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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Off-campus study in Latin America, the Caribbean, or nonlocal Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. Nature of proposed study/project to be discussed with sponsoring instructor(s) before undertaking field study; credit toward major (maximum of three courses per quarter) conferred upon completion of all stipulated requirements. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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2.00 Credits
Individual studies undertaken off-campus. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Supervised directed reading; weekly or biweekly meetings with instructor. Final paper or examination required. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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2.00 Credits
Supervised research and writing of an expanded paper, completed in conjunction with requisite writing for an upper-division course taken for credit in the major. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Seminar taught by upper-division student under faculty supervision. Requires prior approval by Latin American and Latino Studies Department and two quarters (fall, winter) of supervised preparation prior to teaching in spring quarter. (See course 192). The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Anthropological in approach, concentrates on how Latin America's image is constructed and studied today. Topics include geographies, nationalities, social classes, ethnicities, gender, ecologies, regions, cultural areas, folklore, revolutions, and rural and urban societies. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.) G. Delgado-P
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1.25 Credits
Examines contemporary social movements in Latin America, especially those that arose from popular response to different forms of social exclusion and to authoritarian political systems. Explores a variety of popular movements, their successes and setbacks, including rural and urban uprisings, native nations and their descendants, women, African descendants, labor, environmental and grassroots movements. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Focuses on politics of power and resistance regarding major cross-border issues facing Latin Americans and Latinos in the 21st century. Emphasizes migration and migrant organizing; neoliberal "free trade" and implications for labor; organizing by women's, indigenous, and ecological movements; and for democracy and human rights. Many specific cases drawn from binational Central American experiences. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.) G. Delgado-P
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1.25 Credits
Reviews broad trends in contemporary Mexican politics against the backdrop of long-term historical, social, and economic change throughout the 20th century, analyzing how power is both wielded from above and created from below. The course covers national politics, grassroots movements for social change and democratization, envi- ronmental challenges, indigenous movements, the media, and the politics of immigration and North American integration. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.) J. Fox
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1.25 Credits
Is there a general school of philosophy endemic to Latin America Would it have to appeal to quintessential Western philosophical questions regarding knowledge, values, and reality If not, why not, and would it then still count as philosophy What difference do ethnic and national diversity, as well as strong political and social inequality, make to the development of philosophical questions and frameworks Course explores a variety of historically situated Latin American thinkers who investigate ethnic identity, gender, and socio-political inequality and liberation, and historical memory, and who have also made important contributions to mainstream analytical and continental philosophy. (Also offered as Philosophy 80E. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, E.) R. Winthur
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