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Latin American and Latino/a Studies
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RELATED COURSES
Approved courses for 2009-2010:
Anthropology:
234 Culture, Power and Politics
Offered Spring 2010
237 Native South Americans
Offered Spring 2011
269 Indigenous Cultures and the State of
Mesoamerica
Offered Fall 2010
Art:
204 Ancient Americas: Art, Architecture and
Archaelogy
Offered Fall 2009
Comparative Literature:
268 Latina and Latin American Women Writers
Offered Spring 2010
Economics:
213 The World Food System
Offered Fall 2009
318 Latin American Economics Seminar
Offered Fall 2009
First Year Seminars:
150 Making Sense of the Pre-Columbian
Offered Fall 2009
159 What’s in a Recipe?
Offered Fall 2009
Government:
216 Minority Politics
Offered Spring 2011
220 Introduction to Comparative Politics
Offered Spring 2010, Fall 2010
226 Latin American Political Systems
Offered Fall 2009, Fall 2010
237 Colloquium: Politics and the U.S./Mexico Border
Offered Spring 2010, Spring 2011
307 Seminar in American Government
Topic: Latinos and Politics in the United States
Offered Fall 2010
322 Seminar in Comparative Government
Topic: Mexican Politics from 1910-Present
Offered Fall 2009
History:
260 Colonial Latin America, 1492-1825
Offered Fall 2009, Fall 2010
261 National Latin America, 1821 to the Present
Offered Spring 2010, Spring 2011
361 Problems in the History of Spanish America
and Brazil
Topic: Public Health and Social Change in
Latin America, 1850-Present
Offered Spring 2011
Presidential Seminars:
301 Translating New Worlds
Offered Spring 2010
Sociology:
213 Ethnic Minorities in America
Offered Spring 2010
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 220 Contemporary Cityscapes: Mapping Brazilian
Culture onto an Urban Grid
Offered Fall 2009
POR 221 Topics in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
and Culture
Topic: Popular Music, Nationhood, and
Globalization in the Portuguese-
Speaking World
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 230 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular
Literature
Topic: Female Visions of Mexico
Offered Fall 2009
SPN 230 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular
Literature
Topic: A Transatlantic Search for Identity
Offered Fall 2009
SPN 230 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular
Literature
Topic: Central American Poetry of War and
Peace
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 240 From Page to Stage
Topic: Homage to Gabriel García Márquez
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 245 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Studies
Topic: Latin American Film Today: Global
Visions, Local Expressions
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 246 Topics in Latin American Literature
Topic: Latin American Jewish Writers
Offered Fall 2009
Topics in Latin American Literature
Topic: Literary Constructions of Afro-Cuban
Identity
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 246 Topics in Latin American Literature
Topic: Zapatismo Now: Cultural Resistance
on the “Other” Border
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 260 Survey of Latin American Literature I
Offered Fall 2009
SPN 261 Survey of Latin American Literature II
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 372 Seminar: Topics in Latin American and Iberian
Studies
Topic: Stages of Conflict: Performing Memory
and Change in Spain and Latin America
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 372 Topics in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Topic: Women, Environmental Justice and Social
Action
Offered Spring 2010
SPN 373 Literary Movements in Spanish America
Topic: Literature, Film and the Transnational
Imagination
Offered Fall 2009
SPN 380 Seminar: Advanced Literary Studies
Topic: Translating Poetry
Offered Spring 2010
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