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Courses in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LAC (GEH) 189: Regional Geography of Selected Areas. 3 hours, 3 credits. The geography of continents of major areas outside Anglo-American and Western Europe. Special emphasis on the basic principles of economic and cultural geography of regionalization as illustrated in the area under consideration. LAC (ANT) 210: Women in Latin America. 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. LAC 225: History of the Dominican Republic. 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. LAC 226: Contemporary Dominican Politics and Society. 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. LAC 231: Latinos in the United States. 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. LAC 266: Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean I. 3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of the peoples and civilizations of Pre-Columbian America, and of the institutions, economy, history, and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean from the European conquest to the early 19th-century (1492-1808). LAC 267: Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean II. 3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of the nations and cultures, history, economy, and politics of Latin America and the Caribbean from the early 19th-century to the present. LAC 324: The Historical Origins of Socialism in Cuba. 3 hours, 3 credits. The social, economic, and political dynamics of Cuban history from the mid-18th-century, addressing the central question of why Cuba embarked upon the construction of a socialist society after 1959. PREREQ.: COR 104. LAC (SPA) 333: Spanish American Literature of the Conquest. 3 hours, 3 credits. A study of texts from the period of the Spanish Discovery and conquest of the New World through the period of colonization. Letters, diaries, chronicles, poems, histories, and travel narratives will be read. LAC 420: Latin American and Caribbean Seminar. 3 hours, 3 credits. This course is for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program majors only and is a requirement for the B.A. degree. Variable themes of Latin American and Caribbean studies chosen by the instructor. This will be a research oriented course and students will pursue independent research projects. LAC (PRS) 490: Directed Independent Study. 3 hours, 3 credits. (May be taken more than once with departmental approval if subject matter is different. Description: see PRS (LAC) 490. PREREQ.: A reading knowledge of Spanish and permission of the instructor. Courses in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (by area)
SOCIOECONOMIC STRUCTURE LAC (GEH) 189: Regional Geography of Latin America LAC (ANT) 210: Women in Latin America LAC 231: Latinos in the United States LAC (BLS) 235: Afro-Caribbean Society LAC (ANT) 238: Ethnography of Latin America LAC (ANT) 317: Early Civilization of South America and the Caribbean LAC (ANT) 318: Early Civilizations of Mexico and Central America LAC (BLS) 400: Seminar Slavery in the New World LAC (ECO) 323: Economic Development in Latin America LITERATURE AND THE ARTS LAC 169 (PRS 214): Literature of the Caribbean LAC (ARH) 343: Pre-Columbian Art LAC (BLS) 241: Afro-Caribbean Literature LAC (POR) 247: Brazilian Literature from the Colonial Period to the 20th-Century LAC (SPA) 233: Latin American Literature in Translation LAC (SPA) 250: Contemporary Problems in the Hispanic World LAC (SPA) 265: Contemporary Literature of Spain and Spanish America LAC (SPA) 320: Spanish American Literature of the 19th-Century LAC (SPA) 332: Spanish American Fiction of the 20th-Century LAC 344 (SPA 343): Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry LAC (SPA) 352: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature LAC (SPA) 359: Latin American Civilization HISTORY AND POLITICS LAC 225: History of the Dominican Republic LAC 226: Contemporary Dominican Politics and Society LAC 324: The Historical Origins of Socialism in Cuba LAC (BLS) 335: The Afro-Caribbean in World Politics LAC (HIW) 330: Colonial Hispanic America LAC (HIW) 331: Republics of South America LAC (HIW) 340: Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean LAC (HIW) 352: The Mexican Revolution LAC (POL) 332: Political Systems in Latin America LAC (POL) 336: Political Systems of Central America and the Caribbean RELATED COURSES LAC (BLS) 177: Afro-Caribbean Heritage PRS 211: History of Puerto Rico I PRS 212: History of Puerto Rico II PRS 213: Puerto Rican Culture PRS 233: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Puerto Rico LAC (PRS) 236: Puerto Rican Music PRS 237: The Visual Arts in Puerto Rico PRS 241: Migration and the Puerto Rican Community in the U.S. LAC (PRS) 300: Social and Economic History of Puerto Rico LAC (PRS) 302: Puerto Rican Literature I LAC (PRS) 303: Puerto Rican Literature II PRS 307: Puerto Rico in the 20th-Century PRS 308: The Economy of Puerto Rico PRS 310: Political Parties in Puerto Rico, 1869 to the Present PRS (LAC) 360: Variable Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History PRS 401: Puerto Rican Literature: Genre Studies PRS 410: Puerto Rican Folklore and Popular Culture PRS 430: Puerto Rican Historiography LAC 490: Directed Independent Study |