| source UC Santa Cruz (X) |
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department Latin American and Latino Studies (X) |
Enrollment restricted to graduate students and permission of instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Interdisciplinary introduction presenting the elements for studying Latin American culture, society, economics, and politics, as well as the dynamics of Latino communities in the U.S. Special attention paid to issues of race, gender, and class, to emerging political and economic shifts in the Americas, and to new local and transnational efforts for social change on the part of Latin America's peoples and Latinos in the U.S. (General Education Code(s): IS, E.)
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Interdisciplinary exploration of transnational migrations; social inequalities; collective action and social movements; and cultural productions, products, or imaginaries. Examines how transnational migration and hemispheric integration are transforming Latin American studies and Chicana/o-Latina/o studies. Explores the influence of neoliberalism and globalization, especially the intersection of critical analysis and social-justice praxis. Completion of course 1 highly recommended. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Seminar taught by upper-division student under faculty supervision. Requires prior approval by Latin American and Latino Studies Department and two quarters (fall, winter) of supervised preparation prior to teaching in spring quarter. (See course 192).
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Anthropological in approach, concentrates on how Latin America's image is constructed and studied today. Topics include geographies, nationalities, social classes, ethnicities, gender, ecologies, regions, cultural areas, folklore, revolutions, and rural and urban societies. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Examines contemporary social movements in Latin America, especially those that arose from popular response to different forms of social exclusion and to authoritarian political systems. Explores a variety of popular movements, their successes and setbacks, including rural and urban uprisings, native nations and their descendants, women, African descendants, labor, environmental and grassroots movements. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Focuses on politics of power and resistance regarding major cross-border issues facing Latin Americans and Latinos in the 21st century. Emphasizes migration and migrant organizing; neoliberal "free trade" and implications for labor; organizing by women's, indigenous, and ecological movements; and for democracy and human rights. Many specific cases drawn from binational Central American experiences. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Reviews broad trends in contemporary Mexican politics against the backdrop of long-term historical, social, and economic change throughout the 20th century, analyzing how power is both wielded from above and created from below. The course covers national politics, grassroots movements for social change and democratization, environmental challenges, indigenous movements, the media, and the politics of immigration and North American integration. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Is there a general school of philosophy endemic to Latin America? Would it have to appeal to quintessential Western philosophical questions regarding knowledge, values, and reality? If not, why not, and would it then still count as philosophy? What difference do ethnic and national diversity, as well as strong political and social inequality, make to the development of philosophical questions and frameworks? Course explores a variety of historically situated Latin American thinkers who investigate ethnic identity, gender, and socio-political inequality and liberation, and historical memory, and who have also made important contributions to mainstream analytical and continental philosophy. (Also offered as Philosophy 80E. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, E.)
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Analyzes the Latino experience in the U.S. with a special focus on strategies for economic and social empowerment. Stresses the multiplicity of the U.S. Latino community, drawing comparative lessons from Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, Chicano/Mexicano, and Central American patterns of economic participation and political mobilization. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Examines the economic, social, political, and cultural experience of communities of color (Latinas/os, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans) and women in the U.S., through a sociological perspective. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, the relationship among individual actions, social institutions, societal forces, and social change are analyzed. Enrollment limited to 60. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Designed to survey recent works in the field of Latina and Latino histories, with particular emphasis on historiographical approaches and topics in the field. Readings are chosen to expose a selection of the varied histories and cultures of Latina/os in the U.S., and focus primarily on Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Examines the relationship between globalization, gender, and cultural representation in cinema. Academic topics include aesthetics of world cinema, gender and work, sexploitation, gender in family systems/relationships, gender and violence, gender and colonization, and gender and migration. Students cannot receive credit for this course and Film and Digital Media 132C. Enrollment limited to 60. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Surveys various musical forms and styles that have developed in Latin America and Latino communities in the U.S. Discusses concept of hybridity and grapples with this as a central issue in the evolution of Latin American/Latino music. Addresses migration of music, which not only contributes to its distribution but also to the evolvement of musical practices of forms, styles and genres across borders. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Introduction to issues and themes surrounding sexualities and genders within Latin American and Latina/o studies. Provides background in the basic theoretical and historical frameworks of gender and its relationship to sexuality. In addition to cross-border perspectives, course also examines how gender and sexuality are structured and experienced through other social categories. Enrollment limited to 70. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Lower-division offering on a topic of particular cultural, historical or contemporary interest in the field of Latin American and Latino/a cinema. Enrollment limited to 60. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Examines contemporary societies and peoples of Central America considering how, in recent decades, media, history, war, cultural production, and migration have shaped Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica both as individual nations and as a region. Enrollment limited to 60. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.)
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Provides instruction in the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of Mexican folklórico dance. Students taught choreographed dances from various regions of Mexico and also learn dance techniques (técnica) and stage make-up application. Additional workshops and lectures offered to supplement class. Open to all students; no previous experience required. (Also offered as Anthropology 81A. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Second course in series. Provides instruction in the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of Mexican folklórico dance. (Also offered as Anthropology 81B. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Third course in series. Provides instruction in the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of Mexican folklórico dance. (Also offered as Anthropology 81C. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): course 81A or 81B. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Focuses on social science issues through the interdisciplinary analysis of power relations. Compares diverse analytical strategies, assesses contending explanations, and builds practical research skills in the field of Latin American and Latino Studies. Topics change yearly, but can include environmental justice, access to education, political participation, gender, and migration. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or 10. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Focuses on transnational, regional, and local features of Latina/o and Latin American cultural production and artistic expression: how culture is shaped by historical, social, and political forces; how cultural and artistic practices shape the social world; and how culture is produced in an interconnected, postindustrial, and globalized economy. Prerequisite(s): courses 1, 10 or History 11B. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors, minors, and combined majors with global economics, sociology, literature, and politics. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Hands-on survey of print, broadcast, audiovisual, and electronic media. Students complete and present a dozen different media production assignments as part of permanent portfolio. Assignments have Latino/Latin American focus. Peer critique of media projects. Prerequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in course 101L. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Trains students in the fundamentals of video preparation, production and post-production through Social Sciences Media Laboratory. Prerequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in course 101.
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Taught in Spanish. Offers contemporary debates on Andean societies through a prism of recent interdisciplinary contributions (anthropological, sociological, political scientific, historical). Aims at understanding neo-regionalism, cultural history, and impact of globalization on specific localities. Andean societies are adjacent to the Amazon, a complementary aspect offered in this course. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or Anthropology 1, and Spanish 6 or Spanish for Spanish Speakers 63 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 30. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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