Latin American and Caribbean Studies
CHSTU 101 The Chicano/Mexican Ethnic Experience in the United States
Instructor: Lupe Alberto Flores
MW | 10:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 12473
Course Description
Examines the Chicano/Mexican American experience, with a focus on past and contemporary issues of race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status.
CHSTU 352 Latina/o Migrations: A Comparative Analysis
Instructor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
TTh | 10:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 12476
Course Description
Comparative studies of migrations to the U.S. from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. Key theories and conceptual frameworks for understanding Latina/o migration and other key migrations to the U.S. Analyses of structural powers, the state, and identify formation in areas such as work, family, political participation, and community.
CHSTU 359/ POL S 359 U.S. Latino Politics
Instructor: Sophia J Wallace
MW | 1:00 – 2:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc, W) | 12477, 19439
Course Description
Examines historical and current political incorporation of Latinos in the United States. Topics include Latino voting and voter mobilization, office seeking and representation, Latino public opinion, and public policy formation on “Latino issues.”
CHSTU 498 Special Topics In Chicano Studies
Instructor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
TTh | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
3-5 credits (SSc) | 12480
Course Description
Interdisciplinary course concentrating on one or more aspects of the Chicano experience.
CHID 488 Encountering Animals: Ethics, Culture, And Politics
Instructor: MariaElena Garcia
W | 9:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 12442
Course Description
Explores some ethical, political, and cultural questions regarding non-human animals and invites student to engage in debates about companion animals, the industrial food complex, zoos, and links between race, class, gender, sexuality, and species.
DANCE 218 Afro-Peruvian Dance
Instructor: Monica M. Rojas
TTh | 10:30 – 12:20 PM
2 credits (A&H) | 13340
Course Description
Covers one or more of the following Afro-Peruvian dance genres: festejo, zapateo, lando, zamacueca, and/or marinera. Studio-based course that focuses on movement practice developed by African-descent populations in the Peruvian coast. Includes an introduction to the cultural, historical, and sociopolitical context in which the dances emerged and evolved.
DANCE 287 Capoeira
Instructor: silvio aleixo dos reis
MW | 4:30 – 6:20 PM
2 credits (A&H) | 13350
Course Description
Practice-based instruction in the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira, including movement, music, culture, history.
GWSS 346 Feminisms In The Borderlands
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027
TTh | 3:30 – 5:20 PM
5 credits (A&H, DIV) | 15231
Course Description
Examines feminist approaches to borderlands as sites of critique, political struggle, and embodiment. Analyzes how borders – geographic, social, and symbolic – shape ideas of difference and serve as sites for feminist strategizing. Explores theoretical texts, poetry, digital platforms, social media, podcasts, and other creative works including dance and music.
GEOG 344/ JSIS B 344 Migration In The Global Economy
Instructor: Mark Ellis
MW | 3:30 – 4:50 PM
5 credits (SSc) | 15119, 16096
Course Description
Analyzes the relationship between human migration and local and global economic change. Allows students to gain familiarity with scholarly research on migration from a diversity of approaches and methods.
GEOG 451/ JSIS D 451 Cultural Geography Of Latin America
Instructor: Jose Alavez
MW | 3:30 – 4:50 PM
5 credits (SSc) | 15129, 16125
Course Description
Interdisciplinary senior seminar examining how physical and social geographies are culturally constructed and interconnected with subjectivities and power in Latin America. Topics include identity formation grounded in particular territories and the social constitution of space via an interplay of material and cultural forces.
HSTCMP 259 Race and Slavery Across the Americas
Instructor: Bianca Dang
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 21881
Course Description
Surveys development of racial slavery across North and South America and the Caribbean from 1500-1880s. Comparative examination of slavery exploring how slavery supported colonization making European settlement across Americas viable; how ideas about racial difference developed, operated differently; how enslaved peoples’ resistance to bondage helped abolish slavery in Americas by late 1880s.
HSTLAC 325/ JSIS A 325 Modern Mexico: Culture, Politics and Society
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
MW | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
5 credits (SSc) | 15539, 16047
Course Description
Provides an historical survey of Mexican politics, culture, and society. Explores debates about the role of violence and foreign intervention in Mexico’s political development. Topics include revolution, U.S.-Mexico relations, race and gender politics, student movements, cultural production, neoliberalism, and the war on drugs.
JSIS 478 Special Topics in International and Global Studies
Instructor: Angelina Godoy (A: Global Migrant Justice), Danny Hoffman (B: Trump in the World 2.0)
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 PM (A); M | 5:00 – 6:20 PM (B)
5 credits (A), 2 credits (B) (SSc) | 16006, 16007
Course Description
Content varies from quarter to quarter.
JSIS 495 C Task Force: Violence Against Journalists in Mexico
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
TTh | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
5 credits (SSc, W) | 16015
Course Description
Small-group seminars address current problems in international affairs, each focusing on one specific policy question and producing a joint task force report. Restricted to senior majors in International Studies.
LSJ 322/ JSIS A 324 Human Rights In Latin America
Instructor: Angelina Godoy
TTh | 11:30 – 12:50 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 16785, 16040
Course Description
Overview of human rights issues and their recent evolution in Latin American history; military dictatorships; contemporary challenges in the region’s democracies. Human rights concerns in relation to broader sociopolitical context.
MUSIC 251 Music Cultures of the World: the Americas
Instructor: Shannon K Dudley
MW | 10:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits (A&H or SSc) | 17848
Course Description
Music of the Americas.
Language Courses
PORT 103 Elementary Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits | 19485
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Covers all major elements of Portuguese grammar. Third in a sequence of three.
PORT 203 Intermediate Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 PM
5 credits (A&H) | 19487
Course Description
Modern texts, compositions, conversation, and a systematic review of grammar. Third in a sequence of three.
PORT 299 Foreign Study: Intermediate
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
To be arranged
2 credits (A&H) | 19488
Course Description
Intermediate instruction in approved foreign study program.
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027 (B, C)
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 PM (B); MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 PM (C)
5 credits | 20313, 20314
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027 (A, B, C)
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 AM (A); MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 PM (B); MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 PM (C)
5 credits | 20315, 20316, 21740
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 110 Accelerated Elementary Spanish
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits | 20333
Course Description
Covers the equivalent of SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 to prepare for SPAN 103. May not be taken in addition to SPAN 101 or SPAN 102.
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish
Instructor: Inma M Raneda-Cuartero
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits (A&H) | 20334
Course Description
Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Review of Spanish grammar. Oral practice based on literary and cultural readings. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027 (A, C)
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 AM (A); MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 PM (C)
5 credits (A&H) | 20339, 20340
Course Description
Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Review of Spanish grammar. Oral practice based on literary and cultural readings. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish
Instructor: Inma M Raneda-Cuartero (B), Jorge Gonzalez-Casanova (C)
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 AM (B); MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 PM (C)
5 credits (A&H) | 20345, 20346
Course Description
Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Review of Spanish grammar. Oral practice based on literary and cultural readings. Third in a sequence of three.
SPAN 314 Spanish For Bilingual/Heritage Students
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027
MTWTh | 9:30 – 10:20 AM
5 credits (A&H) | 20360
Course Description
Provides bilingual students whose formal education has primarily been in English with the skills necessary to succeed in upper-division Spanish classes. Intensive review of grammar, readings of literary and journalistic texts, Web-based exercises, writing review, and a play to enhance their verbal skills.
SPAN 315 Spanish For Bilingual/Heritage Students
Instructor: Not listed in MyPlan for Winter 2027
MTWTh | 11:30 – 12:20 PM
5 credits (A&H) | 20361
Course Description
Emphasizes reading, with attention to problems particular to Spanish-heritage students. Emphasis on critical reading, vocabulary expansion, and grammar review.
SPAN 316 Stylistics And Composition For Heritage Students
Instructor: Antonio M. Rueda
MTWTh | 10:30 – 11:20 AM
5 credits (A&H) | 20362
Course Description
Emphasis on the process of writing essays to help students develop a notion of style in Spanish, with attention to problems particular to Spanish heritage students.