Latin American & Caribbean Studies

International Institute, University of Michigan

Graduate Courses in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Winter 2005

American Culture 420. 001 (meets with Spanish 420.001). Latin American Film – Cultural Encounters in the New World . ( 4) A general introduction to the study of French, English, and Hispanic Caribbean film produced in Haiti, Martinique, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the diaspora. Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes. TTh 1-2:30, 3415 Mason. Film screenings T 6-8:30 pm, B101 MLB

American Culture 699. 001 (meets with History 698.004, AnthrCul 558.004). Periods in American Culture: Literary – Samba, Rumba, Pop and Other Social Histories of Latin Music . ( 3) A comparative perspective on the social history of popular music in Latin America, with a particular focus on Cuba, Brazil, and Latin American communities in the United States. Jesse Hofnung-Garskoff, Julie Skurski. W 1-4, 3315 Mason

American Culture 801. 001 (meets with Spanish 821.001, Comp Lit 770.001, Women's Studies 698.006). Advanced Research Seminar – Trans Latin/o American Drag . ( 3) Varied approaches to transgender (including transvestite, cross-dressing, drag queen, and drag king) identities and cultural practices in Latin America and the US. Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes. T 3-6 pm, B101 MLB

AnthrArc 488. 001. Prehistory of Mexico. ( 3) The prehistory of Mesoamerica outside the Maya area, 8000 BC to AD 1519. Kent Flannery (kflanner@umich.edu). TTh 1-2:30, 2009 Ruthven Museums

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, 120 Dennison. (May count for LACS credit depending on content of student project.)

CAAS 458. 003 (meets with English 407.002). 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

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. MW 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

LACS 655. 001. Topics in Latin American Studies – Peripheral Modernisms: The Case of Brazilian Architecture . ( 3) On the artistic and cultural practices of modernism as it emerged outside of the industrialized West, particularly Brazil and Latin America, with a focus on architecture. Fernando Lara. Th 9-12, tba

Spanish 448. 001. Hispanic Culture Through Community Service Learning – Literary and Cultural Studies . ( 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. Lucia Suarez. M 11:30-1 plus lab, 2212 MLB. See course guide description for details

Spanish 467. 001. Literary and Artistic Movements in Latin America/Spain – Latin American Detectives . ( 3) On the Peruvian folklorist, anthropologist and novelist, José María Arguedas, whose works afford us privileged insight into the complexities of Andean cultural and political history in the twentieth century. Gareth Williams. MWF 10-11, 1636 Chemistry

Spanish 467. 002. Literary and Artistic Movements in Latin America/Spain – Social Realism and Avant-Garde: The War on Literature . ( 3) Studies two apparently opposite visions of Latin American literature during the first half of the XXth Century: Social Realism and Vanguardia (or 'revolutionary avant-garde' and 'artistic avant-garde'). Daniel Noemi Voionmaa. TTh 10-11:30, 3520 Frieze

Spanish 472. 001. Pre-Columbian Society – Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: What We Know About Them and How We Represent Them . ( 3) On ancient civilizations in the Americas and how we perceive them today. Gustavo Verdesio (verdesio@umich.edu) . MW 5:30-7, B103 MLB

Spanish 473. 001. Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Latin-American Cultures – Misioneros, náufragos y tránsfugas del Imperio . ( 3) This course, focused on Colonial México, will explore the different experiences of Europeans living—voluntarily or forcibly—with Indians and isolated from other members of their own cultural-ethnic group. Ivonne del Valle. TTh 2:30-4, 245 Dennison

Spanish 485. 001. Case Studies – Questioning modern civilization in Latin America . ( 3) We will study the Uruguayan José Enrique Rodó's "Ariel" with the Spanish defeat of 1898; the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha's "los Sertones" with the revolt at Canudos; the Mexican Mariano Azuela's "Los de abajo" with the revolution of 1910. Javier Sanjines. TTh 11:30-1, B117 MLB

Spanish 842. 001. Reading the Trans-Atlantic: Mapping Spain and Latin America. ( 3) On the theory and practice of "the trans-Atlantic" and its ramifications for Hispanic Studies. Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola. M 3:30-6:30, B101 MLB