Taught in Spanish. Provides students with an opportunity to critically analyze various national/international impacts of Latino/Latin American social movements. Reviews pertinent social scientific literature and examines conclusions reached by their authors. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Taught in Spanish. Studies the devastating effects drugs have on the Americas and the subcultures they (re)produce. Features critical readings on the impact of drugs in the Americas. Studies the origins of substances (tobacco, coca, marijuana), and looks at how they have been used through time before concentrating on the present. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Taught in Spanish. Interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between ethnicity, tropical forests, and development policy in Latin America. Historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives on natural resource rights and use, with a focus on Afro-Latin American and indigenous peoples. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Treatment of 20th-century Latin American revolutions from Zapata to the Zapatistas. Focuses on the causes and consequences of revolutions rather than on their narrative histories. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Taught in Spanish. Focuses on legacies of Latin America's popular and revolutionary movements since the 1960s, current transformations, and 21st-century prospects. Major emphasis on contemporary leftist or left-leaning parties in power in the early 2000s, as well as new perspectives/re-evaluations/debates about past movements. Also includes cross-border strategies, movements, and alliances for social justice. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino Studies majors, minors, combined or double majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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A comparative study of the social, economic, cultural, political, and geographical development of Los Angeles and Mexico City in the 20th century. Emphasis on the diverse peoples, changing physical environment and various images/interpretations of these two world cities. (Also offered as History 190D. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): two upper-division history courses and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies and history majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): W, E.)
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Senior seminar taught in Spanish. Engages a critical study of violence, social relations, and everyday life in contemporary Latin America. Focuses on the relationship between narratives and acts of violence, and the constitution and social effects of these representations. Requires proficiency in Spanish (written and spoken), and advanced reading knowledge of Spanish. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors, minors, double majors, and combined majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Provides training in essential research skills, including, topic definition, components of library/bibliographic and literature reviews, interview techniques, fieldwork; development of writing, revising, and editing skills; collective discussion of projects. Strongly recommended for students working on senior thesis, project, or expanded paper for Latin America and Latino studies senior exit requirement. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior LALS majors, minors, combined, or double majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): W, E.)
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Senior thesis writing under direction of major adviser. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Senior thesis writing under direction of major adviser. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Emphasizes ethnographic strategies of fieldwork. Primarily oriented to students interested in understanding the daily life of societies and cultures. Prepares students both to conduct fieldwork, and to process their fieldwork experience. Covers complexities related to the experience of "stepping out of" one's own culture. Prerequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in course 196L. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Media lab trains students in the use of electronic and photographic media for the acquisition of field data. Through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on field exercises and review of students' media exercises, students will learn the fundamentals of photography, video production, and audio recording in the field. Prerequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in course 196. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Off-campus study in Latin America, the Caribbean, or nonlocal Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. Nature of proposed study/project to be discussed with sponsoring instructor(s) before undertaking field study; credit toward major (maximum of three courses per quarter) conferred upon completion of all stipulated requirements. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Individual studies undertaken off-campus. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Supervised directed reading; weekly or biweekly meetings with instructor. Final paper or examination required. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Supervised research and writing of an expanded paper, completed in conjunction with requisite writing for an upper-division course taken for credit in the major. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Explores social, cultural, economic, and political changes that connect Latin America and U.S. Latina/o communities. The objective of this interdisciplinary team-taught course is to bridge previously distinct research approaches of Latin American and Latina/o studies to better understand processes that link peoples and ideas across borders as well as help students to conceptually and methodologically identify and design new objects of study and revisit traditional approaches. Core requirement for students pursuing the Parenthetical Notation in Latin American and Latino studies. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.
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Through an interdisciplinary approach, explores Latina feminist social theory and scholarly practice—especially in representation and interpretation of Latina experiences. Examining key texts at different historical junctures, charts how Latinas of varied ethnic, class, sexual, or racialized social locations have constructed oppositional and/or relational theories and alternative epistemologies or political scholarly interventions and, in the process, have problematized borders, identities, cultural expressions, and coalitions. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.
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Interrogates the social construction of Latino cultures in their varied regional, national-ethnic, and gendered contexts. Assumes that culture is a dynamic process constructed within a context of hierarchical relations of group power, in which Latino groups have been structurally subordinated and socially oppressed. Focuses more on how power relations create a context for the creation of specific Latino cultural expressions and processes than on unraveling the structures of oppression. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Interdisciplinary analysis of feminist theories that inform the field of Latina cultural studies in the Americas, with an emphasis on transnational and hemispheric dialogues. Designed for students pursuing the Parenthetical Notation in Latin American and Latino studies and those with interest in globality, transnational feminist theory, and critical race and postcolonial theories. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Analyzes social, civic, and political actors that come together across borders to constitute transnational civil society, drawing from political sociology, political economy, comparative politics, and anthropology to address collective identity formation, collective action, institutional impacts, and political cultures. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines the foundations and current literature on political ecology, with emphasis on issues in Latin America. Topics include the appropriation of "Nature;" degradation and deforestation; conservation policies and politics; land distribution and property; and indigenous resistance. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 14.
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Examines the role of feminist activism and jurisprudence in the expansion of human rights since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Addresses challenges of accommodating women's specificity within international human rights law. Focus on application of international and regional human rights conventions and new human rights standards. (Formerly Feminism and the Culture and Politics of Human Rights.) (Also offered as Feminist Studies 240. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Explores how globalization, transnationalism, and the social construction of gender are interrelated, contingent, and subject to human agency and resistance. Examines particular configurations of globalization, transnationalism, and gender through the Américas and their implications for race, space, work, social movements, migration, and construction of collective memory. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Students submit a reading course proposal to a department faculty member who supervises independent study in the field. Faculty and student jointly agree upon reading list. Students expected to meet regularly with faculty to discuss readings. This independent study must focus on a subject not covered by current UCSC graduate curriculum. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit.
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