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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The course explores the relationship between the socioeconomic position of women and their power in domestic and public spheres in different historical contexts, such as Inca society, as well as contemporary rural and urban settings, making use of historical, ethnographic, and autobiographical sources.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A comparative survey of Caribbean literature, including common themes, structures, and approaches to literary texts. Examples are chosen from works in Spanish, French, English, and Papiamento, read in translation if necessary.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. An overview of film in Latin America from the silent period to the present.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Dominican history from pre-history and pre-Colombian times to the Trujillo era. The course will examine different socioeconomic trends in the formation of Dominican society, as well as the prominent role played by foreign powers.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Dominican politics, economy, and society from the Trujillo era to the present. The course will focus on the authoritarian legacy of the Trujillo dictatorship, electoral politics in the post-Trujillo period, and recurring trends of caudillismo, praetorianism, and personalism.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A comparative study of the social, political, and economic processes affecting Latino groups in the United States. Discussion will focus on the variable adaptations made by Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Dominicans, Cubans, Colombians, and other Latinos in their migration and settlement within American society.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The poetry, novel, and essay of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A comparative study of Caribbean societies and cultures, with emphasis on the commonality and diversity in their historical, social, political, and economic development.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A comprehensive study of the visual arts in Puerto Rico, with emphasis on painting, architecture, sculpture, and graphic arts from precolonial times to present. Discussion will focus on the origins, influences, and projections of the Puerto Rican art movement within a historical and aesthetic context. PREREQ: PRS 213 or instructor's or Departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Analysis of the literary works of Caribbean writers. Poetry, the novel, drama, and other literary forms of major authors.
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