UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA


cultural, and commercial life of the peoples and countries of the Americas; it sponsors
conferences, institutes, and special lectures on inter-American affairs; it promotes re-
search projects and publications dealing with Latin America; and it attempts to other-
wise advance inter-American interests in all fields of human endeavor.
 The School is empowered to solicit, receive, and administer such funds as are
given to the University for its program of inter-American affairs, subject to State and
University regulations. The Director recommends to the President ways to employ
such funds and grants for research, for travel in conjunction with research or other
official School business, for publications, scholarships, exchange professorships, and
conferences, and for other activities and functions designed to foster inter-American
understanding and amity.
 COOPERATING DISCIPLINES
 At the undergraduate level an Inter-American Area Study Program is offered in
both the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business Administration. At
the graduate level, Inter-American Area Study Programs are offered leading to the
Master's and the Doctor's degrees. Departments and colleges cooperating in the work
of the School of Inter-American Studies by offering courses relating to Latin America
include Agriculture, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Botany, Economics, Education, Geogra-
phy, History, Journalism, Music, Political Science, Portuguese (Brazilian), Sociology,
and Spanish.
 FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
 The School of Inter-American Studies has available for properly qualified United
States and Latin American graduate students a limited number of graduate fellowships
and assistantships.
 For many years the University of Florida has awarded annually a limited number
of tuition scholarships to superior Latin American students; such scholarships are avail-
able to graduates and undergraduates who are able to meet not only the requirements
for admission to the University set forth elsewhere in this catalog, but also the special
admission requirements for aliens, which are: (1) proficiency in the use of spoken
and written English, and (2) satisfactory evidence that adequate financial arrange-
ments have been made for the applicant to pursue his program of studies. Applica-
tion for one of these scholarships must be made at least four months before the student
plans to enter the University, and should be addressed to the Director of Latin
American Student Affairs. During the school year 1951-52 there were some 150 Latin
American students on campus, of whom 128 had fellowships provided by the Florida
State Legislature.
 RESEARCH FACILITIES
 Library facilities for research by students in the School of Inter-American Studies
are being regularly augmented through purchases made by members of the staff in the
course of their travels in various Latin American areas and through the cooperation
of a Library Committee of Latin American scholars, headed by Dr. Emeterio Santovenia
of Cuba, who send materials from time to time to the University. A large Caribbean
Collection has been in existence for a number of years and it is being added to con-
tinually. For students interested especially in the Spanish background of Florida
history, there are available on the campus the Library of the Florida Historical Society
and the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History.