Latin
American & Caribbean StudiesLatin
American & Caribbean StudiesAnthropology 417.001. Indians of Mexico and Guatemala. (3) Overview of Indian groups of Mexico and Guatemala, including Maya, Nahuatl (Aztec), Zapotec, Mixtec, Huichol, Mixe, Tarascans; focus on social and political organization, world view and religion, subsistence, settlement patterns, etc. Joyce Marcus. TTh 1-2:30, 2009 Museums
Anthropology 439.001. Economic Anthropology and Development. (3) Introduces students to economic anthropology and development in rural, village-based, tribal, peasant, urbanizing and industrializing societies and cultures of the Third World: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. Maxwell Owusu. TTh 2:30-4, 4560 LSA. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
AnthrArc 683.001. Andean Prehistory. (3) Andean prehistory from the arrival of humans in the area during the last Ice Age until the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century. Marcus and Flannery. W 1-4, 4027 Museums
Business Admin 495.001. Business Spanish. (3) Schlossberg. TTh 4-5:30, D0205 Business
CAAS 442.001 (meets with Film Video 442). Third World Cinema. (3) (No description available.) Frances Gateward. MW 9:30-11, Lec Rm 2 MLB. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.) Students must also attend screenings, M 6-8:30, Aud A Angell
CAAS 458.002 (meets with Theater 404.001). Issues in Black World Studies – Comparing Black Aesthetics: Black Drama and Theatre in U.S., Caribbean, and Africa. (3) (No description available.) Dieudonné-Christophe Mbala Nkanga. TTh 1:30-3, 4528 Frieze. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
CAAS 490.001. Special Topics in Black World Studies – Remembering Babylon. (1) Emphasis on Afro-Caribbean retention; comparatively examines performative structures of two writers of the Caribbean and demonstrates the significant impact of Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions on other diasporic cultures. Michael Bucknor. W 1-3, 5523 Haven. Mini Course, meets Jan 15 thru Feb 19.
History 477.001 (meets with Law 877.001). Law, History, and the Dynamics of Social Change – Race and Citizenship in Comparative Historical Perspective: The United States and Cuba, 1865-1965. (3) The relationship of law and society during a process of radical political and social transformation: the end of slavery and the redefining of the boundaries of race and citizenship. Rebecca Scott. W 7-9, S106 Law Library. Admission is by permission of the instructor only; open to law students, advanced undergraduates and graduate students. See LSA course guide description.
History 478.001. Topics in Latin American History – Latin America, National Period. (3) The graduate section of History 347 (see above). Fernando Coronil. TTh 11:30-1pm, 260 Dennison
History 498.001 (meets with American Culture 505.001). Topics in History – Caribbean Diasporas. (3) Examines key moments in the history of diasporas, and ideas about diasporas, in the Caribbean and in Caribbean settlements in the US. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. W 10am-1pm, room tba. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
History 691.001. Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History – Family/Gender/Ethnicity in Latin America. (3) (No description available.) Sueann Caulfield. W 4-6, 1024 Tisch
History 698.002 (meets with American Culture 699.009, Women's Studies 698.002). Topics in History – Engendering Nation/Citizenship. (3) Both the republican state and the republican citizen were products of the Age of Revolution, of the American, French and Haitian Revolutions. We will explore questions of citizenship, slavery and emancipation in the West Indies and the US. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Sonya Rose. W 4-7, 4070 Frieze. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
LACS 590.002 (meets with SNRE 639.075). Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Mini-course – Underdevelopment in Latin America. (3) Ivette Perfecto. W 5-7 pm
Law 877.001. Race and Citizenship in Cuba and the United States. (2) See History 477. Rebecca Scott. W 7-9, S106 Law Library. See History 478.001.
Spanish 430.001. Advanced Studies in Hispanic Culture and Society – Historical Narratives of Latin America. (3) Latin American historical novelists from the 1880s to the 1920s. Javier Sanjines. MWF 9-10, B134 MLB
Spanish 442.001. Testimonial Narrative – Terror, Memory, and Human Rights. (3) Analyzes the historical and political production and use of testimonio literature in Latin America. Lucia Suarez. TTh 1-2:30, 3512 Frieze
Spanish 475.001. Latin-American Narrative – Modernismo. (3) What were the social and cultural conditions of Spanish America’s “Modernismo”? Jossianna Arroyo. TTh 2:30-4, 3409 Mason
Spanish 476.001. Latin American Poetry – El sueño y la meditación poética. (3) Qué son los sueños? Qué misterio guardan? Qué revelan sobre nuestro ser, sobre el mundo que habitamos; sobre la vida, la existencia, la realidad, el tiempo, el más allá, la muerte? Hugo Moreno. TTh 11:30-1, G333 Mason
Spanish 485.001. Case Studies – What can you make of Julio Cortázar?. (3) In this course, we will explore the fiction (and some of the poetry) of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). Santiago Colas. TTh 10-11:30, 1518 CC Little
Spanish 485.002. Case Studies – Borges. (3) An in-depth view of the works of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the most influential Latin American writer of the 20th century. Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola. MWF 1-2, 3508 Frieze
Spanish 870.001. Seminar in Hispanic Literature – Razón histórica, razón poética, razón poscolonial. (3) Aproximaciones teóricas a la literatura mexicana del siglo veinte. Hugo Moreno. W 2-5, B112 MLB
Spanish 870.002 (meets with Comp Lit 751). Seminar in Hispanic Literature – Terror, Memory, and Human Rights in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (3) Diaspora literature from the Caribbean demonstrates the numerous ways people in violated communities lose a sense of dignity when it is trampled by different factors, including dictatorships, cold war policies, and extreme poverty. Lucia Suarez. T 4-7, 2104 MLB.
