拉丁美洲和加勒比研究文学硕士（MALACS）是一个独特的跨学科课程，允许学生根据自己的研究和职业兴趣设计课程。对于那些无法将研究和专业兴趣集中到一个学科中的学生，该计划特别有价值。该计划强调了密切的师生建议关系。MALACS学生研究了影响拉丁美洲和加勒比海地区的宗教，政治，经济，社会和文化进程，并从该计划中脱颖而出，并具备成为教育，政府，非政府，商业和商业等各个领域的领导者所需的专业知识。人类和社会服务，等等。重点领域包括但不限于比较政治，比较社会学，古巴研究，文化研究，经济学，环境研究，外交政策和安全研
Master of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (MALACS) is a unique interdisciplinary program that allows students to design their program based on their own research and career interests. The Program is particularly valuable to those students whose research and professional interests cannot be accommodated within a single discipline. The program stresses a close faculty-student advising relationship.<br>FIU's location in Miami, a city known as The Gateway to Latin America, positions students close to the heart of the region, both physically and culturally, creating unique opportunities for study and research. <br>The flexible program encourages students to develop their own concentration based on individual interests, expertise, and academic and professional goals.<br>The interdisciplinary curriculum prepares students for careers that require in-depth knowledge of Latin America and the Caribbean, its peoples and societies. Students may choose courses taught by more than 300 interdisciplinary faculty associates from various departments and across colleges and schools at FIU.<br>Students may enroll in joint Master's degree programs in International Business or Law, saving both time and money. Students have access to FIU's extensive Latin American and Caribbean library holdings and resources including FIU Special Collections, the Diaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection, and the Digital Library of the Caribbean.<br>Alumni are employed in a variety of public and private industries in the U.S. and abroad. They currently serve as research directors, teachers, NGO administrators, diplomatic representatives, policy-makers, and small business owners. Many alumni of the program have also gone on to pursue PhDs and many have excelled in careers in higher education.