Spanish I and II (or equivalent) These courses are offered every semester and also fulfill the General Education Humanities requirement.
Four elective courses with no more than 2 coming from any single department.Students may double count coursework and use courses for the Latin American Studies minor towards other academic programs, such as majors or minors in Spanish, History or Geography.
Have you had 4 or more years in high school (or 4 semesters in college)? In this course, you will develop your conversational skills and pronunciation. You will learn to express your opinion on a variety of intriguing and current topics!
Is your major in Health Sciences, Psychology, CDS, or related fields? Are you maybe a Spanish minor? This class could be perfect for you. It is a third-year Spanish course focused on the vocabulary and grammar needed by health care practitioners and professionals in allied fields to communicate with the Spanish-speaking community, taking into account its unique concerns, to support a culturally competent practice
In this class, students are going to learn about major theatrical movements in Latin America;
analyze literary works from many countries using technical vocabulary in Spanish; identity major authors from Latin America and Spain; use MLA database to locate critical works; distinguish between and use primary sources and secondary works on theatre and Twentieth Century Latin American literature; and memorize and perform shot plays in front of an audience.
An introduction to the experiences of peoples of Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean descent in the United States from the sixteenth century through the present that emphasizes the influence of immigration, imperialism, racialization, and community building processes. We will analyze how Latine peoples adjust, integrate, assimilate, resist, and adapt to the political, economic, and social conditions that define their surroundings.
This class is for people of ALL IDENTITIES who are respectfully Latino-curious--Latinx or not, Spanish-speaking or not.
We line up at taco trucks, flock to Día de los muertos parades, and bop to Bad Bunny. At the same time, dominant discourses in the United States associate communities in the U.S. with roots in Latin America—Latinx people—with foreignness and illegality. Why? For you to answer, this ethnic studies course will push you beyond a “food and festivals” understanding of Latinx communities. We will achieve a more nuanced appreciation of Latinx cultures by critiquing common notions of “race” and “multiculturalism,” and by examining cultural products of Latinx resistance in their historical contexts. And we might even do some cooking before the semester is over.
Students will develop their interpersonal, presentational, and interpretative communication skills through the study of the cultures of Latin America and Spain. Explore topics such as Mayan creation stories, human rights activism in contemporary indigenous communities, and notions of race and gender in colonial Mexico, all while increasing your grammatical accuracy and your overall proficiency level. This class is organized around the standards of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), known as the “5 C’s:” Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. Pre-requisites: WLS 2202G/2292G or its equivalent.
Learn about the historical events that have shaped the social and cultural landscape of Spanish-speaking Latin America. We will explore this area's geographic, ethnic, racial, and linguistic diversity. Topics covered include: ancient writing systems, controversies regarding the Conquest and the treatment of the native populations, vocabulary to discuss race, race vs. ethnicity, racial vs. ethnic identities, colonial art, the legacy of the Spanish presence in the Americas. The class will be conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: WLS 3000, 3012 or equivalent.
An introduction to practical and theoretical relations between film and literature.” In this course, we will study a variety of film and literary approaches to and appropriations of real-life social and political incidents that had a profound impact on the body politic. We will encounter historical moments, novels, poetry, and films from around the world (specifically, for this course, in the U.S., Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, and Britain) in order to study how different practitioners of literature and film work to explore and make sense of human experience during times of personal or national difficulty
This course studies the natural and cultural landscapes of Latin America. Special attention is given to the geographical identity and cultural diversity of the region. Topics include environmental issues, colonial history, natural resources, economic patterns, geopolitical contexts, transportation, agriculture, population patterns, urban growth, & migration.
In this course we will consider the way theatre has shaped the Americas (North, South, and Central) and how the Americas have been imagined over time. We will consider texts and performances from Lope de Vega’s 16th century play about Columbus to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2021 film of In the Heights, and many works in between by Latinx, Indigenous, Caribbean, and Black playwrights. This course will be taught online, and asynchronously.
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