CLAS Academic Programs > Coursework in Latin American Studies

2005-06 Course Listings in Latin American Studies Program

(WIM) indicates that the course satisfies the Writing in the Major requirements.

LATINAM 80. Culture, Politics, and Society in Latin America--(Enroll in HISTORY 70.) Introduction to the political and social history of Latin America. Emphasis is on the interaction between institutional change, social structure, and political movements, emphasizing the environment and cultural values. GER:3b,4a (WIM)
5 units, Win (Frank)

LATINAM 135. The Mexican Novel and the Cinema—(Same as SPANLIT 149.) Novels dealing with the Mexican Revolution from the revolutionary period to the 80s. Adaptations to film and television. Relationship among artistic languages. This course has been cancelled.
5 units, Spr (Glantz)

LATINAM 136. Gender Violence in Latin American Literature—(Graduate students register for SPANLIT 355.) Women writers who dealt with gender-based social inequities and contradictions. Writers include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, María de Zayas, Nellie Campobello, and Elena Garro.
5 units, Aut (Glantz)

LATINAM 137/237. Health, Medicine, and Society in Latin American History—(Same as HISTORY 277G.) The role played by disease, public health and medicine in Latin American societies during the 19th and 20th centuries. How changing perceptions and definitions of health and disease, gender and the body, and race and ethnicity have shaped official and popular understandings of the health of individuals, populations, and societies.
5 units, Win (Cueto)

LATINAM 197. Directed Individual Research--For students engaged in special interdisciplinary work that cannot be arranged by department.
1-10 units, Aut, Win, Spr (Staff)

LATINAM 198. Honors Thesis--Restricted to undergraduate majors and those writing the honors thesis in Latin American Studies.
1-10 units, Aut, Win, Spr (Staff)