study.

The Center promotes the interdisciplinary study of the New South through collaboration between UNC Charlotte faculty, the broader world of scholars, and the Charlotte community. Appropriately located Charlotte, one of the most dynamic and culturally-rich urban centers in the New South, the Center celebrates the interconnectedness of the arts, history, culture, literature, politics and social movements emerging from one of the most vibrant features in the American landscape.