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American & Caribbean StudiesBusiness Administration - CSIB 567 / BE 567. Business Strategies in Latin America. (1.5 credits) Meets Sept. 5 - Oct. 22. MW 11:30-1 pm, DO 235 Bus.; M 6-9 pm, CP. Katherine Terrell
CAAS 458.003. Issues in Black World Studies – History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary African American and Caribbean Literature. (3). MW 1-2:30, 209 West Hall. Arlene Keizer (arkeizer@umich.edu)
History 478.002. Colonial Latin America. (3) From 1492 to the 19th-century wars of independence. Indians and Europeans; evolution of a range of colonial societies; shifting uses of land and labor; class, race, gender, and ethnicity. This course is for graduate students. Meet with the instructor during the first session of the undergraduate course, History 347 (MW 10-11:30, 3410 Mason) to discuss meeting times and requirements. David Frye (dfrye@umich.edu)
History 687.001 / CAAS 687.001. Studies in Black History – Intro to the Black Atlantic. (3) Key issues in African American history through the end of the Civil War, including the forced migration of Africans to this hemisphere, slavery and emancipation, and cultural, social, and institutional development in black communities north and south. W 9-11, room TBA. Julius Scott (jsscott@umich.edu)
LACS 400.001 / Anth 458.003 / History 478.001/578.001. Ethnicity And Culture In Latin America: Mestizaje and Nation. (3) On elite discourses as well as responses by non-elites to racialized structures of exclusion, in cases including Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico and Venezuela. T 1-4 pm, 3409 Mason. Julie Skurski (skurski@umich.edu)
LACS 499. Reading and Research in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. (1-3). Independent study, by arrangement with instructor.
LACS 601. Supervised Graduate Study in Latin America. (3). Independent study abroad, by arrangement with instructor and with LACS.
Poli. Sci. 448. Governments and Politics of Latin America. (3) The common historical background of the region, current characteristics of democratic government in Latin America, its achievements, shortcomings, and future prospects.TTh 8:30-10, 296 Dennison. José Molina (jmolina@umich.edu)
Poli. Sci. 649.001. Proseminar in the Governments and Politics of Latin America – Electoral Behavior in Latin America. (3) Using survey data we will analyze the influence of socio-demographic, attitudinal, institutional, and "rational" factors on elections in several countries. W 11-1, 1029 Nat Sci. José Molina (jmolina@umich.edu)
Spanish 430.001. Advanced Studies in Hispanic Culture and Society – Representations of the African Diaspora in Cuba and Brazil. (3) The cultural, social and philosophical contributions of the millions of Africans from different cultural backgrounds in Cuba and Brazil, the ways they build social and cultural agency and how they are represented by cultural elites. In Spanish. TTh 10-11:30. Jossianna Arroyo (jarroyo@umich.edu)
Spanish 464.001. Romanticism in Latin America. (3) The relationship between fiction, the formation of national states, and the organization of nineteenth-century free trade. Students taking this course should be interested in Latin American politics. MWF 3-4. Javier Sanjines (sanjines@umich.edu)
Spanish 470. Latin American Literature, 16th-19th Centuries – Retelling the Colonial Period: Fiction, Essay, and the Movies. (3) Studying paradigmatic colonial texts of North and Latin America in order to compare the different ways in which the Spanish and British empires undertook conquest and colonization. TTh 11:30-1, 3427 Mason. Gustavo Verdesio (verdesio@umich.edu)
Spanish 475.001. Latin American Narrative of the Twentieth Century - Indigenista Narrative of the Andes. (3) Three important indigenista novels of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. MWF 1-2, B129 MLB. Javier Sanjines (sanjines@umich.edu)
[Spanish 485. Case Studies in Peninsular Spanish and Latin American Literature. (3) MWF 8-9, 1139 Nat Sci. Topic and visiting instructor TBA; it might be on Latin American literature!]
Spanish 488.002. Topics in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures – Language, Selfhood, and Community in Hispanic America. (3) TTh 2:30-4, room TBA. Hugo Moreno
Spanish 855.001 / Film-Video
603.001 / Amer Cult 699.001. Cinema of Immigration and Exile.
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W 3-6, 1020 Frieze; film screening T 7-10 pm, 1020 Frieze. Catherine
L Benamou (cbenamou@umich.edu)
Spanish 865.001. Colonial and 19th Century Spanish-American Literature – Andean Peoples: Before and After the Inca. (3) On ancient Andean civilization and the early colonial period in Perú. T 1-4, 3419 Mason. Gustavo Verdesio (verdesio@umich.edu)
Spanish 881.001. Current Issues in Lit Theory and Criticism – Transculturations: Cultural Criticism in Latin America. (3) Through the relationship between orality & writing, mestizaje & hybridity, sexuality & gender, we will study transculturation as a modern concept which origins can be traced to colonial societies. In Spanish. Th 1-4, 2002 Chem. Jossianna Arroyo (jarroyo@umich.edu)
