135 Race and Religion in the U.S. West/Mexico Borderlands
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021,
Spring 2025144H Contemporary Dance Technique: Salsa Performance and Culture
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021
186 Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019,
Fall 2024200 Major Debates in Latinx and Latin American Studies
In this course students will become familiar with the major debates that have animated Latinx and Latin American Studies, addressing a wide range of issues from the Conquest to the present. Each week students will focus on specific questions such as: Does Latin America have a common culture? Is Latin America part of the Western world? Is Latinx a race or an ethnicity? Is U.S. Latinx identity rooted in Latin America or the United States? Are Latin American nations post-colonial? Was the modern concept of race invented in the Caribbean at the time of the Conquest? The opposing viewpoints around such questions will provide the main focus of the reading assignments, which will average two or three articles per week. In the first four weeks, students will learn a methodology for analyzing, contextualizing, and making arguments that they will apply in developing their own positions in the specific controversies that will make up the rest of the course.
Professor Coráñez Bolton will be offering this course completely online via Zoom. The class will have a mix of synchronous “live” class meetings and some asynchronous components via Moodle (discussion threads, recorded lecture materials and presentations, etc). The class will also feature some live online screenings of relevant documentaries and films to encourage a community of viewership. While there will be some asynchronous work, a greater emphasis will be on synchronous class meetings and discussions. This class will require several short oral reading presentations, one longer formal oral presentation, and an analytical essay of approximately 7-10 pages. For the final projects, students will have latitude to prepare something more free-form, artistic, literary, or visual if it is desired and always in consultation with the professor.
Limited to 15 students.
Fall semester. Professor Sony Coranez Bolton.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024,
Spring 2025201 Power and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
204 Housing, Urbanization, and Development
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2021,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025205 Owning the Bilingual Self
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025208 Spain and the Pacific World, 1571-1898
2023-24: Not offered
234 The Sanctuary Movement: Religion, Activism, and Social Contestation
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2020, Spring 2021,
Fall 2024240 Religion on the Move: Religion and Migration in North America
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2020
248 Cuba: The Politics of Extremism
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2015,
Spring 2023250 Being Human in STEM
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020, January 2021, January 2022,
Spring 2022261 History of Central America
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
262 Latin America and the United States
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Fall 2020
263 Struggles for Democracy in Modern Latin America, 1820 to the Present
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2021,
Spring 2022264 Introduction to Latin America: Conquest, Colonization and Rebellion
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
301 Literature and Culture of the Hispanic World
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024,
Spring 2025330 Latinx Religion
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024341 Mexican Rebels
(Offered as LLAS 341 and HIST 341 [LA, TE, TS]) What inspires individuals to risk everything to try to change their world? Students will attempt to answer this question through cases ranging from personal acts of rebellion, to social movements and armed conflict. The course pays close attention to personal acts of rebellion against repressive racial, political, and gender structures, focusing on such figures as Hernán Córtes’s legendary consort La Malinche (Malintzin Tenepal), the seventeenth-century protofeminist Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, the transgender revolutionary general Amelia/o Robles Ávila, and the artists Gerardo Murillo, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. We also will address armed conflicts such as the Tlaxcalan war against the Aztec Empire, the Wars of Independence (1810-1821), the Maya uprising against white domination in the second half of the nineteenth century, guerrilla resistance against US and French invasions in the 1840s and 1860s, the War of Reform (1857-1860), the Cristero War (1926-1929), the Zapatista uprising of the 1990s, and, most importantly, the Mexican Revolution of (1910-1921). And we will examine social protests, such as the student movement that ended in the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968, El Barzón, #YoSoy132, MORENA, APPO, the Ayotzinapa protests, and peasant ecology initiatives.
Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professor R. Lopez.
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021
342 Marxism and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2018, Fall 2019
343 Comparative Borderlands: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Transnational Perspective
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020,
Fall 2022344 The Cuban Revolution, 1959–2009
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020
345 Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2016, Fall 2019, Spring 2021
346 Indigenous Histories of Latin America
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2020
362 Childhood in African and Caribbean Literature
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2020
375 Amherst Latinx Lives
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020
455 One Hundred Years of Solitude
A patient, detailed, Talmudic reading of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, Cien años de soledad, known as “the Bible of Latin America.” The course sets it in biographical, historical, and aesthetic context. Conducted in Spanish.
Limited to 25 students. Fall semester. Professor Stavans.
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2009, Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2018, Spring 2021
461 The Creole Imagination
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2020,
Fall 2023485 Telenovelas
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020,
Spring 2023490 Special Topics
Independent reading course.
Fall and spring semesters. The Department.
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2022,
Spring 2023498, 499 Senior Honors
Spring semester. The Department.
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2023
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