Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies

Course Offerings Fall 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
AFST 100-01	Intro to Africana Studies Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 121-01.	1130:MWF STERN 103
AFST 220-01	Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1850 Instructor: Jeremy Ball Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 272-01 and LALC 272-01. Part of the Atlantaic Slave Trade Mosaic. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic, an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world.	0930:MWF DENNY 311
AFST 310-01	Anthropology/Music - Caribbean Instructor: Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 345-01 and LALC 301-01. Artists as individuals have had a tremendous impact on the lives of Caribbean people. Yet, in the Caribbean, the arts are as much a community enterprise as they are an individualistic endeavor. This course explores the contours of Caribbean society, thought and culture through artistic expression, in general, and music, in particular. Through the use of specific case studies drawn from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, we will interrogate salient themes in the academic literature of the region, such as agency, empowerment, self-affirmation, hegemony, resistance, and identity. We will seek to unravel how attention to musical production helps us to define the region and to understand the lives of the people who call it home. Through ethnographies and other critical readings, films and musical examples, we will look at how individuals and groups in the Caribbean have used artistic expression to write their own histories, preserve their spirituality, assert their unique identities, form alliances across groups (or polarize communities), resist oppressive regimes, build nations, and celebrate life.	1030:TR ALTHSE 106
AFST 310-03	Caribbean and African Diaspora Instructor: Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 300-02. This course uses a comparative framework to theorize diaspora and to consider processes of creolization and hybridity that are the result of interactions between Africans, Europeans and South Asian Indians in the Caribbean. In this course, we will trace the scholarly and artistic representation of people of African and Indian ancestry in the Caribbean. Focusing primarily on Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname, the Caribbean nations with significant Indo-Caribbean, as well as Afro-Caribbean populations, we will examine the anthropological, literary and artistic documentation and analyses of how Afro- and Indo-Caribbean ethnic groups have been shaped by similar experiences as laborers on plantations in the region, and how they in turn, have indelibly imprinted their traditions and cultures on their New World societies, creating distinct, new social and cultural forms and identities in the process. We will explore how interethnic relations, sexuality, religious practices, political processes, and festivity have been influenced by creolizing and "douglarizing" processes.	0900:TR ALTHSE 07
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ANTH 345-01	Anthropology/Music - Caribbean Instructor: Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 310-01 and LALC 301-01. Artists as individuals have had a tremendous impact on the lives of Caribbean people. Yet, in the Caribbean, the arts are as much a community enterprise as they are an individualistic endeavor. This course explores the contours of Caribbean society, thought and culture through artistic expression, in general, and music, in particular. Through the use of specific case studies drawn from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, we will interrogate salient themes in the academic literature of the region, such as agency, empowerment, self-affirmation, hegemony, resistance, and identity. We will seek to unravel how attention to musical production helps us to define the region and to understand the lives of the people who call it home. Through ethnographies and other critical readings, films and musical examples, we will look at how individuals and groups in the Caribbean have used artistic expression to write their own histories, preserve their spirituality, assert their unique identities, form alliances across groups (or polarize communities), resist oppressive regimes, build nations, and celebrate life.	1030:TR ALTHSE 106
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ECON 349-01	Pol Econ of the Third World Instructor: Mesude Kongar, Ozge Ozay Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 349-01.	1030:MWF DENNY 303
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HIST 130-01	Latin American History I Instructor: William Visser Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 230-01.	1130:MWF DENNY 110
HIST 272-01	Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1850 Instructor: Jeremy Ball Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 220-01 and LALC 272-01. Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Mosaic. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic, an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world.	0930:MWF DENNY 311
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LALC 101-01	Intro Latin American Studies Instructor: J Mark Ruhl Course Description: A multi-disciplinary, introductory course designed to familiarize students with the regions through a study of their history, economics, politics, literature, and culture in transnational and comparative perspective. The purpose of the course is to provide a framework that will prepare students for more specialized courses in particular disciplines and specific areas of LALC studies. Required of all LALC majors. This course fulfills the Comparative Civilizations graduation requirement.	1330:TF DENNY 313
LALC 121-01	Intro to Africana Studies Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 100-01.	1130:MWF STERN 103
LALC 230-01	Early Lat Am History to 1800 Instructor: William Visser Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 130-01.	1130:MWF DENNY 110
LALC 242-01	Brazilian Cultural/Soc Iss Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with PORT 242-01.Taught in English.	1030:TR BOSLER 305
LALC 272-01	Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1850 Instructor: Jeremy Ball Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 220-01 and HIST 272-01. Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Mosaic. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic, an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world.	0930:MWF DENNY 311
LALC 300-01	Hispaniola: 1937 in Literature Instructor: Mariana Past Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02 and AFST 310-04. Taught in Spanish. This course examines Caribbean and diasporic literary works about the 1937 Parsley Massacre in Hispaniola's northern borderlands. Transnational cultural production about the understudied event exposes how historical silences are being broken and deeply-entrenched cultural divisions between the Dominican Republic and Haiti are loosening up. Students will read and analyze texts through various critical approaches; they will write an in-depth research paper on a related topic.	1330:MR ALTHSE 110
LALC 300-02	Caribbean and African Diaspora Instructor: Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 310-03. This course uses a comparative framework to theorize diaspora and to consider processes of creolization and hybridity that are the result of interactions between Africans, Europeans and South Asian Indians in the Caribbean. In this course, we will trace the scholarly and artistic representation of people of African and Indian ancestry in the Caribbean. Focusing primarily on Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname, the Caribbean nations with significant Indo-Caribbean, as well as Afro-Caribbean populations, we will examine the anthropological, literary and artistic documentation and analyses of how Afro- and Indo-Caribbean ethnic groups have been shaped by similar experiences as laborers on plantations in the region, and how they in turn, have indelibly imprinted their traditions and cultures on their New World societies, creating distinct, new social and cultural forms and identities in the process. We will explore how interethnic relations, sexuality, religious practices, political processes, and festivity have been influenced by creolizing and "douglarizing" processes.	0900:TR ALTHSE 07
LALC 301-01	Anthropology/Music - Caribbean Instructor: Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 310-01 and ANTH 345-01. Artists as individuals have had a tremendous impact on the lives of Caribbean people. Yet, in the Caribbean, the arts are as much a community enterprise as they are an individualistic endeavor. This course explores the contours of Caribbean society, thought and culture through artistic expression, in general, and music, in particular. Through the use of specific case studies drawn from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, we will interrogate salient themes in the academic literature of the region, such as agency, empowerment, self-affirmation, hegemony, resistance, and identity. We will seek to unravel how attention to musical production helps us to define the region and to understand the lives of the people who call it home. Through ethnographies and other critical readings, films and musical examples, we will look at how individuals and groups in the Caribbean have used artistic expression to write their own histories, preserve their spirituality, assert their unique identities, form alliances across groups (or polarize communities), resist oppressive regimes, build nations, and celebrate life.	1030:TR ALTHSE 106
LALC 349-01	Pol Econ of the Third World Instructor: Mesude Kongar, Ozge Ozay Course Description: Cross-listed with ECON 349-01.	1030:MWF DENNY 303
LALC 390-01	Span-Amer Narrative of 21st C Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 410-01. This class focuses on the analysis of textsnarrative, cinema, and other cultural manifestationsproduced in the 21st century. It aims to discuss the most recent tendencies of young and renowned Spanish American authors, while examining the intersections of socioeconomic class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and transnational influences.	1330:W BOSLER 314
LALC 490-01	Lat Am Interdisciplinary Res Instructor: J Mark Ruhl Course Description: Research into a topic concerning Latin America directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students must successfully defend their research paper to obtain course credit. The paper is researched and written in the fall semester for one-half course credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for the other half credit. Prerequisite: senior majors.	:
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PORT 242-01	Brazilian Cultural/Soc Iss Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 242-01.Taught in English.	1030:TR BOSLER 305
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SPAN 410-01	Span-Amer Narrative of 21st C Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 390-01. This class focuses on the analysis of textsnarrative, cinema, and other cultural manifestationsproduced in the 21st century. It aims to discuss the most recent tendencies of young and renowned Spanish American authors, while examining the intersections of socioeconomic class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and transnational influences.	1330:W BOSLER 314