Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CONFESSIONS: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings of intimate, first person fictions (short stories, novels) by modern Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and other, lesser known authors from the Southern Cone, Colombia, and Mexico. Critical approaches will include anthropological, feminist, and post-modern readings. Close reading, interpretation and appreciation of (fictional) autobiography - in English translation - will be the focus of class discussion, presentations and critical essays. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, any others will be removed. Cross-list: FSEM 154.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: 2011 saw an eruption of worldwide protest. These protests created new forms of mass democracy and popular resistance. This course seeks to engage this contemporary wave of global resistance from a multiplicity of vantage points. Graduate students who enroll are each expected to teach at least one class period. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCR 551. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCR 451 if student has credit for ARCR 551. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE CARIBBEAN IN FRENCH

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is the undergraduate senior version of the graduate level seminar FREN/ARCR 578. Both the course's reading list and the length of the research are adjusted to accommodate undergraduate needs. Cross-list: FREN 478, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCR 578. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCR 478 if student has credit for ARCR 578.

Long Title: CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar provides the opportunity to study relevant aspects of Caribbean history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Variable topics.

Long Title: MAPPING LATINO ART

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the history of Latino art in the United States since 1945 with emphasis on the artistic cultures of Chicanos, Cuban-Americans and Puerto Ricans. We will also study the problematics of representation via gender, sexuality, race and other identities. Readings include exhibition catalogues, art history, and cultural history.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: 2011 saw an eruption of worldwide protest. These protests created new forms of mass democracy and popular resistance. This course seeks to engage this contemporary wave of global resistance from a multiplicity of vantage points. Graduate students who enroll are each expected to teach at least one class period. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCR 451. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCR 551 if student has credit for ARCR 451. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE CARIBBEAN IN FRENCH

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar examines the history, political writings, literature and the arts of the French Caribbean from the beginning of colonization to the present. It will include figures such as Saint-John Perse, Roumain, Cesaire, Fanon, Depestre, Schwarz-Bart, Warner-Vieyra, Glissant, Conde, Chamoiseau, Laferriere, as well as the Caribbean arts and film. Taught in English. Additional work is required at the graduate level. Cross-list: FREN 578, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCR 478. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCR 578 if student has credit for ARCR 478.