Courses

These are the undergraduate courses normally offered at UBC that may have content suitable for the Latin American Studies major or minor. If a course should be here but is not, please contact the chair of the program.

ARCL_V 232 Ancient Latin America (3)

ARTH_V 261 Pre-Hispanic Arts of Central and South America (3)

HIST_V 250 Latin American History (3-6)
HIST_V 252 Modern Caribbean History (3)

LAST_V 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies (3)
LAST_V 201 Popular Culture in Latin America (3)
LAST_V 205 Issues of Development in Modern Latin America (3)

PORT_V 222 Introduction to the Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Cultures (in English) (3)

RMST_V 260 Introduction to the Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Cultures (3)
RMST_V 270 Introduction to Hispanic Cultures (3)
RMST_V 280 Revolution! (3)

SPAN_V 221 Introduction to Hispanic Literature (when taught with Latin America content) (3)
SPAN_V 222 Introduction to Hispanic Culture (when taught with Latin America content) (3)
SPAN_V 280 Revolution! (In English) (3)

ANTH_V 353 Ethnography of Latin America (3)

ARCL_V 323 Archaeological Foundations of Mesoamerica (3)
ARCL_V 324 Archaeological Foundations of South America (3)
ARCL_V 411  Prehistory of a Special Area in the New World (3-6)

ARTH_V 320 Entangled Worlds: Spain and Colonial Latin America (1500-1700) (3)
ARTH_V 342 Latin American Art: Modern and Contemporary (3)
ARTH_V 370 Arts of Mexico's Early Peoples (3)
ARTH_V 371 Arts of the Aztec period in Mexico (3)
ARTH_V 372 Maya Public Ritual Arts (3)
ARTH_V 373 Maya Arts of Everyday Life (3)
ARTH_V 442 Seminar in Contemporary Latin American Art (3)
ARTH_V 471 Seminar in Pre-Hispanic Art (3)

GEOG_V 395 Culture, Nature, and Coloniality in Latin America (3)
GEOG_V 495 Geographies of Social Movements in the Americas (3)

HIST_V 357 History of Mexico (3)
HIST_V 358 State and Society in 20th century Cuba (3)
HIST_V 359 A History of Brazil: From Colony to Nation (3)
HIST_V 453 Class and Culture in Latin America (3)
HIST_V 455 Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (3)

LAST_V 301 Human and Civil Rights in Latin America (3)
LAST_V 303 Indigenous Latin America (3)
LAST_V 315 Topics in Latin American Studies (3-6)
LAST_V 415 Seminar in Latin American Studies (3-6)

POLI_V 332 Politics and Government of Latin America (3-6)

PORT_V 392 Studies in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature (in English) (3)
PORT_V 405 Studies in Portuguese and Brazilian Culture (in English) (3)

RMST_V 361 Studies in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature (3)
RMST_V 372 Hopscotch: Topics in Hispanic Literature (3)
RMST_V 373 Masterpieces in Hispanic Literature (3)
RMST_V 375 The Caribbean: Frontiers of the Romance World (3)
RMST_V 376 Genre Adaptations in the Hispanic World (3)
RMST_V 460 Studies in Portuguese and Brazilian Culture (3)

SPAN_V 312 Hopscotch: Topics in Hispanic Literature (in English) (3)
SPAN_V 322 Dependency and Revolution in Latin American History and Culture (3)
SPAN_V 365 Modern Magics: Spanish-American Literature and Culture since the 1820’s (3)
SPAN_V 470 Imperial Eyes and Foundational Fictions: Topics in Spanish-American Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Culture (3-6)
SPAN_V 490 Peoples and Nations: Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spanish-American Culture (3-6)
SPAN_V 495 Research Intensive Seminar in Hispanic Literature and Culture (3-6)

 

ANTH_V 203 - Anthropology of Drugs

ECON_V 485 - Political Economy

LAST_V 100, Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAST_V 301, Human and Civil Rights in Latin America
LAST_V 303, Indigenous Latin America

RMST_V 372-A_101 - Literature as Politics and Protest
RMST_V 374-201 - Mapping Gendered Spaces in Hispanic Literature and Culture

SPAN_V 364-101 - Colonial Encounters in Spanish-American Lit and Culture
SPAN_V 406-101 - Breaking the Mold: Gender Representation(s) in Hispanic Literature and Culture