Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements LTAMMIN

Students should develop their minor in consultation with their respective departmental advisors and the undergraduate advisor of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. Students may elect to complete the minor or the certificate but not both.

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

The Latin American Experience. One (1) course:
- LTAM-L 210 Latin America & Caribbean: Cultures, Histories, and Politics
LTAM-L 210 Latin America & Caribbean: Cultures, Histories, and Politics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the politics and histories of the peoples and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean, including the Indigenous, African, and European roots and heritages of the Americas. Topics include pre-Columbian civilizations, colonialism, nations and nationalism, multiculturalism, decolonization, slavery, race, empire, sexualities, new religions, emergent cultural communities and identities.
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Contemporary Problems in Latin America. One (1) course:
- LTAM-L 200
- LTAM-L 211 Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean
- LTAM-L 230 Maya Cultures, Religion, Communities & Identity in Mexico and Guatemala
- LTAM-L 275 Altered States: Spirituality, Power, Healing
LTAM-L 211 Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores social issues, cultural identities, political movements, and lived experience of the diverse communities of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean in historical perspective, including sexualities, multiculturalism, the rise of capitalism, US imperialism, tourism, heritage, religious beliefs and practices, legacies of slavery, struggles for democracy, and structures of domination.
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LTAM-L 230 Maya Cultures, Religion, Communities & Identity in Mexico and Guatemala
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores Maya cultures, peoples, prophecies, histories, cosmologies, rituals, literatures, hieroglyphs, politics, poetry, spiritualities, time, calendars, rap music videos, and revitalization in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. The focus on contemporary Maya includes an historical overview of Maya civilization from origins to nation states. Students learn an inter-disciplinary cultural approach relying on film, fiction, and popular media.
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LTAM-L 275 Altered States: Spirituality, Power, Healing
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the meanings and practices of altering consciousness, also known as "shamanism," in relation to spirituality and spiritualism and to health and healing of individuals and communities. Considers ethnographic and historical contexts throughout the Americas, with a focus on Latin American cultures, especially Maya, Huichol, Andean, Mestizo, and Mapuche.
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Electives. Additional credit hours from the Related Courses list.
- LTAM-L 200
- LTAM-L 230 Maya Cultures, Religion, Communities & Identity in Mexico and Guatemala
- LTAM-L 275 Altered States: Spirituality, Power, Healing
- LTAM-L 426 Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- AAAD-A 154 History of Race in the Americas
- AAAD-A 203 Studying Blacks of the New World: African Americans and Africans in the African Diaspora
- AAAD-A 275 Language and Identity in the Black Diaspora
- AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
- AAAD-A 398 Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- AMST-A 200 Comparative American Identities
- AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
- AMST-A 300 The Image of America in the World
- AMST-A 350 Topics in Interdisciplinary American Studies
- AMST-A 450 Advanced Research Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-A 205 Anthropology Today: Selected Topics in Current Research (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society
- ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology (approved topic: "Arts: Creativity and Collaboration")
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- ANTH-P 230 Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
- ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
- CLLC-L 220 Uses of the Past (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ECON-E 303 Survey of International Economics
- ECON-E 490 Advanced Undergraduate Seminar in Economics (approved topic: "International Trade II")
- ENG-L 112 Experiencing World Cultures through Literatures in English
- ENG-L 224 Introduction to World Literatures in English
- ENG-L 383 Studies in British or Commonwealth Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
- FOLK-F 315 Latin American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- FOLK-F 316 Caribbean Arts and Cultures
- FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields
- FRIT-F 300 French and Francophone Studies: Introduction (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World
- GEOG-G 220 Social and Historical Studies Topics in Geography
- GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
- GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
- GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
- GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
- GNDR-G 402 Problems in Gender Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-P 290 Global Portuguese: Arts and Culture
- HISP-P 311 Advanced Grammar and Composition in Portuguese
- HISP-P 317 Reading and Conversation in Portuguese
- HISP-P 400 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I
- HISP-P 401 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World II
- HISP-P 405 Literature and Film in Portuguese
- HISP-P 412 Brazil: The Cultural Context
- HISP-P 415 Women Writing in Portuguese
- HISP-P 425 Structure of Portuguese Language
- HISP-P 467 Contemporary Portuguese Literature
- HISP-P 470 Poetry in Portuguese
- HISP-P 475 Theatre in Portuguese
- HISP-P 476 Prose in Portuguese
- HISP-P 495 Luso-Brazilian Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-P 498 Portuguese Honors Seminar
- HISP-S 269
- HISP-S 315 Spanish in the Business World
- HISP-S 317 Spanish Conversation and Diction
- HISP-S 322 Introduction to Film Analysis in Spanish
- HISP-S 324 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
- HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- HISP-S 328 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
- HISP-S 334 Panoramas of Hispanic Literature (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-S 412 Spanish America: The Cultural Context
- HISP-S 413 Hispanic Culture in the United States
- HISP-S 417 Hispanic Poetry
- HISP-S 420 Modern Spanish-American Prose Fiction
- HISP-S 422 Hispanic Cinema
- HISP-S 425 Spanish Phonetics
- HISP-S 427 The Structure of Spanish
- HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
- HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
- HISP-S 435 US Latino Literatures
- HISP-S 470 Gender in Hispanic Texts
- HISP-S 471 Colonialism to Modernism
- HISP-S 472 Dictatorship and Democracy in Spanish American Literature and Culture
- HISP-S 474 Hispanic Literature and Society (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-S 479 Mapping Mexico
- HISP-S 480 Argentine Literature
- HISP-S 481 Hispanic American National/Regional Literatures
- HISP-S 495 Hispanic Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-S 498 Honors Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-X 492 Individual Readings in Luso-Brazilian Literature
- HIST-A 301 Colonial America
- HIST-F 200 Issues in Latin American History
- HIST-F 340 Modern Argentina
- HIST-F 345 History of Cuba and Puerto Rico
- HIST-F 346 Modern Mexico
- HIST-F 348 Introduction to Contemporary Latin American Reality
- HIST-H 211 Latin American Culture and Civilization I
- HIST-H 212 Latin American Culture and Civilization II
- HIST-J 300 Seminar In History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- INTL-I 202 Global Health and Environment
- INTL-I 203 Global Development
- INTL-I 204 Human Rights and International Law
- INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment
- INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development
- INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- INTL-I 305 Advanced Topics in Culture and Politics
- INTL-I 306 Advanced Topics in Peace and Conflict
- INTL-I 426 Advanced Topics in International Studies
- INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment
- LATS-L 101 Introduction to Latino Studies
- LATS-L 102 Introduction to Latino History
- LATS-L 103 Introduction to Latino Cultures
- LATS-L 111 Latino Film: An Introduction and Overview
- LATS-L 200 American Borderlands
- LATS-L 220 Introduction to Latino Literature
- LATS-L 250 Blacks, Latinos, and Afro-Latinos: Constructing Difference and Identity
- LATS-L 320 Advanced Topics in Latino Literature and Culture
- LATS-L 398 Arts and Humanities Topics in Latino Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- LATS-L 400 Advanced Topics in Latino Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
- POLS-Y 243 Governance and Corruption across the World
- POLS-Y 337 Latin American Politics
- POLS-Y 343 The Politics of International Development
- POLS-Y 360 United States Foreign Policy
- POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
- POLS-Y 399 Politics of the United Nations
- REL-A 250 Introduction to Christianity
- REL-C 325 Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Americas
LTAM-L 230 Maya Cultures, Religion, Communities & Identity in Mexico and Guatemala
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores Maya cultures, peoples, prophecies, histories, cosmologies, rituals, literatures, hieroglyphs, politics, poetry, spiritualities, time, calendars, rap music videos, and revitalization in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. The focus on contemporary Maya includes an historical overview of Maya civilization from origins to nation states. Students learn an inter-disciplinary cultural approach relying on film, fiction, and popular media.
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LTAM-L 275 Altered States: Spirituality, Power, Healing
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the meanings and practices of altering consciousness, also known as "shamanism," in relation to spirituality and spiritualism and to health and healing of individuals and communities. Considers ethnographic and historical contexts throughout the Americas, with a focus on Latin American cultures, especially Maya, Huichol, Andean, Mestizo, and Mapuche.
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LTAM-L 426 Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
Intensive study and analysis of selected Latin American and Caribbean problems of limited scope within an interdisciplinary format. Topics will vary but will ordinarily cut across fields, regions, or periods.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
AAAD-A 154 History of Race in the Americas
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Exploration of the development of racism and racial ideologies in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes the interaction among cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping patterns of conflict and collaboration, domination and resistance.
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AAAD-A 203 Studying Blacks of the New World: African Americans and Africans in the African Diaspora
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
A comparative study of the cultural, historical, and socioeconomic life patterns of African Americans and Diaspora-based Africans in the United States.
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AAAD-A 275 Language and Identity in the Black Diaspora

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the link between language and identity in the African Diaspora through a Pan-African and transnational perspective. Investigates the language forms and repertoires of Africans and African-descended peoples, primarily within the Black Atlantic, using a sociolinguistic framework.
AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the process, patterns, and paradoxes of the incorporation of individuals and groups identified and/or perceived as "immigrants" from a comparative-interdisciplinary perspective. Focuses on persons from "sending" countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia to the United States. Also examines developments in other labor-importing, postindustrial countries such as France and England in relation to the people who settle there.
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AAAD-A 398 Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced study and analysis of selected issues and problems within the African American and African Diaspora experience utilizing interdisciplinary interpretation through analytical reasoning and philosophical discussions. Varied topics primarily in the areas of history, politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examination of the influence of race, gender, and class from a perspective of power and culture. Use of interdisciplinary sources, including essays, fiction, art, and social science research to examine how different social groups vie for representation, self-definition, and power in different social and cultural settings.
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AMST-A 200 Comparative American Identities
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the formation of legal, social, cultural, and economic identities within the United States and within U.S.-controlled territories. Who counts as "American?" To what ends have citizens and non-citizens assumed, claimed, or refused "American" identity? This course employs a comparative frame in considering elite and subordinated classes (and/or genders, races, ethnicities, sexualities); institutional and countercultural forms of self-definition; official history and alternative acts of collective memory.
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AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Study and analysis of a social movement, an institutional structure, or an otherwise clearly delimited arena of social regulation and public activity. Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing an object of social study. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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AMST-A 300 The Image of America in the World
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An exploration of the history and present significance of "America"--an idea and a nation--in the larger world. Focuses on the image, status, and reputation of the United States abroad, and on the importance of America's "moral" global prestige to the course of international affairs and domestic politics.
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AMST-A 350 Topics in Interdisciplinary American Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces established American studies disciplinary methodologies and explores possibilities for new interdisciplinary syntheses by focusing on specific topics, which vary by semester.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

AMST-A 450 Advanced Research Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
Junior or senior standing
Description
Analyzes how history, film, music, and ethnography have captured the workings of capitalism in the U.S. and the Caribbean in the late twentieth century. Focuses on crafting research papers that will be peer-reviewed over the course of the semester.

ANTH-A 205 Anthropology Today: Selected Topics in Current Research

Credits
1–4 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
Selected topics in anthropological methods, techniques, and area or thematic studies. Course content will draw on the fieldwork experiences and/or current research of the instructor(s).
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Covers emergence of modern bioanthropology as an academic discipline, emphasizing the careers of prominent scholars and theoretical contributions they made, as well as the influences of funding institutions and major departments on the direction of research. Examines relationships to other fields of study.
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ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Selected topics in bioanthropology. Analysis of research. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topic varies.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Bioanthropological survey of past and present aboriginal inhabitants of North and South America: origins and antiquity, archaeological and ethnic relationships.
ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
How do humans relate to the environment? Addresses this question from cross-cultural, historical, scientific, and ethical perspectives. Considers current problems; examines how technical, socioeconomic and political changes transform people's use of natural resources. Students evaluate how societies vary in perceptions of nature and explore implications for behavior, decision making, and environmental change.
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ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An introduction to social-cultural anthropology\'s history, theories, and analytical approaches to cross-cultural analysis. Covers foundational concepts and ethnographic methods used to understand current issues such as race and racism, ethnicity and nationalism, class and inequality, gender, family and kinship, religion, and people\'s relationship to the environment.
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ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
With focus on jazz, reggae, and hip hop, this course links musical production and consumption in the African diaspora to issues of social identity. Among those aspects of social identity considered are race, nation, religion, class, and gender. The course investigates the spread of these musical genres around the world.
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ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Surveys indigenous and mestizo peoples within the context of the larger nation, as well as the effects of urbanization, emigration, and globalization in contemporary Mexico.
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ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces contemporary Brazil while examining Brazil\'s colonial history and legacies and the political, demographic, cultural, economic, and environmental transformation of the country. Examines implications of these processes for indigenous populations, and considers current societal changes as related to racial and socioeconomic inequalities.
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ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Considers the complex connections between commodities, \"sustainable\" trade, and culture, especially for agricultural commodities. Drawing from work in anthropology and real-world case studies, asks: What makes something a commodity? What is the \"right\" way to farm, to trade, and to eat? Who decides, and why?

ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Compares and contrasts contemporary activist and grassroots movements throughout the Latin American region. Focuses on movements both within the region and within the Latin American diaspora in the United States, organized around the rubrics of ethnicity, gender, resources, and environment.
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ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
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ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
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ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
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ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
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ANTH-P 230 Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
This is a course about the ancient Maya. Lecture and discussion will cover what is known about the Maya past and how the past relates to the present day. Writing, architecture, mythology, mathematics, agriculture, political structure, and economy will be considered.
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ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines archaeology in North America beginning with the long and complex history of Native American/European interactions. Considers North American social systems, interaction with and exploitation of the environment, technologies, and material culture. Theories and methods used by historical archaeologists will also be emphasized.
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ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Covers cultural change in Andean South America, including early hunters and gatherers, agriculture, the growth of regional civilizations, technological and artistic achievement, and the rise and dissolution of the Inca Empire.
ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the theoretical and methodological tools that archaeologists use to study food and foodways in ancient societies from a global anthropological perspective. Reveals how studying food and ancient foodways helps anthropologists gain insight into the economic, historic, and political realities of past peoples.
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ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Uses pottery as a means of understanding past societies: how people make, use, and think about pottery. Participants make their own pots from wild clays; cook a meal in traditional ceramic pots; and consider how experimentation, ethnohistorical data, and anthropological theory work together to produce insights into past lifeways.
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CLLC-L 220 Uses of the Past
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Topical introductions to the ways in which past events are remembered and those meanings contested. Subjects are not normally covered by individual departments and vary each semester.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
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COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 103 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the arts and humanities Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of COLL-C 103 or COLL-S 103.
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COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 104 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the social and historical studies Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
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ECON-E 303 Survey of International Economics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
ECON-E 252 or ECON-B 252
Description
Basis for and effects of international trade, commercial policy and effects of trade restrictions, balance of payments and exchange rate adjustment, international monetary systems, and fixed versus flexible exchange rates.
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ECON-E 490 Advanced Undergraduate Seminar in Economics

Credits
3
Prerequisites
ECON-E 321 or ECON-S 321
Notes
Additional prerequisites may be required depending on the seminar topic
Description
Advanced intensive study of a topic area in economics. Topics will vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ENG-L 112 Experiencing World Cultures through Literatures in English
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Investigates a diversity of world cultures and examines various literary representations (written in English) of their imaginative, emotional, and moral experiences.
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ENG-L 224 Introduction to World Literatures in English
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Comparing and analyzing works originating in at least two continents, this course introduces students to the complexity of human experience and diversity of global English as represented in literary works from various periods and world cultures.
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ENG-L 383 Studies in British or Commonwealth Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Study of a coherent period of British or Commonwealth culture (such as medieval, Elizabethan, or Victorian England, or modern Canada), with attention to the relations between literature, the other arts, and the intellectual milieu.
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FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literary and religious studies and history.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other social science disciplines such as semiotics and anthropology.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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FOLK-F 315 Latin American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Cultural and functional analysis of traditional folklore or music genres developed in the cultures of Latin America. Emphasis on origin and the diffusion of folklore, folklife, and folk music as well as the peoples.
Repeatability
May be repeated once when topics vary.
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FOLK-F 316 Caribbean Arts and Cultures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores traditional forms of verbal expression, music, dance, and visual art in Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone countries in the Caribbean. Examines art forms in relation to specific historical and social contexts and broader processes of colonialism, social stratification, creolization, urbanization, nationalism, and decolonization in the region.
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FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Studies of folk culture in relationship to other fields. Focuses on such interdisciplinary topics as folk culture in relationship to language, literature, psychology, history, religion, sociology, musicology, or anthropology.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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FRIT-F 300 French and Francophone Studies: Introduction
Credits
3
Prerequisites
FRIT-F 250 or FRIT-F 265; or appropriate placement test score
Description
This course introduces students to different levels of style and expression and to written argumentation in French. Literary texts, films, and other media representing various periods and genres provide the basis for in-class discussion and for exercises designed to develop oral and written fluency. Topics vary by section. Conducted in French.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of FRIT-F 300 or FRIT-S 300.
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GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
What do bananas, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and drone warfare have in common? How do economic development, geopolitics, and resource extraction shape current events? Answers to these and other questions are used to explain the roots of contemporary global events.
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GEOG-G 220 Social and Historical Studies Topics in Geography
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Exploration of an intriguing topic from a geographic perspective. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Promotes understanding of the history and geographic distribution of the world's food cultures. Focuses on the material aspects of food and food's relationship to society. Increases knowledge of food and cultures through reading, discussion and cooking.
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GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Do we control water, or does it control us? Introduces geographic perspectives on the interaction of water and society. Takes the holistic view and asks the big questions about how water shapes, and is shaped by, social, political, and cultural dynamics.
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GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
How is the production and consumption of food related to poverty and development? Explores how global food systems affect farmers, farmworkers, retailers and consumers; the ways scientific advances changed rural economies in the Third World; and the history of famine and contemporary food security issues.
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GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to food production and consumption systems, emphasizing linkages to land use and social change on food/farming system sustainability. Topics include urbanization, population growth, and economic liberalization; farming livelihoods, gender, and poverty; biotechnology; agro-ecology, global health.
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GNDR-G 402 Problems in Gender Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
Topical seminar in gender studies. Analysis of a particular issue or problem that has generated debate within gender-related scholarship in a particular discipline, or across several disciplines/fields of inquiry.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
HISP-P 290 Global Portuguese: Arts and Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An introductory course on the arts and culture (e.g., literature, film, painting, music, architecture) of the Portuguese-speaking world, including Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa and Asia. Taught in English.
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HISP-P 311 Advanced Grammar and Composition in Portuguese

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-P 250 or consent of department
Description
An advanced course on basic grammar skills and composition. Emphasis on syntax, vocabulary usage, and writing.

HISP-P 317 Reading and Conversation in Portuguese

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-P 250 or consent of department
Description
Emphasis on conversational and reading skills using plays, short stories, poetry, and novels from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Students will also be introduced to the basics of literary appreciation.
HISP-P 400 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
A general overview of the literature in Portuguese. The course emphasizes the unity and diversity of the literature in the major Portuguese-speaking areas of the world: Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Starting with the parallel development of one literature (Portuguese) in distinct geographical areas (the Portuguese colonies), it shows the changes that take place when new nations are created in these areas, and new national literatures become a reality. The course combines lecture and discussion, and is conducted in Portuguese.
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HISP-P 401 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World II
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
A survey of the literatures from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Lectures and discussions of selected works by representative authors of the major literary periods.
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HISP-P 405 Literature and Film in Portuguese
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Survey of literary works and film adaptations from the Lusophone world.
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HISP-P 412 Brazil: The Cultural Context
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Integrates historical, social, and cultural information about Brazil. Taught in English.
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HISP-P 415 Women Writing in Portuguese
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
A survey of women\'s writing from different Portuguese-speaking nations.
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HISP-P 425 Structure of Portuguese Language

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-P 250 or consent of department
Description
Introduction to the linguistic study of various aspects of the structure of the Portuguese language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, historical grammar; and application of linguistics to literature.
HISP-P 467 Contemporary Portuguese Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Representative authors and works from 1915 to the present.
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HISP-P 470 Poetry in Portuguese
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Historical survey of poetry in Portuguese. Emphasis on major authors from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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HISP-P 475 Theatre in Portuguese
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
A survey of theatre in the Portuguese language from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century. Particular attention will be given to the social and historical context in which works were produced.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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HISP-P 476 Prose in Portuguese
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Survey of prose writers and works from the middle ages to the present.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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HISP-P 495 Luso-Brazilian Colloquium
Credits
3
Prerequisites
Consent of department
Description
Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  Spring 2024CASE GCCcourse
HISP-P 498 Portuguese Honors Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
Consent of director of Portuguese Studies
Description
Topics will vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

HISP-S 315 Spanish in the Business World

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduction to the technical language of the business world, with emphasis on problems of vocabulary, style, composition, and translation in the context of Hispanic mores. Instruction in Spanish.

HISP-S 317 Spanish Conversation and Diction

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Notes
HISP-S 317 is not open to native speakers of Spanish
Description
Meets five times a week. Intensive controlled conversation correlated with readings, reports, debates, and group discussions.
Repeatability
May be repeated once for credit.
HISP-S 322 Introduction to Film Analysis in Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduces the formal elements common to cinema and the terms of film analysis in Spanish. Provides a basic understanding of cultural and historical factors that have influenced film production in Latin America and Spain.
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HISP-S 324 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Through the examination of a variety of texts, this course explores Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino culture from historical, social, artistic, and political perspectives.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 275 or HISP-S 324.
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HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduces the basic concepts of Hispanic linguistics and establishes the background for the future application of linguistic principles. The course surveys linguistic properties in Spanish, including phonology, morphology, and syntax. Additional introductory material on historical linguistics, second language acquisition, semantics, and sociolinguistics will be included.
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HISP-S 328 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Develops skills needed for more advanced study of Hispanic literatures through the reading and analysis of texts in at least three literary genres.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 332, or HISP-S 333.
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HISP-S 334 Panoramas of Hispanic Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
A panoramic introduction to the study of Hispanic literature in its literary-historical development, through a variety of literary genres. Periods and geographical areas may vary.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 332, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334.
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HISP-S 412 Spanish America: The Cultural Context
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 324, HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334
Description
A course that integrates historical, social, political, and cultural information about Spanish America.
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HISP-S 413 Hispanic Culture in the United States
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 324, HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334
Description
Integrates historical, racial, political, and cultural information about Hispanics in the United States.
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HISP-S 417 Hispanic Poetry
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of major aspects, movements, or directions of Hispanic poetry from the Middle Ages to the present.
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HISP-S 420 Modern Spanish-American Prose Fiction
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Spanish-American prose fiction from late nineteenth-century modernism to the present.
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HISP-S 422 Hispanic Cinema
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 322, HISP-S 324, or HISP-S 328; or equivalent
Description
Analysis and interpretation of Hispanic films, with an emphasis on the study of their formal aspects. National/regional context varies.
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HISP-S 425 Spanish Phonetics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Notes
Attendance in language laboratory required.
Description
Intensive patterned pronunciation drills and exercises in sound discrimination and transcription, based on detailed articulatory description of standard Spanish of Spain and Latin America.
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HISP-S 427 The Structure of Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Analyzes the structure of simple and compound sentences in Spanish, focusing on the internal structure of the sentence and how certain phrases within the sentence combine in different word orders to produce specific meanings. Covers transitivity, word order, negation, pronominal and verbal systems, and syntactic variation.
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HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Examines current topics in Hispanic sociolinguistics/pragmatics. Topics include sociolinguistics, phonological and syntactic variation, field methods, discourse analysis, language and power, language ideology, language attitudes, language in context, language and gender, language and the law, bilingualism, linguistic politeness and speech act theory.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Examines current topics in the acquisition of Spanish. Provides an introduction to research on the first and/or second language acquisition of Spanish and to the pedagogical applications of these findings. Students develop a background in these fields and have opportunities to link theory and practice.
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HISP-S 435 US Latino Literatures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of Latino literatures in the U.S. across various genres. Focus on social, cultural, and political factors that shape Latino experience. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 470 Gender in Hispanic Texts
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of a variety of cultural texts and contexts that inform gender construction in the Hispanic world. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 471 Colonialism to Modernism
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328 or consent of department
Description
A study of cultural texts from Independence and revolution to neoliberalism, transnationalism, and globalization. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 472 Dictatorship and Democracy in Spanish American Literature and Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328 or consent of department
Description
A study of literature and culture in the context of 20th century and current societal transformations in Spanish America including urbanization, populism, revolution, dictatorship and globalization. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 474 Hispanic Literature and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Writers and their works in social, political, economic, and cultural context. Specific topic to be announced in the online Schedule of Classes.
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HISP-S 479 Mapping Mexico
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328 or consent of department
Description
A study of cultural texts from Independence and revolution to neoliberalism, transnationalism, and globalization. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 480 Argentine Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Argentine literature from independence to the present, with a variable topic and focus.
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HISP-S 481 Hispanic American National/Regional Literatures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of national and/or regional literatures of Hispanic America.
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HISP-S 495 Hispanic Colloquium

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of department
Description
Topic and credit vary. I Sem., II Sem., I, II SS.
Repeatability
May be taken twice for credit as long as topic is different.

HISP-S 498 Honors Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
Approval of departmental honors advisor
Description
Topics will vary.
Repeatability
The course may be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

HISP-X 492 Individual Readings in Luso-Brazilian Literature

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of department
Description
None
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in HISP-P 494 and HISP-X 492.
HIST-A 301 Colonial America
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Social, cultural, economic, political, and religious developments in colonial America from first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans through the early eighteenth century. Special topics include colonization, migration, slavery, Atlantic trade, and representative government.
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HIST-F 200 Issues in Latin American History
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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HIST-F 340 Modern Argentina
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Modern Argentina from Independence to the Contemporary era. Focuses on the historical development of the modern Argentine nation-state and the roots of its unique social, cultural, and political formations. The material used will be of an interdisciplinary nature ranging from novels and films to anthropological reports and political speeches.
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HIST-F 345 History of Cuba and Puerto Rico
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores key historical processes from first inhabitation through the present, including the social and economic repercussions of slavery; the impact of U.S. intervention on the islands; the effects of industrialization on Puerto Rican economy and policies; the Cuban Revolution and the transformation of Cuban society.
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HIST-F 346 Modern Mexico
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Places contemporary Mexico in historical perspective, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include nineteenth-century social and political movements; the causes and consequences of the 1910 revolution; the formation of Mexico's political system; problems of economic growth; and the changing patterns of gender, class, and ethnicity in Mexican society.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HIST-F 346, HIST-F 446, or LTAM-L 400.
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HIST-F 348 Introduction to Contemporary Latin American Reality
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Surveys the social, economic, political, and cultural factors that affect ordinary Latin Americans. Introduces themes ranging from the legacy of military regimes in the Southern Cone to social and political movements in Mexico, from the environmental disaster of the Brazilian rain forest to the impact of sports and television soap operas.
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HIST-H 211 Latin American Culture and Civilization I
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
1492-1850. African, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese heritage. Discovery and conquest. Clash of cultures. Spanish empire. Society, culture, economics, politics. Bourbon reform, independence, new republics.
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HIST-H 212 Latin American Culture and Civilization II
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
1850-present. Cultural and national identities. Diplomacy, dictators, social progress. National cultures. Mexican revolution: Latin America in a world community. Revolution and counterrevolution.
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HIST-J 300 Seminar In History
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
The refinement of students\' skills as historians; will focus on the skills of writing, interpretation, historical reasoning, discussion, and research.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic and the authorization of the history undergraduate advisor for a total of 6 credit hours.
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HIST-J 400 Seminar in History
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HIST H-270; and a major in history or secondary education social studies
Description
Develops research skills in history, focusing on the issues and sources of a broad time period and/or theme with multi-national or global scope. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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INTL-I 202 Global Health and Environment
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examination of pressing health and environmental challenges around the world, such as deforestation, climate change and the spread of infectious diseases. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
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INTL-I 203 Global Development
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Focuses on the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; introduces theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
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INTL-I 204 Human Rights and International Law
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Focuses on human rights discourse and the role international law, treaties and conventions play in addressing these rights globally. Course is interdisciplinary in theory and method.
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INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
This course focuses on the intensive study and analysis of selected international problems and issues within an interdisciplinary format. Topics will vary but will cut across fields, regions, and periods.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced topics examining pressing health and environmental challenges around the world. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced topics examining the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; in-depth analysis of theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced topics focusing on human rights discourse and the role international law, treaties and conventions play in addressing these rights globally. Topics are interdisciplinary in theory and method.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

INTL-I 305 Advanced Topics in Culture and Politics

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced topics in the study of culture and governance. The focus is on relationships of power and authority, including how governments, markets, and international organizations deploy or use culture, and how people turn to cultural resources to resist attempts to govern them and/or to assert their own political aims.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

INTL-I 306 Advanced Topics in Peace and Conflict

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced topics examining concepts of nationalism and state ideology that shape the world's collective identities and contribute to conflicts nationally and internationally.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

INTL-I 426 Advanced Topics in International Studies

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
In-depth study and analysis of an international problem, culminating in a research project. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics up to four times.

INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Interdisciplinary study of comparative environmental justice issues around the world.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
LATS-L 101 Introduction to Latino Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
General inquiry into the historical and cultural heritage of Latinos who have lived or currently live in what is today the United States. Through readings and discussions, the course studies the varied histories of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and other Latin American peoples in the United States.
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LATS-L 102 Introduction to Latino History
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An introduction and overview of Latino issues beginning with a brief examination of the histories of the major Latino national groups of origin in the United States. Most of the course will examine a number of topics and issues that are key to understanding contemporary Latinos, e.g., immigration, language, education and employment.
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LATS-L 103 Introduction to Latino Cultures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces students to cultural diversity, histories, and experiences of Latinos in the United States. Survey course mapping general issues pertaining to these communities and explores specific questions regarding diverse Latino cultural groups. We will consider different kinds of media including ethnographic essays, cultural analysis, film, music, and dance.
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LATS-L 111 Latino Film: An Introduction and Overview
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
This course examines U.S. films by and/or about Hispanics and Latinos/as (i.e., Mexican-American/ Chicano, Puerto Rican/Boricua, and Cuban-American). Throughout the semester, we will explore the complex relationship between the constructions of Latino/a identities, Latino/a stereotypes, and the circumstances which Latinos encounter in the U.S. as portrayed in film.
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LATS-L 200 American Borderlands
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
This course will examine lived experience in North American Borderlands. It will touch on themes of migration, empire, race, gender, indigenous and imperial actors and their cultural production, and ethnic, racial and national identities in present-day borderlands between the US, Canada, Mexico, the Pacific, and the Caribbean.
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LATS-L 220 Introduction to Latino Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to literature by and about Latinos and Latinas in the United States including poetry, short fiction, drama, essays, autobiographies, and novels. Examines representative forms of writings from a variety of Latino subgroups.
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LATS-L 250 Blacks, Latinos, and Afro-Latinos: Constructing Difference and Identity

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Challenges dominant frameworks through which Americans see blacks and Latinos as either naturally unified as "people of color" or irreconcilably at odds as two competing minorities. Examines constructions of blackness and latinidad through the history of European elites' construction of the racial "Other" and the re-claiming of identities by the racially marginalized through liberation movements.
LATS-L 320 Advanced Topics in Latino Literature and Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Focuses on Latina/o literary and cultural production to provide an in-depth examination of a particular subject, area or theme in Latina/o Studies. Possible topics include a survey of a specific historical period in Latina/o literature, a literary form or genre in Latina/o literature, or the methodologies employed by Latina/o cultural studies.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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LATS-L 398 Arts and Humanities Topics in Latino Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examination of literature, art, music, performance, and other forms of aesthetic expression pertaining to the study and understanding of Latinos. Topics may vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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LATS-L 400 Advanced Topics in Latino Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Analysis of selected Latino Studies topics.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Historical survey of major national cinemas. Subject varies. Topics include Brazilian cinema, British cinema, Chinese cinema, French National cinema, German film culture, Indian cinema, and Italian cinema.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 398 and MSCH-F 398.
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POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Causes of war, nature and attributes of the state, imperialism, international law, national sovereignty, arbitration, adjudication, international organization, major international issues.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of POLS-Y 109 or POLS-Y 219.
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POLS-Y 243 Governance and Corruption across the World
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Analysis of problems of governance and corruption in developing and/or more developed countries. Examines conditions for effective governance and challenges to economic growth and provision of public goods. Addresses political causes and consequences of corruption. Case studies will vary and may be drawn from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America.
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POLS-Y 337 Latin American Politics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Comparative analysis of political change in major Latin American countries, emphasizing alternative explanations of national and international developments; examination of impact of political parties, the military, labor and peasant movements, Catholic Church, multinational corporations, regional organizations, and United States on politics; public policy processes in democratic and authoritarian regimes.
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POLS-Y 343 The Politics of International Development
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the key debates and issues regarding how "poor" countries develop economically and socially. Analyzes the interactions between politics and economics in the development process at the global, national, and local levels. Cases for comparison will include countries from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
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POLS-Y 360 United States Foreign Policy
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Analysis of institutions and processes involved in the formation and implementation of American foreign policy. Emphasis is on post-World War II policies.
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POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Compares factors that influence foreign policy and the foreign policy process. Focuses on domestic or internal sources of foreign policy behavior, including impact of individual leaders, group decision-making processes, bureaucratic politics, ideology and political culture, historical experience, and type of political system. Classroom simulations are central to the course.
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POLS-Y 399 Politics of the United Nations
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Origins and evolution of the UN; principal UN bodies, how they operate and what they do; who finances the UN; controversies and voting patterns in the UN; attitudes toward the UN and debates within member countries regarding its role; impact of UN activities and programs (e.g., conflict resolution and mediation, peacekeeping and peace enforcement; nation building, development aid, weapons proliferation, human rights, health, environment).
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of NELC-N 398 or POLS-Y 399.
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REL-A 250 Introduction to Christianity
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces an array of Christian ideas, practices, and texts ranging from the first century to the present day in order to foster an appreciation of Christianity\'s important but complicated role in shaping culture, society, and politics.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of REL-A 250 or REL-R 247.
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REL-C 325 Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Americas
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
A comparative study of the role religious narratives and beliefs have played in the shaping of racial and ethnic boundaries.
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Language requirement. Must meet the College Foreign Language requirement with one of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Quechua, or Yucatec Maya.
Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
2. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
5. Exceptions to minor requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.