Courses
Below is a list of courses that can be counted towards the Latin American Studies major. Use the course browser for more information on a course. If a course is not listed, you can appeal for credit to the directors of the major and the professor of the course.
Latin American Studies
LAST 250 Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: two units of course work in Latin American Studies.
Unit: 1 credit
LAST 250H Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: two units of course work in Latin American Studies.
Unit: .5 credit
LAST 350 Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: Open to Latin American Studies and Spanish majors
Unit: 1 credit
LAST 350H Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: Open to Latin American Studies Spanish majors.
Unit: .5 credit
LAST 360 Senior Thesis Research
Prerequisite: By permission of department.
Unit: 1 credit
LAST 379 Senior Thesis
Prerequisite: 360 and permission of department.
Unit: 1 credit
Courses for Credit Toward the Major
AFR 297* Medical Anthropology: A Comparative Study of Healing Systems
AFR 302 Caribbean Intellectual Thought in the Twentieth Century
AFR 320/AMST 320* Not offered in 2011-2012 Seminar. Blackness in the American Literary Imagination
ARTH 236 Art, Architecture, and Culture in the Ancient Americas
ARTH 237 Not offered in 2011-2012 Art, Architecture, and Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico
ARTH 338 Not offered in 2011-2012 Seminar. Topics in Latin American Art
CAMS 240/WGST 223 Gendering the Bronze Screen: Representations of Chicanas/Latinas in Film
ECON 241 Not offered in 2011-2012 Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
ES 214/POL2 214* Social Causes and Consequences of Environmental Problems
ES 312/POL2 312* Seminar. Environmental Policy
HIST 206 From Conquest to Revolution: A History of Colonial Latin America
HIST 207 Contemporary Problems in Latin American History
HIST 212 Atlantic Revolutions and the Birth of Nations
HIST 215 Not offered in 2011-2012 Gender and Nation in Latin America
HIST 375 Seminar. Empire and Modernity: The Rise and Fall of Spanish World Power
HIST 377 Not offered in 2011-2012 Seminar. The City in Latin America
POL 103 FYS Mexico: Revolution, Democracy, and Drugs
POLl2 204* Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
POL2 207 Politics of Latin America
POL2 214*/ES 214 Social Causes and Consequences of Environmental Problems
POL2 302* Globalization and the Nation State
POL2 305* Not offered In 2011-2012 Seminar. The Military In Politics
POL2 307* Women and Development
POL2 309* Ethnicity, Nationalism, Religion, and Violence
POL2 310* Seminar. Politics of Community Development
POL2 312*/ES 312 Seminar. Environmental Policy
POL2 353 Not offered in 2011-2012 The Politics of Contemporary Cuba
POL3 323* International Economic Policy
POL3 332* Seminar. People, Agriculture, and the Environment
POL3 348* Seminar. Problems In North-South Relations
POL4 342* Seminar. Marxism, Anarchism and Fundamentalism
POL4 345* Seminar. Race and Political Theory
REL 221* Not offered in 2011-2012 Contemporary Catholicism
REL 226* The Virgin Mary
REL 326* Seminar. Liberation Theologies
SOC 221* Globalization
SOC 231* The Sociology of Art, Media, and Culture—Comparative Perspectives
SOC 310* Encountering the Other – Comparative Perspectives on Immigration
SPAN 253 The Latin American Short Story
SPAN 255 Chicano Literature
SPAN 257 Not offered in 2011-2012 The World and the Song: Contemporary Latin American Poetry
SPAN 259 Inhabiting Memory
SPAN 265 Not offered in 2011-2012 Latin American Cinema
SPAN 267 Not offered in 2011-2012 The Writer and Human Rights In Latin America
SPAN 269 Not offered in 2011-2012 Caribbean Literature and Culture
SPAN 271 Intersecting Currents: Afro-Hispanic and Indigenous Writers In Latin American Literature
SPAN 273 Latin American Civilization
SPAN 275 The Making of Modern Latin American Culture
SPAN 279 Not offered in 2011-2012 Jewish Women Writers of Latin America
SPAN 305 Seminar. Hispanic Literature of the United States
SPAN 307 Seminar. The Clothed and the Naked In Colonial Latin America
SPAN 323 Not offered in 2011-2012 Seminar. Modern Mexico
SPAN 325 Not offered in 2011-2012 Seminar. Candid Cuisine: Food in Latin American Literature and Culture
SPAN 327 Seminar. Latin American Women Writers: Identity, Marginality, and the Literary Canon
SPAN 335 Seminar. Asia in Latin America: Literary and Cultural Connections
SPAN 337 Seminar. Laughing Out Loud: Humor and Politics in Latin American Literature
WGST 216 Women and Popular Culture: Latinas as Nannies, Spitfires, and Sex Pots
WGST 223/CAMS 240 Gendering the Bronze Screen: Representations of Chicanas/Latinas in Film
WGST 326 Crossing the Border(s): Narratives of Transgression
Courses may be taken in the Program for Mexican Culture and Society in Puebla, Mexico and in approved programs in other Latin American sites. Courses focusing on Latin America in the PRESHCO program in Spain or in other study-abroad programs can be counted with permission of the directors.
* Upon enrollment, the student must notify the instructor that the course is to be counted for Latin American Studies and that, as such, the student will be required to do a research paper which focuses on Latin America.
