Spring registration is fast approaching! Join Latin American and Caribbean Studies faculty members this winter for a diverse range of coursework.
Latin American History Courses
HSTCMP 251 / 290: CROSSING BORDERS: BECOMING LATINX IN THE UNITED STATES
Instructor: Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva
TTh | 12:30-2:20 p.m. | SAV 264
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 15308
Course Description
Examines special topics in history.
HSTLAC 321 / 490: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF PANAMA: NATURE AND IMPERIAL CROSSROADS
Instructor: Jess Cavalari
TTh | 2:30-4:20 p.m. | SMI 307
2-5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 21409
HSTLAC 384 Latin America: Inter-American and Intra-Continental Relations
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
MW | 12:30-2:20 p.m. | SAV 264
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 21585
Course Description
Inter-American relations, focusing on the United States’ diplomatic and military responses to the problems of Latin America since 1776. Intra-Latin American relations and regional organizations (e.g., the Organization of American States).
Contemporary Latin American Courses
JSIS A 323: Inter-American Relations
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
MW | 12:30-2:20 p.m. | SAV 264
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 15810
Course description
Explores the Americas’ evolving political, economic, and social relationships since the 1900s. Focuses on state policies of genocide, extraction, and colonial occupation, as well as social practices of migration and transnational movements of resistance and solidarity. Examines how race, gender, labor, and class have shaped inter-American dynamics, moving beyond U.S.-focused perspectives to highlight Latin America’s role in reshaping the region.
JSIS A 492: Latin American Studies Seminar
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
W | 3:30-6:20 p.m. | THO 215
5 credits (SSc, W) | SLN: 15824
Course description
Media and politics in Latin America.
SPAN 474: Latin American Fiction: Twentieth Century
Instructor: Elizabeth Hochberg
TTh | 2:30-4:20 p.m. | ART 006
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 19959
Course Description
Study of prose fiction in Latin America in the twentieth century.
Latin American Electives
CHSTU 256: Chicanas: Gender and Race Issues
Instructor: Elizabeth Ramirez Arreola
MW | 11:30 a.m.-1:20 p.m. | MUS 223
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 12378
Course description
Contemporary issues in the Chicana movement since the 1940s. Issues range from feminism and Chicana political, educational, and social organizations, to work, family, health, and the arts.
CHSTU 320: Food Sovereignty Movements in Mexico and the United States
Instructor: Devon Pena
TTh | 3:30-5:20 p.m. | MUS 223
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 12379
Course description
Interdisciplinary study of agrifood systems and food sovereignty movements in Mexico and Mexican-origin communities in the United States. Uses the methods and materials of ethnography, agroecology, and political ecology in concert with environmental history, rural sociology, deconstructive discourse analysis, eco-criticism, and predictive ecology.
CHSTU 405: Advanced Chicano Studies in Social Science
Instructor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
MW | 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. | MUE 154
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 12380
Course description
Advanced study of historical, cultural, social, political, and economic experiences of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os in the U.S. across the Americas and diaspora through social science theories and methods. Topics include ethnicity, gender, labor, the military, family, migration, diasporic and transborder communities, indigeneity, social movements, global health, the law, politics, and the environment.
ENGL 362: Latino Literary Genres
Instructor: Alexandria Ramos
TTh | 11:30 a.m.-1:20 p.m. | ART 317
5 credits (A&H, DIV) | SLN: 14135
Course Description
Considers how conventions of genre have been distributed in U.S Latino literature and beyond in networks of Latino transnationalism and trans-border exchanges. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts.
SPAN 338: Spanish and Latin American Literary Journalism
Instructor: Samuel Jaffee
MW | 12:30-2:20 p.m. | SAV 164
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21436
Course Description
Covers print and digital selections of literary journalism. Explores cultural and narrative reportage with a social purpose, and profiles of individual experiences in Spanish and Latin American societies.
SPAN 395: Special Topics in Latin American Literature
Instructor: Elizabeth Hochberg
TTh | 12:30-2:20 p.m. | SAV 158
3, 5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 19956
Course Description
Focuses on an individual Latin American author or a special topic in Latin American literature.
Language courses
PORT 201: Intermediate Portuguese
Instructors: Eduardo Viana Da Silva, Felipe Carneiro de Figueredo
MTWThF | 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. | MEB 251
TTh | 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. | SAV 164
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 19077, 19076
Course Description
Modern texts, compositions, conversation, and a systematic review of grammar. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 203: Intermediate Spanish
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 8:30-9:20 a.m. | SAV 157
MTWThF | 9:30-10:20 a.m. | LOW 112
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 19941, 19942
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.