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Latino Studies Courses
LATSTY 150 Special Topics: Latindades +
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This course will explore themes related to Latina/o/x communities in a variety of spheres including the Arts, Sciences, Law, Education, and Community Formation. Through presentations, readings, site visits, guest speakers, group discussions, and other activities students will explore the meanings and expressions of Latinidad and the everyday lives and contributions Latina/a/ox communities. Topics to be announced. More Info
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LATSTY 201L Imagining Latinidad: Historical Trajectories and Everyday Lives +
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This course focuses on the historical and contemporary issues that shape the political, social and cultural practices and experiences of Latinidad in the United States. Topics include: colonialism, imperialism, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, feminisms, migration, diaspora, language, and new/media representations and participation. This is the required gateway course for the Latino Studies minor. More Info
Offered in:LATSTY 223L Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature +
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This course will offer a survey of Latino/a/x literary voices drawn from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latin American migrations to the U.S. In addition to encountering a range of genres, students in this course will explore concepts, such as the bilingual self; the barrio vs. the borderland; immigrant autobiography; and the construction of ethnic American literature itself. More Info
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LATSTY 225L Latinas in the United States +
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This course provides an overview of the experiences of Latina women in the United States, focusing on the three themes of migration, the settlement process, and the question of identity. The course explores the contexts of family, employment, community organizing, and gender roles. More Info
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LATSTY 229L Latinx Sexualities +
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This interdisciplinary course combines Latinx/o/a Studies and Sexuality Studies with a feminist lens to examine how sexuality both shapes and is shaped by immigration, race, class, gender, gentrification, language, religion, culture, and kinship. In the tradition of critical ethnic studies, the course examines sexuality by centering Latinx knowledges, histories, cultural production, and everyday lives. Although the primary focus is on Latinx sexualities in the United States, our analysis will be grounded in a transnational and diasporic context. Topics may include queer latinidad, sexual health, family formations, sex work, media representation, social movements, and visual and performing arts. More Info
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LATSTY 260L Latina/nos and the Law +
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This course is an introduction for students to understand how legal institutions and systems in the United States have impacted the Latina/nos community. This is essentially a U.S. history course teaching to and about subject matters often neglected in K-12 education. Beginning with an examination of Columbus and his impact to the Americas the course examines the initial creation of the system of oppression against the Latina/nos community. Through a variety of methods of learning including mock trial, small group work, individual critical reading of articles/book chapters/case law/statutes, and critical class viewing and debriefing of video presentation - students will get a better understanding of the U.S. and the core principles that built this country and the backs on whom this country was built upon. After a review of the past, the course will offer an examination of contemporary issues involving how Latina/nos have or have not been able to fully participate in life in the U.S. due to discriminatory laws and policies. It will then explore issues pertaining to voting rights, immigration reform, educational rights, privacy/reproductive rights. English Only laws, ethnic studies ban, right to participate in the jury process, and a host of other legal issues as revealed through case studies. More Info
Offered in:LATSTY 353L Borderlands, Diasporas, and Transnational Identities +
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This course focuses on the issues relating to migration, imperialism, state formation, human rights, and the performance of citizenship and national belonging among Latina/o/xs. The courses bring together historical essays, news media, music, poetry, and other forms of expressive culture in an exploration of the specific geographic, political, and economic conditions that produce geopolitical borders; the formation of diasporic and transnational identities in relation to ancestral homelands; the contradictions posed by using geography to define Latina/o/xs; and the racial, gendered, and sexual hierarchies within Latinidad. The course pays particular attention to these questions in relation to the border between the US and Mexico; the Dominican Republic and Haiti; Mexico and Central America; and Puerto Rico and the United States. More Info
Offered in:LATSTY 477L LLOP Research Seminar +
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Instruction in how to develop a comprehensive plan for research on a Latino Studies topic with significant public policy implications. Review of research design procedures, literature assessment, problem definition, use of range of qualitative and quantitative research methods drawn broadly from the social sciences. More Info
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