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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
AnthrCul 320.001. Mexican Culture. (4) Asks how culture and national identity in Mexico have been historically and socially constructed over the past century. David Frye (dfrye@umich.edu). TTh 4:30-6, 110 Dennison
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 348.001 (meets with Dance 358). Dance in Culture: Origins of Jazz Dance. (3) An exploration of the origins of Jazz Dance through movement, as it relates to African-American vernacular dance, the African Diaspora, and American culture as a whole. Robin Wilson. MW 11-12:30, Studio B, Dance. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)
CAAS 358.004 (meets with CompLit 350.001). Black World Studies – Re-membering Landscapes: The Territory of Caribbean Identity. (3) This course will explore how landscape articulates in Caribbean writing (in translation) across Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone traditions. Is the landscape ever merely a setting? Can it be merely a setting? Seanna S Oakley. MW 10-11:30, 5521 Haven
CAAS 361.001. Comparative Black Art. (3) Examines the relationship of West African cultures to both South and North American insistencies. The course also recognizes and will examine the controversies surrounding the impact of the Afrocentric aesthetic on Western culture and lifestyles. John Lockard. M 9-11, W 9-10, South Quad. (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
History 348.001. Latin America: The National Period. (4) 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 (coronil@umich.edu). TTh 11:30-1pm, 296 Dennison. Students who elect the Spanish-language Discussion Session 348.004 (Th 4-5:30, 1014 Tisch) may also enroll in the 1-credit UC 390.004, Language Across the Curriculum.
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 (see above). 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
RC Core 324.001. Readings in Spanish – Women Writers in Latin America: Home, Nation and Identity in the 20th Century. (4) An introduction to different constructions of the female subject in relation to the physical, metaphoric and geographical spaces depicted by several Latin American women writers. Olga Lopez-Cotin. MTTh 11-12, 70 Gr (EQ)
RC Core 324.003. Readings in Spanish – Ciudades y Medio Ambiente en Amirica Latina: Problemas, Actores y Discursos. (4) Aspectos importantes en la formación de ciudades latinoamericanas: los procesos históricos y culturales, la política y el poder, las políticas urbanas y de desarrollo económico y social, y el rol de los espacios y recursos públicos. Moira Liliana Zellner. MWF 12-1, 220 Tyler (EQ)
RC Core 324.004. Readings in Spanish – What is a Latin American? The Problems in Constructing a Transnational Identity. (4) We will read in depth a selected group of political and cultural essays as well as some fiction, from three main areas of Latin America: the Caribbean, Mexico and the South Cone. Beatriz Eugenia Ramirez. MWF 11-12, 12 Tyler (EQ)
RC Core 324.005. Readings in Spanish – The Family and Spanish American Drama. (4) We will explore family systems (structure, dynamics, function/dysfunction and communication) as they are presented in Spanish and Latin American dramas. Lourdes Cornejo-Krohn. MWTh 2-3, 2 Tyler (EQ)
RC Soc Sci 360.003. Social Science Junior Seminar – Mexican Labor and North American Economic Integration: Nogales Field Study. (4) Through readings, videos and the field experience in Nogales (Mexico), this seminar course examines what workers are paid, what standard of living such wages permit, what rights maquila workers have, and rival explanations of these realities. Ian Robinson. TTh 3-4:30, 17 Tyler EQ. Four credit course, capped at 20. Everyone in the course will go to Nogales, Mexico during Spring Break. Open to all LS&A students; 10 seat reserved for RC students.
Spanish 305.001. 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 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 320.000. Introduction to the Study of Literature. (3) Reading texts (narrative, drama, poetry, and film) drawn from various countries in the Spanish-speaking world. . . (Various sections; not all focus on Latin America.)
Spanish 341.001. Introduction to Latin America. (3) Presenta una introducción a la cultura de América Latina desde la etapa pre-colombina hasta el momento actual. Gareth Williams. M 10-11 plus dis sec, 110 Dennison
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
University Course 390.004. Spanish section. (1) Spanish-language discussion section for National Period Latin American History, with readings and discussions in Spanish. F 11-12:30, tba. See History 348
Academic credit for Study Abroad programs, whether administered by U-M or by other universities, can in many cases be applied toward a LACS major.
UM sponsors or co-sponsors programs in Santiago, Chile; Quito, Ecuador; Havana, Cuba; Costa Rica; Belo Horizonte and Bahia, Brazil; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Guanajuato, Mexico. UM students can also get transfer credit for study-abroad classes taken through other universities. For information, contact the Office of International Programs, G513 Michigan Union (www.umich.edu/~iinet/oip).
The following lower-level courses will not be granted LACS credit but may be of interest.
CAAS 211.001. Dynamics of the Black Diaspora. (3) This course is intended to help students sort through social and theoretical questions concerning Black Diasporan identities in the US and Caribbean. Ifeoma C Nwankwo. TTh 10-11:30, 3415 Mason
Portuguese 150.001. First Year Seminar in Brazilian Studies – Breaking Gender and Racial Barriers in Brazil. (3; HU) The condition of contemporary Brazilian women and African Brazilians and their struggle to gain cultural, economic, and sociopolitical equality. Niedja Fedrigo.
