SPRING 2017
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| LALC 121-01 | Introduction to Africana Studies Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: This interdisciplinary introduction to Africana Studies combines teaching foundational texts in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. The course will cover Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the creation of African Disaporic communities, the conceptualization and representation of Black culture and identity, and the intellectual and institutional development of Black and Africana Studies.This course is cross-listed as AFST 100. |
1030:MWF ALTHSE 201 |
| LALC 121-02 | Introduction to Africana Studies Instructor: Kimberly McNair Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 100-02. This interdisciplinary introduction to Africana Studies combines teaching foundational texts in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. The course will cover Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the creation of African Disaporic communities, the conceptualization and representation of Black culture and identity, and the intellectual and institutional development of Black and Africana Studies.This course is cross-listed as AFST 100. |
1030:TR BOSLER 208 |
| LALC 200-01 | Latina/o Popular Culture Instructor: Eric Vazquez Course Description: Cross-listed with AMST 101-01. This course will examine how the increasing diversity of audiences, voices, and participants in popular culture point to deficits, needs, and changes in American culture. Focusing specifically on Latinas/os, we will analyze representation of Latinas/os in a variety of different genres music, film, sports, and television for what they tell us about race, gender, class, sexuality, citizenship, and language. We will look particularly at how Latinas/os negotiate mainstream media representations and create new forms of culture expression. Exploring how Latinas/os produce media representations that defy both narrow understandings of Latinidad as well as dominant U.S. culture, class discussion will explore how identity is produced and contested through popular culture. |
0900:TR DENNY 21 |
| LALC 200-02 | Lusomusics Instructor: Lila Ellen Gray Course Description: Cross-listed with MUAC 210-01 and PORT 380-01. This course investigates select musical genres and soundscapes in 20th-21st century Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil as a lens into understanding four national cultures interlinked through a common language, geographical positioning in relation to the Atlantic ocean, and histories of Portuguese colonialism. Working with a wide range of case studies, from urban and popular music genres, to revivals of traditional music and dance, to newly emergent expressive forms, Lusomusics uses musical ethnographies, histories, and sound and video recordings as the materials through which to think about colonialism/post-colonialism, culture, musical circulation, and contact. Likewise, this course introduces students to the analytic tools to think critically about the production and packaging of lusomusics and their histories for international markets for world music. |
1030:TR WEISS 221 |
| LALC 231-01 | Modern Latin American History since 1800 Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 131-01. Introduction to Latin American history since independence and the consolidation of national states to the recent past. Students explore social, economic, and political developments from a regional perspective as well as specific national examples. This course is cross-listed as HIST 131. |
0900:TR DENNY 110 |
| LALC 295-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture Instructor: Hector Reyes Zaga Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 295-01.Taught in Spanish. This interdisciplinary introduction to Latina/o Studies discusses foundational historical, cultural, political, artistic, and literary texts of the U.S. Latina/o community. This class will cover diasporic movements and issues of identity, with a particular focus on the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban-American diaspora. Prerequisite: SPAN 231. This course is cross-listed as SPAN 295. |
1500:TR ALTHSE 109 |
| LALC 301-01 | Undocumented in America Instructor: Eric Vazquez Course Description: Cross-listed with AMST 303-01.”Undocumented immigrants,” Luis Alberto Urrea writes, “have no way to tell you what they have experienced . . . They are, by the very nature of their experience, invisible.” In actuality, the undocumented aren’t invisible, so much as “hidden in plain sight,” they are exempted of legal membership, deprived of political rights, and confined to spaces outside of recognition or public concern. How do producers of culture try to capture lives and experiences that are silenced and invisible to the broader public? This interdisciplinary course will try to engage directly with both the history of legal and economic parameters that designate one as undocumented and how narratives, artistic representations, and media that endeavor to portray and symbolize these particular immigrants. This class will pay particular attention to how legal, political, and economic designations of immigrant’s “illegal” or “undocumented” status depend on and sustain U.S. discourse about race and ethnicity. |
1030:TR DENNY 21 |
| LALC 304-01 | Afro-Brazilian Literature Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 304-01 and PORT 304-01. This class analyzes the literary production of Afro-Brazilians writers, as well as the representation of Afro-Brazilian characters in literary texts. It reviews different literary periods and the images those periods created and/or challenged and how they have affected and continue to affect the lives of Afro-Brazilians. Also, by paying particular attention to gender and social issues in different regional contexts, the class considers how Brazilian authors of African descent critically approach national discourses, such as racial democracy and Brazilianness. Taught in English. Available as a FLIC option in Portuguese.This course is cross-listed as PORT 304 and AFST 304. Offered every two years. |
1330:MR BOSLER 305 |
| LALC 390-01 | Do Your Friends Really Like You? Instructor: Jorge Sagastume Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 410-01. |
1330:W ALTHSE 07 |
| LALC 490-01 | Latin American Interdisciplinary Research Instructor: Marcelo Borges 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 one-half course credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for the other half credit. Prerequisite: senior majors. |
1500:M WESTC 1 |
| LALC 550-01 | Female Political Participation in Argentina Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: |
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| Courses Offered in AFST | ||
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| AFST 100-01 | Introduction to Africana Studies Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: This interdisciplinary introduction to Africana Studies combines teaching foundational texts in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. The course will cover Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the creation of African Disaporic communities, the conceptualization and representation of Black culture and identity, and the intellectual and institutional development of Black and Africana Studies. This course is cross-listed as LALC 121. |
1030:MWF ALTHSE 201 |
| AFST 100-02 | Introduction to Africana Studies Instructor: Kimberly McNair Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 121-02. This interdisciplinary introduction to Africana Studies combines teaching foundational texts in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. The course will cover Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the creation of African Disaporic communities, the conceptualization and representation of Black culture and identity, and the intellectual and institutional development of Black and Africana Studies. This course is cross-listed as LALC 121. |
1030:TR BOSLER 208 |
| AFST 304-01 | Afro-Brazilian Literature Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 304-01 and PORT 304-01. This class analyzes the literary production of Afro-Brazilians writers, as well as the representation of Afro-Brazilian characters in literary texts. It reviews different literary periods and the images those periods created and/or challenged and how they have affected and continue to affect the lives of Afro-Brazilians. Also, by paying particular attention to gender and social issues in different regional contexts, the class considers how Brazilian authors of African descent critically approach national discourses, such as racial democracy and Brazilianness. Taught in English. Available as a FLIC option in Portuguese. This course is cross-listed as PORT 304 and LALC 304. Offered every two years. |
1330:MR BOSLER 305 |
| Courses Offered in AMST | ||
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| AMST 101-01 | Latina/o Popular Culture Instructor: Eric Vazquez Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 200-01. This course will examine how the increasing diversity of audiences, voices, and participants in popular culture point to deficits, needs, and changes in American culture. Focusing specifically on Latinas/os, we will analyze representation of Latinas/os in a variety of different genres music, film, sports, and television for what they tell us about race, gender, class, sexuality, citizenship, and language. We will look particularly at how Latinas/os negotiate mainstream media representations and create new forms of culture expression. Exploring how Latinas/os produce media representations that defy both narrow understandings of Latinidad as well as dominant U.S. culture, class discussion will explore how identity is produced and contested through popular culture. |
0900:TR DENNY 21 |
| Courses Offered in HIST | ||
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| HIST 131-01 | Modern Latin American History since 1800 Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 231-01. Introduction to Latin American history since independence and the consolidation of national states to the recent past. Students explore social, economic, and political developments from a regional perspective as well as specific national examples. This course is cross-listed as LALC 231. |
0900:TR DENNY 110 |
| Courses Offered in MUAC | ||
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| MUAC 210-01 | Lusomusics Instructor: Lila Ellen Gray Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 200-02 and PORT 380-01. This course investigates select musical genres and soundscapes in 20th-21st century Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil as a lens into understanding four national cultures interlinked through a common language, geographical positioning in relation to the Atlantic ocean, and histories of Portuguese colonialism. Working with a wide range of case studies, from urban and popular music genres, to revivals of traditional music and dance, to newly emergent expressive forms, Lusomusics uses musical ethnographies, histories, and sound and video recordings as the materials through which to think about colonialism/post-colonialism, culture, musical circulation, and contact. Likewise, this course introduces students to the analytic tools to think critically about the production and packaging of lusomusics and their histories for international markets for world music. |
1030:TR WEISS 221 |
| Courses Offered in PORT | ||
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| PORT 304-01 | Afro-Brazilian Literature Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 304-01 and LALC 304-01. This class analyzes the literary production of Afro-Brazilians writers, as well as the representation of Afro-Brazilian characters in literary texts. It reviews different literary periods and the images those periods created and/or challenged and how they have affected and continue to affect the lives of Afro-Brazilians. Also, by paying particular attention to gender and social issues in different regional contexts, the class considers how Brazilian authors of African descent critically approach national discourses, such as racial democracy and Brazilianness. Taught in English. Available as a FLIC option in Portuguese. This course is cross-listed as AFST 304 and LALC 304. Offered every two years. |
1330:MR BOSLER 305 |
| PORT 380-01 | Lusomusics Instructor: Lila Ellen Gray Course Description: Cross-listed with MUAC 210-01 and LALC 200-02. This course investigates select musical genres and soundscapes in 20th-21st century Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil as a lens into understanding four national cultures interlinked through a common language, geographical positioning in relation to the Atlantic ocean, and histories of Portuguese colonialism. Working with a wide range of case studies, from urban and popular music genres, to revivals of traditional music and dance, to newly emergent expressive forms, Lusomusics uses musical ethnographies, histories, and sound and video recordings as the materials through which to think about colonialism/post-colonialism, culture, musical circulation, and contact. Likewise, this course introduces students to the analytic tools to think critically about the production and packaging of lusomusics and their histories for international markets for world music. |
1030:TR WEISS 221 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN | ||
| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| SPAN 295-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture Instructor: Hector Reyes Zaga Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 295-01.Taught in Spanish. This interdisciplinary introduction to Latina/o Studies discusses foundational historical, cultural, political, artistic, and literary texts of the U.S. Latina/o community. This class will cover diasporic movements and issues of identity, with a particular focus on the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban-American diaspora. Prerequisite: 231. This course is cross-listed as LALC 295 |
1500:TR ALTHSE 109 |
| SPAN 410-01 | Do Your Friends Really Like You? Instructor: Jorge Sagastume Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 390-01. |
1330:W ALTHSE 07 |
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