Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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ARCHY 304: Archaeology Of The Americas
Instructor TBD
5 credits (SSc) | SLN 10430
Course Description
Explores the history of earliest Americans, beginning with crossing of land bridge between Asia and North America and eventual spread over the Americas. Highlights prehistory and best examples of western hemisphere’s states and empires. Covers Mexico, Yucatan, Peru, southwestern and eastern United States, Washington.
ART H 309: Topics in Art History
Instructor Jennifer A. Baez
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 10521
Course Description
ART AND ENCOUNTER IN SPANISH AMERICA
CHSTU 101: The Chicano/Mexican Ethnic Experience in the United States
Instructor Lupe Alberto Flores
5 Credits (SSc and DIV) | SLN 12437
Course Description
Examines the Chicano/Mexican American experience, with a focus on past and contemporary issues of race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status.
GEOG 230: Geographies of Global Inequality
Instructor: TBD
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN 15209, 15210, 15211, 15212
Course Description
Addresses increasing global inequalities by focusing on shifting spatial division of labor and the role of the international development industry in shaping economic and social inequality. Examines relationships between economic globalization, development industry, and rising global inequality: reviews the history and record of the international development project, and asks what it means to say that Western, advanced economies are not the norm.
HSTCMP 251: Latinx, Colonialism, And Borders: Becoming Latinx In the United States
Instructor: Ileana Rodriguez-Silva
5 credits (SSc) | SLN 15654
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
JSIS 201: The Making of the Twenty-First Century
Instructor: David Bachman
5 credits (SSc) | SLN 16111
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 342/ POL S 342: Government and Politics of Latin America
Instructor: Roberto Dondisch
5 credits (SSc) | SLN 16162
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 361: Migrant Justice: Contemporary Movements For Change
Instructor: Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
5 credits (Div, SSc) | SLN 16196
Course Description
Explores migrant justice efforts, focusing on the contemporary United States in a global context. Analyzes challenges faced by migrants from around the world in the contemporary United States and the efforts made to address them. Investigates research and advocacy efforts in promoting migrant rights, utilizing recent developments, such as current border policies and their ongoing impacts, as case studies.
JSIS D 451: Cultural Geography of Latin America
Instructor Jose Alavez
5 credits (SSc) | SLN 16219
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.
SPAN 340: Introduction to Latin American Poetry
3 credits (A&H) | SLN 20529
Course Description
Traces the oral, musical, and written traditions of Latin American poetry.
SPAN 461: Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies
Instructor Jose Francisco Robles
5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN 20538
Course Description
Examines Latin American society and its cultural production. Major movements in the development of Latin American society and intellectual life as reflected in music, the visual arts, literature, etc. Specific topics vary.
Language Courses
PORT 103: Elementary Portuguese III
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 19584
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Covers all major elements of Portuguese grammar. Third in a sequence of three.
SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I
Instructor: TBD
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 20470, 21979, 22016
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.
SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II
Instructor: TBD
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 20471, 20472
Course Description
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Second in a sequence of three.
SPAN 103: Elementary Spanish III
Instructor: TBD
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 20473, 20479, 20480, 20481
Course Descriptions
Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Third in a sequence of three.
SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish I
Instructor: Inma Raneda-Cuartero
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 20491
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 II
Instructor: Jorge Gonzalez-Casanova
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 21961, 20496
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 202: Intermediate Spanish III
Instructor: Sabrina Spannagel
5 credits (A&H) | SLN 20501, 20502
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.