Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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HSTLAC 280 Drug Wars in Latin America
Instructor: Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva
TTh | 12:30 – 2:20
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 15134
Course Description
Analyses “War on Drugs” in Latin America as political, economic, and socio-cultural construct. Investigates local, regional and global dynamics rendering some mood-altering substances as legal while subjecting others to prohibitionist policies at different historical times. Explores racial, class and gender logics shaping these processes. Examines how informal economies are well entrenched within longstanding, transnational institutions.
HSTLAC 323 Inter-American Relations
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
TTh | 2:30 – 4:20
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 15135
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 201: The Making of the Twenty-First Century
Instructor: Scott L. Montgomery
MWF | 11:30 – 12:20 | RAI 121
MW | 1:30 – 2:20 | SAV 164
TTh | 10:30 – 11:20 | THO 202
TTh | 11:30 – 12:20 | CMU 243
5 credits (SSc, W) | SLN 15562, 15563, 15564, 15565
Course Description
Provides a historical understanding from the mid-twentieth century to major global issues today. Focuses on interdisciplinary social science theories, methods, and information relating to global processes, and on developing analytical and writing skills to engage complex questions of causation and effects of global events and forces.
JSIS A 486 Film and Cultural Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Instructor: Jonathan Frederick Warren
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 | CMU 226
5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN: 15618
Course Description
Covers an interdisciplinary exploration of Latin American and Caribbean cultural productions including documentary, film, and photography. Examines their intersections with politics and social life during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
JSIS A 492 Latin American Studies Seminar
Instructor: Vanessa Freije
T | 11:30 – 2:20 | MGH 085
5 credits (SSc, W) | 15619
CHSTU 200 Latinos in the United States: Patterns of Racial, Ethnic, and Socio-Economic and Political Inequality
Instructor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
MW | 1:30 – 3:20 | OUG 141
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | 12221
Course Description
Studies broad patterns of inequality formed by historical forces, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, immigration, and social capital. Analyzes rapid growth and adjustment of old and newly established Latino communities, resulting from transnational migration from Latin America.
CHSTU 405 Advanced Chicano Studies in Social Science
Instructor: Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
MW | 9:30 – 11:20 | THO 231
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN 12222
Course Description
Advanced study of historical, cultural, social, political, and economic experiences of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os in the US 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.
SPAN 338 Reporting Cultures in Twenty-First Century Latin America
Instructor: Samuel J Jaffee
MW | 12:30 – 2:20 | SAV 138
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 19800
Course Description
Study of twenty-first-century literary and cultural journalism and docu-fiction. Explores cultural and narrative reportage with a social purpose, and personal profiles of individual experiences in Latin American societies. Taught in English.
LSJ 381: Contemporary Issues In Rights
Instructor: Sebastian Rubiano-Galvus
TTh | 3:30 – 4:50 | SAV 260
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 16364
Course Description
Environmental justice in the US and Latin America. This course will introduce students to environmental justice debates and literature, with particular emphasis on the US and Latin America.
Language Courses
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish
Instructor:
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | SAV 138
5 credits (A&H) | 19785
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:
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | ECE 042
5 credits (A&H) | 19786
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: TBA
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | SAV 138
5 credits (A&H) | 19787
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 101 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBA
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | SAV 136
5 credits (A&H) | 19778
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: TBA
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | DEN 258
5 credits (A&H) | 19779
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish
Instructor
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | DEN 258
5 credits (A&H) | 19780
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 103 Elementary Spanish
Instructor
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 | SAV 138
5 credits (A&H) | 19781
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Third in a sequence of three.
SPAN 103 Elementary Spanish
Instructor
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20 | AND 201
5 credits (A&H) | 19782
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Third in a sequence of three.
SPAN 103 Elementary Spanish
Instructor: Inma M Raneda-Cuartero
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | ECE 026
5 credits (A&H) | 19783
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Third in a sequence of three.
PORT 201 Intermediate Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20 | SAV 164
5 credits (A&H) | 18916
Course Description
Modern texts, compositions, conversation, and a systematic review of grammar. First in a sequence of three.
PORT 301 Advanced Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 | SAV 164
5 credits (A&H) | 18917
Course Description
Emphasizes oral skills while continuing to refine reading comprehension and written expression. Aims to develop abilities to successfully deal with comprehension and production of oral texts of an academic and professional n