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American & Caribbean StudiesAmerican Culture 498.002 (meets with Film Video 485.001). Humanities Approaches to American Culture – Circumnavigating the Atlantic: Cinema, Exile, Diaspora. (3) Films made in and between Atlantic lands, including the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa. Special screenings of new work by African and Black diasporic filmmakers will be accompanied by guest lectures. Catherine Benamou and Lucia Saks. MW10-11:30, T 6-8p, G333 Mason Hall. Film screening T 6-8 pm in 1050 Frieze
AnthrArc 491.001. Prehistory of the Central Andes. (3) Development of pre-Columbian Andean civilizations from 13,000 years ago through the early 16th century A.D., with emphasis on complex society after ca. 3000 B.C. in the region between central Chile and Colombia. Jeffrey Parsons. TTh 2:30-4, 210 West Hall
AnthrArc 582.001. Archaeology II. (3) Prehistoric cultural development from the beginnings of sedentary village life to urban civilization. Exemplary data from Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are used to evaluate theories of social development. Jeffrey Parsons. TTh 10-11:30, 2009 Ruthven
AnthrArc 683.001. Topics Archaeology – Principles of Social Evolution. (3) An examination of the principles by which human societies evolved from hunting and gathering bands, to egalitarian village societies, to societies with hereditary rank, and finally to archaic states. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus. TTh 2:30-4, 4027 Ruthven. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
AnthrCul 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, 501 Dennison. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
AnthrCul 558.004. Current Issues in Ethnology – Global Capitalism & Extractive Economies: Mining Ethnography. (3) Considers the ethnography of mining from the classics of the African copper belt to more recent studies on capitalism, modernity, and globalization. The central concern is what economists call the "resource curse." Stuart A Kirsch. F 1-4, 3419 Mason. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
CAAS 458.003 (meets with English 417). Issues in Black World Studies – Black Women of the U.S. Caribbean, and Latin America: Life, Literature and Music. (3) Despite attempts to silence them, Black women workers, writers, and musicians in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean have found ways to make their voices heard and their experiences acknowledged in the public sphere. Ifeoma C Nwankwo. TTh 1-2:30, 2347 Mason
CAAS 558.001 (meets with InstHum 511.003, AmCult 510.001, English 540.002). Seminar in Black World Studies – Gender & Black (Trans) National Identity in the 19th C: Approaches to Studying the African Diaspora. (3) An introduction to the writing of several early American, African and Caribbean-born figures as a way of assessing the problems and possibilities for early Black diasporic identification in the 19th century. Sandra R Gunning. M 4-7, G144 Angell. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
CAAS 558.002 (meets with WomenStd 698.002, AmCult 699.001, History 698.003). Seminar in Black World Studies – History of Racial Formations in the Americas. (3) Explores the diverse formations and transformations of race and racism that emerged out of histories of slavery and freedom in the Americas, particularly in Cuba, the United States, and Brazil. Richard Turits & Hannah Rosen. Th 10-1, 1024 Tisch. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
History 477.001 (meets with Law 877.001, Inst Hum 511.002). Law, History, and the Dynamics of Social Change – The Law in Slavery and Freedom: The U.S. and Latin America in Comparative Perspective. (3) How law upheld and reinforced the power of slave owners, and how slaves themselves at times were able to make use of the legal system to advance their own interests and even, sometimes, achieve their freedom. Rebecca Scott, Martha Jones. M 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 348. Latin America from the early nineteenth century until the present; temporal narrative will be organized around: (1) state formation; (2) elite and popular relations; and (3) forms of capitalist development and transformations in class relations. Fernando Coronil. TTh 11:30-1pm, 296 Dennison.
LACS 400.001 (meets with History 578.001, CAAS 478.001, Portuguese 474.001). Ethnicity and Culture in Latin America – Race and Popular Culture in 20th-Century Brazil. (3) In Portuguese. Afro-Brazilian cultural forms (like samba, Carnaval, the orixás, and feijoada), European forms "africanized" in Brazil (like futebol, the musical form of choro, and spiritualism), and contemporary forms imported and indigenized (like rap). Paul Johnson. M 4-7 pm, 1436 Mason
LACS 400.002 (meets with History 578.002, CAAS 478.002, Portuguese 474.003). Ethnicity and Culture in Latin America – Slavery, Disease and Race: A View from Brazil. (3) The interplay of slavery, disease and racial ideologies is a major theme in nineteenth-century Brazilian history, and one that suggests the need to seek broad comparative perspectives. Sidney Chalhoub. Th 6:30-9:30 pm, 3416 Mason
LACS 455.001 (meets with CAAS 458.007, Portuguese 474.002). Topics in Latin American Studies – Religions of the African Diaspora. (3) Beginning with a theorization and genealogy of the concept of diaspora itself, the course provides overviews of Brazilian Candomblé and Umbanda; Cuban Santería; Haitian Vodou; Jamaican (and globalized) Rastafarianism; etc. Paul Johnson. W 4-7 pm, 1436 Mason
LACS 455.002 (meets with CAAS 458.008, HISTORY 478.002, Portuguese 474.004). Topics in Latin American Studies – Literature and Social History (Brazil). (3) In writing their stories, 19th and early 20th-century Brazilian novelists sought to describe and interpret the history of the nation since independence. Sidney Chalhoub. T 6:30-9:30 pm, 3416 Mason
LACS 471.001. Elementary Quechua, I. (4) Introduces students with little or no proficiency in Quechua (the "language of the Incas," spoken by 10 million people in the Andean republics) to conversational and cultural skills needed to use the language in real life situations. Ines Callalli. TTh 9-11, 208 Dennison
LACS 472.001. Elementary Quechua, II. (4) Second-term continuation of Elementary Quechua I. Ines Callalli. MW 9-11, 208 Dennison
LACS 474.001. Intermediate Quechua, II. (4) Continuation of intermediate Quechua emphasizing conversational skills and grammatical structure. Ines Callalli. TTh 1-11, 208 Dennison
LACS 476.001. Advanced Quechua, II. (4) Continuation of advanced Quechua. Course is designed to improve conversation skills, build up vocabulary, and heighten reading ability. Ines Callalli. TTh 11-1, 208 Dennison
Spanish 305.001. Spanish for Business and the Professions – Spanish for Business. (3) (Note: Spanish 305 is open to grad students, but generally does not count for graduate credit.) Intended to increase the student's vocabulary and knowledge about the Spanish-speaking business world. Dorantes. MWF 9-10, 2011 MLB
Spanish 305.002. Spanish for Business and the Professions – Spanish for Business. (3) Intended to increase the student's vocabulary and knowledge about the Spanish-speaking business world. Dorantes. MWF 10-11, 166 Frieze
Spanish 305.003. Spanish for Business and the Professions – Spanish for Legal Professions. (3) Includes language tools, functions and notions necessary to move in the Hispanic legal world. Lord. TTh 1-2:30, 2011 MLB
Spanish 428.001. Internship in Spanish. (3) This course allows up to 3 credits for internships that involve the extensive use of Spanish, either abroad or within the US. Contact the Spanish advisor for details. Amy Roust, Spanish Advising Coordinator, aroust@umich.edu. Independent study
Spanish 437.001. Introduction to Literary Studies – La literatura como vocación. (3) En este curso trataremos a la literatura como una vocación, es decir, como un llamamiento y como una pasión. Sergio Hugo Moreno (shmoreno@umich.edu). MWF 1-2, B122 MLB. Course taught in Spanish.
Spanish 440.001. Literatures and Cultures of the Borderlands – Latino/a Literatures: Examining the Anxiety of Representation in a Growingly Conservative Culture. (3) The impact of memory, stereotyping, and trauma on the construction of Caribbean, Latino/a, Latin American identity politics. Lucia Suarez. TTh 10-11:30, B108 MLB. Course taught in Spanish.
Spanish 448.001. Hispanic Culture Through Community Service Learning. (3) For students interested in using the Spanish language within a social context; course ntegrates service work within that community with academic readings and discussions about U.S. Latino or Hispanic culture. Juli Highfill. T 2:30-4, TTh 6-8:30, 2412 MLB. See course guide description for details
Spanish 485.001. Case Studies – Hispaniola: One Island, Two Nations. (3) We will examine the production of Dominican literature in relationship to Dominican-American (Latina/o) writing; and Haitian literature with respect to the literary production of the Haitian diaspora. Lucia Suarez. TTh 11:30-1, 3508 Frieze
Spanish 670.001. Chronicles, Epic, and History in Early Latin American Narrative – 19/20c Lat Am Fiction: Rayuela. (3) Santiago Colas. Th 1-4, 2110 MLB
Spanish 855.001. Special Topics – Mexican War Machines. (3) The relation between culture, war, and the formation of the modern Mexican nation-state: the culture of the Mexican Revolution, the critique of the post-Revolutionary State, and the emergence of Zapatismo under neoliberal capitalism. Gareth Williams. W 2-5, 2112 MLB. Course taught in Spanish.
