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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Introduction to basic themes, currents of thought, and issues in Latin American intellectual, political, social, or cultural criticism. May be repeated for degree credit given a different topic. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Examination of the economic, political, and cultural factors that shaped the historical construction of race, ethnicity, and gender in modern Latin America. Analysis of how different social and political mass movements influenced the evolution of racial/ethnic identity and gender roles.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Focus on the social and cultural construction of race in North America and Latin America. Analysis of the predominance of the eugenics movement, ethnocentrism, misogyny, racial discrimination, and violence defined within the Americas during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). Focus on how the evolution of Latin American cinema reflects the social, political, and cultural issues faced by Latin American societies through its representations of popular culture. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). Topics of current interest in Latin American Studies. May be repeated for degree credit, given a different topic, for a maximum of 8 credits.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Analysis of the socioeconomic, cultural, racial, and political topics explored in the literature of Twentieth-Century Black women writers of the African Diaspora. Examination of autobiographical, poetry, fiction, and prose writings by such authors as Jamaica Kincaid, Audre Lourde, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Dandicat, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Explores how contemporary historical scholarship analyzes the influence of women in the development of nation, culture, politics, economy, and identity in Latin America from the pre- Columbian era to the present. Also examines how Latin Americans develop their own perceptions regarding their lives through the lenses of gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Diverse topics in Latin American studies dealing with either specific themes, currents of thought, or any other economic, political, social, or cultural manifestation coming from Latin America. May be repeated for degree credit, given a different topic, for a maximum of twelve credits. Offered in alternate years.
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Spring (4 credits). Examination of the social and cultural development of Mexican society from the inception of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 to the Chiapas rebellion of the 1990s. Focus on the impact of political mobilization, social reform, revolutionary change, gender roles, regionalism, ethnic identity, and armed struggle in the creation of the modern Mexican nation. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). An introduction to contemporary critical theory and methodology. We will survey major trends and clarify analytical concepts to explore how those approaches transform our understanding of contemporary Latin America. Major contemporary Latin American theorists are included in this approach.
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