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AMST 130 Latinx Social Movements: From Bandits to the Young Lords 6 credits
In this class, we will discuss Latinx social and political movements across America, from post-1848 to the twentieth century. We will work to understand both their historical and historiographical impact: What conditions were these movements responding to? What emerged from their actions? And how are these movements talked about and remembered now? We will also track state responses to these movements, including the creation of law enforcement agencies in the Southwest and national counterintelligence programs.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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AMST 130.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
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AMST 396 Producing Latinidad 6 credits
As Arlene Dávila points out in Latinos Inc, Latinidad—the term that names a set of presumably common attributes that connects Latinxs in the U.S.—emerges in part from communities but, importantly, is developed heavily by the media, advertising, and other political and social institutions, including academia. In this course we consider how ideas and imaginings of who Latinxs are and what Latinidad is develop within political spaces (the electorate, the census), in local places, and through various media, including television, advertising, and music. We will consider how individual writers and artists contribute to the conversation. Throughout, we will engage with social and cultural theories about racial formation, gender, and sexuality.
- Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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American Studies 115 or instructor consent
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ARCN 111 Archaeology of the Americas 6 credits
This class will examine how archaeologists know the past, focusing on North and South America. The course is organized by themes including migration (first peopling of the Americas, trans-Atlantic slave trade), early cities (Caral in South America, Teotihuacan in Central America, Cahokia in North America), and the environment (domestication, over hunting). Remember–the past is not something natural and static that waits to be “discovered.” The past changes depending on who gets to tell the story–it is not neutral! Whose past is legitimate? Which voices get heard or ignored? In this course, you will find out!
- Winter 2022, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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ARCN 111.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:40am
- FAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:30am
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ARCN 111.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:20pm
- M, WAnderson Hall 122 11:10am-12:20pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 12:00pm-1:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 122 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARCN 211 Coercion and Exploitation: Material Histories of Labor 6 credits
What do antebellum plantations, Spanish missions, British colonies in Australia, mining camps in Latin America, and Roman estates all have in common? All are examples of unfair/unfree and forced labor in colonial and imperial settings. This class will review archaeological, archival, and ethnographic cases of past coerced and exploitative labor, and compare them with modern cases such as human trafficking, child slavery, bonded labor, and forced marriage. Case studies include the Andes under Inka and Spanish rule, North American and Caribbean plantations, British colonial Australia, and Dutch colonial Asia.
- Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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ARCN 211.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 8:15am-10:00am
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ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development 6 credits
This course explores household behavior in developing countries. We will cover areas including fertility decisions, health and mortality, investment in education, the intra-household allocation of resources, household structure, and the marriage market. We will also look at the characteristics of land, labor, and credit markets, particularly technology adoption; land tenure and tenancy arrangements; the role of agrarian institutions in the development process; and the impacts of alternative politics and strategies in developing countries. The course complements Economics 241.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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Held for students participating in Winter Break Bangladesh program
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ECON 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Participation in Winter Break OCS Program
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 242 Economy of Latin America 6 credits
This course offers an introduction to the economy of Latin America. We will study the region’s policies undertaken during its colonial period and its development strategy during the twentieth century. Topics include import substitution industrialization, the 1980s debt crisis, hyperinflation, dollarization, and international trade agreements. Besides these experiences shared by many countries in Latin America, we will also analyze selected country-specific ones such as the Brazilian stabilization plans and the recent Argentine sovereign debt crisis.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Economics 110
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ECON 242.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 244 Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Latin American Economic Development 6 credits
Latin America has the highest level of inequality in the world, undergirded by significant racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities. This course will analyze key gender issues such as violence against women and women’s labor force participation. We will also examine issues affecting indigenous peoples from both a human capital and indigenous rights/development with identity framework. The focus will be on rigorous analysis to understand the problems and design better public policy.
- Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 244.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Andrew Morrison 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 277 History and Theory of Financial Crises 6 credits
The course provides an historical perspective on financial bubbles and crashes and critically examines theories of financial crises. The course will look at the long history of financial crises to highlight recurring themes and to try to determine, among other things, what went wrong, what elements precede most crises, and which responses were effective.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 277.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 277.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 10:00am-11:10am
- FLeighton 304 9:50am-10:50am
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ECON 277.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 277.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 227 Imagining the Borderlands 6 credits
This course engages the borderlands as space (the geographic area that straddles nations) and idea (liminal spaces, identities, communities). We examine texts from writers like Anzaldúa, Butler, Cervantes, Dick, Eugenides, Haraway, and Muñoz first to understand how borders act to constrain our imagi(nation) and then to explore how and to what degree the borderlands offer hybrid identities, queer affects, and speculative world-building. We will engage the excess of the borderlands through a broad chronological and generic range of U.S. literary and visual texts. Come prepared to question what is “American”, what is race, what is human.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 241 Latinx Voices in the Age of Trump 6 credits
The last few years have placed Latinx communities under siege and in the spotlight. The demands of the census and new policies around immigration mean that who counts as Latinx and why it matters has public visibility and meaning. Simultaneously, the last few years have seen an incredible growth of new literary voices and genres in the world of Latinx letters. From fictional and creative nonfiction accounts of detention camps, border crossings, and asylum court proceedings to lyrical wanderings in bilingualism to demands for greater attention to Afrolatinidad and the particular experiences of Black Latinxs–Latinx voices are rising. We will engage with current literary discussions in print, on twitter, and in literary journals as we chart the shifting, developing terrain of Latinx literatures.
- Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 241.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ENTS 250 Food, Forests & Resilence 6 credits
The course will explore how the idea of sustainability is complicated when evaluated through a socio-ecological framework that combines anthropology and ecology. To highlight this complexity, the course is designed to provide a comparative framework to understand and analyze sustainable socio-ecological propositions in Minnesota and Oaxaca. Key conceptual areas explored include: coupled human-natural systems, resilience (ecological and cultural), self-determination, and social justice across stakeholders. The course includes a series of fieldtrips to nearby projects of interest. This course is part of the OCS winter break Oaxaca program, involving two linked courses in fall and winter terms. This class is the first class in the sequence.
Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico
- Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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One of the following is recommended: Environmental Studies 110, Sociology/Anthropology 110, Sociology/Anthropology 250, Biology 210, History 170 or History 205
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ENTS 250.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤 · Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 100 Beloved or Dangerous: Cities in Latin American History 6 credits
Beloved or dangerous. Ordered or chaotic. Modern or backward. What motivated these conflicting descriptions of Latin American cities? Why were cities like Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro so important as places of political and economic power? How were these cities sites of cultural exchange for immigrant, Afro-Latin American, and Indigenous communities? In this course, we will answer these questions by exploring the histories of Latin America cities from the colonial period to the present. We will consider how urban spaces shaped people’s identities and daily lives and how these cities became places of national and global influence.
Held for incoming first year students
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100 U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Declassified View 6 credits
“Colossus of the North” or “Good Neighbor”? While many of its citizens believe the United States wields a benign influence across the globe, the intent and consequences of the U.S. government’s actions across Latin America and Latin American history offers a decidedly more mixed picture. This course explores the history of Inter-American relations with an emphasis on the twentieth century and the Cold War era. National case studies will be explored, when possible through the lens of declassified U.S. national security documents. Latin American critiques of U.S. involvement in the region will also be considered.
Held for new first year students
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HIST 100.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 169 Colonial Latin America 6 credits
This course examines the formation of Iberian colonial societies in the Americas with a focus on the lives of “ordinary” people, and the ways scholars study their lived experience through the surviving historical record. How did indigenous people respond to the so-called Spanish conquest? How did their communities adapt to colonial pressures and demands? What roles did African slaves and their descendants play in the formation of colonial societies? How were racial identities understood, refashioned, or contested as these societies became ever more globalized and diverse? These and other questions will serve as the starting point for our study of the origins and formation of contemporary Latin America.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 169.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 303 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 303 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present 6 credits
This course focuses on the legacy of colonial rule and asks how nascent nation-states dealt with new challenges of political legitimacy, economic development, and the rights of citizens. Case studies from the experiences of individual nations will highlight concerns still pertinent today: the ongoing struggle to extend meaningful political participation and the benefits of economic growth to the majority of the region’s inhabitants, popular struggles for political, economic, and cultural rights, and the emergence of a civic society.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 170.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 170.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 170.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 170.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 161 10:00am-11:10am
- FWeitz Center 161 9:50am-10:50am
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HIST 170.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 170.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 177 Borderlands in Latin American History 6 credits
Fluid borders, imagined frontiers, and contested territories have shaped Latin American history from the colonial period through the present. The course asks, how did people cross borders and form new identities? How did they engage with the landscape around them? Focusing on regions including Patagonia, the Gran Chaco, the Brazilian Sertão, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this course explores the complexity of regional, national, and transnational identities. Course themes include the relationship between mapping and power, peoples’ relationship with the environment, the enslavement of African and Indigenous peoples in frontier regions, conflicts over contested regions, and processes of nation-building.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 177.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 179 Modern Latin America Through Music 6 credits
Latin American popular music is traditionally studied through the lens of anthropology and ethnomusicology as a folkloric expression. This course, however, explores the social dynamics and historical meaning of the music. Through the analysis of popular musical pieces, related scholarship and course projects, we will learn about the historical background, the socio-political and cultural contexts and meaning of different musical expressions, relevant composers, performers and musical instruments of the region. We will also learn about the presence and legacy of Latin American music in the United States.
- Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 179.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 305 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 273 Disease and Health in Latin American History 6 credits
Yellow fever, malaria, chagas, dengue, tuberculosis, and cholera preoccupied physicians, scientists, politicians, and urban planners in Latin America from the colonial period through the present. This course explores how ideas about health and disease were connected to race, ethnicity, and status during the colonial period and linked with nation-building during the nineteenth century. It examines how health and disease intertwined with imperialist projects and intersected with modernization campaigns during the twentieth century. It also considers the relationship between medical institutions, physicians, midwives, and healers. Other course topics include how perceptions about health, including mental and reproductive health, shaped people’s experiences.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 273.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 275 Latin American Immigration to the US 6 credits
Immigration from Latin America has historically been, and continues to be, a topic of concern and controversy in the United States. This course seeks to provide a clear and informed understanding of the phenomenon. It surveys various migration waves from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America. Through a variety of audio-visual sources, scholarship, testimonies/memoirs, and other materials, students will examine the political and economic factors that pushed people out of their countries and pulled them into the United States; the migrants’ perilous journey to the north; and the everyday life of these migrants once they are in the U.S.
- Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 275.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 277 The Other September 11th: History & Memory in Chile 6 credits
September 11, 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’état that deposed the democratically elected government of socialist Salvador Allende and ushered in the seventeen-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Students will examine this era through published eyewitness accounts and testimony, oral history projects, documentary film, photography and music. The course covers the rise and fall of Allende’s government, life under both Unidad Popular and Pinochet, the 1980s protest movement against military rule, and the ongoing struggles and debates over human rights, justice, and collective memory.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 277.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 278 The Aztecs and Their World 6 credits
Come explore the world of feathered serpents, smoking mirrors, flower songs, and water mountains! This course examines from multiple disciplinary perspectives the Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico under both Aztec and early Spanish rule (spanning approximately the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries). Students will gain experience working with a range of sources produced by Nahua authors, scribes, and artists, including ritual calendars, imperial tribute records, dynastic annals, and translated documents. The College’s rich collection of Mesoamerican codex facsimiles will play a prominent role in our investigation. No prior knowledge is required or expected.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 278.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 279 Central American Revolutions 6 credits
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, civil war and political violence swept the Central American isthmus. The impact of these conflicts is still felt in the region as well as in the United States. This course examines the regional as well as the international factors that contributed to the rise of these armed conflicts. Through the examination of print and audio-visual primary sources as well as scholarship students will learn about the origins, development, and legacies of these revolutions. We will examine the colonial legacies, capitalist development, ethnic and racial conflict, foreign intervention, civil wars, and, finally, the consequential waves of migration to the U.S. and to other parts of the world.
- Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 279.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LTAM 110 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 3 credits
This fast-paced introductory Portuguese language course focuses on developing communication skills and emphasizes speaking, reading, and writing. Previous knowledge of Spanish is assumed in presentation of grammar and vocabulary.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
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Spanish 204 or instructor permission
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LTAM 110.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Helena Kaufman 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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LTAM 110.00 Spring 2021
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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LTAM 110.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Helena Kaufman 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 330 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 330 8:30am-9:30am
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LTAM 110.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Helena Kaufman 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 330 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 330 8:30am-9:30am
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LTAM 220 Eating the Americas: 5,000 Years of Food 6 credits
Food is both a biological necessity and a cultural symbol. We eat to survive, we “are what we eat,” and delicious foods are “to die for.” What does this all mean in the context of Latin America, which gave us the origins of peanut butter (peanuts), spaghetti sauce (tomatoes), avocado toast (avocados), french fries (potatoes), and power bowls (quinoa)? In this class, we will explore the long history humans have had with food in Latin America, drawing from archaeology, ethnohistory, and anthropology to explore the relationship between food, culture, power, identity, gender, and ethnicity.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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LTAM 220.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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LTAM 398 Latin American Forum 2 credits
This colloquium will explore specific issues or works in Latin American Studies through discussion of a common reading, public presentation, project, and/or performance that constitute the annual Latin American Forum. Students will be required to attend two meetings during the term to discuss the common reading or other material and must attend, without exception. All events of the Forum which take place during fourth week of spring term (on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning). A short integrative essay or report will be required at the end of the term. Intended as capstone for Latin American Studies concentrators.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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MUSC 241 Music of Latin America 6 credits
This course is designed to increase your awareness of musical styles in Latin America within particular social, economic, and political contexts. We will cover topics related to popular, folkloric, classical, and indigenous musics spanning from Mexico to South America’s Southern Cone. The course will include elements of performance and dance instruction in addition to a critical examination of lived experiences across the region. No previous musical experience is necessary.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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MUSC 241.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Lahasky 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am
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PHIL 304 Decolonial Feminisms 6 credits
This course familiarizes students with major issues and debates within the emerging field of decolonial feminist philosophy. We will start by considering some of the historical, geopolitical, and theoretical underpinnings from which decolonial feminisms emerged. We will then investigate core concepts and problems pertaining to decolonial feminisms as a critical methodology and as a practice to build solidarity between and across anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist schools of thought and/or political coalitions. We will pay particular attention to Latina feminist philosopher María Lugones and her development of the “colonial modern gender system” and her articulation of “decolonial feminism.”
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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One prior course in Philosophy or a relevant area of studies or permission of the instructor.
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PHIL 304.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 120 Democracy and Dictatorship 6 credits
An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries. We will also explore key issues in contemporary politics in countries around the world, such as nationalism and independence movements, revolution, regime change, state-making, and social movements.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 305 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:20am-12:20pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:30am-9:40am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WAnderson Hall 329 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 329 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 221 Latin American Politics 6 credits
Comparative study of political institutions and conflicts in selected Latin American countries. Attention is focused on general problems and patterns of development, with some emphasis on U.S.-Latin American relations.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 221.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FLAC
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POSC 221.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 221.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 227 Contemporary Capitalisms 6 credits
This course examines the intersections between political and economic power: how markets are embedded in social and political institutions and how they in turn shape political life and institutions. It begins with a survey of classic and contemporary theoretical frameworks, followed by an overview of the history of contemporary market economies and the search for “development,” both in the global north as well as the south. It then analyzes the contemporary varieties of capitalism across the globe, with a focus on their varying responses to challenges like globalization, economic crises, technological transformations, and climate change.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 227.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 265 Capitalist Crises, Power, and Policy 6 credits
This course examines the interaction of national politics and international economic activity. Topics include the relationship between national and international finance, global competitiveness, and economic development. Case studies drawn from every continent.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Statistics 120 strongly recommended, or instructor permission
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Extra Time
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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RELG 227 Liberation Theologies 6 credits
An introduction to liberationist thought, including black theology, Latin American liberation theology, and feminist theology through writings of various contemporary thinkers. Attention will be directed to theories of justice, power, and freedom. We will also examine the social settings out of which these thinkers have emerged, their critiques of “traditional” theologies, and the new vision of Christian life they have developed in recent decades. Previous study of Christianity is recommended but not required.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 227.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SOAN 203 Anthropology of Good Intentions 6 credits
Is the environmental movement making progress? Do responsible products actually help local populations? Is international AID alleviating poverty and fostering development? Today there are thousands of programs with sustainable development goals yet their effectiveness is often contested at the local level. This course explores the impacts of sustainable development, conservation, and AID programs to look beyond the good intentions of those that implement them. In doing so we hope to uncover common pitfalls behind good intentions and the need for sound social analysis that recognizes, examines, and evaluates the role of cultural complexity found in populations targeted by these programs.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 036 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 203.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 203 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SOAN 233 Anthropology of Food 6 credits
Food is the way to a person’s heart but perhaps even more interesting, the window into a society’s soul. Simply speaking understating a society’s foodways is the best way to comprehend the complexity between people, culture and nature. This course explores how anthropologists use food to understand different aspects of human behavior, from food procurement and consumption practices to the politics of nutrition and diets. In doing so we hope to elucidate how food is more than mere sustenance and that often the act of eating is a manifestation of power, resistance, identity, and community.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Sophomore Priority
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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Sophomore Priority, Class Fees Apply
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore priority
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore priority
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SOAN 313 Woke Nature: Towards an Anthropology of Non-Human Beings 6 credits
The core of anthropological thought has been organized around the assumption that the production of complex cultural systems is reserved to the domain of the human experience. While scholars have contested this assumption for years, there is an emerging body of scholarship that proposes expanding our understandings of culture, and the ability to produce meaning in the world, to include non-human beings (e.g. plants, wildlife, micro-organisms, mountains). This course explores ethnographic works in this field and contextualizes insights within contemporary conversations pertaining to our relationship with nature, public health, and social justice movements that emerge within decolonized frameworks.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 313.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 323 Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment 6 credits
Why are so many sustainable development projects anchored around women’s cooperatives? Why is poverty depicted as having a woman’s face? Is the solution to the environmental crisis in the hands of women the nurturers? From overly romantic notions of stewardship to the feminization of poverty, this course aims to evaluate women’s relationships with local environments and development initiatives. The course uses anthropological frameworks to evaluate case studies from around the world.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 323.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 323.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 343 Advanced Ethnographic Workshop 6 credits
This advanced methods course is designed to have students think about the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork by showcasing a powerful and rigorous mode of inquiry that informs societal questions in unique ways. The main goals are to explore classic ethnographies with an eye towards methods and experience ethnographic research in its entirety: from exploratory observations, into the process of defining cultural hypotheses, to the coding of various kinds of qualitative and quantitative ethnographic evidence. Ethnographic methods explored include: participant observation, semi-structured interviewing techniques, cultural mapping, pile sorting activities, photo-essays, and network analysis.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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The department strongly recommends that 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 343.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SOAN 343.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 353 Ethnography of Latin America 6 credits
This course explores the origins and development of contemporary lived experiences in Latin America as interpreted through ethnographic works in anthropology. We will examine and analyze the structural processes that have shaped contact among indigenous, European, and non-European immigrants (e.g. African and Asian peoples) in Latin America since the Conquest and through colonial periods to understand today’s Latin American societies. We will pay special attention to the impacts of global capitalist expansion and state formation, sites of resilience and resistance, as well as the movement of Latin American peoples throughout the world today. Course themes will address gender, identity, social organization, indigeneity, immigration, social inequality and environment.
Not open to students who have taken SOAN 250
- Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 353.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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SOAN 353.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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SOAN 353.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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SPAN 218 Introduction to Latin American Cinema 6 credits
This course will introduce the student to several production systems and aesthetic traditions in Latin American cinema, from silent cinema to current Netflix productions, allowing students to engage cinematic debates by situating them in their national, regional and global cultural contexts. Be prepared to be immersed in the moving image and its cultural significance through the viewing of many films and critical work on them. Recommended as a foundation course for further study.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or the equivalent
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SPAN 218.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 220 Racism, Immigration, and Gender in Contemporary Latin American Narrative 6 credits
This course focuses on contemporary short stories and short novels. We will read some of the most relevant living authors from Latin America including Carlos Gamerro, Pilar Quintana, Kike Ferrari, Yeniter Poleo, Antonio José Ponte, among others. This will expose students to the most pressing issues in today’s Latin America, ranging from gender, violence, racism, and inmigration. We will interview at least one of the authors read during the term and discuss the social implications of their literature in today’s world.
- Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or equivalent
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SPAN 220.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SPAN 242 Introduction to Latin American Literature 6 credits
An introductory course to reading major texts in Spanish provides an historical survey of the literary movements within Latin American literature from the pre-Hispanic to the contemporary period. Recommended as a foundation course for further study. Not open to seniors.
Not open to seniors
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or proficiency
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 242.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 250 The Carnival Trail: Carnival Literature in Latin America 6 credits
Carnivals are frequently associated with colourful crowds, merrymaking and excess. But what role do carnivals play in the construction of national and collective identities? We will try to answer this and other questions focusing on films, paintings, and literary texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that represent some of the most popular carnivals in Latin America: Candombe (Uruguay), Yawar Fiesta (Peru), Blacks and Whites (Colombia), Oruro (Bolivia), and Rio (Brazil). We will analyze them from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes literary criticism, anthropology, and history. Students will engage with debates about nation, popular culture, modernity/modernization, and intangible cultural heritage.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or the equivalent
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SPAN 250.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Ingrid Luna 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 319 Works on Work: Films and Literature on Labor in Latin America 6 credits
This course studies the cultural representation of labor in Latin America. It focuses on the racial division of labor over the colonial, industrial, and neoliberal periods. We will analyze a wide range of visual and literary representations of Native, Black and women workers under the Encomienda labor system; peonages during the period of independence and specific national contexts (i.e. rubber tapper); industrial workers throughout the twentieth century (blue-collar workers); as well as the role of unemployment and precarized labor within the context of globalization.
- Winter 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 319.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SPAN 319.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SPAN 330 The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes’ Don Quijote 6 credits
Among other things, Don Quijote is a “remake,” an adaptation of several literary models popular at the time the picaresque novel, the chivalry novel, the sentimental novel, the Byzantine novel, the Italian novella, etc. This course will examine the ways in which Cervantes transformed these models to create what is considered by many the first “modern” novel in European history.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 330.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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SPAN 330.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SPAN 356 The Political and Cultural History of the Cuban Revolution 6 credits
In 2014 Obama and Castro simultaneously announced the end of an era: the Cold War. This announcement was a turning point for one of the most influential and symbolically important political movements in Latin America: The Cuban Revolution. We will study the political and historical background that sustained this revolution for over fifty years. We will read historical, political, philosophical, and cultural texts to understand this process and the fascination that it commanded around the world. We will also examine the different exoduses that this revolution provoked and the exile communities that Cubans constructed in different parts of the world.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 356.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SPAN 356.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SPAN 356.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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SPAN 366 Jorge Luis Borges: Less a Man Than a Vast and Complex Literature 6 credits
Borges once said about Quevedo that he was less a man than a vast and complex literature. This phrase is probably the best definition for Borges as well. We will discuss the many writers encompassed by Borges: the vanguard writer, the poet, the detective short story writer, the fantastic story writer, the essayist. We will also study his many literary masks: H. Bustoc Domecq (the apocryphal writer he created with Bioy Casares) a pseudonym he used to write chronicles and detective stories. We will study his impact on contemporary writers and philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida, Roberto Bolaño, etc.
- Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 366.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SPAN 366.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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SPAN 366.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SPAN 376 Mexico City: The City as Protagonist 6 credits
This seminar will have Mexico City as protagonist, and will examine the construction of one of the largest urban centers of the world through fictional writing, cultural criticism, and visual/aural culture. We will critically engage the fictions of its past, the dystopias of its present, the assemblage of affects and images that give it continuity, but which also codify the ever-changing and contested view of its representation and meaning. From Carlos Fuentes to Sayak Valencia, in the company of Eisenstein and Cuarón, among others.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 376.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:35pm
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SPAN 376.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:35pm
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SPAN 376.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:35pm
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SPAN 385 Riots, Rebellions & Revolutions in Latin America 6 credits
Latin American cultural history is one of agitation and turmoil. Since colonial times, Riots, Rebellions, and Revolutions are not only at the center of Latin America’s politics, but also its art, literature, and culture. Through a survey of a representative selection of canonical and non-canonical Latin American texts (including literary pieces, films, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, among others), this course will examine the intersections between literature, politics of unrest, and intellectuals in Latin America. Students will gain an understanding of fundamental topics of Latin American cultural and political history, including colonialism, modernity, racism, and political resistance.
- Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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SPAN 385.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm