Anthropology Courses

Anthro. 386.001. Early New World Civilizations. (4) Long-term development of the ancient pre-Columbian American civilizations, with particular attention to the Aztec, Maya, Inca and their neighbors, 2500 BC to AD 1530. TTh 10-11:30, 1528 CCL (Parsons)

Anthro. 417. Indians of Mexico and Guatemala. (3) Overview of Indian groups occupying Mexico and Guatemala, focusing on social and political organization, world view and religion, subsistence, settlement patterns, etc. TTh 1-2:30, 2009 Museums (Marcus)

Anthro. 439. Economic Anthropology and Development. (3) 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. Th, 1:30-4:30, B134 LSA (Maxwell Owusu)

Anthro. 491. Prehistory of the Central Andes. (3) Pre-Columbian Andean civilizations; emphasis on increasingly complex society after ca. 2500 B.C., from early agricultural and herding communities through the Inca empire. TTh 2:30-4, 3415 Mason Hall (Parsons)

CAAS 558.001. Slavery, Resistance, & Emancipation in the Atlantic World. (3) Origins, development, and destruction of plantation slavery in the Americas, focusing on resistance of enslaved Africans to plantation regimes in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America, and the struggle to end slavery in the late 18th and 19th centuries. W 2-5, 214 West Hall (Julius Scott)

History 396.003. Atlantic Dissenters in the Age of Empire. Views the social and economic consequences of the expansion of Europe through the eyes of marginal individuals / social groups in Europe and the Americas. TTh 1-2:30, 3405 Mason (Julius Scott)

History 477. Latin America: The National Period. (4) History of Latin America, early 19th century to the present. Themes: state formation, elite and popular relations, forms of capitalist development and transformations in class relations. TTh 11:30-1, Angell Hall Aud C (Coronil). Students enrolled in the Spanish discussion section of this course (section 4, Th 4-5:30, 2443 Mason Hall) should concurrently enroll in UC 490.001, Languages Across the Curriculum. (1 additional credit)

RC Core 324.001. Three Latin American Novels. (4) Three short novels (read in Spanish), connected by a common element, the role played by memory in the re-construction of events and in the re-ordering of the past. (Eliana Moya-Raggio)

RC Core 324.003. Education and Social Change. (4) The relationship between educational practices and social change in Latin American, specifically Cuba, Nicaragua, and Chile. Based on Freirean educational theory. (Maria Rodriguez)

RC Core 324.004. Women's Gaze: Latin American Women Film Directors. (4) (Margarita de la Vega Hurtado)

RC Hum. 341. Latin American Literature. (4) Some of the major voices of Latin America: Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, Marta Traba and Elena Garro and/or others. Taught in English. (Eliana Moya-Raggio)

Spanish 320.002. Introduction to the Study of Literature. (3) How texts are constructed to produce meanings or convey messages to readers; the development of major literary movements in Spain and Latin America. MWF 11-12, 2114 MLB (Alex Herrero)

Spanish 332. Short Narrative in Latin America/Spain. (3) An introduction to the genres of the short story and novella as practiced in various Hispanic cultures. MWF 11-12, 1029 Natural Science.

Spanish 341(376). Introduction to Latin American Cultures. (3) On the classificatory dualities used to describe "Latin American" culture[s]: civilization/barbarity; mestizo culture/indigenous culture; Latin Americans/Latinos; nationalism/imperialism; the colonial/the prehispanic; high culture/popular culture; modernity/tradition; el Macho/la Malinche. MWF 3-4, B131 MLB (Rojinsky)

Spanish 382. Survey of Latin American Literature, II. (3) A panoramic view of Latin America’s literature and writers, 19th century to contemporary. Brazilian texts translated into Spanish included. MWF 10-11, 432 West Hall (Jossianna Arroyo)

Spanish 420/American Culture 420. Latin American & Latino/a Film Studies. (4) Historical and theoretical developments in Latin American and Latino/a audiovisual media, with an emphasis on the cinema. MWF 2-3, M 6-8, room tba. (Catherine Benamou)

Spanish 470. Latin-American Literature, 16th to 19th Centuries. (3) Colonial literature, 1492-1800s; representative texts from different genres: chronicles, epic poetry, drama, and novel. TTh 2:30-4, 229 Dennison (Javier Sanjines)

Spanish 473. Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Latin-American Cultures. (3) Students will study historical, cartographic, literary, and iconographic texts, and examine postcolonial approaches to the Colonial period. MWF 11-12, room tba.

Spanish 485.001. Autores Super-Estrella: Contemporary Latin American Film and Fiction. (3) On the "star status" of contemporary Latin American writers through the reading of novels as well as film adaptations of literary works by García Márquez, Puig, Donoso, Carpentier, Borges, Fuentes, and Sábato. MWF 1-2, 2402 MLB (Alex Herrero)

Spanish 485.002 – Representation of the African Diaspora in Cuba and Brazil. (3) Cuba and Brazil are the areas with the major concentration of African population in the Americas. Course studies the cultural, social, and philosophical contributions of these diverse groups and the way they have been "imagined" by the intellectual elites of these nations. MWF 12-1, 2402 MLB (Arroyo)

French 350.002. Francophone Literature - Roots: Narratives of Origin and the Fiction of Identity. (3) In African (Maghrebian and sub-Saharan) and Caribbean literatures and cultures, the figure of roots took on a political meaning as cultural activists sought to articulate a national identity in order to consolidate opposition to French colonial rule. MWF 2-3, B120 MLB (Jarrod Hayes)

Pol. Sci. 448. Governments and Politics of Latin America. (3) Basic course on political systems in Latin America. TTh 2:30-4, G115Angell Hall (Visiting Prof. Guillermo Rochabrun)

Pol. Sci. 450. Political Modernization in the Developing World. (3) Basic course on political systems in Latin America. MW 11:30-1, G127 Angell Hall (Visiting Prof. Guillermo Rochabrun)

CAAS 361. Comparative Black Art. (3) (Continuation of CAAS 360, an accelerated course which provides an interdisciplinary overview of Afro-American culture and art.) (John Lockhard)

LACS 399. Thesis-Writers' Seminar. (3) All LACS concentrators enroll in this course for their final term. Each works directly with a thesis adviser. The seminar meets only occasionally as a group; its main function is to provide a mechanism for consultation and support among thesis-writers and the concentration adviser. (Frye)

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. Application deadlines for Summer 1999 and academic year 1999-2000 programs generally are from January 1999 onward. For detailed information, please contact the Office of International Programs, G513 Michigan Union.

Other courses of interest

The following courses do not satisfy requirements for the LACS major, either because they are below the 300 level or because they do not deal primarily with Latin American and the Caribbean, but they may be of interest to many LACS students.

This page updated November 10, 1998, by David Frye.
Copyright 1998, Regents of the University of Michigan.