| LALC 121-01 |
Introduction to Africana Studies
Instructor: Naaja Rogers
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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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
ALTHSE 110 |
| LALC 230-01 |
Early Latin American History to 1800
Instructor: Marcelo Borges
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 130-01.
Survey of pre-Colombian and colonial Latin American history. Students explore the major ancient civilizations of the Americas, the background and characteristics of European conquest and colonization, the formation of diverse colonial societies, and the breakdown of the colonial system that led to independence. The course includes both the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas from a comparative perspective.
This course is cross-listed as HIST 130.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| LALC 239-01 |
Spanish for the Health Professions
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 239-01.
This is a specialized course emphasizing Spanish language and culture as they relate to health and medicine. The course goal is written and oral communication and cultural fluency as they relate to Global Health Care, Food Security, Immigration, and the delivery of health-care services to Limited-English-Proficient, Hispanic patients. Off-campus volunteer work with native Spanish speakers is required. Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or above, or permission of instructor. This course is cross-listed as SPAN 239.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
LIBRY E. ASIAN |
| LALC 300-01 |
Andean Futurism
Instructor: Andrea Lopez
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02.In the early 2000s a group of native American writers started a literary movement that challenged imperialistic structures of science fiction (invasion, colonization, and exploitation of resources). Grace Dillon, coined the term Indigenous Futurism to name this movement, and defined it as contemporary experimental science fiction that holds ancient Indigenous epistemologies as core elements. Thus, Indigenous Futurism implies a process of decolonization that impacts all aspects of culture in societies with a strong indigenous heritage. This process has led to different outcomes and sub-genres across the Americas. Currently, in the Andean countries of South America, artists of diverse disciplines have conveyed the particularities of the indigenous cosmovision of the region to shape the Andean Futurism. This course will study the Andean Futurism in the works of writers, musicians and visual artists that are envisioning the future of their nation based on indigenous pre-Columbian epistemologies. The materials for the course will include the novel Saturnina from time to time, An oral history of the future by Allison Spedding, the video-art Andean Space Caravan by Alan Poma, and the album Isqun by Renata Flores, among others.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 313 |
| LALC 390-01 |
Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Elise Bartosik-Velez
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 401-01.Permission of instructor required.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 318 |
| LALC 490-01 |
Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Marcelo Borges
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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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, M
DENNY 315 |
| Courses Offered in AFST |
| AFST 100-01 |
Introduction to Africana Studies
Instructor: Naaja Rogers
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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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
ALTHSE 110 |
| Courses Offered in HIST |
| HIST 130-01 |
Early Latin American History to 1800
Instructor: Marcelo Borges
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 230-01. Survey of pre-Colombian and colonial Latin American history. Students explore the major ancient civilizations of the Americas, the background and characteristics of European conquest and colonization, the formation of diverse colonial societies, and the breakdown of the colonial system that led to independence. The course includes both the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas from a comparative perspective.
This course is cross-listed as LALC 230.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 231-01 |
Mexican Women in Drug Trafficking
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos
Course Description:
Across the world and throughout history, statistics have shown that men commit more crimes than women. However, womens involvement with drug trafficking in Latin America has grown exponentially. The main goal of this class is to analyze Mexican womens 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 womens participation in drug trafficking challenge traditional rules and values? Are conventional notions of femininity and masculinity redefined by womens 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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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 213 |
| SPAN 231-02 |
Mexican Women in Drug Trafficking
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos
Course Description:
Across the world and throughout history, statistics have shown that men commit more crimes than women. However, womens involvement with drug trafficking in Latin America has grown exponentially. The main goal of this class is to analyze Mexican womens 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 womens participation in drug trafficking challenge traditional rules and values? Are conventional notions of femininity and masculinity redefined by womens 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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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 213 |
| SPAN 239-01 |
Spanish for the Health Professions
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 239-01. This is a specialized course emphasizing Spanish language and culture as they relate to health and medicine. The course goal is written and oral communication and cultural fluency as they relate to Global Health Care, Food Security, Immigration, and the delivery of health-care services to Limited-English-Proficient, Hispanic patients. Off-campus volunteer work with native Spanish speakers is required.
Prerequisite: 202 or 205. This course is cross-listed as LALC 239.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
LIBRY E. ASIAN |
| SPAN 401-01 |
Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Elise Bartosik-Velez
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 390-01.Permission of instructor required. Students will work on a semi-independent basis along with the professor on a focused research project. Students will choose a research project that investigates a particular aspect of Hispanic or Luso-Brazilian studies. Students will be required to submit regularly scheduled progress reports and will participate in discussions on research strategies, the writing process, and peer review of their writing. Students will be required to present their research at various stages. The culmination of this course will be a research paper that may serve as a launching pad for the Honors Thesis in the spring semester. Offered regularly in the fall and occasionally in spring semesters. Students may write their papers in Spanish or English, depending on their priorities and interests.Prerequisite: SPAN 299, two 300-level courses, and permission of the professor based on the professors advanced approval of the students topic. This course is cross-listed as LALC 390.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 318 |
