| LALC 101-01 |
Introduction to Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies
Instructor: Elise Bartosik-Velez, Diego Domanico 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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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 104 |
| LALC 123-01 |
Latinx Studies
Instructor: Amy Farrell, Andy Aguilera
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-03. Who are Latinxs? At nearly 20% of the population (and growing), Latinxs comprise the largest minority group in the United States. Despite this large number, however, U.S. popular discourse about Latinxs continues to be plagued by assumptions, stereotypes, and misunderstandings. For instance, not all Latinxs speak Spanish, not all Latinxs are immigrants, and not all Latinxs like or would even use the term "Latinx." Through an interdisciplinary approach to Latinx histories, cultures, and politics, this course introduces students to the breadth and diversity of Latinx experiences in the United States as well as to Latinx Studies as a site of scholarly inquiry. While Latinx presence in the United States is a story of im/migration, it is also a story of overlapping histories of colonization, U.S. imperial expansion, and U.S. intervention into Latin America. Major topics in this course may include the politics of labeling; race, racialization, and ethnicity; borders and borderlands, including recent events at the U.S.-Mexico border; cultural change, assimilation, and resilience; gender and sexuality; and popular culture and representation. In addition to helping us better understand the experiences of Latinxs in the United States, this course asks how Latinx experiences and Latinx Studies can help us better understand America.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 303 |
| 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 272-01 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 272-01 and AFST 220-02.
Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ghana Mosaic. While the class is open to all students, students in the Mosaic will be given priority. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. This course is cross-listed as HIST 272. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| LALC 283-01 |
Latin American-U.S. Relations
Instructor: Marcelo Borges
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 283-01. A study of political, economic, and cultural relations between Latin America and the United States from the early 19th century to the present. The evolution of inter-American relations is analyzed in light of the interplay of Latin American, U.S., and extra-hemispheric interests.
This course is cross-listed as HIST 283.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TR
DENNY 104 |
| LALC 300-01 |
The Profitability of 19th Century Slave Trade in the Americas through Literary and Cinematic Sources
Instructor: Allen Zegarra
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02. The slave trade in the Americas has been explored through several lenses. Despite the enormous amount of information available, one aspect that still arouses controversy is whether it was a profitable business. This course uses literary and cinematic sources to approach the profitability of the slave trade in 19th century Americas. Based on the information provided in the primary sources (novels and films), the mechanisms used to obtain profits from the slave trade are identified, classified, analyzed, and contrasted with those from secondary sourceshistory, sociology, philosophy, and business. The use of novels and films as primary sources aims at establishing how profitability in the slave trade in 19th century Americas is depicted and how this depiction mirrors or clashes with reality. Pierre Bourdieus, Stuart Halls, Louis Althussers, and Michel Foucaults perspectives, among others, will provide theoretical frameworks to guide our sessions.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| 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: Carolina Castellanos
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 220-02 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 272-01 and LALC 272-01.
Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ghana Mosaic. While the class is open to all students, students in the Mosaic will be given priority.
During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 200-03 |
Latinx Studies
Instructor: Amy Farrell, Andy Aguilera
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 123-01. Who are Latinxs? At nearly 20% of the population (and growing), Latinxs comprise the largest minority group in the United States. Despite this large number, however, U.S. popular discourse about Latinxs continues to be plagued by assumptions, stereotypes, and misunderstandings. For instance, not all Latinxs speak Spanish, not all Latinxs are immigrants, and not all Latinxs like or would even use the term "Latinx." Through an interdisciplinary approach to Latinx histories, cultures, and politics, this course introduces students to the breadth and diversity of Latinx experiences in the United States as well as to Latinx Studies as a site of scholarly inquiry. While Latinx presence in the United States is a story of im/migration, it is also a story of overlapping histories of colonization, U.S. imperial expansion, and U.S. intervention into Latin America. Major topics in this course may include the politics of labeling; race, racialization, and ethnicity; borders and borderlands, including recent events at the U.S.-Mexico border; cultural change, assimilation, and resilience; gender and sexuality; and popular culture and representation. In addition to helping us better understand the experiences of Latinxs in the United States, this course asks how Latinx experiences and Latinx Studies can help us better understand America.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 303 |
| 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 |
| HIST 272-01 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 220-02 and LALC 272-01.
Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ghana Mosaic. While the class is open to all students, students in the Mosaic will be given priority. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. This course is cross-listed as LALC 272. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| HIST 283-01 |
Latin American-U.S. Relations
Instructor: Marcelo Borges
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 283-01. A study of political, economic, and cultural relations between Latin America and the United States from the early 19th century to the present. The evolution of inter-American relations is analyzed in light of the interplay of Latin American, U.S., and extra-hemispheric interests.
This course is cross-listed as LALC 283.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TR
DENNY 104 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 231-01 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-05. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 305 |
| SPAN 231-02 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-06.This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 305 |
| SPAN 231-03 |
Chilean and Argentine Adventures through Contemporary Literature
Instructor: Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger
Course Description:
This class will embark on a series of literary adventures crafted by some of the most well-known contemporary authors tied to Chile and Argentina. Special attention will be given to literary works about Valparaso, Chile, and by authors from Mendoza, Argentina (both sites of one of our study-abroad programs). Using the selected texts as vehicles for literary analysis, students will write and revise several formal papers throughout the semester.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
BOSLER 318 |
| 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 |
| Courses Offered in WGSS |
| WGSS 201-05 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-01. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 305 |
| WGSS 201-06 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-02. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 305 |