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 232 Ancient Latin America

ARTH 261 Pre-Hispanic Arts of Central and South America

HIST 250 Latin American History
HIST 252 Modern Caribbean History

LAST 201 Popular Culture in Latin America
LAST 205 Issues of Development in Modern Latin America

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

ARTH 320 Entangled Worlds: Spain and Colonial Latin America (1500-1700)

GEOG 495 Geographies of Social Movements in the Americas
GEOG 395 Culture, Nature, and Coloniality in Latin America

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

LAST 303 Indigenous Peoples of Latin America

POLI 332 Politics and Government of Latin America

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

SPAN 495 Research Intensive Seminar in Hispanic Literature and Culture
SPAN 312 Hopscotch: Topics in Hispanic Literature (in English)
SPAN 322 Dependency and Revolution in Latin American History and Culture (in English)
SPAN 365 Modern Magics: Spanish-American Literature and Culture since the 1820’s

ANTH 205: The Anthropology of Insurrections and Revolution
ARTH 371: Arts of the Aztec period in Mexico

ECON 485: Political Economy

FIST 332A: Studies in Genre or Period

GEOG 395: Culture, Nature, and Coloniality in Latin America
GEOG 495: Geographies of Social Movements in the Americas

GRSJ 306: Globalization and Social Justice: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in International Politics
GRSJ 311: African/Black Women in the Americas
GRSJ 315: Critical Racial Theories
GRSJ 316: Queer and Trans of Colour Theorizing
GRSJ 320: Feminist Anti-Racist Pedagogies
GRSJ 415: Critical Racial and Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches

HIST 403H: Brazil and the World
Hist 490R 201: Migration in the Americas

LAST 100: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAST 201: Popular Culture in Latin America
LAST 303: Indigenous Peoples of Latin America

POLI 220: Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 332: Politics and Government of Latin America

SOCI 301: Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment

RMST 305: Introduction to Romance Language Cinema

SPAN 302: Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 312C: Hopscotch: Topics in Hispanic Literature (in English)
SPAN 364: Colonial Encounters in Spanish-American Literature and Culture
SPAN 365: Modern Magics: Spanish-American Literature and Culture since the 1820s
SPAN 490E: Peoples and Nations: Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spanish-American Culture
SPAN 495: Research Intensive Seminar in Hispanic Literature and Culture