Courses
Fall 2012-2013
POL 423 / LAS 423 / LAO 423 - Seminar in American Politics - Latino Politics in the U.S. Offerred Fall 2012-2013
What is the history and contemporary role of Latinos in U.S. politics? Will the growing Hispanic population reconfigure the presidential contest in 2012 or beyond? This seminar will use social science to examine these and other questions on how Latinos are shaping state and national politics. Topics include: immigration and its political impact; civil rights mobilization and political gains for Latinos; patterns of political participation and strategies for engaging Latino voters; public policy issues that concern them; and the importance of subgroup differences such as national origin and religious affiliation for Latino political behavior.
What is the history and contemporary role of Latinos in U.S. politics? Will the growing Hispanic population reconfigure the presidential contest in 2012 or beyond? This seminar will use social science to examine these and other questions on how Latinos are shaping state and national politics. Topics include: immigration and its political impact; civil rights mobilization and political gains for Latinos; patterns of political participation and strategies for engaging Latino voters; public policy issues that concern them; and the importance of subgroup differences such as national origin and religious affiliation for Latino political behavior.
Ali A. Valenzuela
SPA 222 / LAS 222 / LAO 222 - Introduction to Latin American Cultures Offerred Fall 2012-2013
This course offers an introduction to modern Latin American literature and culture. It focuses on the complex ways in which cultural and intellectual production anticipates, participates in, and responds to political, social, and economic transformations in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through a wide spectrum of sources (essays, fiction, poetry, film, and art), students will study and discuss some of the most relevant issues in Latin American modern history, such as modernity, democracy, identity, gender, memory, and social justice.
Javier Guerrero
Javier Guerrero
Social Science Courses
- AMS 201/LAO 201 American Places: An Introduction to American Studies
- AMS 329/SOC 329 Immigrant America
- ANT 304 Political Anthropology
- HIS 304/LAS 304 Modern Latin America Since 1810 Offered Spring 2011-12
- HIS 309/LAS 312 History of Modern Mexico
- HIS 407/AAS 417 Politics of Racial Violence in America
- POL 333 Latino Politics in the United States
- POL 334/AAS 335 The Politics of Race and Health in America
- POL 336/AAS 336 Race and American Politics
- POL 423 / LAS 423 / LAO 423 - Seminar in American Politics - Latino Politics in the U.S. Offered Fall 2012-2013
- POL 430 Seminar in Comparative Politics: Causes and Consequences of International Migration
- SOC 210/LAS 210 Urban Sociology: The City and Social Change in the Americas
- SOC 227 Race and Ethnicity
- SOC 248/LAS 248 Modern Mexican Society
- SOC 310/LAS 310 Gender and Development in the Americas
- SOC 315/LAS 316/AAS 315 Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Latin America
- SOC 340/REL 390 God of Many Faces: Comparative Perspectives on Migration and Religion Offered Spring 2011-12
Arts and Humanities Courses
- AAS 310/ENG 324/MUS 256 Music from the Hispanophone Caribbean Offered Spring 2011-12
- AAS 410 / SOC 407 Race, Social Inequality, and Education
- AAS 412 / ENG 425 / LAO 412 - Cultures of the Afro-Diaspora
- ENG 337/AAS 361/LAO 337/LAS 337 The Literary South
- ENG 402/AAS 408/LAO 402 Forms of Literature: Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literature Offered Spring 2011-12
- SPA 222/LAO 222/LAS 222 Introduction to Latin American Cultures Offered Fall 2012-2013
- SPA 319/LAS 319 Topics in Cinema and Culture
- SPA 342/LAS 342 Topics in Latin American Modernity
- SPA 401/LAS 428 Topics in Hispanic Culture (Europe and America) Offered Spring 2011-12
Note: For a topics course to count towards a certificate in Latino Studies, the content must be on a Latino subject. Please consult the Program with any questions.
Courses with a pound sign [#] are one-time-only courses. Should these be approved by the home department for cross-listing with the Latino Studies Program, the course listing will be appended.