Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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AES 442 Undocumented Immigrant Communities
Instructor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
MW | 1:30 – 3:20 | SAV 164
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10150
Course Description
Sociological examination of the concepts of undocumented, citizen, and the structuring of (il)legality as they are situated in axes of power, specifically in racialized and gendered contexts. Topics include identity formation and experiences across communities, i.e., UndocuLatino, UndocuBlack, UndocuAsian and Pacific Islander, and UndocuQueer. Institutional outcomes in migration, law, labor, education, carceral spaces, and health.
ART H 309 Topics in Art History
Instructor: Jennifer A. Baez
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 PM | ART 003
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 10529
Course Description
Art and Encounter in Spanish America
ANTH 367 Indigenous Medicines
Instructor: Paula Saravia
MW | 10:30 – 12:20 | PCAR 297
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 22889
Course Description
Survey of Indigenous medical systems with an emphasis on ethnobotany and use of medicinal plants used as part of the therapeutic process. Examines the role of healers in orienting medical encounters in community and clinical spaces. Introduces theoretical perspectives developed by Indigenous healers, scholars, and practitioners.
DANCE 218 Afro-Peruvian Dance
Instructor: Monica M. Rojas
TTh | 10:30 – 12:20 | MNY 267
2 credits (A&H) | SLN: 13600
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 236 Salsa and Afro-Caribbean Social Dance
Instructor: Juliet McMains
MWF | 12:30 – 2:20 | MNY 267
3 credits (A&H, DIV) | SLN: 13603
Course Description
Instruction in salsa and other Afro-Caribbean social dances, such as mambo, rumba, bachata, and cha cha cha, contextualized through study of dance as a site for community and individual negotiation of ethnicity, race, and gender.
SPAN 317 Spanish and Latin American Literature in English Translation / GLITS 314 B Literature Across Genres/Modes
Instructor: Elizabeth Hochberg
TTh | 1:30 – 3:20 | DEN 156
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21078, 15898
Course Description
Spanish and Latin American literature in English translation, with consideration of their background and influence.
SPAN 492 Individual Authors and Special Topics in Latin American Literature
Instructor: Jose Francisco Robles
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 | SAV 137
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21089
Course Description
Focuses on an individual Latin American author or a special problem in Latin American literature.
CHSTU 224 Life and Labor in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Instructor: Lupe Alberto Flores
TTh | 10:30 – 12:20 | CMU 326
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 12628
Course Description
Focuses on inhabitants of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands since the nineteenth century. Emphasizes the fungible U.S.-Mexico border, industrialization of the Southwest and northern Mexico, cultures of migration, and the creation of “Greater Mexico.” Influence of labor and migration in gender constructions.
JSIS 200 The Making of the Modern World
Instructor: Sunila S. Kale
TTh | 8:30 – 9:50 | KNE 220
Th | 10:30 – 11:20 | MEB 251
Th | 10:30 – 11:20 | MEB 250
Th | 11:30 – 12:20 | SAV 162
Th | 12:30 – 1:20 | SAV 130
Th | 12:30 – 1:20 | SAV 162
Th | 1:30 – 2:20 | PCAR 297
F | 9:30 – 10:20 | LOW 112
F | 10:30 – 11:20 | SMI 311
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 16738, 16739, 16740, 16741, 16742, 16743, 16744, 16745, 16746
Course Description
Provides a global history of the present by investigating the relationships between political forces, economic processes, and socio-cultural dynamics of expansion, domination, and resistance. By looking into the past to understand the contemporary world, examines how the modern world came to be structured around nation-states, when most economies became capitalist, and why most societies are organized around structures of inequality.
JSIS A 185 / HSTLAC 185 Race, Gender, and Class in Latin America and the Caribbean
Instructor: Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 | SMI 304
TH | 11:30 – 12:20 | SAV 136
F | 9:30 – 10:20 | SMI 309
F | 10:30 – 11:20 | SAV 157
5 credits (DIV, SSc, W) | SLN: 16234, 16235, 16236, 16237
Course Description
Explores the power struggles generated by imperial expansion, colonialism, and processes of nation-formation (1400 to the present) in the forging of Latin America and the Caribbean. Examines how gender, race, sex, and class became crucial means to sustain, navigate, and challenge domination as well as to imagine alternative futures.
JSIS A 342 / POL S 342 Government and Politics of Latin America
Instructor: Jonathan Frederick Warren
TTh | 2:30 – 4:20 | SMI 405
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 22529
Course Description
Analyzes the political dynamics of change in Latin America, comparing various national approaches to the political problems of modernization, economic development, and social change.
JSIS B / ENVIR / SMEA 433 Environmental Degradation in the Tropics
Instructor: TBA
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 | SIG 224
5 credits (NSc, SSc) | SLN: 22599
Course Description
Considers theories and controversies of environmental degradation in the tropics, ecological and social case studies of Central American rain forests and Southeast Asian coral reefs, and implications of environmental management techniques.
Language Courses
PORT 110: Accelerated Elementary Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 11:30-12:20 p.m. | SAV 157
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 20193
Course Description
Covers the equivalent of PORT 101 and PORT 102 to prepare for . May not be taken in addition to PORT 101 or PORT 102.
PORT 202: Intermediate Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 12:30 -1:20 | SAV 157
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 20194
Course Description
Modern texts, compositions, conversation, and a systematic review of grammar. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | LOW 106
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | LOW 101
5 credits | SLN: 21015, 21017
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | LOW 106
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | LOW building room101
5 credits | SLN: 21015, 21017
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | LOW 102
5 credits | SLN: 21018
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 103 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | SAV 138
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | LOW 101
5 credits | SLN: 21027, 21035
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Third in a sequence of three.
SPAN 110 Accelerated Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | SAV 131
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 | SAV 131
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | SAV 138
5 credits | SLN: 21048, 21049, 21050
Course Description
Covers the equivalent of SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 ot 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 | 10:30-11:20 a.m. | SAV 166
MTWThF | 12:30-1:20 p.m. | SAV DEN 259
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21051, 21052
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: TBD
MTWThF | 9:30-10:20 a.m. | SAV 139
MTWThF | 11:30-12:20 a.m. | SAV 137
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21065, 21066
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: TBD
MTWThF | 10:30-11:20 a.m. | SAV 156
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21067
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.