Course Offerings

Machu Pichu in Aguas Calientes, Peru. Stock image from Unsplash. Machu Pichu in Aguas Calientes, Peru. Stock image from Unsplash.
Interested in taking a NAGIS course? Please see below our course offerings for Spring 2023. Contact listed instructors for additional information!

Fall 2024

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  • Politics, Society, and Cultural Production in Latin America

    Section Number: LAS 601 

    Days: Thursday

    Time: 2:00 - 4:45 pm 

    Instructor: Tracy Devine Guzman


    This seminar provides an overview of some of the major issues central to understanding politics, society, and cultural production across Latin America. These topics include: colonial legacies and the imperatives of development and modernization; authoritarianism, civil war, and transitions to democracy; patterns of poverty, inequality, and class difference; social movements, civil society, and citizenship; cultural politics and the politics of culture; the ideals and shortcomings of democratic governance; neo-liberalism, globalization, and social media; human and non-human rights; environmental degradation and ecopolitics; and U.S.-Latin American relations.

    Our assessment of these questions will include the perspectives and contributions of a wide range of actors, including but not limited to Indigenous communities; enslaved and formerly enslaved peoples; migrants and immigrants; peasants and urban laborers; soldiers and revolutionaries; women and sexual minorities; students, adolescents, and children. Our study will be interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational, drawing largely on work from and about Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Cuba, México, Peru, and Venezuela (and perhaps other locales of interest to enrolled students). Other countries may be included in a comparative format through secondary materials over the course of the semester.

Spring 2024

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  • Caribbean Archeology

    Section Number: APY 384

    Days: TBD

    Time: TBD 

    Instructor: TBD


    An examination of human lifeways in the Antillean archipelago from first settlement through the development of complex socio-political structures in the Late Ceramic Age and ultimately the arrival of European and African migrants. 

Fall 2023

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Spring 2023

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  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Conducting Case Studies and Examining Historical, Political, Legal, and Cultural Origins

    Section Number: APY 418 / APY 628 / MLL 322 / HIS 396 / AMS 344 / ECS 372 / GSS 350

    Days: Tue/Thurs 

    Time: 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

    Instructor: Prof. Caroline LaPorte


     

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