Current Courses

Course offerings for 2012-2013:

Winter 2012-2013

Latin American Studies

LAST 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies
Instructors: Marvin Cohodas, Ruth Mandujano

LAST 201 Popular Culture in Latin America
Instructor: Rita De Grandis

Anthropology

ANTH 202A Contemporary Social Problems in Latin America
Instructor: Gastón Gordillo

ANTH 323 Archaeological Foundations of Mesoamerica
Instructor: Michael Blake

Art History, Visual Art and Theory

ARTH 372 Maya Public Ritual Arts
Instructor: Marvin Cohodas

ARTH 373 Maya Arts of Everyday Life
Instructor: Marvin Cohodas

Geography

GEOG 395 Introduction to the Changing Landscapes of Latin America
Instructor: Juanita Sundberg

GEOG 495 Geographies of Social Movements in the Americas
Instructor: Juanita Sundberg

History

HIST 250A Latin American History
Instructor: Gabriela Aceves

HIST 252 Modern Caribbean History
Instructor: Alejandra Bronfman

HIST 444 Slave Societies in the Americas
Instructor: Tatiana van Riemsdijk

HIST 451 (Distance Education) Family and Community in Latin America
Instructor: Bill French

Political Science

POLI 332 Latin American Politics
Instructor: Jason Tockman

School of Social Work

SOWK 570K Directed Studies in Social Work: Historical Memory and Social Reconstruction
Instructor: Pilar Riaño-Alcalá

Spanish

SPAN 221 Introduction to Methods of Literary Analysis
Instructors: Marisol Fernández Utrera and Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea

SPAN 222 Introduction to Methods of Literary Analysis
Instructors: Oscar Cabezas and Brianne Orr Alvarez

SPAN 280 Revolution in Latin American Literary and Cultural Production of the 20th Century
Instructor: Brianne Orr Alvarez

SPAN 301 Advanced Spanish I
Coordinator: María Carbonetti

SPAN 302 Advanced Spanish II
Coordinator: María Carbonetti

SPAN 310 Advanced Spanish for Native and Bilingual Speakers: “We Are all Hip-Hop”: Monolinguals, Bilinguals, and Global Hip-Hop in Latin America
Instructor: Oscar Cabezas

SPAN 364 Survey of Spanish-American Literature to the 1820s
Instructor: Kim Beauchesne

SPAN 365 Spanish-American Literature since the 1820s
Instructor: Brianne Orr-Alvarez

SPAN 405D Topics in Peninsular and Latin-American Culture: América Latina Errante: Globalización, desplazamiento, melancolía
Instructor: Alessandra Santos

SPAN 470D Topics in Spanish-American Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Literatura y etnicidad en América Latina: (auto)representaciones de indígenas, mestizos, españoles, africanos y criollos desde la época colonial
Instructor: Kim Beauchesne

SPAN 490G Topics in Spanish-American Literature of the Twentieth-Century: Postcolonial “Indigenismo” in Latin American Literature and Culture
Instructor: Oscar Cabezas

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