LAS 210 Urban Sociology: The City and Social Change in the Americas (See SOC 210)
LAS 215 Arts of the Americas: The First 5,000 Years (See ART 103)
LAS 219 Rap, Graffiti and Urban Cultures in the Hispanic Worlds (See SPA 239)
LAS 220 El Género Negro: Crime Fiction (See SPA 220)
LAS 221 Art of Hispania (See ART 221)
LAS 222 Introduction to Latin American Cultures (See SPA 222)
LAS 223 Introduction to the Literature and Culture of the Portuguese-Speaking World (See POR 221)
LAS 225 Interdisciplinary Design Studio (See ARC 205)
LAS 235 Of Shipwreck and Other Disasters (See SPA 235)
LAS 238 Contemporary Latin American Literature (See COM 238)
LAS 248 Modern Mexican Society (See SOC 248)
LAS 250 Identity in the Hispanic World (See SPA 250)
LAS 259 Caribbean Music from Contradanza to Reggae, Salsa and Beyond (See MUS 259)
LAS 267 Mesoamerican Art (See ART 267)
LAS 268 Introduction to Mesoamerican Material Culture (See ART 268)
LAS 275 Religion and Social Change in Early Latin America (See REL 275)
LAS 276 Saints and Sinners: Women and the Church in Colonial Spanish America (See REL 276)
LAS 278 Histories and Themes in Mexican Religion (See REL 278)
LAS 300 The Literature and Culture of Spain and Colonial Latin America: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque (See SPA 300)
LAS 301 Afro-Diasporic Dialogues: Black Activism in Latin America and the United States (See AAS 322)
LAS 302 Environment and Extraction in Latin America (also ) Fall
HA
Are Latin American governments extractivist, or the victims of exploitation? This course tackles environmental history by moving through various Latin American landscapes and communities, from the Sonoran Desert and Amazonian Rainforest to Patagonian icefields and Peruvian glaciers. By focusing on a range of natural resources and commodities, from silver and sugar to oil and water, the course uses an historical approach to understand the intersection of economics, social movements, environmentalism, and conceptions of space, place, and nature. R. Edwards
LAS 303 Modern Brazilian Literature and Culture (See POR 301)
LAS 304 Modern Latin America since 1810 (See HIS 304)
LAS 305 Colonial Latin America to 1810 (See HIS 303)
LAS 306 History of the Modern Caribbean (See HIS 305)
LAS 307 Social Justice and the Latin American City (also ) Fall
SA
This course deals with difficult questions of how urban social justice is understood, demanded, pursued and meted out. The UN reports more than 1/2 the world's population lives in cities, a transformation esp. profound in Lat. America. We will critically assess both this urban terrain and the tools/theories we use to apprehend it, from 'environmental racism' to 'circuits of capital', and from the 'Pink Tide' to the 'postpolitical'. We will engage distinct approaches to social justice at scales ranging from hyper-local to inescapably-global, and explore justice and its antipodes through case studies of actually existing Lat. American cities. B. Gerlofs
LAS 309 Topics in the Sociology of Latin America (See SOC 309)
LAS 310 Gender and Development in the Americas (See SOC 310)
LAS 311 Topics in Brazilian Cultural and Social History (See POR 304)
LAS 312 History of Modern Mexico (See HIS 309)
LAS 314 Topics in the Study of Gender (See GSS 302)
LAS 315 Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literary Traditions (See POR 300)
LAS 316 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Latin America (See SOC 315)
LAS 319 Brazilian Cinema (See POR 319)
LAS 321 Topics in the Intellectual History of Modern and Contemporary Spain (See SPA 321)
LAS 327 Modernism in Fiction (See COM 327)
LAS 330 Social Exclusion in Latin America (See SOC 331)
LAS 331 Modern Latin American Fiction (See SPA 331)
LAS 332 Modern Latin American Poetry (See SPA 332)
LAS 333 Latino Politics in the U.S. (See POL 333)
LAS 334 Critical Theory in Latin America and Beyond (See SPA 363)
LAS 336 Latinos in American Life and Culture (See LAO 200)
LAS 338 The Sociology of Latinos in the U.S. (See SOC 338)
LAS 342 Topics in Latin American Modernity (See SPA 342)
LAS 343 The Invention of Latin American Traditions (See SPA 343)
LAS 344 Literature and Society in Early Latin America (See SPA 344)
LAS 345 Topics in Latin American Literature and Ideology (See SPA 345)
LAS 347 Topics in the Culture of Cities (See SPA 351)
LAS 348 Fictions and Communities in the Andes (See SPA 348)
LAS 349 Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies (See SPA 350)
LAS 350 Pre-Columbian Peoples of Tropical America and Their Environments (See EEB 332)
LAS 351 Tropical Biology (See EEB 338)
LAS 352 Slavery and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean (See AAS 328)
LAS 353 Topics in Gender and Representation (See SPA 353)
LAS 354 Topics in Cinema and Culture (See SPA 319)
LAS 355 The Itinerant Languages of Photography (See SPA 355)
LAS 356 Topics in the Politics of Writing and Difference (See SPA 352)
LAS 360 Urban Modernism and Its Discontents (See POR 306)
LAS 361 Brazilian Cinema in a Global Context (See POR 351)
LAS 364 Modern Latin American Fiction in Translation (See SPA 346)
LAS 365 Roberto Bolaño: Adventures in Cultureland (See SPA 356)
LAS 366 Ancient Arts of Mexico (See ART 366)
LAS 367 Latin American Politics (See POL 367)
LAS 368 Caribbean Women's History (See AAS 319)
LAS 376 The Economic Analysis of Conflict (also ) Fall
SA
The purpose of this class is to introduce students to the microeconomic analysis of internal conflict. Students will study how conflict imposes economic costs on the population. We will study how we can apply economic theory and rigorous empirical methods to the microeconomic analysis of internal conflict. The class will cover three broad topics: (i) the proximate causes (or correlates) of war; (ii) the economic legacies of conflict; and (iii) forced migration. Staff
LAS 377 Modern Caribbean History (See AAS 313)
LAS 378 Screening Saudade (See POR 308)
LAS 379 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Latin America (See REL 378)
LAS 380 Religious Experience, Expression, and Authority in Colonial Latin America (See REL 370)
LAS 383 Masterpieces of Latin American Literature (See SPA 339)
LAS 384 The Anthropology of Selected Regions (See ANT 336)
LAS 385 Introduction to Digital Humanities (See HUM 346)
LAS 388 Indigenous Expressions: Native Christianities in Colonial Mexico (See REL 359)
LAS 389 Poisonous Flowers: Radical Women in Latin America (See SPA 329)
LAS 390 Junior Seminar: Spanish and Portuguese-Speaking Worlds (See SPA 330)
LAS 391 Human Rights in Latin America (See WWS 364)
LAS 392 Memory and Urban Space in Latin America (also ) Fall
SA
This class will focus on the urban representation of state violence and the legacies of dictatorships in South America. Students will be introduced to central concepts of memory studies and their relation to space. Cities are crucial contexts for the negotiation of a contested past. The course focuses on memory sites, like monuments, memorials, and museums, and their role in transitional justice. By pairing theoretical debates with case studies in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, we explore the emergence of memory practices `from below' that reshape collective memory, analyzing how they relate to official politics of the past. Staff
LAS 393 Brazilian History: Slavery, Race and Citizenship in Modern Brazil (See POR 309)
LAS 394 Pre-Columbian Maya Art: Elite and Popular Discourses (See ART 394)
LAS 397 Mexico's Tenth Muse: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (See SPA 335)
LAS 398 Comparative Studies in Spanish and Portuguese Literatures in Latin America (See SPA 399)
LAS 401 Latin American Studies Seminar (also
/) Not offered this year
LA
The seminar will concentrate upon themes and topics in Latin American history, politics, society, literature, and/or culture. The focus will vary from year to year. Staff
LAS 402 Latin American Studies Seminar Not offered this year
SA
The seminar will concentrate upon themes and topics in Latin American history, politics, society, literature, and/or culture. The focus will vary from year to year.
Staff
LAS 403 Latin American Studies Seminar Not offered this year
LA
The seminar will concentrate upon themes and topics in Latin American history, politics, society, literature, and/or culture. The focus will vary from year to year.
Staff
LAS 404 Latin American Studies Seminar (also
/) Not offered this year
LA
The seminar will concentrate upon themes and topics in Latin American history, politics, society, literature, and/or culture. The focus will vary from year to year. Staff
LAS 405 Latin American Studies Seminar Not offered this year
The seminar will concentrate upon themes and topics in Latin American history, politics, society, literature, and/or culture. The focus will vary from year to year.
Staff
LAS 406 Latin American Studies Seminar Not offered this year
The seminar will concentrate upon themes and topics in Latin American history, politics, society, literature, and/or culture. The focus will vary from year to year.
Staff
LAS 407 Commons, Enclosures and Colonization in the Early Modern Atlantic (See HIS 407)
LAS 408 Selected Topics in 20th-Century Latin America (See HIS 408)
LAS 409 Writing and Urban Life (See POR 406)
LAS 412 Topics in Francophone Literature, Culture, and History (See FRE 403)
LAS 415 Latin American Essays (See POR 405)
LAS 428 Topics in Hispanic Culture (Europe and America) (See SPA 401)
LAS 443 Global Exchange in Art and Architecture (See ART 443)
LAS 447 Shooting the Enemy in Non-Fiction Cinema (See POR 401)
LAS 448 Las Ciudades del Boom: Economic Growth, Urban Life and Architecture in the Latin American City (See ARC 448)
LAS 460 Theorizing the Archive in Latin American Art (See ART 460)
LAS 462 Building Mestizo Worlds: Early Colonial Mexican History in a Global Perspective (See HIS 462)
LAS 463 A Social and Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Structures (See CEE 463)
LAS 466 The Havana Lessons: City, Architecture and Society (See ART 466)
LAS 467 Populism in Global History (See HIS 468)
LAS 468 The Art and Politics of Ancient Maya Courts (See ART 468)
LAS 469 Maya Painting (See ART 469)
LAS 486 Anthropology of Populism (also ) Fall
SA
Recently populist movements have gained prominence in both Europe and the USA, having inflected the political landscapes of these two regions in arguably irreversible ways. There are important differences between so-called right wing and left wing populism; the similarities, however, are equally salient: they both, appeal to a seamless "people" as the undivided source of sovereignty; draw on a a friend/enemy political logic; reject all forms of mediation in favor of the direct communication between authoritarian leaders and their followers. This course explores this emergent populism both empirically and theoretically. R. Sánchez
