| LALC 123-01 |
Latinx Studies
Instructor: Elena Perez-Zetune
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-02. Who are Latinxs? At nearly 20% of the population (and growing), Latinxs comprise the largest minority group in the United States. Despite this large number, however, U.S. popular discourse about Latinxs continues to be plagued by assumptions, stereotypes, and misunderstandings. For instance, not all Latinxs speak Spanish, not all Latinxs are immigrants, and not all Latinxs like or would even use the term "Latinx." Through an interdisciplinary approach to Latinx histories, cultures, and politics, this course introduces students to the breadth and diversity of Latinx experiences in the United States as well as to Latinx Studies as a site of scholarly inquiry. While Latinx presence in the United States is a story of im/migration, it is also a story of overlapping histories of colonization, U.S. imperial expansion, and U.S. intervention into Latin America. Major topics in this course may include the politics of labeling; race, racialization, and ethnicity; borders and borderlands, including recent events at the U.S.-Mexico border; cultural change, assimilation, and resilience; gender and sexuality; and popular culture and representation. In addition to helping us better understand the experiences of Latinxs in the United States, this course asks how Latinx experiences and Latinx Studies can help us better understand America.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 212 |
| LALC 200-01 |
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Instructor: Diego Vega
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 290-03 and PORT 380-02. This course analyzes the construction and transformation of Brazil's democracy since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. Part of the semester is an overview of the political and social disputes affecting the country's democratic institutions during this period, using political science research associated with local expressions of political thought. The second half of the course addresses specific topics relevant to Brazil, including social and racial inequalities, environmental destruction (with a focus on the Amazon region), the role of sports in politics, and the military's interference in democratic processes.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| LALC 239-01 |
Spanish for the Health Professions
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 239-01. This is a specialized course emphasizing Spanish language and culture as they relate to health and medicine. The course goal is written and oral communication and cultural fluency as they relate to Global Health Care, Food Security, Immigration, and the delivery of health-care services to Limited-English-Proficient, Hispanic patients. Off-campus volunteer work with native Spanish speakers is required. Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or above, or permission of instructor. This course is cross-listed as SPAN 239.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
KAUF 179 |
| LALC 262-01 |
South American Archaeology
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 262-01 and ARCH 262-01. This course examines the development of prehistoric societies in the South American continent through archaeological data. This course will explore the interactions of culture, economics, and politics in the prehistory of two major regions: the western Andean mountains and Pacific coast, and the eastern lowlands focusing on the Amazon River basin and Atlantic coast. In addition to learning the particular developments in each region, we will address three overarching themes: 1) What role did the environment play in shaping socio-political developments? 2) What influence do ethnographic and ethno-historical sources have on the interpretation of pre-Hispanic societies in South America? 3) What were the interactions between highland and lowland populations, and what influence did they have (if any) on their respective developments?
This course is cross-listed as ARCH 262 and ANTH 262.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 103 |
| LALC 285-01 |
Cu铆r/Queer Brazil
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PORT 380-01 and WGSS 301-05. Course taught in English. Stereotyped as the country of carnival and licentiousness, Brazil combines a complex history of traditional, oppressive, and progressive values and laws. Same-sex marriage was approved in 2013, sex-correction surgeries are supported by the universal health care system, and So Paulo hosts the largest LGBTQIA+ parade in the world. Still, Brazil has the highest recorded number of murders of trans* people in the world. The goal of this course is to analyze the complexities of the literary, historical, and cinematographic production in Brazil of cur authors and topics. The course examines how self-representations and representations have created, challenged, promoted, and affected the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same time, the course foregrounds the importance of how Brazilians have thought about their own curness.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
KAUF 179 |
| LALC 300-01 |
Culture War Dramas: Identity Politics, Crossdressing, and Transgression in Early Modernity
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| LALC 390-01 |
Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 401-01. Permission of Instructor Required.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 222 |
| LALC 490-01 |
LALC Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Research into a topic concerning Latin America directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students must successfully defend their research paper to obtain course credit. The paper is researched and written in the fall semester for 1.0 credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for .50 credit.
Prerequisite: senior majors.
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| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 200-02 |
Latinx Studies
Instructor: Elena Perez-Zetune
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 123-01. Who are Latinxs? At nearly 20% of the population (and growing), Latinxs comprise the largest minority group in the United States. Despite this large number, however, U.S. popular discourse about Latinxs continues to be plagued by assumptions, stereotypes, and misunderstandings. For instance, not all Latinxs speak Spanish, not all Latinxs are immigrants, and not all Latinxs like or would even use the term "Latinx." Through an interdisciplinary approach to Latinx histories, cultures, and politics, this course introduces students to the breadth and diversity of Latinx experiences in the United States as well as to Latinx Studies as a site of scholarly inquiry. While Latinx presence in the United States is a story of im/migration, it is also a story of overlapping histories of colonization, U.S. imperial expansion, and U.S. intervention into Latin America. Major topics in this course may include the politics of labeling; race, racialization, and ethnicity; borders and borderlands, including recent events at the U.S.-Mexico border; cultural change, assimilation, and resilience; gender and sexuality; and popular culture and representation. In addition to helping us better understand the experiences of Latinxs in the United States, this course asks how Latinx experiences and Latinx Studies can help us better understand America.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 212 |
| Courses Offered in ANTH |
| ANTH 262-01 |
South American Archaeology
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 262 and LALC 262-01. This course examines the development of prehistoric societies in the South American continent through archaeological data. This course will explore the interactions of culture, economics, and politics in the prehistory of two major regions: the western Andean mountains and Pacific coast, and the eastern lowlands focusing on the Amazon River basin and Atlantic coast. In addition to learning the particular developments in each region, we will address three overarching themes: 1)What role did the environment play in shaping socio-political developments? 2) What influence do ethnographic and ethno-historical sources have on the interpretation of pre-Hispanic societies in South America? 3) What were the interactions between highland and lowland populations, and what influence did they have (if any) on their respective developments?
This course is cross-listed as ARCH 262 and LALC 262.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 103 |
| Courses Offered in ARCH |
| ARCH 262-01 |
South American Archaeology
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 262-01 and LALC 262-01. This course examines the development of prehistoric societies in the South American continent through archaeological data. This course will explore the interactions of culture, economics, and politics in the prehistory of two major regions: the western Andean mountains and Pacific coast, and the eastern lowlands focusing on the Amazon River basin and Atlantic coast. In addition to learning the particular developments in each region, we will address three overarching themes: 1)What role did the environment play in shaping socio-political developments? 2) What influence do ethnographic and ethno-historical sources have on the interpretation of pre-Hispanic societies in South America? 3) What were the interactions between highland and lowland populations, and what influence did they have (if any) on their respective developments?
This course is cross-listed as ANTH 262 and LALC 262.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 103 |
| Courses Offered in PORT |
| PORT 380-02 |
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Instructor: Diego Vega
Course Description:
cross-listed with LALC 200-01 and POSC 290-03. This course analyzes the construction and transformation of Brazil's democracy since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. Part of the semester is an overview of the political and social disputes affecting the country's democratic institutions during this period, using political science research associated with local expressions of political thought. The second half of the course addresses specific topics relevant to Brazil, including social and racial inequalities, environmental destruction (with a focus on the Amazon region), the role of sports in politics, and the military's interference in democratic processes.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| Courses Offered in POSC |
| POSC 290-03 |
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Instructor: Diego Vega
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 200-01 and PORT 380-02. This course analyzes the construction and transformation of Brazil's democracy since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. Part of the semester is an overview of the political and social disputes affecting the country's democratic institutions during this period, using political science research associated with local expressions of political thought. The second half of the course addresses specific topics relevant to Brazil, including social and racial inequalities, environmental destruction (with a focus on the Amazon region), the role of sports in politics, and the military's interference in democratic processes.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 231-01 |
Mexican Women in Drug Trafficking
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Across the world and throughout history, statistics have shown that men commit more crimes than women. However, women's involvement with drug trafficking in Latin America has grown exponentially. The main goal of this class is to analyze Mexican women's diverse and complex participation in drug trafficking while developing writing skills in Spanish. Some of the questions the course will discuss are: How are women represented? What are women saying and experiencing? Does women's participation in drug trafficking challenge traditional rules and values? Are conventional notions of femininity and masculinity redefined by women's participation in the criminal world? Because it is a writing-intensive (WR) course, students will take a process approach to writing (drafting, peer reviewing, feedback, and editing). Students will read newspaper clips, testimonials, interviews, watch a film, and listen to narcocorridos.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 206 |
| SPAN 231-02 |
Mexican Women in Drug Trafficking
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Across the world and throughout history, statistics have shown that men commit more crimes than women. However, women's involvement with drug trafficking in Latin America has grown exponentially. The main goal of this class is to analyze Mexican women's diverse and complex participation in drug trafficking while developing writing skills in Spanish. Some of the questions the course will discuss are: How are women represented? What are women saying and experiencing? Does women's participation in drug trafficking challenge traditional rules and values? Are conventional notions of femininity and masculinity redefined by women's participation in the criminal world? Because it is a writing-intensive (WR) course, students will take a process approach to writing (drafting, peer reviewing, feedback, and editing). Students will read newspaper clips, testimonials, interviews, watch a film, and listen to narcocorridos.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
ALTHSE 206 |
| SPAN 231-03 |
With, Not About: Creative Complicity in Contemporary Latin American Arts, Film and Literature
Instructor: Adriana Bezerra da Silva
Course Description:
The course will highlight Latin American artistic, audiovisual, and literary productions from the past 20 years, analyzed using a close reading method. Students will explore the differences and similarities of the subjects represented in these works. They will be encouraged to cultivate a critical intercultural perspective that allows them to engage with these views of reality in a complicit and reflective manner. Based on these readings, students will write essays aimed at achieving a critical understanding, rather than the exoticized one of the homogenized thinking of the global North. Subjects often viewed as marginal will gain prominence through an exploration of the power dynamics that shape global thought. The themes addressed in the analyzed productions include sustainable ways of engaging with the environment, diverse perceptions of the passage of time, collectivism versus individualism, and alternative identities.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
BOSLER 308 |
| SPAN 239-01 |
Spanish for the Health Professions
Instructor: Jorge Sagastume
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 239-01. This is a specialized course emphasizing Spanish language and culture as they relate to health and medicine. The course goal is written and oral communication and cultural fluency as they relate to Global Health Care, Food Security, Immigration, and the delivery of health-care services to Limited-English-Proficient, Hispanic patients. Off-campus volunteer work with native Spanish speakers is required.
Prerequisite: 202 or 205. This course is cross-listed as LALC 239.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
KAUF 179 |
| SPAN 380-02 |
Culture War Dramas: Identity Politics, Crossdressing, and Transgression in Early Modernity
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| SPAN 401-01 |
Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 390-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Students will work on a semi-independent basis along with the professor on a focused research project. Students will choose a research project that investigates a particular aspect of Hispanic or Luso-Brazilian studies. Students will be required to submit regularly scheduled progress reports and will participate in discussions on research strategies, the writing process, and peer review of their writing. Students will be required to present their research at various stages. The culmination of this course will be a research paper that may serve as a launching pad for the Honors Thesis in the spring semester. Offered regularly in the fall. Students may write their papers in Spanish or English, depending on their priorities and interests.Prerequisite: SPAN 299, two 300-level courses, and permission of the professor based on the professors advanced approval of the students topic. This course is cross-listed as LALC 390.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 222 |
| Courses Offered in WGSS |
| WGSS 301-04 |
Culture War Dramas: Identity Politics, Crossdressing, and Transgression in Early Modernity
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01 and SPAN 380-02. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |