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Latin American and Latino/a Studies
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RELATED COURSES
Approved courses for 2008-2009:
Anthropology:
237 Native South Americans
Offered Spring 2010
269 Indigenous Cultures and the State of Mesoamerica
Offered Fall 2008
340 Tales of Cannibalism and Capital in Latin America
Offered Spring 2008, Spring 2009
Art:
260 Art Historical Studies
Topic: Current Issues in Latin American Art
Offered Fall 2008
Comparative Literature:
268 Latina and Latin American Women Writers
Offered Spring 2009
Economics:
213 The World Food Systems
Offered Fall 2008
318 Latin American Economics Seminar
Offered Fall 2008
First Year Seminars:
159 What’s in a recipe?
Offered Fall 2008
Government:
216 Minority Politics
Offered Fall 2009
220 Introduction to Comparative Politics
Offered Fall 2008
226 Latin American Political Systems
Offered Spring 2009, Spring 2010
237 Colloquium: Politics and the
U.S./Mexico Border
Offered Spring 2009, Spring 2010
307 Seminar in American Government
Topic: Latinos and Politics in the United
States
Offered Fall 2008
321 Mexican Politics
Offered Fall 2009
History:
260 Colonial Latin America, 1492-1825
Offered Fall 2008, Fall 2009
261 National Latin America, 1821 to the
Present
Offered Spring 2009
361 Problems in the History of Spanish America
and Brazil
Topic: Public Health and Social Change in
Latin America, 1850-Present
Offered Spring 2009
PRS:
151 Translating New Worlds
Offered Fall 2008
Sociology:
214 Sociology of Hispanic Caribbean
Communities in the United States
Offered Fall 2009
314 Seminar in Latina/o Identity: Latina/o
Racial Identities in the United States
Offered Spring 2010
Spanish and Portuguese:
POR 221 Topics in Portuguese and Brazilian
Literature and Culture
Topic: Envisioning Lusofonia: A Focus
on Film from the Portuguese-Speaking
World
Offered Spring 2009
POR 381 Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian
Studies
Topic: Angola, Brazil, and Cuba: Race,
Nation, and Narrative
Offered Fall 2008
SPN 230 Topics in Latin American and
Peninsular Literature
Topic: The ‘Indian Question’ in Peru
and Mexico: Identity, Nation Building,
and Cultural Autonomy
Offered Spring 2009
Topic: A Transatlantic Search for
Identity
Offered Fall 2008
SPN 240 From Page to Stage: Homage to Gabriel
García Márquez
Offered Spring 2009
SPN 245 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular
Studies
Topic: Literary Constructions of Afro-
Cuban Identity
Offered Fall 2008
Topic: Re-writing histories, re-writing
spaces: Puerto Rican culture and the
search for a national identity
Offered Spring 2009 (see course
description for Latin American
connection)
SPN 260 Survey of Latin American Literature I
Offered Fall 2008
SPN 261 Survey of Latin American Literature II
Offered Spring 2009
SPN 371 Latin American Literature in a Regional
Context
Topic: Centroamérica: Texts, Film,
Music
Offered Fall 2008
SPN 372 Topics in Latin American and Iberian
Studies
Topic: Stages of Conflict: Performing
Memory and Change in Spain and
Latin America
Offered Fall 2008
Topic: Women, Environmental Justice
and Social Action
Offered Spring 2009
SPN 380 Advanced Literary Studies
Topic: Translating Poetry
Offered Spring 2009
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