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.
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.
Section Number: APY 356
Days: Tue/Thur
Time: 5:05 p.m. - 6:20 p.m.
Instructor: Dr. Traci Ardren
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