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Latin American Studies (LAS) Courses

Academic Unit: Global Studies, Inst for

LAS 3017 - Peoples and Cultures of Middle America [SSCI IP]

(3 cr; Student Option)

Equivalent courses: was ANTH 3017 until 07-SEP-10

Indian and Mestizo (Hispanic) cultures of Mexico and Guatemala and parts of Belize, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Describes both pre-Hispanic and Hispanic influences, with attention to area-wide patterns and local traditions.

LAS 3019 - Hispanic Cultures of Latin America [SSCI IP]

(3 cr; Student Option)

Equivalent courses: was ANTH 3019 until 04-SEP-12, was ANTH 3019 until 20-JAN-04, was ANTH 3019 until 27-MAY-03, was ANTH 3019 until 22-JAN-02

Hispanic cultures from Mexico to South America. Topics such as economy; underdevelopment; the family and ritual kinship, gender, religion, values, ideology, and change. Concepts are introduced to explore continuity/change.

LAS 3251 - Role of Renewable Natural Resources in Developing Countries

(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)

Equivalent courses: was ESPM 3251 until 07-SEP-10, was ENR 3251 until 05-SEP-06, was NRES 3251 until 07-SEP-04, was FR 3251 until 21-JAN-03, was FR 5251 until 07-SEP-99, ESPM 5251, ESPM 3251

International perspectives on resource use in developing countries. Integration of natural resource issues with social, economic, and policy considerations. Overviews of agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, non-timber forest products, water resources, certification, and development issues. Latin American case studies.

LAS 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825 [WI GP HIS]

(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: HIST 3401V (inactive), HIST 3401W (starting 07-SEP-04, was LAS 3401W until 07-SEP-04, was LAS 3401W until 05-SEP-00, was HIST 3401 until 05-SEP-00, was LAS 3401 until 07-SEP-99), LAS 3401V (inactive)

Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.

LAS 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present [WI GP HIS]

(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)

Equivalent courses: HIST 3402W (starting 07-SEP-04, was LAS 3402W until 07-SEP-04, was LAS 3402W until 05-SEP-00, was HIST 3402 until 05-SEP-00, was LAS 3402 until 12-JUN-00, was HIST 3402 until 12-JUN-00, was LAS 3402 until 07-SEP-99)

National and contemporary period 1825 to present. Social, cultural, political, and economic change.

LAS 3405 - Latin American Women's Lives [IP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)

Equivalent courses: was GWSS 3405 until 02-SEP-08, was WOST 3405 until 05-SEP-06, was WOST 3405 until 07-SEP-99

An interdisciplinary approach to understanding women's lives in Latin America. Use of ethnography, history, poetry, fiction, and "testimonio" to understand the conditions of women's lives in Latin America.

LAS 3427 - History of Cuba and Puerto Rico [IP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: was CHIC 3427 until 06-SEP-05, was HIST 3427 until 07-SEP-99

Historical development of Cuba and Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times through the Spanish conquest to the present. Conquest and colonization, slavery, Hispanic Caribbean society and culture, Operation Bootstrap, Cuban Revolution.

LAS 3428 - History of Relations Between U.S. and Mexico: 1821 to Present [IP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: was HIST 3428 until 04-SEP-12, was CHIC 3428 until 18-JAN-05, was HIST 3428 until 21-JAN-03, was CHIC 3428 until 21-JAN-03, was HIST 3428 until 03-SEP-02, was CHIC 3428 until 03-SEP-02, was HIST 3428 until 07-SEP-99

U.S.-Mexico relations in the 19th and 20th centuries; examining histories as they intersect in the late 1820s; loss of Texas; Mexican-American War; economic relations between the two countries including NAFTA and the Chiapas rebellion of 1994.

LAS 3429 - Latin American History in Film and Text [AH GP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer)

Equivalent courses: HIST 3429 (starting 02-SEP-08)

Cinematic representations of Latin America in the context of other historical and literary narratives. Experiences of Latinos in Hollywood. Compare U.S. films with those produced in Latin America. Specific themes vary by term (e.g., women, revolution, colonialism).

LAS 3441 - Chicana/o History to 1900

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)

Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3634 until 21-JAN-20, GLOS 3634 (inactive, was LAS 3441 until 08-SEP-15), HIST 3441 (inactive), HIST 3444, CHIC 3444 (starting 07-SEP-99, was CHIC 3441 until 17-JAN-06, was HIST 3441 until 02-SEP-03, was LAS 3441 until 02-SEP-03, was CHIC 3441 until 02-SEP-03, was HIST 3441 until 07-SEP-99, was LAS 3441 until 07-SEP-99)

The history of the Mexican people from the 16th through 19th centuries. Historical theories of colonialism, expansion, economy, assimilation, migration and settlement; race, class and gender, political, social and cultural interaction, and conflict.

LAS 3442 - Chicana/o History: 1900 to Present [CD]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)

Equivalent courses: was CHIC 3442 until 06-SEP-06, was HIST 3442 until 07-SEP-99

Migration, repatriation, the Bracero program, politics, the Chicana/o movement, work, society, and culture.

LAS 3502W - Foundations of Brazilian Culture [WI]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: was PORT 3502W until 05-SEP-23, was PORT 3502W until 27-MAY-03, was PORT 3502W until 21-JAN-03, was PORT 3502W until 16-JAN-01, was PORT 3502W until 05-SEP-00, was LAS 3502 until 05-SEP-00, was PORT 3502 until 07-SEP-99, PORT 3502V (inactive, was PORT 3402 until 05-SEP-00), PORT 3502W (ending 02-SEP-08, was LAS 3502W until 06-SEP-05, was LAS 3502W until 27-MAY-03, was LAS 3502W until 21-JAN-03, was LAS 3502W until 16-JAN-01, was LAS 3502 until 05-SEP-00, was PORT 3502 until 07-SEP-99)

Emphasis on modern Brazilian society. History, culture (music, art, cinema, literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, media), and social problems (ethnicity, tropical deforestation).

LAS 4121W - Latin America [ENVT WI IP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)

Equivalent courses: was GEOG 4121W until 02-SEP-14, was GEOG 4121 until 05-SEP-00, was LAS 4121 until 07-SEP-99

Interplay of natural environment and history in shaping contemporary Latin America. Political ecology of natural resources, food supply and distribution, urbanization and the informal economy, migration, ethnicity, and the role of the state and international agencies in domestic economies.

LAS 4465 - Housing in a Global Perspective [IP]

(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)

Equivalent courses: was HSG 4465 until 05-SEP-23, was DHA 4465 until 07-SEP-10, was DHA 4465 until 05-SEP-00

Housing, its relationship to global patterns of social/economic development examined in comparative framework. Emphasizes housing low income populations in rapidly growing cities of developing countries.

LAS 4479 - Latin American Politics

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits)

Equivalent courses: was POL 3479 until 03-SEP-19, was POL 4479 until 02-SEP-08, was POL 4479 until 04-SEP-01, was POL 4479 until 07-SEP-99, POL 3479 (starting 07-SEP-99, was POL 4479 until 02-SEP-08, was LAS 4479 until 06-SEP-05, was POL 4479 until 04-SEP-01, was LAS 4479 until 04-SEP-01, was POL 4479 until 07-SEP-99), POL 5479 (inactive, starting 16-JAN-01)

An overview of Latin American politics and political economy focused on authoritarianism, human rights, and redemocratization; development and economic policy; social movements; ethnicity and race; religion; revolution; U.S. - Latin American relations.

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