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3.00 Credits
Latin AmericanThought: Latin Music in the U
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3.00 Credits
Latin American Thought:Beyond Logocentrism
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3.00 Credits
Seminar in Spanish Studies:Global Quixote:Reading Cultural Imperialism and Resistance in Comparative Context
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8.00 Credits
A sustained comparative study of the developing canon of three major contemporary writers--Alejo Carpentier (Cuba), V.S. naipaul (Trinidad), and Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe)-- from the Caribbean, representing the region's Spanish-, English-, and French-speaking cultural zones. Examines the evolving content, contours and scope of each writer's work and unique perception of the newWorld, as well as its distinctively Antillean "structure of feeling," participationin modern debates about Caribbean culture, and distinctive contributions to the development of the novel in the contemporary Caribbean. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement R. Márquez Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in Latin American studies or related field, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Same as History 386f) This seminar explores the diverse experiences of Central American nations in the twentieth century. From a common basis in an export-oriented agriculture, social and political alternatives ranging from social democracy to recurrent military rule, neofascist regimes, and revolutionary socialism have emerged in the isthmus. The course uses materials ranging from autobiography and literature to historical and anthropological studies to understand how this came to be. In addition to national cases, we consider the unique experiences of the area's indigenous and Atlantic-coast peoples within and outside the nation-state framework. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement L. Gudmundson Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in Latin American studies or related field, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Same as History 387fs) Can you imagine a movie audience breaking into song and dance in the middle of a film screening Has the Hollywood depiction of the Brazilian as either a "Bombshell" or a flirtatious male parrotchanged over time How does a Brazilian Western differ from a SpaghettiWestern What were the accomplishments and limitations of the "aesthetic of hunger" The course examines Brazilian cinema and popular culture in light of theoretical issues of reception and production, ?ird Cinema, and the shaping of identities and politics. Two films per week. (English subtitles). Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement S. Sarzynski Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in Latin American studies or related field, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Same as History 388f) For many the "discovery"of America opened the modern era. Its closing may also have been foretold in Latin America's confounding of diverse theories of modernization and development in recent times. This seminar will introduce the student to a number of both classic and more recent works on Latin America (in English) that advance along postmodernist lines, ranging from cultural contact and conflict, language, meaning, and power in the sixteenth century, to the invention of national identities in the nineteenth century, to discourses of ethnicity, class, gender, and reason in the twentieth century. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement L. Gudmundson Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in Latin American studies or related field, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
This course explores the structure and variety of societies generated in north, Central, and South America by four widely distributed export crops. Although not bound by rigid chronology, our focus will be primarily on the period 1750-1950. Principal concerns of the course are variations by time and place in each commodity's technologies, labor systems, farm sizes, and social structure; the political dynamics associated with each type of farming; and the problematic features of capitalism in agriculture, or, how and when do peasants become farmers and farming agribusiness Readings in English on cases drawn from throughout the Americas. Meets Humanities I-B requirement L. Gudmundson Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in Latin American studies or related field, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Does not meet a distribution requirement 1 to 8 credits
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3.00 Credits
This yearlong course includes the topics in Mathematics 101, Calculus I. It is intended for students who, based on the results of their precalculus assessment and the agreement of the instructor, need to strengthen their quantitative and algebraic precalculus skills in order to learn calculus. Features modeling of phenomena in the natural and social sciences. Mathematics 100A: representation and interpretation of data, functions and their graphs, the derivative. Mathematics 100B: logarithmic and trigonometric functions, integrals and the varied processes that they can represent, accumulation and antidifferentiation, the several forms of the fundamental theorem. Does not meet a distribution requirement J. McLeod Prereq. permission of instructor. Student may send assessment score and background information to jmcleod@mtholyoke.edu. 2 meetings (75 minutes), 1 meeting (50 minutes); Completion of the year-long sequence fulfills a Science and Math II-A requirement.; 4 credits
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