| LALC 101-02 |
Introduction to Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies
Instructor: Diego Vega
Course Description:
A multi-disciplinary, introductory course designed to familiarize students with the regions through a study of their history, economics, politics, literature, and culture in transnational and comparative perspective. The purpose of the course is to provide a framework that will prepare students for more specialized courses in particular disciplines and specific areas of LALC studies.
Required of all LALC majors.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 311 |
| LALC 121-01 |
Introduction to Africana Studies
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 100-01. This interdisciplinary introduction to Africana Studies combines teaching foundational texts in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. The course will cover Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the creation of African Disaporic communities, the conceptualization and representation of Black culture and identity, and the intellectual and institutional development of Black and Africana Studies.This course is cross-listed as AFST 100.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| LALC 200-01 |
Making Home: Latina Writings
Instructor: Elena Perez-Zetune
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-02. What makes home? Is home a place, a person, a feeling, or a community? Maybe home is not a place you can go to, but a language you speak. What if you cannot return home? In this class we will encounter Latina writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and more through the lens of home. In other words, this class focuses on how Latinas represent home in their works. We will begin with an introduction to feminist and critical race theories, enabling us to better read, analyze, and interpret course texts, visuals, and audio materials.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| LALC 239-01 |
Spanish for the Health Professions
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 239-01. This course prepares students to use Spanish meaningfully in real-world health contexts by combining classroom learning with direct service. This is a space where linguistic, cultural, ethical, and social knowledge come together. Through reflection, reading, and a sustained partnership with the Beacon Clinic, students build the vocabulary, cultural awareness, and interpersonal skills required to serve Spanish-speaking communities with empathy and clarity. By applying Spanish in healthcare settings, students confront the complexities of power, equity, and responsibility, especially in the context of migration, labor, and structural inequality. Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or above, or permission of instructor. This course is cross-listed as SPAN 239.
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11:30 AM-12:45 PM, MF
LIBRY ALDEN |
| LALC 251-01 |
Latin American Government and Politics
Instructor: Diego Vega
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 251-01. An introduction to the politics of contemporary Latin America. Emphasis is placed upon the varied political institutional responses to socio-economic change in the Americas. Major countries to be analyzed include Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba.
Prerequisite: one course in political science or Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies. This course is cross-listed as POSC 251.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 311 |
| LALC 295-01 |
Introduction to U.S. Latinx/Chicanx Literature and Culture
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-03 and SPAN 295-01. This interdisciplinary introduction to Latinx/Chicanx Studies discusses foundational historical, cultural, political, artistic, and literary texts of U.S. Latinx/Chicanx communities. This class will cover the varied lives and identities of Latinx/Chicanx individuals, with a particular focus on the Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean diaspora. Specific course emphasis will depend on the professor. This course may be taught primarily in Spanish or English, depending on the material covered. Prerequisite: SPAN 229; 231; or permission of the instructor. This course is cross-listed as SPAN 295.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| LALC 300-01 |
From Plantation to Page: Literary Conscience in the Francophone Caribbean
Instructor: Benjamin Ngong
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 310-01 and FREN 401-01. This course is taught in French.
This seminar explores contemporary literature from Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique in relation to the political, linguistic, and cultural legacies of colonialism. Caribbean writers create distinctive aesthetics that weave together resistance, memory, and identity reconstruction within contexts of cultural domination and globalization. Through novels, poetry, and essays, combined with critical and psychoanalytic approaches, the course examines tensions between dominant and marginalized languages, the reimagining of symbolic spaces, and the shaping of collective memory. Ultimately, it considers how Francophone Caribbean literature negotiates France's political and cultural hegemony while engaging with evolving global paradigms of power, voice, and identity.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 214 |
| LALC 300-02 |
Unstable Realities: Truth and Fiction in Argentine Literature
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-01. This course examines the shifting boundaries between truth and fiction in Argentine short literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the works of Borges, Cortzar, Bioy Casares, Schweblin, Enriquez, Saer, and others, we will explore how authors manipulate narrative structure, perception, memory, and historical discourse to question the nature of reality. How do stories construct or distort truth? What happens when fiction becomes more "real" than reality itself? Assignments will include critical essays, philosophical reflections, and creative exercises, encouraging students to engage analytically and imaginatively with these texts.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
LIBRY E. ASIAN |
| LALC 490-01 |
Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Research into a topic concerning Latin America directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students must successfully defend their research paper to obtain course credit. The paper is researched and written in the fall semester for 1.0 credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for .50 credit.
Prerequisite: senior majors.
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| Courses Offered in AFST |
| AFST 100-01 |
Introduction to Africana Studies
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 121-01. This interdisciplinary introduction to Africana Studies combines teaching foundational texts in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. The course will cover Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the creation of African Disaporic communities, the conceptualization and representation of Black culture and identity, and the intellectual and institutional development of Black and Africana Studies.
This course is cross-listed as LALC 121.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| AFST 310-01 |
From Plantation to Page: Literary Conscience in the Francophone Caribbean
Instructor: Benjamin Ngong
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FREN 401-01 and LALC 300-01. This course is taught in French.
This seminar explores contemporary literature from Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique in relation to the political, linguistic, and cultural legacies of colonialism. Caribbean writers create distinctive aesthetics that weave together resistance, memory, and identity reconstruction within contexts of cultural domination and globalization. Through novels, poetry, and essays, combined with critical and psychoanalytic approaches, the course examines tensions between dominant and marginalized languages, the reimagining of symbolic spaces, and the shaping of collective memory. Ultimately, it considers how Francophone Caribbean literature negotiates France's political and cultural hegemony while engaging with evolving global paradigms of power, voice, and identity.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 214 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 101-02 |
Making Home: Latina Writings
Instructor: Elena Perez-Zetune
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 200-01. What makes home? Is home a place, a person, a feeling, or a community? Maybe home is not a place you can go to, but a language you speak. What if you cannot return home? In this class we will encounter Latina writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and more through the lens of home. In other words, this class focuses on how Latinas represent home in their works. We will begin with an introduction to feminist and critical race theories, enabling us to better read, analyze, and interpret course texts, visuals, and audio materials.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| Courses Offered in FMST |
| FMST 210-03 |
Introduction to U.S. Latinx/Chicanx Literature and Culture
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Permission of Instructor Required. Cross-listed with LALC 295-01 and SPAN 295-01. This interdisciplinary introduction to Latinx/Chicanx Studies discusses cultural, literary, historical, political, and artistic texts produced within U.S. Latinx/Chicanx communities. This class will cover the varied lives and identities of Latinx individuals, with a particular focus on the Caribbean diaspora. This course will be taught primarily in English, with the FLIC option available for credit towards majors/minors in Spanish.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in FREN |
| FREN 401-01 |
From Plantation to Page: Literary Conscience in the Francophone Caribbean
Instructor: Benjamin Ngong
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 310-01 and LALC 300-01. This course is taught in French.
This seminar explores contemporary literature from Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique in relation to the political, linguistic, and cultural legacies of colonialism. Caribbean writers create distinctive aesthetics that weave together resistance, memory, and identity reconstruction within contexts of cultural domination and globalization. Through novels, poetry, and essays, combined with critical and psychoanalytic approaches, the course examines tensions between dominant and marginalized languages, the reimagining of symbolic spaces, and the shaping of collective memory. Ultimately, it considers how Francophone Caribbean literature negotiates France's political and cultural hegemony while engaging with evolving global paradigms of power, voice, and identity.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 214 |
| Courses Offered in POSC |
| POSC 251-01 |
Latin American Government and Politics
Instructor: Diego Vega
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 251-01. An introduction to the politics of contemporary Latin America. Emphasis is placed upon the varied political institutional responses to socio-economic change in the Americas. Major countries to be analyzed include Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba. Prerequisite: one course in political science or Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies. This course is cross-listed as LALC 251.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 311 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 231-01 |
Mexican Women in Drug Trafficking
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Across the world and throughout history, statistics have shown that men commit more crimes than women. However, women's involvement with drug trafficking in Latin America has grown exponentially. The main goal of this class is to analyze Mexican women's diverse and complex participation in drug trafficking while developing writing skills in Spanish. Some of the questions the course will discuss are: How are women represented? What are women saying and experiencing? Does women's participation in drug trafficking challenge traditional rules and values? Are conventional notions of femininity and masculinity redefined by women's participation in the criminal world? Because it is a writing-intensive (WR) course, students will take a process approach to writing (drafting, peer reviewing, feedback, and editing). Students will read newspaper clips, testimonials, interviews, watch a film, and listen to narcocorridos.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 222 |
| SPAN 295-01 |
Introduction to U.S. Latinx/Chicanx Literature and Culture
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-03 and LALC 295-01. This interdisciplinary introduction to Latinx/Chicanx Studies discusses foundational historical, cultural, political, artistic, and literary texts of U.S. Latinx/Chicanx communities. This class will cover the varied lives and identities of Latinx/Chicanx individuals, with a particular focus on the Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean diaspora. Specific course emphasis will depend on the professor. This course may be taught primarily in Spanish or English, depending on the material covered. Prerequisite: SPAN 229; 231; or permission of the instructor. This course is cross-listed as LALC 295.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| SPAN 299-01 |
Migration and Exile in Caribbean Contexts
Instructor: Mariana Past
Course Description:
In this course we will explore a variety of texts by Caribbean and diasporic writers (in Spanish) that address issues of migration and exile from different cultural and historical perspectives. Our focus will be on developing effective tools, techniques, and critical approaches for reading and interpreting works of literature, film, and music. Students will learn to examine discourses, analyze arguments, and construct and defend arguments of their own, orally and in writing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 213 |
| SPAN 380-01 |
Unstable Realities: Truth and Fiction in Argentine Literature
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-02. This course examines the shifting boundaries between truth and fiction in Argentine short literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the works of Borges, Cortzar, Bioy Casares, Schweblin, Enriquez, Saer, and others, we will explore how authors manipulate narrative structure, perception, memory, and historical discourse to question the nature of reality. How do stories construct or distort truth? What happens when fiction becomes more "real" than reality itself? Assignments will include critical essays, philosophical reflections, and creative exercises, encouraging students to engage analytically and imaginatively with these texts.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
LIBRY E. ASIAN |